St John Ogilvie Primary School

Pupil Highlights:

Kieran: We cemented simplifying fractions in maths and began utilising our reciprocal reading skill

‘clarifying’.

Liam: We discussed why we even simplify fractions in our daily lives  – to make fractions easier to use.

Alex: We simplify fractions to make quantities of amounts easier to work with and visualise.

Rupert: This week we learnt what clarifying is – to clarify is when you do not understand a word and you use different techniques to identify the meaning of the word or phrase. Some of the strategies : find little words within the actual word itself.

Connor: three clarifying strategies are – re read the sentence, and, read the sentence before and after. Look at the illustrations for clues.

Riya: another clarifying strategy –  ask yourself, do you recognise words that are similar.

Liam: use your prior knowledge for clarifying.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Congratulations to Connor for winning hot chocolate this week. You have been absolutely smashing it in Reciprocal Reading, explaining in your own words, the different strategies for clarifying.

Table Winners: ‘We Love Poland’

Dear Parents,

Here’s a look at what we were doing this week in P7A:

Spelling this week came from our class novel ‘A Monster Calls’ as part of our WordBoost activity – the idea being to increase our vocabularies and transfer these more ambitious words into our writing. Quite a number of the class managed to fit some of the words into our narrative stories written on Wednesday – you can ask your child to see theirs as it is saved into their OneDrive.

In maths this week we have continued work on FDP with the focus being on finding a percentage of an amount, this will run into next week where we will also begin Decimals. We were working out how to calculate complimentary angles on Thursday and on Friday we were problem solving handling data, using the netbooks and the Real Life Problem Solving App.

We enjoyed music with Mrs Morrison and PE (Netball) with Mrs Lafferty and really liked the drama warm-up game ‘I’m Mr Hit’.

In science we have continued learning about dissolving and solutions, this week using filter paper to separate sand from water which we are going to evaporate and see if there is anything left behind. Some of us had a bit more trouble keeping the sand from getting through than others!

The PFFA group have met again and will have a bit of homework over the next few weeks, the deadline for submission of the workbooks has been brought forward to the end of February so please support your children in any ways you can. Their work is assessed looking at:

1. I have used all the Gifts of the Holy Spirit when showing my love of God and my love of others in my daily life.

2. I have reflected on how my actions have made an impact on my journey of faith.

So having evidence for each of the gifts at School, Home and Parish (if going for a Parish Commendation) by completing some of the tasks. The reflection should evidence how the gifts of the Holy Spirit have impacted their faith and be related to the Fruits of the Holy Spirit and is completed on the Concluding Evidence pages.

On Thursday, our buddies visited us to celebrate their 100 day of school. We loved hearing what they would do if they had £100 and just enjoyed getting to spend some time with them.

Here are some pupil highlights from this week:

Zahra S said, “I liked how we played different games for drama and how our French was on animals.”

“My highlight of the week was seeing seeing our buddies on Thursday for their 100th day,” said Katie.

“I enjoyed the sceince lesson using a funnel and filter paper to sperate sand from water,” said Rhys.

Nellie said, “We did drama and it was a murder mystery. It was exciting and fun.”

And this week’s winner of Hot Chocolate at Home is…

Bettina!

Great Job Bettina, enjoy your hot chocolate!

Have a Great Weekend,

P7a and Mr McGurn.

In Health and Wellbeing, we explored why it can be a good thing to take risks and be proactive.  We learnt about the zones of risk, which are the comfort zone, the risk zone and the panic zone.  When we are in the comfort zone, we feel safe, happy and comfortable.  When we take risks, we might achieve something and be proud of it, we might make new friends or you might have a new experience and learn from it.

In topic and technology, we researched Edinburgh Castle and started to make a PowerPoint Presentation in pairs.  Next week, we will finish these and present them to our class.

In music, we looked at notation and with NYCOS, we sung some new songs with Mrs de Luen.

In literacy, we learnt about Scots language.  Wheesht means be quiet, bonnie means beautiful/pretty and beastie means insect/animal.  We have started reading some books about Hamish McHaggis.

In maths, we have finished our work on multiplying and dividing by 10 and 100.  We are now going to be applying our understanding through multiplying 2 digit numbers by 1 digit numbers.

Highlights:

Layla, Amelia and Jonah: We enjoyed music with Mrs de Luen because she taught us the new song and we played games.

Khael: I liked learning about notation with Mrs Morrison in music.

Aiden: I loved doing PE with Mrs Lafferty and the two students.  We played tail-tag and it was fun.

Ishani S: I liked learning Scots.  My favourite word was bonnie because it is Mrs Brown’s name.

This week in P1B we have all worked very hard.

We have had a few new baby siblings recently and so have been learning all about how to care for a baby. We also looked at how to keep our teeth healthy and decided to set up a dentist role play in our class.

Victoria – I liked playing in the dentist.

We have started to learn about double numbers in math and also skip counting in 10s. We completed a 100 monster by counting in 10s.

This weeks sound was ‘ch’ and we have enjoyed trying to spot ch sounds in books using magnifying glasses.

Faye – I liked learning ch.

Rose – I liked doing group work.

Yesterday we celebrated our 100th Day of School. We were all very excited and enjoyed lots of 100 activities. We made a 100 years smarter crown, counted to 100 in 10s, wrote fantastic sentences about 100 things we wish we had and played some games.

Enso – I liked doing the 100 days stuff.

Azmeer/JJ – I liked when it was 100 days.

We have enjhoyed exploring new areas in our classroom this week to consolidate our learning.

Cameron – I liked choosing my own learning.

Aaron – I liked playing games at gym.

Martyna – I liked drawing. I drew a rainbow.

Connor – I liked choosing my own learning and doing crafts.

Luca – I liked when I won the hot chocolate.

Owen – I liked playing with construction.

Well done to our hot chocolate winner : Rose

Well done to our Star Writers: Luca, Victoria, Katie, Faye and JJ

We have had a very busy week but we had a special day on Thursday when we celebrated 100 days of Primary 1. We made a snack shaped like 100 using a chocolate finger and 2 party rings, they smelled yummy. We were drawing a 100 monster, we had to give it 10 legs, 10 eyes, 10 arms until we made 100 things.  They looked a bit scary and funny! One of our challenges was to make a picture using 100 stickers. We had to use all of them and we were very creative. We also made crowns so that everyone knew it was our 100^th day. We made bunting to decorate our classroom and we also made paper chains. Miss Stebbing put some ribbon on the door for us to walk through, it was exciting. Another challenge was to make a tower using 100 cups. We had to work as a team but it was quite hard. It fell down a lot of times but we made it! We went to visit the Buddies to show them our work. They were very impressed with our writing about what we would buy with £100. We had a race to 100 using the dice and the paint dabbers, we had to count carefully. On YouTube kids we watched a song with a granny and grandpa counting up to 100.

Some of our personal highlights :

Alexander – I enjoyed going on a walk to see the Buddies.

Harald – I enjoyed using the cups to build a tower.

Olga – I enjoyed going through the ribbons on the door.

Eve – I enjoyed going to visit the buddies.

Mohitha – I enjoyed going through the ribbons.

Connor – I liked making the paper chains.

Miss Stebbing – I enjoyed seeing all the creative ideas with the 100 sticker challenge.

Well done to Aarav who is our Reading Champion and to Vedansh who is our hot chocolate winner.

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Red Table:

Aaron always looks forward to our Word Boost corners game to round up our learning that week.  His favourite word was “tour”.  He was telling us that he went on a tour in Spain once and learned a lot about famous places there.

Amy enjoyed our leaning in Maths about how + and – are linked.  Look out for a photograph of Karina demonstrating this to us.

Ressa said the best part of her week was our story writing.  We had been examining a Narrative called ‘Big Cat, Little Cat’ and then the children wrote their very own!  Ressa chose the title ‘Big, Dog, Little Dog’ and wrote about a dog that got sick because it ate too many Easter eggs!  It had to receive dog medicine from the vet.

Emily-Ann loved peeling carrots.  As a follow up to learning how carrots grow, we visited Morrisons and bought some.  Emily-Ann had the opportunity to scan them herself and practise being a cashier!  It was very exciting!  Mrs Devlin demonstrated how a bank card works to pay for items.  We look forward to growing our own carrots in March!  The next day, we all had a turn to peel part of a carrot and then enjoyed them with hummus.  A delicious healthy snack!

Ciara continued to enjoy our ‘Guess the Baby’ game as part of our learning about how our needs change as we grow.  We guessed Ciara straight away!

Georgia-Rose liked our walk around our local area to spot places to work.  I was so proud of how well behaved all the children were as they represented our school.  Well done everyone!  Next week we will talk about what we want to be when we grow up and what skills we would need to do that job.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our handwriting lesson.  The children were very enthusiastic to learn that they were starting big P3 joined up writing.  We practised forming u and n together and listed words that would require us to join these letters together: fun, gun, bun, run and sun are the words we came up with.

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

Dear Readers,

Welcome to our weekly post. We hope to find you all well and willing to enjoy the weekend.

This week our highlights were:

• Our learning about Robert Burns and how he was Scotland’s most famous poet. We have listened to the story Neeps and Tatties by Carey Morning and Anna York and have had the opportunity to discuss how many families still use many Scots words everyday. Some of the boys and girls in class have said Scots words they hear and have known for a long time. We also learned that because of Burns’ importance people celebrate all things Scottish on his anniversary, including IRN- BRU, tartan, Shortbread and haggis. To celebrate Burns we also had a cup of IRN-BRU and shortbread in the afternoon, and loved it!🥃🍪😀
• Our RE/HWB lesson following God’s Loving plan when we have learned about how God created us and our bodies because of how much he loves us and also how we should show our appreciation by looking after them the best possible way we can. We have learned the names of the different parts of our bodies and discussed how they all have their function and work in harmony for our wellbeing.
• Maths and Numeracy have been super and after exercising our mental subtraction strategies for some time, we started our column subtraction, without and with borrowing! We loved it and aced it! So good! 😁
• Writing our new narrative following the structure of the narrative previously learned and being able to choose our own characters and setting.
• Our very much loved 😄Weekly Spelling Assessment for which we already have our scores.
• Our Spanish lesson on the numbers up to 20.

We would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of the week, Paige, for trying hard to improve her behaviour throughout the week and also for the great work she has done! Well done, Paige!😍🥇 Keep it up!

We also congratulate another super reader, our new Star Reader of the Fortnight, Ollie!📕📖📗📘📔📚🏆😀

We hope you have enjoyed reading this and say goodbye for now.

Mrs Valente and P3A😍

Wow!  I can’t believe that we’re almost at the end of January!  The children have worked very hard this week and I have been very impressed with some of the mature discussions we have had through our God’s Loving Plan learning.

We’ve been doing lots of writing this week to complete our narratives.  The children have thought hard about the structure of their texts, organising them into an orientation, a complication and a resolution.  They have been pushing themselves to include lots of description and interesting past tense verbs.

The children have also spent time completing a diagnostic assessment on Sumdog in school this week.  It was very important that this was completed independently, as with all Sumdog sessions, because the algorithms adapt the questioning to tailor to each individual’s need.  From now on, the children’s weekly numeracy homework will be set on Sumdog.  They are also encouraged to go on to complete additional tasks and games as it will support them with their learning in school.

Our highlights from this week:

Amelia and Khael: We enjoyed going on Sumdog.

Jude: I enjoyed doing basketball in PE because we were bouncing the balls.  We played a fun game where we had to take balls off other people.

Ishani M: I enjoyed writing my narrative because it was super fun.

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Mrs Brown

Wow, what a week we have had! As I am sure you can all imagine, a lot of this week was finalising the preparation for our Burns’ Supper and Class Assembly. We have been busy creating PowerPoints about the life and work of Robert Burns, making posters about famous Scots’, making Scottish dictionaries with all the news words we have learnt throughout the topic, creating highland ‘coo’ artwork on the Netbooks using 3D Paint and learning how to make tartan by weaving paper together. I hope you all enjoyed exploring the learning and discussing it with the children.

My definite highlight was the Burns’ performance – I am so incredibly proud of everyone (as we all are)! It was a beautiful performance by everybody! Thank you all so much who attended.

Well done to Zephaniah who won the hot chocolate. Zephaniah has been working really hard and trying to be focussed on his learning and following our rules.

Here are our some photo highlights – working hard to prepare for our events, doing some Narrative writing (in a relaxing setting!) and taking part in Number Talks.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday!

Miss MacGregor