St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello families of P2A

We have had a very busy and fun week, which included the beginning of Advent, St Andrews Day and Pyjama Day.

We are super excited to perform our Christmas Concert and have spent lots of time learning our new songs and actions this week.

In topic, we have been checking the rain fall and outside temperature everyday this week. We record this on a chart in our classroom.

Some excellent numeracy work:

Our Highlights:

Diana – I loved maths. I like learning all of the number bonds.

Zion – My favourite thing was learning about Advent and I loved making candy canes for our Christmas door.

Jiade – I liked learning about St Andrew. His cross was the same as the Scotland flag.

Angel – I like learning to write stories.

Grace Pyjama day was great fun!

Deveena – I loved the shortbread and Irn-bru on St Andrews day.

Aadya – I loved silent reading on pyjama day because we were so comfortable.

Everyone – We loved making gingerbread people, wreaths and candy canes to decorate our door.

Some photos from our St Andrews day celebrations:

Huge Congratulations to Aadya, this weeks hot chocolate winner.

Huge Congratulations to our Reading Champions, Angel and Vivien.

Have a lovely weekend!

Well done to Primary 4b for reaching the end of another lovely week.

We celebrated the start of Advent by singing Away in a Manger and Little Donkey and listening to some readings by Primary 4a.

In maths, we continued with subtraction and Big Maths.  We are becoming much more confident at exchanging when subtracting now and Mrs Brown is very proud of us!

We wrote our own castle poems this week.  We looked at The Magic Box by Kit Wright and we then used this style to write our own The Magic Castle poem.  We’ve been publishing them in our neatest writing and we will soon be able to bring a copy of this home.  Some of us also wrote a poem called The Magic Christmas Present, all about Christmas.

Additionally, we used our amazing art skills to paint and decorate our door.  We wanted to create a Christmas fireplace scene.  We designed baubles and stockings for a tree too.  Those of us who wrote Christmas poems also added these to the display, with a picture of a present over the top.

Our highlights from this week:

Aiden- I enjoyed learning the dances for the school disco in PE.  We learnt three dances.  The third one was the funniest one because we had in a circle.

Mariam- My favourite activity this week was decorating the door for Christmas.  I made snowflakes and stockings to add to this.

Jonah- I liked doing the Gay Gordons because we had to go in a circle and move backwards and forwards.

Stefi- My favourite was decorating the door because I enjoyed painting.

A big well done to Leah who is our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday!

Mrs Brown

Dear Parents,

Another busy week for Primary 7 as we head into advent.

On Monday afternoon P7a led our Area Advent Service where all 4 classes got together to hear the start of the Advent story, the meaning of the wreath and candles and sing some Christmas Carrols. It was lovely being able to have all 4 classes take part again and P7b will lead next Monday’s Service.

In maths and literacy we have continued to write explanation reports and work with Fractions Decimals and Percentages.

We were working with maps on Wednesday’s outdoor learning and next week we will use these skills to complete some orienteering courses.

We have been painting as part of the school’s Christmas Door Competition and managed to get it all finished for Friday’s Deadline.

In PE we have begun our Scottish Country Dancing to prepare for our Christmas party.

And on Friday we enjoyed getting to wear out PJs to school and brought in donations to help out our local foodbank.

Ruqayyah’s highlights of the week were:

“I have really enjoyed orienteering and trying to figure out how to use a map. i have also liked doing Scottish Country dancing for our Christmas party. We have also been learning about angles and their names.”

Alessio’s highlights of the week were:

“I really liked all of the things we did this week but I liked PJ Day, it was very fun.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home Winner was….

Joshua! Great job Joshua who was also our Reading Champion this week so he’s a double winner!!!

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7a

Hello P6B families!

We have had another great week.

Miss MacGregor’s highlights:

• Creating the Christmas Door Display together
• Starting to understand how to calculate percentages of an amount and using our knowledge of division.
• Exploring different expositions and marking them against the genre targets in our Learning Groups.

Pupil highlights:

• Vivien – I enjoyed doing the Nativity Star of Light artwork
• Jayden – I enjoyed trying to catch up to P6A in the Sumdog competition. I am very glad that we managed to get to 15th place after starting in 102nd in 2 days!
• Praise – I enjoyed learning how to calculate percentages of an amount and understanding the real life skill.
• Jude – I liked creating the fraction walls to better understand equivalent fractions.

Well done to Jude who was this week’s hot chocolate winner. Jude has been working really hard across all areas this week!

Here are some photo highlights – exploring the different expositions, creating fraction walls and our finished door display!

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘l’ and ‘r’. We have used these sounds to read words and we even read a whole sentence! In writing, we wrote about our aliens and were able to describe them very well.

In maths, we have been practising our subtraction skills. We are getting very good at using our finger patterns to help us. We also talked about quick ways to read the ten frames so we do not have to always count from one.

We celebrated St Andrew’s Day by making Scotland flags and eating some delicious shortbread.

We have been learning about Advent and we have made an Advent Wreath in our classroom. We also have an Advent Calendar and we will each get a turn to reveal the picture. We also have a book Advent Calendar to open.

In Health and Wellbeing, we discussed what we do when we cough or sneeze. We took photos of each other and uploaded them to Seesaw to make an information poster.

Today we went to St Peter’s Church to visit the Planetarium. We went into a special dome and watched Ted and Plant visit the planets. We also learned about astronauts and the moon. It was great fun!

Our personal highlights this week are:

Lillian – I enjoyed being in the dome and seeing Ted and Plant crash.

Summer Rose – I enjoyed watching Ted going to space.

Vedansh – I enjoyed learning about being respectful.

Joshua – I enjoyed watching the astronauts.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed watching the planets.

Eve – I enjoyed watching the astronauts.

Miss Stebbing – I was very, very proud of P1A when they visited the Planetarium. They were very respectful and listened so well. It was great fun seeing all the stars and the planets.

Well done to Kacper who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Pupil Highlights:

Rupert: We have been rehearsing our Advent Service and practising O Holy Night and Silent Night.

Liam: We have been practising our own nativity drama Bethlehem Act written and directed by Monique and Zak.

Hanna: We have been using the open number line to solve subtractions calculations.

Connor: We have been using the inverse operation to prove that the answer is correct in an addition or subtraction calculation.

Alex: In Maths, we have been using the bar model method to help us visualise par part whole in a calculation.

Kieran: We have secured the skill of subtracting 5 digit numbers with exchanging.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Congratulations to Anthony for  being awarded Hot Chocolate this week. You have worked so hard on completing your subtraction and inverse work in Maths. You have worked hard at listening better in class and your attitude to your learning has really improved. We are so proud of you .

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Yellow Table:

Reesa loved finding out that she was the winner of the Christmas Concert invite that was going to be emailed to parents.  Everyone did so well, it was challenging to pick a winner!

Emily-Ann enjoyed our handwriting lesson this week were we focused on r, n, m and h.  Ask your child what all these letters have in common.

Amy has loved practising our songs for the concert.  Her favourite is, “We Call His Name Jesus”.

Georgia Rose said the best part of her week was writing about rainbows.  Our new topic has been ‘Weather and the Water Cycle’.  As well as this, we have been learning about the Bible story, ‘Noah’s Ark’.  The children can confidently talk about why we have rainbows after rain.

Ciara has also loved the lessons on Weather and the Water Cycle.  This week we heard a story about a raindrop that went on a journey.  You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIkRu9LL4sk

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our lesson about Advent.  The children drew around their hand on green paper and together they will form a beautiful wreathe.  We learned that the leaves on a real wreathe are ever green leaves and the shape a circle, so like God’s love for us, it will never end.

Congratulations to Emily-Ann, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

We look forward to welcoming another new pupil next week, Isabelle.  We hope she will feel welcome and part of our St John Ogilive family.

Just a reminder that on Wednesday, St Andrew’s Day, the children are welcome to wear tartan.  It will also be the day of the flu vaccine (nasal spray) and Friday will be PJ day where the children are invited to bring a food item for the food bank to school that day.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.