St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3 families,

Here are our highlights this week from The Polar Bears:

Vikashini enjoyed lying down on the carpet of leaves in the woodland and looking up, as a bug would, to see the lovely trees above.  Next week we plan to make autumn pictures of trees from the perspective of a bug.

Oscar loved learning about the Sacrament of Baptism.  Alex kindly brought in the symbols of Baptism from his sister’s recent service.  Alex confidently spoke about the meaning behind the holy water, holy oil, Baptismal candle and white blanket.  P3 are learning about the Seven Sacraments at the moment so Alex started us off.  Thank you Alex!

Daisy liked instruction writing about how to make Fair trade lemonade.  We pretended to be writing to an alien so had to be very clear on the instructions and include lots of descriptive vocabulary.

Sophia shared that the highlight of her week was making the autumn mindfulness leaves for our display outside of the classroom.  The children worked hard on these along with their autumn acrostic poems.  Keep up the super work P3!

Maks and Dawid both agreed that PE was their favourite lesson.  The class love playing bench ball.  Next week we will continue with our ball skills using bat and balls.

My favourite highlight was having the opportunity to share with you how wonderful your children are and share their learning with you.  We had a few tears from proud parents when we looked at their work together.

Congratulations to Laaibah our Reading Champion and Danvith, our hot chocolate award winner.

I hope you all enjoy the weekend.

Mrs Brown

In Literacy we have been learning the sound ‘t’. We read The Tiger Who Came to Tea and we made tiger masks. We had fun pretending to be the tiger and eating all the food. We wrote a sentence all about the Autumn trees and used the word ‘and’.

In Maths, we have been practising counting and writing our numbers the correct way.

We looked at a piece of work by Kandinsky and then we used Autumn colours to make a piece of Autumn Art.

We had fun in the Woodland with our Buddies and we practised sitting at the fire pit. Mr McGurn was very impressed with us.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Mikayla – I enjoyed drawing.

Alayha – I enjoyed writing about the trees.

Hanna – I enjoyed reading the book.

Alfie – I enjoyed doing our sentence.

Oliver – I enjoyed drawing the trees.

Victoria – I enjoyed doing the sounds.

Miss Stebbing – It was lovely to meet all the families during parent consultations this week.

Congratulations to Mikayla who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been trying hard to read words and write the letters the correct way.

Well done to Aria who is our Reading Champion. She has shown confidence when reading captions and matching the pictures.

This week in Literacy we were learning the sound ‘t’ we listened to the story of ‘The Tiger Who Came to Tea’ and we then sequenced pictures to retell the story.  We made tigers and tiger masks. We practised writing t and could recall words that begin with t.

In maths we looked at the numbers 13 and 14 we practised writing them the correct way.  We also worked on numbers before, after and inbetween within 10.

In Religion we have started learning the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer.

We looked at a piece of work by Kandinsky and then used Autumn colours to create a piece of Autumn art.  They turned out amazing and we have them proudly displayed outside our classroom.

Our highlights this week:

Conall ‘ I liked making a tiger’

Elina ‘ I liked playing with my buddy’

Mashal ‘I liked outdoor learning’

Willow ‘I liked making leaf rubbings’

Zaaran ‘ I liked making the tiger masks.

Flo ‘I liked rubbing the leaves on with the crayons.

Stephen ‘I liked playing with the bicycles’.

Inioluwa ‘I liked meeting up with my buddy’

Arire ‘I liked playing with my friends.

Zahra ‘I liked riding on the bikes’

Mrs Russell’s highlight: ‘I liked reading the story The Tiger who came to Tea and sequencing the pictures to retell the story.  Everyone did super well.

Well done to Marley our Reading Champion and congratulations to  Conall our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s a quick update on what’s been happening in Primary 7 this week:

On Monday we continued our comprehension work on our class novel Kensuke’s Kingdom – we now have only one chapter to finish in the book. The bus has been confirmed for our cinema trip on the 17th of November and details will be sent out nearer the time.

We have been continuing the STEM maths lessons and working hard on this new approach to our learning.

Aiden said, “STEM made us learn in a different way and I really enjoyed it.”

We went to Deans Woods for our Outdoor Learning this week, using found materials to build dens. We will have two momre sessions to get them completed.

“I enjoyed outdoor learning, it was very fun.” Matteo

We met our Buddies in the school woodlands on Friday to see how sfae they are at being at the firepit and then we had some free time to play.

Benita said, “Today we played with our buddies in our woodlands. It was very fun. Me and my friend Ashley and our buddies played hide and seek.”

Hot Chocolate winner this week was too hard to pick so I picked two!

Both Twinnie and Matteo demonstrated outstanding kindness and empathy and both received the prize for Over and Above behaviour.

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7B

Class highlights:

Aadya- I enjoyed drawing vertical and horizontal images in our symmetry work.

Chaihiti – I enjoyed writing my instructions How to Make My Dad’s Byrani.

Vivien: I enjoyed going to the Spidy Park because we could just chill and move our bodies.

Angel: I enjoyed Literacy, especially our spelling tasks.

Skyler: I enjoyed learning about Queen Victoria and I loved how I could draw her and Abeeha did the facts with Allah.

Hasika: I enjoyed doing our Queen Victoria Posters.

Deveena: I enjoyed doing Capture the Flag in P.E this week.

Caiden: I liked doing maths this week.

Grace: I enjoyed doing dictation with Miss Smith this week.

Hi P5B parents,

Class highlights:

• Reesa, Sofia, Amariah-Grace and Karina – creating Victorian posters for topic work. We developed teamwork skills to create an information poster about Queen Victoria.
• Evana and Ishaan – showed resilience during Place Value activity to show how we multiply and divide by 10, 100 and 1,000.
• Amy, Mahathi, Iha, Ollie, Blair and Lewis – for P.E. we started to play games of handball and demonstrated the rules of the game well.

Teacher highlight:

• When the class focussed really well to discuss their feelings about the four capacities of learning and the wellbeing indicators. We were very honest about what we’re proud about and our targets going forward.

Well done to Evana this week, who achieved the hot chocolate. Evana showed fantastic resielence during her maths this week and admitted that she struggled at first but kept trying and was proud of herself for getting there in the end. Miss MacGregor definitely agrees and is very proud of her!

Dear Readers,

We really hope you have had an amazing week and that the weekend will be lovely as well!😊

The Highlights of our week were:

• The Airport and plane drawing which we found very much fun!
• PE with the students from St. Margaret’s High School.
• Big Maths, Beat That!
• The learning about the compass, the cardinal points and how to locate something using them.
• Topic, where we have been continuing our work on the Airport of the Future.
• Fairtrade Posters for Fairtrade Fortnight.
• Learning about how to Pray the Rosary to celebrate the beginning of the second month of Mary.
• Our Harry Potter novel which is getting more and more interesting!
• Our new spelling words and the work we have done to learn them well.
• Describing characters, to improve our narrative writing.
• The weekly spelling assessment.
• The subtraction with decimal numbers.
• Music with Mrs. Morrison, where we have been learning about McBeth.

Mrs Valente’s highlight of the week was the airport and plane drawing, because we had to do it together, waiting for one another and also because they all look fantastic!😍

Many congratulations to our Hot Chocolate of the Week, Miss Amelia, for her super participation in class discussions and for her willingness to answer to many questions throughout the week! We were all very proud of her! Well done, Amelia!🥇

Many congratulations also to the winners of the Table of the week prize, who kept being amazing and tidying up beautifully every day! Well done, Moeez, Rowan, David, Scott, Matthias, Kacper, Olek and Alex!🏆

We say goodbye for now, hoping you have enjoyed reading our blog!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

Hello P3 families!  Silly Mrs Brown has forgotten to take home the list of highlights from The Red Pandas!  My apologies Red Pandas!  Here are some of the learning experiences your child had this week:

It is Fair Trade Fortnight.  Mrs Roy has been teaching the children about what this means.  Our class went to Morrisons to see if we could see the logo on some of the food there.  We bumped in to Daniel’s dad there!  (I hope you remembered Daniel’s dilute!)  We also bought ingredients to make Fair Trade lemonade.  The children loved making and drinking this so much that they want me to put the recipe on Seesaw.  So, look out for this on Monday.  We plan to write about the steps for making it next week.

We used the Fairtrade bananas for our maths and made an array of our choice before eating them.  We hope to encourage our families to buy food with the Fairtrade logo if possible.  This will help poor farmers receive a fair price for their crops.

The children wrote lovely Acrostic poems all about Autumn.  Some worked independently and some in pairs.  To begin with, we had a class example, and in teams, we came up with as many words or sentences that started with the letters: L, E, A, F.  The option of getting support from a dictionary was available.  Next week we will create some beautiful Autumn art pieces.

We have also been learning about the meaning of the words from the Our Father prayer.  The children know that they are talking to God when they pray, so it’s important to understand what they are saying.

For PE, we have been practising our ball skills.  Two P5 helpers demonstrated bouncing with different hands while stationary and walking and how to bounce the ball under your leg.  Thank you to Oscar for being our photographer during PE this week.

My highlight was making our lemonade.  The room was filled with a fresh lemon aroma for the rest of the afternoon.

Congratulations to Joseph for being our Hot Chocolate award winner this week and to Viaan, who was our winner last week.

We welcome a new pupil to our St John Ogilvie family, Navami.  I hope she feels very welcome.

I am looking forward to having the opportunity to meet you all again next week for our parent consultations on Tuesday or Thursday.

I hope you have a great weekend, despite the storm.

Mrs Brown