St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

Here is an update about this week in P2B.

Anthony – I enjoyed banana tig in PE.

Ksawery – I liked Thursday’s maths, making a big triangle from small ones.

Addison – I like when we got to meet our new teacher, Mrs Broadley.

Cohen – I liked PE because we did some jumping with hula hoops, and tennis.

Ellie-May – We made hopscotch games which were fun.

Amelia and Alex are our new Lead Learners and Ksawery is this week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner!

For a bit of a change P2B had Mr McGurn as their teacher on Friday and the children were excellent at keeping me right.

The pupils impressed me with their Word Boost work and were even able to use these ambitious words in their Free Writing.

I was taught how to play Banana Tig at PE and they all did really well with their 2, 5, and 10 times tables in maths.

Well done P2B,

Mr McGurn.

Pupil Highlights:

Filip: I liked converting analogue into 12 hour time, then 12 hour to 24 hour.

Grant: I liked presenting my persuasive speech because it was fun.

Olivier: I liked learning how to read all the different times on an analogue clock.

Amelia: I liked converting 12 hour into 24 hours time.

Daisy: I liked meeting our new teacher.

Nilaya: I liked making the power point presentation on Recruitment and Conscription in WW1.

Congratulations to Grant for being our hot chocolate winner this week. He presented his persuasive speech with such confidence and added extra information for his cups of tea. Fantastic Work Grant

Hello families

It has been quite an exciting week because we found out who our P4 teacher is going to be! It is going to be Mrs Lea. We are excited to have her next year and we spent some time making origami photo frames.

We had a little assembly that was a surprise for Miss Lawrence (P2 teacher) who gets married this weekend.  When she returns we all need to remember her new name Mrs Wallace.

Maths

This week in maths we have focused on position and movement.  We have been learning about co-ordinates. We used a large grid and items from around the class and put them into the correct position using their grid reference.

We also looked at right angles. A right angle is where two lines meet in a shape, or a corner, that is a certain size. We used right angle finders to go on a right angle hunt around the classroom.

We looked at compass points; North, East, South and West.

Literacy

We looked at deciduous trees, which are trees that have there leaves fall off in Autumn and the leaves grow back in Spring and Summer. We answered some questions about the information we read and we used Ipads to research the names of some deciduous trees. For example: Oak, Cherry blossom and Maple.

Topic

For the last few weeks of the term, we are going to be looking at nature for our topic.

We created our own nature names. We also created our own picture using materials we collected from the woodlands. Some of us also decorated letters that spell out nature for our display.

Pupil Highlight of the Week

Zac – I enjoyed playing new games we have learnt in PE.

Alexa – I enjoyed doing the crafts with Mrs Lea.

Millie – I enjoyed doing the nature art.

Daniel – I liked Free Writing Friday and doing the blog.

Aiden – I liked doing ERIC time.

Mariam – I liked going into the woodlands to collect stuff.

Hello P2A families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Yellow and Blue Table:

Ollie enjoyed handwriting with Mrs Ogunro this week.  We have only one more pattern to complete and then we have finished our P2 handwriting joins!  Very exciting!

Paige loved when we used balloons as part of our ‘oy’ phonics lesson.  Our partner called out an ‘oy’ word that the class composed and wrote on the big white board and we had to sound it out.  When we came to ‘oy’, we had to throw the balloon in the air.  We discovered that we were throwing the balloon mostly at the end of words.

Kyle liked working with a partner to build an array for our ‘Array City’ that then went onto our Maths Working Wall.  Unfortunately, not all of the buildings could fit but the children worked very well carefully placing the ‘windows’ in an organised way to represent the given Times Table.  Kyle and his partner built ‘2×6’.

Eva said the best part of her week was the ‘Ascension Thursday’ service with Fr Simon.  We were delighted to be able to join some other classes in the Hall for the first time in a long time.

Ruari liked PE with Mrs Lafferty.

Pola really loved using the Beebots and making them travel forwards, backwards, left and right’.  The children rotated around 5 different Beebot mats.  Pola’s favourite was the ‘Racing Track’ mat.

Aiden G’s highlight was playing with an app on the class ipad that allowed him to superimpose a picture of his and his friend’s head on a body.

Rebekah shares my highlight too, were the children had to work in pairs to find the missing numbers on a jigsaw piece of a 100 square using the given numbers as clues.  The jigsaw pieces had to then be slotted together to form a big 100 square.  There was a yellow 100 square to be made up and a pink one.  Rebekah was part of the pink one.  Super teamwork everyone!

Congratulations to Zosia, our Hot Chocolate Award winner this week.

Hello Families

Literacy

This week we started a new ebook called ‘The Whole Truth’.  It is about a boy called Armitage and a girl called Marcie, they are twins. Armitage always tells lie, at least that is what Marcie thinks.

We made a plan for our own story using the book ‘ The man who wore all his clothes’ as inspiration. We are making these stories for the new Primary 1s who are starting this August.

Maths & Numeracy

We have continued with our fractions work. This week we have focused on finding halves and quarters of numbers and amounts.  We also started looking a little bit at equivalent fractions.

We have also been measuring the weight of different objects using balance scales.

Topic

We have continued to look at conflicts in the classroom, this week we focused on how to resolve conflicts.

Highlight of the Week

Matteo – I really liked ‘The man who wore all his clothes’ and making our own story.

Amelia – I liked doing PE.

Markuss – I liked Free Writing Friday.

Alexa – I liked dancing outside during Boogie Breaktime.

This week, as part of our Rights Respecting School Award,  Primary 6 explored Article 15 (freedom of association): Every child has the right to meet with other children and to join groups and organisations, as long as this does not stop other people from enjoying their rights. Some children were able to link this right with the Gift of Counsel (making good/bad choices) and how this can impact on their relationships with others.

Due to bad weather this week we have not had the opportunity get outside but we are hoping next week for better weather to allow us to continue weeding and planting.

We have completed our House Captain Speeches (writing and filming) and should be able to share them with the rest of the school soon.

Maths we have been revising our knowledge of how to calculate the perimeter and area of shapes. We hope to take this outside next week and make a map of the outside area.

We have found out who our new little buddies will be and will are excited to meet them over the next few weeks. Some of us will meet them next week.

Next week we have Bikeability on Tuesday and we are looking forward to having a lot of fun.

Have a great weekend.

We have had an amazing week in P4.

Tyler really enjoyed PE this week and feels very fit now!

Dawid “I really liked doing maths when we were using cm and mm”

Callie “I enjoyed doing the activity for health & wellbeing where we used our communication skills to pass on messages”

Eilidh “I enjoyed writing our fairy tales on the computer.  I liked how we are creating our own stories and using our imaginations”

Emily “Yesterday, I liked showing the P3s how we should behave when at a church service in the hall.  We got to take communion and were able to show them what good role models we are”

Francesca “I really really enjoyed boggle this week where we used 16 letters.  I managed to make 217 words!”

Vijval “The best thing this week was when we were watching DragonSlayer.  We used the start to learn about the ingredients of a legend story and the different filming methods.  I can’t wait to see the end!”

Olivia & Carina “we loved being in the woods and made fantastic mouse houses!”

Our hot chocolate winner this week is … Eilidh.  Well done for always being ready, respectful and safe. 👍

We have all brought our school reports home in our bags today and hope that they say good things 😊

Pupil Highlights:

Sylvia: I liked going to mass with my class because we have not been out together as a class for a really long time.

Adam: I liked playing capture the flag in P.E.

Inaya: I liked doing the drama on Friday where we had to choose characters to show what an unhealthy friendship is.

Olivier: I liked going to mass because I liked receiving communion.

Emily: I liked making the powerpoint presentation with Amelia on How did WW1 start?

Ronan: I liked music  with Mrs Ogunro when we had draw the characters from the film Crow the Legend.

Marriyah: I liked singing the hymns because it was calming.

Myles: I liked singing the hymns in class so I could show the class my singing voice.

Amelia: I liked making our posters Tips for Public Speaking.

Hot Chocolate Winner this week: Elizabete has had a fantastic week. She  has worked so hard on her power point presentation, especially using exciting animations.