St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week has been another busy week.

In art, we’ve been drawing castles.  We drew and coloured one castle in the style of Paul Klee, using shapes filled with bold, bright colours.  We also developed our pencil sketching skills through a drawing of Edinburgh Castle.  We looked at how we could use lines to show depth, light and texture and we thought carefully about which direction the lines were facing and looked for the shapes we could see in the photograph.

In literacy, we have written a narrative using Scots language.  Our story is based on the adventures of Hamish McHaggis and we took our characters on an adventure to Edinburgh Castle.  We really enjoyed using Scots language and we have worked hard to build our understanding on how to punctuate speech correctly to show it being said by our characters.

In numeracy, we have moved on from multiplication to division.  We are applying our times table knowledge to solve problems and Mrs Brown has asked us to keep practising our times tables at home so we become even more confident with our multiplication and division skills.  Mrs Brown also says please remember to go onto Sumdog to do your maths homework.

Our highlights:

Jonah: I liked doing PE because we played Piggy in the middle with basketballs.

Leah: We got to write stories about Edinburgh Castle and I enjoyed doing this.  In mine, they had marshmallows and a big sleepover at the end.

Daniel M: I enjoyed making the PowerPoint about Edinburgh Castle because it was fun.

Mariam: I liked doing art with Mrs Lea because I liked using the bold colours.

Zac: I liked doing art as well because I like using the different shapes.

Well done to Dhanvi, who is our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a very restful break everybody and I look forward to seeing you on the other side.

Mrs Brown 🙂

Super work going on in P4a, we are exploring Scotland with Hamish McHaggis and will learn more about Edinburgh Castle after the break. Mrs de Luan is a singing specialist from NYCOS and she has been visiting us on Thursdays. We are doing lots of practise with our times tables and using different strategies to help us learn new ones. For writing we have been writing some fantastic Teddy Tales and are hoping to create a P4 book with the super adventures.

We have been playing ‘around the world’ with our times tables fingers. (JK) We are doing challenging times table sums. (SF) We played basketball in PE. (SK)

Our Wellbeing Wednesday monster tells us to never give up and keep trying. (MM) The monsters name is Sproot. (DM) He lives at no. 3. (JK)

We did some music with Mrs de Luan. (JR) We learned ‘ta’, ‘tete’, So and Mi. (DM)

We went on laptops and played Sumdog. (BP) We have done our 4 times tables. (AS)

Sam was out Hot Choc winner this week and Samanvi won it last week.

Bailey has been our Reading champion and Jemima will wear the medal next term.

Hope everyone has a great break and a super rest.

Happy Friday!

We are done for another week! The children have been brilliant. A great way to end before the February break.

Pupil voice:

Caleb and Daisy enjoyed our spaghetti structures. The children showed good resilience and team work throughout this challenge.

Olivier, Myles and Filip liked the sumdog competition this week! Everyone has tried so hard. Well done.

Josh and Aoife enjoyed going outside and putting plotting coordinates into context! It was cold but fun!

Myles (and a few others) loved participating in Judo for PE this week! Thank you to Destination Judo for that lesson!

Thank  you P6 for a great week! Well done to Emmanuel for getting the hot chocolate at home! You had a fantastic week and really pushed yourself!

I hope you all have a good week (and a day) off! See you all next Tuesday! Can’t wait to hear about your time off! Remember to be safe and relax!

some photo highlights:

In maths, we have been learning about doubles.  We did a valentine worksheet where we had to put the numbers in the correct place. To help us with our subitising and take away skills we played a game called Splat.

In literacy, we have been learning the sound ‘wh’. We read the story ‘Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell’. We had to draw our own shell and then we wrote sentences using colour and texture words.

In RE, we read a story called ‘The Widow’s Mite’. The widow put all her money in the box at the temple. This helps us to remember we have to give love with all our hearts.

In topic, we finished our Local Area work by going on a walk to Morrison’s. We looked for technology in our local area that helps us. We found the talking bin, cameras and cash machine. We bought some things in Morrison’s and the staff let us scan them. When we were coming back to school, we got to play at the park. Back at school, we drew a map to show where we walked.  While we were on our walk, we spotted some snowdrops. Spring is on its way!

In PE we had a session with Destination Judo. It was great fun and we got to wear special jackets.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Filip – I enjoyed playing with the trains.

Joshua – I enjoyed playing with the hearts in the purple tray.

Vedansh – I enjoyed playing with the marble run. It was hard work to build it.

Lillian – I enjoyed making the Love Bugs.

Summer Rose – I enjoyed playing in the shop.

Aarav – I enjoyed playing with the marble run.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of everyone when we visited Morrison’s. They had marvellous manners when we were walking round the shop and at the checkout.

Congratulations to Layla who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.

Dear P6B families,

We have had a excellent last week before the February break – full of lots of learning.

Teacher highlights:

• Starting the research for our new writing topic, Information Reports. Everyone was very engaged and managed to find great facts about their chosen Ecosystem.
• Getting outside on Wednesday morning. We have been looking at coordinates and map reading so we had an excellent opportunity right in our playground to consolidate our learning.
• We got together with P6A and began the work for our research groups about Ecosystems.
• Constructing a floor plan model in maths for our learning of Area.

Pupil highlights:

• Siddharth – Judo session for PE on Friday.
• Summer – Taking part in the STEM challenge. “I enjoyed working together with my team and trying to solve the problems to create a racecourse for the bouncy ball”.
• Alex – Working with P6A for the ecosystem research activity.

Photo highlights –

Well done to Reece who was this weeks hot chocolate winner. Reece has taken ownership in his own learning this week by creating a resource which will help him in an area of maths he is working on and trying to improve. Very impressed!

Have a lovely, well deserved break P6B!

Miss MacGregor

It has been another busy week in P1B.

This week we have looked at the sounds sh and th.  We blended sounds together to make words and we practised the letter formation for each.

We read the story Norman the Slug with the Silly Shell and we designed our own shell and wrote sentences about it.

We listened to the stories of the Widow’s Mite and The Flood and had a discussion about what the stories mean.

We learned about St Valentine this week and love.  We wrote about things we love and we made Valentine Cards and flowers.

For number this week we practised singing two songs to help us count in 2’s and 10’s we loved singing them and completing the actions.  It was so much fun.

We continued working on Doubles in number and are getting very good at recalling doubles to 10 we are now trying to recall doubles to 20.

This week we were learning about ‘Weather’ we recorded the weather forecast every day in the morning and after lunch.  We looked at the weather symbols and can recall what they mean.  In groups we used maps and weather symbols and made up our own weather reports.  We became weather reporters and explained what the weather would be like for the coming week.  We were developing our confidence in Talking and Listening and group work.  Mrs Russell was very impressed with our presentations.

JJ ‘I Liked playing in the Construction Area’

Faye ‘ I like learning about Love.

Azmeer ‘I like making things in the Construction’

Katie ‘I loved singing the counting songs’

Bradley ‘I liked learning about the weather’

Well done to Owen our Hot Chocolate winner.

We hope everyone has a great mid term break and look forward to seeing everyone on our return.

We have had a great week at school and welcomed a new pupil into our class. I hope everyone has a fantastic February Break and will look forward to seeing everyone back at school on Tuesday 21st of February.

These are our learning highlights for this week. We enjoyed building our Hockey skills in our PE lessons.

This week we started to learn about notes and beat patterns to create music.

During math lessons we are learning about equivalent fractions and finding amount by dividing by the denominator and multiplying by the numerator.

We learning how to classify animals in our science lesson. 

During our John Muir Outdoor Learning we took photographs of areas within the school grounds which we think need to be improved. We then came up with a plan of how to improve different areas by planting, painting and upcycling things we already have in the school grounds.

In Literacy this week we have been focussing on non-chronological report writing. How to find and write interesting information to share our learning. P5B voted to write a report about Internet Safety as we had been learning about this as part of our Journey to learn about how we use our rights in everyday life.  These are the rights which make sure we are supported to be safe online

• Article 17, Access to information from the media – Every child has the right to reliable information from a variety of sources and governments should encourage the media to provide information that children can understand. Governments must help protect children from materials that could harm them.
• Article 19, Protection from violence, abuse and neglect – Governments must do all they can to ensure that children are protected from all forms of violence, abuse, neglect and bad treatment by their parents or anyone else who looks after them.
• Article 34, Sexual exploitation – Governments must protect children from forms of sexual abuse and exploitation.                                                                                                                                                                               

Dear Parents,

Here’s what’s been going on in P7A this week in St. John Ogilvie:

In literacy we are working on a block of Narrative writing, and really enjoying the chance to be creative. There are always story starters to help us with ideas if we need them but otherwise our imaginations are allowed to run free. Some of the interesting pieces this week include:

In maths we have been working on comparing and ordering decimals, links to fractions and some addition and subtraction of decimals to 2 places. There has been more positive engagement with maths homework through Sumdog so thank you for your help with this. The children continue to enjoy using the Real Life Problem Solving App and this week had to design a park which fit in with our lesson on area.

In science we made plastic in an experiment on irreversible change – milk and vinegar mixed and then a little bit of food colouring make a biodegradable plastic.

Our art in the style of Monet had some very positive result and will make a nice display in our cloakroom area.

The children are enjoying our drama lessons and these will be good preparation for the St. Margaret’s Drama teacher visit in May as part of our ongoing transition to high school programme.

In PE on Thursday we had a visit from Destination Judo for a taster session. The children really enjoyed the experience and it sounds like quite a few of them would like to sign up – A flyer was sent home with each pupil on how to join.

We have continued our work on the PFFA and are now getting closer to the deadline. The date for submission is the 27th of February so please make sure that all booklets are in on Friday the 24th so I can check them and give those that haven’t quite got enough evidence or haven’t reflected on how the award has helped them to grow in faith some advice and the weekend to get things fixed.

Here are some pupil highlights from this week in P7A:

Tanvi said, “What I enjoyed was… The judo as I beat Zara R and I learned something. The art of Monet because it was fun as my friends were criticizing my art.”

Chiedochie said,”What I enjoyed was the science wit the milk and vinegar to make casein plastic. Our class did judo and did art in the style of Monet.”

Rhys said, “I really enjoyed doing our art work doing a field with trees and poppies.”

Nellie said, ” I enjoyed drama, we did fun games.”

Joshua said, ” This week I really enjoyed making casein plastic in science and I enjoyed doing the art in the style of Monet. Another thing I enjoyed was doing judo but I prefer the martial art I do currently.”

Millan said, “In judo I completely destroyed Monty and pinned him.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home Winner is…

Danyal.

Well done , well deserved!

Have a great February break,

P7A and Mr McGurn.