St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello all Primary 3 families, this week we have had a wonderful time in primary 3.

This week, we have been looking at narrative writing for the first time. We were able to break down the structure of our writing and we had fun coming up with a plan for our first narrative writing piece as a class. We have been doing lots of reading and spelling activities using our sound of the week and some common words.

In numeracy, we had a fun time trying out our array method and having some challenging questions during our Building Thinking Classrooms session. Next week we will be moving on to do the formal written method and will be looking at multiplying 2-digit numbers.

We started our new topic this week which is ‘conservation of wildlife’. During this week we have had a chat about what wildlife is and have drawn pictures of our favourite animals. We learned about different habitats and places the animals can live like the Rainforest and the Ocean.

During RE this week, we learned about SCIAF and what our day of prayer is for and the people in Columbia SCIAF are trying to help. We also read the bible story from the Last Supper and the Garden of Gethsemane. We have been trying super hard with our Big Lent Walk and the children have already walked 250km! They are doing fab and loving it!

Well done to our hot chocolate winner and secret student winner!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend 🙂

Miss Duddy

What a busy week we have had in P1.

We started to learn digraph sounds, which can be a wee bit tricky as its when 2 letters make a sound e.g. ee in feet and ai in chair. We worked with magnetic letter boards to sound out, listen to sounds and build words and then draw them.  We used our ‘ai’ sound to write facts about a snail, Mrs Meikle was very impressed with our writing as lots of us remembered to try and use the connecting word ‘and’.

We have been learning all about snails this week for our Living Things topic. We enjoyed making a snail craft. We also looked at the butterfly life cycle, which we made out of pasta.

We looked at symmetry this week in math and made a symmetrical butterfly using paint. We had lots of fun learning to count in 2s and 10s, we really like it when we can shout the numbers really loud.

We enjoyed exploring new toys in the area.

Hello P5B families!

Here are our learning highlights this week according to the Red Table:

Ella has been enjoying The Big Lent Walk.  Each day, each class aims to walk at least 1KM over the course of Lent.  Collectively as a school, we hope to cover enough distance (2000KM) that it will be the same distance to Rome!

Scott loved Pancake Tuesday.  We used this as an opportunity to introduce fractions.  The children have been learning about division.  Due to starting with dividing by 2 and then 4 (in P5 we divide 4 digit numbers) we cut them into halves and quarters.  They enjoyed the various spreads.  We had lime, apricot, honey and raspberry jam.

Moeez thought that our division maths work was the highlight of the week.  We looked at the chimney and bus stop method.  Our division sums involved remainders.  The children made Times Tables posters and brought them home to get tested in the hope to have quick mental recall.  Next week we will look at committing the 4 Times Tables to memory and dividing 4 digit numbers by the number 4.

Olek loved our outdoor learning.  The children practised the skills needed for an activity they will do with their parents next week at our Outdoor Learning Event (invite sent home this week) only the locations and recordings will  different on the actual day than the ones they had/made during their practise.

Matthias and Jayden thought the highlight of their week was World Book Day when we worked with our reading buddy class, P3/2 to plan a story that we are going to write and illustrate together over the coming weeks.  The children were very patient and supportive of our younger friends.  I was very proud of them.  Good teamwork everyone!

Kacper and Cohen loved PE with Mrs Lafferty this week.  They played Dodgeball, one of their favourite sports.

The highlight of my week was our Ash Wednesday service where the sacramental children attended a service at St Peter’s Church.  We look forward to our feast day mass this coming Monday (in school) to celebrate the life of St John Ogilvie, our school’s namesake.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner for this week, Flynn and a big thank you to Georgia for putting together the photographs below for this week’s blog.

I hope you have a super weekend and I look forward to seeing you at our P5 Outdoor Learning Event next Friday, 14th March at 9am sharp.  Remember to dress for wet weather conditions.

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

As always, we hope you have all had a great week!😃

The highlights of our week were:

• The new spelling words and today’s spelling assessment! Let’s see how well we’ve done!
• Our new maths sums in the morning to wake up our brains!
• Ash Wednesday, at the beginning of the season of Lent, one of the two most important times of the year for Catholics around the world. As every year, we have learned that Lent is a very special time for reflection in our own lives and how to become better people of God. We are going to try Praying more, donating more and giving up on some things that we really enjoy during this time and will offer all our sacrifices for all our sins.
• Mass on Ash Wednesday, when we received the ashes from Father Clement or Mrs McKissack to remind us that we should take this time to think about our life and the way we are living it.
• Big Yellow Thursday was amazing! Everyone made an effort to bring something yellow and we learned that we were doing that to raise awareness of people who live with liver problems, and therefore look yellowish. As we found out that we have a little hero with this kind of problem in our Nursery, we asked and asked and we actually got him to visit us! His name is Wesley and he is simply Adorable! He was in our class talking to all of us, high fiving us and blowing us kisses! We loved him and have been keeping him in our daily prayers ever since we heard about him! 😘♥ We have also donated a huge amount of money for the charity that has been helping him and his family and felt very proud of ourselves for that!
• We continued working with decimal numbers but will need to keep going with these since some people still find it a bit challenging.
• Some of us have also done a super interesting reading comprehension on Fungi while others have done one on Biodiversity. Both seemed a bit tricky so we had to go over them again since this topic can be hard to understand.
• Our Big Lenten Walk has been happening since Wednesday and will keep going until the Easter and, as always, we are being a tiny bit competitive about it!
• Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate of the Week, Miss Paige, for always being there for all of us, willing to help with anything needed! Well done, Paige! 🥇🏆✨👏
• Congratulations as well for the Superior Table, which has indeed been superior this time and has won the weekly prize! Well done to Shelby, Szymon, Maeve, Markuss, Jonah, Emily, Jude, Srihaun, Tweenie and Benita.🏆🥇✨👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏😃

That’s all for today, we wish you all a fantastic weekend and say goodbye for now!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

Dear Parents and Carers,

We have been learning all about decimals this week! Our class has been revising our knowledge  of decimal place value. We have also been comparing and ordering decimals numbers, some of us found this tricky!

Our reading comprehension was based on biodiversity and ecosystems. We used strategies to find the correct information in the passage.

During R.E we learned about Ramadan and Eid, we all found it very interesting.

On Thursday, most of us wore something yellow and raised money for the Children’s Liver Disease Foundation. It was also world book day, so we visited our buddies in Primary 1.  We helped them complete their scavenger hunt and had fun participating in a Kahoot with them! Our class watched an author event with Ross Mackenzie, based on the Otherwhere Emporium. Afterwards we created our own magical shop with floor plan and shop front.

Every day we have been participating in our Big Lent Walk  and as a school hoping to walk 2000km!

Congratulations to Mason on being our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Have a super weekend !

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A

Good afternoon all primary 3 families, here are our highlights for this week!

Spelling this week has been focussed on the soft g sound and our common words. We have been doing lots of reading in class with Miss Duddy and Mrs Garvin and we are making great progress! We wrote a final draft of our information reports and what a great job everyone did! The children even self-assessed their work based on our targets.

Numeracy this week has been focussed on multiplication, we have been solving one and two-step word problems and finding the link between the 2 and 4 times tables. After much talking and investigating, we realised the 4 times table is DOUBLE the 2 times table. Some of us even made links between the 4 and 8 and the 3 and 6 table doing this method! Well Done! We have continued to learn about time, this week focussing on digital clocks, reading digital times and filling in our own digital clocks with the times shown.

This week our RE focus has been Lent and the liturgical calendar, a massive well done to everyone on Wednesday, you were all wonderful at mass and Miss Mushet gave me glowing feedback from those who stayed in school. We have been out walking every day this week to get to Rome before the end of lent and the children are very enthusiastic!

Well done to our Hot chocolate and reading champion winner this week!

I hope you have a lovely weekend!

Miss Duddy