St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week has passed so quickly. On Monday Morning we started to write a short story about walking through a Magic Door to somewhere unusual. On Monday afternoon we had a great Christmas party with dancing and games. Joy and James being joint winners in musical statues.

On Tuesday we finished our stories and painted our creative door designs to display with them. On Wednesday we had a Winter Safety Assembly reminding us to have fun but be safe especially outdoors with the cold weather. In the afternoon we created series and parallel circuits in our science lesson. We were able to light up light bulbs, turn on buzzers and motors. On Thursday in our art lesson we created a tree for each season which was very challenging but fun. We had a fun movie afternoon with Primary 5A with popcorn and flavoured water.

Merry Christmas to everyone. See you all again on Monday 9th of January 2023.

This week we spent some time with our Buddies to make a Christmas door hanger and exchange cards. We were very lucky because the P7s had made us special crackers with hats, chocolate coins and even a joke in them! We had great fun!

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Blue and Yellow Tables:

Reesa has continued to enjoy the daily stories from a P7 before home time during our season of Advent.  She could not pick her favourite one as she enjoyed them all so much.

Georgia-Rose said a favourite part of her week was making our Spanish Christmas cards.  Parents, you are in for a treat when we take these home!  The children worked very hard on them.  Feliz Navidad!

Lilly loved watching the Christmas movie, Home Alone as a special treat after our Christmas lunch.

Sofia enjoyed watching the Cbeebies pantomime, ‘Alice in Wonderland’ was Mrs Morrison during Music.

Eli said the highlight of his week was our Christmas themed maths.

Blair loved his Christmas lunch.  He ordered steak pie and jelly, which he claims is the best food in the world!  A big thank you to all the kitchen staff for another fine Christmas meal.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our learning about the ‘Magic e’.  The children made wands to help the Magic e to do it’s job of turning a short vowel sound into a long vowel sound (or it’s name).  They became really excited when they spotted a word in their environment that had a magic e as the week progressed.  Maja, for example, spotted the ‘home’ key on the screen of the computer.  Well done Maja!

Congratulations to Eli, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week and to Sofia, our Reading Champion!

Wow!  One more week to go!

In maths this week, we have been looking at money.  We can now recognise and show all coins and notes to £20.  We know how to find the total of an amount and show it using pounds and pence.  We have been showing different ways to make the same amount.  Additionally, to support our last addition and subtraction topic, also did some word problems and we practised using the inverse again.

In literacy, we’ve been learning about descriptive writing.  We have been using nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs/adverbials phrases, prepositional phrases and figurative language (such as similes and alliteration).  We wrote a lovely description about a beach today and used loads of descriptive vocabulary to paint a clear image in our reader’s head.

Our highlights from this week:

Layla: I liked getting the hot chocolate because it shows my hard work.

Stefi: I liked creating our Christmas artwork because we were able to colour.

Jonah: I loved watching the Christmas film and also the art.

Markuss: I enjoyed doing the Friday Newsround Quiz.  The most interesting question was about the Geminid meteor shower.  There were 150 meteors per hour!

Amelia is also very proud of her Lego creation.  It is spectacular!

Well done to Layla for being our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a great weekend.  I hope you manage to find some time to play in the snow.

Mrs Brown

Pupil highlights:

Aoife – “I loved practising for our advent service on monday” – Oilvier agreed with this.

Sam – “I liked making a Livingroom in the snow!”

Josh – “I liked working on budgets and looking at what it means to budget”

Joshua – ” I liked doing percentages of amounts!”

The children have had a great week of planning, learning and exploration!

Joshua – “I have been a confident individual and effective contributor by helping my friends and working as a team this week”

Anastasia – “I have been a successful learner this week because I challenged myself in numeracy!”

Adam -“I have been a confident individua this week by pushing myself and singing for the advent service!”

The class have had a fantastic week. Thank you Amelia and Emily who were our lead learners this week.

Well done Grant for going over and above and getting the hot chocolate reward.

Some of our week in pictures:

Dear parents,

We have had another exciting week with lots of wintery fun! It is also now the third week of Advent and it was our turn to lead the middle area Advent Service. We explained that this week is the week of Joy, lit the pink candle and sang some hymns. We also researched a little more into the meaning behind the Advent wreath and drew our own. Miss Ventisei thinks they look beautiful!

This week during maths we have been learning more about money. We have been practicing our vertical calculations, including addition, subtraction and multiplication calculations and played a few competitive games of Kahoot! Oreo God (AKA Tyler!) won this week! Emily D says that her favourite thing about maths this week was our Countdown starter. We are all obsessed with this game at the moment, even Miss Ventisei!

Inaayah loved science on Thursday because we had a full afternoon of science stations. We were learning about circuits, conductors and insulators and we had lots of fun building and experimenting with these. Inaayah particularly loved building her own circuit on a cool circuit-building website and Lucy enjoyed doing an experiment where we checked to see if play dough was an insulator or conductor.

We have been learning about conjunctions throughout literacy this week and Bentley really enjoyed creating a story based on John Lewis’s 2021 advert ‘Excitable Edgar’. Emily D liked making a conjunction word cloud on the iPads too!

Julia enjoyed Health and Wellbeing this week where we discussed the Zones of Regulation and completed some class collaboration posters to display in our calm corner.

Lucy liked ERIC and Eilidh liked crazy hair day this week too!

This week our Hot Chocolate winner was Nikola! She always goes above and beyond to help others and show kindness to all in our school community. Thank you and congratulations Nikola!

A busy week working in our topic groups. We have been learning about cooperation and compromise. Some have found it tricky to share all the tasks and everyone has had to be extra patient and try extra hard to listen to each other. The groups have done some wonderful work on their challenges. Choosing a group name, designing a shield, building model castles and working together to cut and put together  a card castle and its towers. We took some great photos of our work.

We have been painting some blocks of wood to create a surprise. (HM)

We finally finished our castles. It was great and I was relieved to finish it. My favourite part was creating the drawbridge. (IS)

We have been doing our Jesse Tree stories and we are almost finished them. My favourite is probably number 4. The story of Noah’s Ark. (MM)

The Jesse Tree tells us about Jesus’ ancestors and all about our history as God’s people. (SR)

Today we have had crazy hair day and I sprayed it with 2 colours. (SF)

On Tuesday we had christmas jumper day and had an excellent Christmas lunch. (SF)

Other Groups will be posted next week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Hello Families of P2A

With the snowy weather outside, we were inspired to write wonderful stories about ‘The Snowman’ film.

We recorded our lowest temperature of -7 on our weather chart this week.

We learned about the Story of Christmas and made beautiful Mangers, using a selection of collage materials.

Highlights:

Rory – I loved doing free writing.

Caleb – I like drawing during activity time.

Hasika – I love painting during activities. I painted a rainbow.

Jiade – I liked learning about clouds during our weather topic.

Laura – I loved everything this week.

Angel – I liked doing the weather chart.

Aadya – I liked learning about magic ‘e’.

Zion – I liked playing in the snow.

Whole class – We loved crazy hair day!

Some photos of our crazy hair:

Linda even drew her snowman with crazy hair!

Huge congratulations to our hot chocolate winner, Shay and our reading champion, Zion.

Have a lovely weekend!

Hi P6B families,

We have had a busy and successful week, including our Advent Service performance, a trip to the library and playing in the snow!

Pupil highlights of the week:

Urwa and Naman: We enjoyed planning a birthday party with a given budget and trying to work out what the best options would be to afford everything.

Vivien: I enjoyed drawing and creating the Christmas symmetrical pictures.

Aditya: I enjoyed using the netbooks and exploring the TinkerCad website to create 3D images.

Well done to Vivien who won this week’s hot chocolate.

Dear Parents,

A busy week of National Assessments this week, all P7s in Scotland complete these standardised assessments, though at different times throughout the year, and they give some insight on how our children are progressing and any areas of development needed to work on before the transition to high school. When assessments are fully completed by the whole year group, I’ll share results with the pupils and look into the best way to share with parents.

After finishing our Reciprocal Reading Novel ‘Skellig’ by David Almond we watched the film and discussed similarities and differences between the film and book. The overall consensus was that the class enjoyed the movie more as it was easier to understand/follow than the book.

Christmas Lunch was on Tuesday this week and we had a Christmas themed murder mystery/problem solving activity in maths.

On Friday, we had a Class Advent Prayer Service after PE before we had a quiz with Miss Davis as it is her last day today. We have very much enjoyed learning with her over the last 10 weeks and will miss all of her help and exciting and interesting lessons.

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner was…

Ruqayyah! Congratulations Ruqayyah, lots of hard work and effort and a great positive attitude.

PUPIL HIGHIGHTS

Nellie, “We have been doing a lot of SNSA tests.”

Chiedochie, “We have done a Kahoot quiz for Miss Davis’ last day.”

Declan, “The thing I loved this week was watching Skellig.’

JJ, “I liked Christmas lunch because the food was good.”

Zahra, “I enjoyed playing Kahoot quiz, the snow, and Miss Davis.”

One week to go, Have a Great Weekend.

Mr McGurn & Primary 7a