St John Ogilvie Primary School

Another busy week in P1B.  This week we have learned the sound u.  We also focused on revision and blending our learned sounds together to make words.  We matched pictures to the correct word and were able to write the word for pictures by sounding out the sounds and sliding them together.

We read a story about a fat cat on a mat.  In writing we wrote a sentence about the cat and continued to work on using a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop at the end of our sentence.

We have loved working on our Space Station and Space Rockets during ‘Choosing our Own Learning’.  We worked together and decorated them using foil and a variety of media.  We also made our own space helmets.  This week we learned about the planets.  We know there are eight planets in our Solar System.

We have loved using the craft and construction areas and creating amazing models and master pieces.

We have continued learning about subtraction.  We have used concrete materials to physically take away and we have also used a number line and jumped backwards.

We measured using our hands and cubes to see how long items were.

We have been working really hard on our Nativity Songs and we can’t wait for you all to hear them.

Learning Highlights:

Mrs Russell ‘I loved watching all the children working on the space rockets’

Luca ‘I liked playing with the Rockets’

Owen and Connor ‘I liked playing in the Space Station’

Katie ‘I liked playing with the Space Rockets’

Aaron ‘I liked playing with the I pads’

Elo ‘I liked playing with the Play-Doh’

Azmeer ‘I liked playing in the Rockets’’

Victoria ‘I loved playing with the I pads’

Rose ‘I liked playing in the Reading Tent’

Well done to Aaron our Hot Chocolate winner this week!

Pupil Highlights:

Liam: We started doing our sum dog competition and we really want to beat P6A.

Rupert: We were using the inverse operation in addition and subtraction calculations to ascertain whether the answer provided was in fact correct.

Susanna: We had a class discussion about how we would like to receive feedback for our writing units. We decided that having a little feedback jotter where we would note down our one to one feedback for every piece of written work.

Debbie: We had to work with a partner to make Da Vinci bridges but after trial and error, we are going to do this activity again but use thinner and longer sticks, and, source better instructions.

Hot Chocolate Winner:

A huge congratulations to Tim this week for winning Hot Chocolate. Your teacher is so proud of you for your high level of engagement and more consistent contributions in class. Your whole class are extremely proud of you too.

Dear parents,

Another week has flown by in P5A!

This week we have been working really hard in literacy! We started our week off with a mystery picture quiz and a game of spelling charades to help us understand the meaning of our WordBoost words- this was so much fun. On Tuesday, we used the internet to research and plan our writing discussion which was focused on the question ‘Should we all grow our own fruit and vegetables?’. We explored various arguments and points of view and used these really well in our writing. We also explored sensing verbs and complex conjunctions and made a huge effort to include some of these in our writing- super work P5A! Our literacy class highlight of the week was definitely on Thursday! We recapped and furthered our knowledge of summarising and created our very own story summary cube based on the new John Lewis Christmas advert.

Throughout numeracy we have continued to work on counting and giving change. We have loved engaging in lots of practical role-play activities and plenty of fun games to practice this! We even designed our own ice creams, totalled the cost to make them and worked out the change we were left with! We also played a game of ‘giving change Kahoot!’ on the iPad’s which we all absolutely loved! In addition to money, we have been learning about coordinates and this week we challenged our partner to a game of battleships!

Similar to the past couple of weeks, we have been working our socks off to get ready for our Enterprise in December! We have been working so well within our groups to make our creations and even managed to squeeze in a few Christmas Carol practice sessions this week too!

Lots of pupils in the class said that their favourite moment of the week was outdoor learning! Alongside some other classes, we had a very special tree delivery with a big job to plant all of the trees before the weather turned for the worst. Luckily, we managed to escape the worst of the weather and partnered up with a P7 to plant our trees! Well done everyone!

This week was #Anti-bullyingweek2022 and this year’s campaign had a theme of ‘Reach Out’. We tuned into a live BBC lesson with lots of other schools around the country to learn about what this means and explore different bullying scenarios. One way of raising awareness for Anti-bullying Week is through Odd Sock Day so we decided to design our own odd socks with some powerful messages about bullying. We plan on placing these around the school to raise awareness about bullying!

This week our Hot Chocolate winner is Eilidh! Congratulations! Eilidh was incredibly kind and caring towards her friends in the class and showed all of our school values.

Thank you for another fantastic week everyone, have a lovely weekend!

Dear readers,

We hope you are all very well!😃

This has been another great week in Primary 3A  and its highlights were the following:

• Learning 2 digit column addition, for many of us with carrying! We have absolutely aced it! We’ve done it every single day and kept asking for more! 😃 We wouldn’t even want to stop!
• Continuing our super interesting topic/novel, George’s Marvellous Medicine.We are now on chapter 6, ready to find out what is actually going to happen to George’s grandma! Mrs Valente has decided to stop there for the week just to tease us but we were a bit annoyed because we just wanted to find out more😄!
• Our writing session, predicting what the effects of the incredible medicine George has prepared will be on grandma! There were lots of amazing creative ideas and Mrs Valente liked them very much!
• Our RE lesson about the story of Zaccheaus, during which we discussed all the different aspects of the events, particularly the miraculous effect that Jesus had in a man who was so mean and would make so many bad choices before! We also learned that we all make bad choices at times but as long as we understand why they were wrong and try to change them to make things right, then other people and God will forgive us, as he has forgiven Zaccheaus.
• Our rights of the week were Articles numbers 2, 12, 13 and 19 and we have worked hard on illustrating them so that they can be displayed in our Rights Respecting Wall! They look amazing!

We would, as always, like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate, not only from this week but also from last week!

Our Hot Chocolate last week was Izaan, who has tried hard to be a role model to all! Well done, Izaan! Keep up with your good behaviour!😃👍👏🥇

This week, we congratulated Olly for trying so hard not to chat with his friends and for being on task and answering all the questions asked! Well done, Olly and keep working hard!🥳🥇👏👍

That is all for this week! We hope you have enjoyed reading our post and say goodbye for now!😘

P3A and Mrs Valente

With all the excitement of our Book Week parent event preparations today, we forgot to talk about our favourite parts of this week for the Blog!  Here are some photos however that show some of our learning experiences.  We had a super busy week as it was, ‘Anti Bullying Week’, ‘Road Safety Week’ and ‘Book Week Scotland’!  Ask your child to tell you about the photo of the apples in particular as you look at the photos together.

We really enjoyed having you visit us today!  I hope you did too.  For those parents who were unable to attend, your child had a P6 buddy who joined them for the various activities.  They equally had a great time. 😃

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

I hope you enjoy your weekend.

This week has been a great one as we continued to consolidate our learning about multiplication and division. Lots of us had a breakthrough with division where everything just seemed to click and it was so lovely to see! Well done everyone.

Pupil highlights of the week –

Amelia – I enjoyed making the posters about the climate crisis and learning what is happening to the planet and what we need to do help.

Reece – I liked practising the division facts and learning how to carry using the bus stop method.

Praise – I enjoyed learning how to spot fake news and how to make sure the information we find is reliable and from good sources.

Well done to Jayden who was this weeks hot chocolate winner. Jayden has shown fantastic resilience towards division and has been working really hard in his maths.

Another busy week in P1B. We have really enjoyed doing Book Week activities particularly reading in different places around the school.

We had great fun on Thursday afternoon when some of our adults came to school to join in with our learning. We had fun doing crafts and activities linked to books.

This week we have continued our learning on space, learning all about stars. We also made a little straw rocket and used our hands to measure how far the rocket flew.

We had lots of fun painting very big cardboard boxes to start making enormous rockets to play inside within the classroom.

We all love ‘Choosing our own learning time’ and many of us chose to build a variety of things in the construction area.

This week we have celebrated anti-bullying week by investigating Children’s Rights 2, 12, 13 and 19. We also explored Global Goal 16 which is about Peace and Justice. We worked in groups to create musical raps and made anti-bullying posters. We also celebrated Book Week. In our writing we wrote about protecting our local environment. We continued making excellent Christmas Gifts and practising our Christmas Songs for our Enterprise Show on the 9th of December.

Our highlight of the week was planting trees around the playground and beside the path, next to the woodlands. Although it was raining we had a great time. We are proud of improving our school outdoor environment, making the air cleaner by planting trees.

Pupil Highlights:

Liam: On Wednesday we were able to read books to our primary one buddies.

Amelia: Today the leading readers were asked to hand out reading champion medals to someone in each class.

Alex: We got extra literacy HW from Miss Smith so that we can be ready for high school.

Tanya: We were revising the column method for subtraction and addition. Miss Smith showed us how to use the number line for complex subtraction calculations.

Rupert: To use the number line for subtraction, you would place the largest number at the end of the number line, this is the destination we need to get to. You then place the smallest number at the start of the number line. To help get to our destination, you have to estimate where the half way point is.  Then, make your smallest number easier to deal with. You may have to round this number to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand and so on.

Keep the number easier by adding appropriate jumps in order to reach the destination number.

Then, you add up all the numbers ( your jumps) you used to make the number easier to get to.

Advay: Some of us got to take part in Drama where we hade to create a scene to show bullying.

Rupert: Myself, Connor and Alex were asked to help the primary fives plant trees.

Congratulations to hot chocolate winner this week – Hanna.  You have worked so hard at being responsible in your learning, challenging yourself and communicating to your teacher when you have not understood a task.