St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3B families!

We have had a Fantastic first few weeks of P3! We are all getting on so well and are loving getting to know one another!

We have done so much in the short time of working with one another!

During our reflections, the children have said:

“I loved making structures and working as a team in PE” – this was so much fun!

“I liked doing number lines!” – we are all doing so well!

“I liked writing about why people should come to SJO” – these are so good! The children have made some lovely points! Can’t wait to continue with this next week!

“I love our classroom!” “I loved meeting Mr Pentland” – how sweet! I have loved getting to know you all and I am so excited to continue to work together this year!

Our Hot Chocolate at Home has gone to Lilly and Ciara! You have both demonstrated exemplary behaviour; always ready, respectful and safe!

Homework:

every Monday: literacy and number – including a reading book.

Note: next week’s book will be the same as last due to ongoing assessments. Thank you for your understanding.

If you have any questions or queries, please just get in contact with me via the school office or seesaw.

some photo highlights:

Good Afternoon Families,

We have had a very busy week in Primary 2!

In Literacy, we focused on the ‘i’, ‘0’ and ‘u’ vowel sound in the middle of the word.  We also learned the ‘ig’ join in our joined up handwriting!

In Maths and Numeracy, we continued to work on 2D shape.  The children really enjoyed going on a shape hunt and were excellent at identifying shapes throughout the school. We learned to sequence numbers to 30 and worked on recognising numbers before, after and in-between.

We had our first House Group session on Friday. In these sessions the children learned all about their Rights and created their own ‘Rights’ Super Heroes.

We started our new topic this week. It’s called ‘Where in the World is Ogilvie Bear’. The children were very excited when Ogilvie Bear flew off on his first adventure to the USA.

Highlights of the Week:

Vedansh – I liked learning about 2D shapes.

Faye and Lillian – We liked it when Ogilvie Bear sent us messages and pictures of him at the airport and on the plane.

Connor – I liked free writing. I wrote about my Kuk Sool.

Vasilisa – I loved drawing.

Summer – Rose – I loved finding out that we have a prize box for the table with the most jewels.

Huge Congratulation to Rose, our hot chocolate winner!

Have a lovely weekend!

This week we have been learning how to write the numbers 2 and 3. We even made the numbers with play dough which was great fun. We have been doing lots of counting and we have been taking turns with Miss Stebbing to say the number sequences. We like it when we get to zero first!

In writing, we wrote about what we can do if someone is sad and we had lots of great ideas. We have continued our work on same and not the same by listening to sounds.

In topic, Ogilvie Bear has been visiting travel agents in Livingston Centre to plan his adventures around the world. We made him a special passport so he can go to visit different countries.  We also did our first Seesaw task to help him pack his suitcase for hot and cold weather. We even saw photos of Ogilvie Bear at the Airport and we had a great discussion about where he could go and what he had to do to keep himself safe at the airport. We are very excited to see which country he visits first!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Joseph – I liked playing with the blocks.

Alfie – I liked making the fire engine.

Dawid – I liked playing with the trains.

Sophia – I liked making a wand.

Leah – I liked playing with Sadness Spot and Happy Spot.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed when some of the children made their own fire engine and hoses. They put out lots of fires in our classroom!

Well done to Alfie who is our hot chocolate winner this week!

Dear Parents,

P7A had an excellent day with Mrs Ross on Monday and she reported how confidently they worked together and how capable they were.

This week we have been taking some Maths and English assessments and these will help identify targets to work on as next steps in our learning journey.

On Tuesday and Thursday we have been working on researching decades, looking at many aspects of the past from a Scottish perspective and we look forward to showcasing our work with you at an assembly at the end of October.

Wednesday we used apples donated from Mrs Meikle’s apple tree, to make apple crumbles. David and Cordelia were the biggest fans!

We also completed a practical science lesson, dissolving salt, in order to then grow salt crystals.

Mr McGurn wishes he had remembered to get the iPad out to take pictures!

On Friday we took part in house group activities and enjoyed working with pupils from P1-P7.

We also continued our ‘Frank Miller’ drama, where this week Frank was ‘…back in town!’

Well done to Josh on winning Hot Chocolate at home this week, he went Over and Above in his approach to his learning and Mrs Brown commented on how helpful he was during the House Group activities.

Great Job Josh!

Amelia says, “I was a successful learner while cooking.”

Emily says, “When we were in our house groups I helped the P1s and 2s. By doing this I was a responsible citizen.”

Elizabete says, “I liked cooking apple crumble.”

Have a great weekend and we’ll hopefully have some pictures next week.

P7A and Mr McGurn

Our highlights this week we were developing our Basketball skills in PE. We learned more about our emotions through Zones of Regulation and SHANARRI activities. This week we looked at how we can use our super powers to help others achieve/learn about their rights in the first House Group Meeting of this year.

Primary 5 A & B made apple crumble and we are writing the procedure of how to make a delicious apple crumble. In P5B some of us ate our apple crumble in class with ice cream but some of us decided to take it home. Hopefully they will enjoy it

Next week we are really looking forward to Monday when we will get our homework and earn points by completing it by Friday. We are also looking forward to our Outdoor Learning when we will be planting bulbs around the school grounds to increase biodiversity.

Hello P6A families,

It is this weeks lead learners, Inaayah and Akshaj with our class highlights of the week.

For Literacy, we created a describing bubble after exploring different ways to add description into our writing and up level our work. We will be using this for our Narrative writing going forward. For Numeracy, we have been looking at place value and working with numbers up to a million. We looked at different ways to represent numbers through the bar model, part-whole model, counters and the number line.

This week, we started our research for our topic, Ancient Civilisations. We are in groups and creating information posters from our own research on different civilisations.

In PE, we have been training for the cross country but we also got the opportunity to work on our teamwork skills by building castles out of hula-hoops. Lots of resilience and communication needed! It was a lot of fun.

The hot chocolate winner for this week was Nikola, who has always been showing our class rules.

Have a lovely weekend,

P6A 🙂

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Blue table:

Angel has enjoyed our learning about 2D shapes.  His favourite was a circle.  The children learned a little trick to help them remember the name of a ‘pentagon’.  They now visualise it as a hotel and see the penthouse suite at the top!  We will continue to learn about shape next week.

Ollie said the best part of his week was adding within 100.  The children have been using Dienes maths resources to support them with addition.  We will be doing much addition and subtraction within 100 throughout the year.  The children made a good start on their understanding of it this week.

Caleb also loved maths this week.  The class has a counting teddy, which they named ‘Lila’.  Lila helps us count to warm up our brains before our maths lesson.  This week we have revised counting in 2s, 5s and 10s, forwards and backwards (revision from P2).

Laura loved the production of ‘The Jungle Book’.  A big thank you to the PFA for this annual treat!

Vivien liked PE with Mr Pentland this week.  They played some getting to know you activities.  Vivien shared her love of gymnastics.  Mr Pentland takes the class on a Monday for PE and I take the class on a Tuesday for PE.

My highlight was an activity we did as a follow up to our class novel, The Twits.  The children had to work in pairs (one being Mr Twit and the other, Mrs Twit) and using a stimulus, had to play a trick on the other person (The Twits are always playing tricks on one another).  We had some creative ideas from P3A!  Ask your child what trick they played!

Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate award winner this week, Deveena!

Homework will begin next week and will be found on your child’s Seesaw account.  I ask that homework packs remain in the school bags to protect the reading books and are brought to school everyday.  Thank you.  Can your child also take a water bottle and snack with them to school each day to help keep them hydrated and provide energy between meal times.  Thank you.

Regards

Mrs Brown