St John Ogilvie Primary School

It was lovely to see all our friends again this week after the October holiday. Although it was a short week, we have managed to squeeze a lot of good learning and play into our days in P1B.

We have been learning the letter and sound ‘a’ this week. We started to blend our learned sounds together to make words, we were all very excited that we could sound out, build and read words.

Cameron – I liked colouring in an apple.

Owen – I liked using m to make words.

We have been adding up to 10 this week and enjoyed using the Ipads to do our task on Seesaw.

Connor – I liked using the Ipads.

Martyna/Owen – I liked counting conkers.

Outdoor learning this week was based on the book ‘Leaf Man’ because we have been learning about seasons. We collected our own leaves and made a leaf man in the playground for the wind to blow away on an adventure. We all know what trees look like in the different seasons.

Faye – I liked making leaf man.

Rhain – I liked leaf man.

Azmeer – I like it when leaves fall off trees.

Owen – I like picking leaves off the ground.

This week we learned the sound ‘a’. We have been practising the vowel house story and we are getting good at remembering the sounds for each part. We were spelling out words and had to hit the sounds in the correct order. It was lots of fun!

In maths, we have been looking at facts for 5 and we were able to give lots of examples. We have also been looking at our dot patterns and had to say it quickly before it disappeared!

We have started our new Topic all about Space. We are looking forward to learning about the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets.

In Art, we made Autumn trees using paints and cotton buds. They look very beautiful. We also went outside and collected lots of leaves from the tree in the nursery garden. We then made our own leaf man and watched the wind take it away on an adventure.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Joshua – I enjoyed playing with the cars.

Olga – I enjoyed writing.

Harald – I enjoyed playing with the trains.

Summer – I enjoyed hearing the Leaf Man story.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed drawing.

Alexander – I enjoyed making the Leaf Man and it did not blow away.

Miss Stebbing – I loved reading the Leaf Man story and seeing all the wonderful Leaf Men made with the leaves outside. I was also very impressed with how hard everyone tried to read and write words during Literacy Time.

Pupil Highlights:

Alex: In maths we have been estimating missing numbers in number lines starting from 0 to 10 million.

Rupert: We have started our Word of the Day and we created Ninja Dictionaries. Everyday we will find the meaning of a new word, identify the word class which is either adjective/verb/noun/adverb. We will use online resources like word hippo, nifty word to ascertain the synonyms, antonyms, prefixes and suffixes.

We will also be noting down any words  we stumble across and this will be part of our encountered vocabulary.

We had a great week to finish term 1!

P6 have worked brilliantly this week! We reviewed decimals and fractions, created Halloween place value charts to use at home after the break and continued our work on narrative. The learners have been very creative. To continue our germ experiment we looked at ways we can keep ourselves and others safe – even creating great posters for the upper area of the school.

Myles and Olivier, enjoyed drama this week- making funny scenes to teach people about Ancient Rome! Patrick liked writing his narrative this week on the netbook!
Grant liked reviewing decimals and linking it to our place value work!

The whole class mentioned they loved creating their end of unit IDL poster to showcase their learning! They are fantastic!

See below for some photo highlights:

Hello P2B families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Red and Green Tables:

Ollie said the best part of his week was when we were counting in twos during Maths.  He did a super job organising a pile of socks into pairs and counting in twos to find out how many there were altogether.  He discovered that counting in twos is quicker than counting in ones!

Ishaan absolutely loved watching a cartoon his grandparent may of watched called, ‘Morph’.  We then using the app ‘Stop Motion’ to create our very own Morph cartoons!  We manipulated playdoh to create different freeze frames that the app then put together to form a short film.  They were super!  Some children still need to make theirs as we ran out of time.

Maya liked playing ‘Green Light, Red Light’ during PE with Mrs Laffterty.

Olivia said the favourite part of her week was revising the ‘ch’ sound.  We discovered that ‘tch’ makes the same sound too and mostly comes after a vowel at the end of words.  She liked cutting coin shapes out and sticking them into a piggy bank that contained that sound.

Lewis loved our lesson about Capacity.  The children learned that the packaging of liquids tell you exactly how much liquid is in the bottle.  In P2 we focus on litres and half litres.  The children guessed the capacity of different sized containers and then compared their results withour findings after we actually filled them with a measuring jug that held one litre.

Evana said the best part of her week was watching the Morph cartoon.  They can be found on Youtube but the one we watched can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgeUu8pXDeY&t=453s

Safaa liked the game we played linked to our learning about the ‘tch’ sound.  We had to throw a ball or beanbag up into the air and catch it when we heard a word that ended with this sound.  Safaa was one of the winners!

Theo enjoyed the Autumn art we completed this week.  Look out for your child’s beautiful Autumn art on Seesaw over the weekend!

Amariah-Grace chose the House Group winners reward as her ‘best bit’ of the week as she was in the winning house, St Filan!  The winners enjoyed a movie in the Hall with snacks.

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was when we talked about the changes we see all around during the season of Autumn, Mrs Devlin’s favourite season.  We marvelled at the beauty of God’s world at this time of year.

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

I hope you all enjoy the break and I will see you all back to school on Wednesday 19^th!  I cannot believe we are at the end of Term One already!  Before we know it, it will be Christmas!  How time flies when you are having fun!

Click on the link below to see the final image as it contains a short video.  Press play a few times to fully appreciate the work that went into making this short animation.

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Dear Readers!

We can’t believe this is already the end of term 1! Wow!😄

We hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to having a bit of extra time together with your children!❤

Our highlights for the week were:

• All the learning about the Vikings, including their longhouses, their clothes, their jewellery and other practical aspects of their lives.
• Following the tutorial to draw our own versions of the Vikings longhouses.
• In Maths, we have revised the Days of the week, Months and Seasons of the Year and have also learned how to tell the time to a quarter past and a quarter to. It would be really good to keep practising at home so that nobody forgets about this!😊
• We have learned about all the situations in which we should use capital letters and have corrected the wrong punctuation in our tasks in a very successful way.
• As always, we have enjoyed all the activities with the new weekly spelling words, particularly making our own wordsearches and swapping them with our friends so that they could find the words we had hidden.
• We ended up the week with a special treat for the House Winners, the lucky St. Filan’s! Well done for all your hard work!
• We would also like to congratulate Ben, our new Hot Chocolate of the week! 🥇Well done Ben, for trying your best to be Ready, Respectful and Safe!👏👏👏👏

• We are very proud of our new Kindness Champions, Isabel, Julia and Kayla, for their many acts of kindness in class and for setting a lovely example for all! Well done, sweeties!😍🥇🥈🥉🥳

We wish you a very good weekend and holiday week ahead and would like to say goodbye for now!

P3A and Mrs Valente😘😘

This week we have been learning all about the letter ‘p’. We read the book ‘Pants’ and designed our own pair of pants. We also set up a pizza shop in the classroom. We have been sorting pictures to show what sound they begin with and we did a fantastic job. The most exciting activity we did was to make popcorn. We tasted three different types of popcorn and then wrote a sentence to say which one we liked.

In maths, we made shape pizzas and a graph to show our favourite flavour of popcorn. We did really well explaining which was the most popular and the least popular. We have been focussing on ten frame patterns for 7, 8 and 9. Ask us about the strategies that we use. With Mrs Meikle, we made 3D shapes using marshmallows and cocktail sticks.

We learned all about our sense of taste and touch this week. We had a feely box where we had to describe the item we could feel. We used lots of great vocabulary e.g smooth, rough, soft, hard, bumpy, etc.

In RE, we have been learning about Mary and we started to learn the Hail Mary using sign language.

We also made a puppet theatre in our classroom this week and we had lots of fun. We even made signs for the show and made popcorn and drinks using the loose parts.

Here are some of our personal learning highlights this week:

Lillian – I enjoyed making shapes with the marshmallows and the sticks. I got to eat them!

Joshua – I liked playing with the orange putty it was very stretchy.

Harald – I enjoyed playing with the Numberblocks.

Vedansh – I enjoyed playing with the blocks.

Olga – I enjoyed doing my writing.

Summer – I liked to learning about the confident spot.

Eve – I liked tidying up in the classroom.

Miss Stebbing

My highlight this week was making the popcorn.  Everyone was very excited when it started to pop in the machine! I also loved all the pictures the children drew of Mary.

Congratulations to Filip who is our hot chocolate winner this week.

We’ve had a lovely last week in P4.

In maths, we’ve been looking at time.  We’ve made analogue clocks and have spent lots of time understanding how to read and show the time.  We made flaps on them so we can peel them back to see the number of minutes and also how to see we would say this in words too. We’ve found using the clocks very helpful.

We continued our work on procedures in English and literacy.  We’ve looked at some more different example texts as part of our reading comprehension and we’ve continued to really impress Mrs Brown with our nouns, adjectives, verbs and adverbs understanding.

We have been looking at greetings in Spanish and our pronunciation is coming along well!  We have looked at a range of household inventions in Topic and we completed some research on some of their inventors.

Some highlights from this week:

Paige, Jonah and Stefi: I’ve liked playing Cross the Golden River in games.  We were all sweaty!

Shelby and Alexa: I liked doing maths (learning the time).

Khael: I liked all my learning.  Maths was my favourite.

Matteo:  I really liked doing the inventions posters.

Ishani S: I liked making the clocks.

Layla: I liked going to the hall on Friday because our house won the House Point competition.  We watched Alice in Wonderland.  It was great!

Zac, Ishani M and Jude: I liked Big Maths.  Jude is happy because he is now onto the next level.

Well done to Stefi for being our Hot Chocolate winner this week.  Stefi has been really ready, respectful and safe and has shown some great independent learning.

Jude also made this very creative model during a wet break this week:

Have a wonderful break everybody and I really look forward to seeing you when you get back.  If you can, try to practise your time skills at home.  When we return, we will be converting the time from analogue to digital.

Mrs Brown 🙂