St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week has been a great one as we continued to consolidate our learning about multiplication and division. Lots of us had a breakthrough with division where everything just seemed to click and it was so lovely to see! Well done everyone.

Pupil highlights of the week –

Amelia – I enjoyed making the posters about the climate crisis and learning what is happening to the planet and what we need to do help.

Reece – I liked practising the division facts and learning how to carry using the bus stop method.

Praise – I enjoyed learning how to spot fake news and how to make sure the information we find is reliable and from good sources.

Well done to Jayden who was this weeks hot chocolate winner. Jayden has shown fantastic resilience towards division and has been working really hard in his maths.

Another busy week in P1B. We have really enjoyed doing Book Week activities particularly reading in different places around the school.

We had great fun on Thursday afternoon when some of our adults came to school to join in with our learning. We had fun doing crafts and activities linked to books.

This week we have continued our learning on space, learning all about stars. We also made a little straw rocket and used our hands to measure how far the rocket flew.

We had lots of fun painting very big cardboard boxes to start making enormous rockets to play inside within the classroom.

We all love ‘Choosing our own learning time’ and many of us chose to build a variety of things in the construction area.

This week we have celebrated anti-bullying week by investigating Children’s Rights 2, 12, 13 and 19. We also explored Global Goal 16 which is about Peace and Justice. We worked in groups to create musical raps and made anti-bullying posters. We also celebrated Book Week. In our writing we wrote about protecting our local environment. We continued making excellent Christmas Gifts and practising our Christmas Songs for our Enterprise Show on the 9th of December.

Our highlight of the week was planting trees around the playground and beside the path, next to the woodlands. Although it was raining we had a great time. We are proud of improving our school outdoor environment, making the air cleaner by planting trees.

Pupil Highlights:

Liam: On Wednesday we were able to read books to our primary one buddies.

Amelia: Today the leading readers were asked to hand out reading champion medals to someone in each class.

Alex: We got extra literacy HW from Miss Smith so that we can be ready for high school.

Tanya: We were revising the column method for subtraction and addition. Miss Smith showed us how to use the number line for complex subtraction calculations.

Rupert: To use the number line for subtraction, you would place the largest number at the end of the number line, this is the destination we need to get to. You then place the smallest number at the start of the number line. To help get to our destination, you have to estimate where the half way point is.  Then, make your smallest number easier to deal with. You may have to round this number to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand and so on.

Keep the number easier by adding appropriate jumps in order to reach the destination number.

Then, you add up all the numbers ( your jumps) you used to make the number easier to get to.

Advay: Some of us got to take part in Drama where we hade to create a scene to show bullying.

Rupert: Myself, Connor and Alex were asked to help the primary fives plant trees.

Congratulations to hot chocolate winner this week – Hanna.  You have worked so hard at being responsible in your learning, challenging yourself and communicating to your teacher when you have not understood a task.

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Blue Table:

Blair said the best part of his week was listening to ‘Manfred the Baddie’, our Word Boost story this week.

Eli loved learning Christmas songs.  P2 will not be performing a Nativity this year but instead, will invite parents to a special Christmas event.  Look out for your invite on its way to you soon.

Karina enjoyed learning about the Creation Story, how God made the world in 7 days.  This led to some lovely discussions about how we can take care of God’s beautiful world.

Lilly said she liked making firework pictures after Bonfire Night last weekend.  We used a printing technique and inserted a photo of us “gazing” up at them (linked to our Word Boost vocabulary, ‘gaze’).

Sofia loved when we sang Happy Birthday to her in Spanish!  We hope you had a lovely day Sofia.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our Spanish lesson about the weather.  We enjoyed acting out the various weather conditions, shouting out the words as we went.  The one the kids and I most enjoyed was pretending to jump in puddles and we shouted, “Está lloviendo!” ☔️

Congratulations to Musa, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

A busy couple of weeks for P6A

last week:

Full of Halloween fun, we had many tasks centred around this! We solved problems, showed our comprehension skills by completing activities based on a spooky short film and dressed up for the big day! P6 children and adults loved going to cross country! The children should be so proud! We talked about saints last week and visited the church for mass!

this week:

This week was a great week for both the children and myself! I loved meeting with you all and discussing the children’s progress!

Aoife enjoyed making maths strategy posters for the four operations.

Amelia liked working with decimals.

Emily liked multiplying large numbers in numbers numeracy.

Grant, Adam and Patrick enjoyed making a Remembrance Day PowerPoint.

Well done to Emmanuel for getting the hot chocolate at home this week! You showed great resilience this week and a growth mindset!

some photo highlights:

We’ve had another busy week! Lots of revision of times tables and exploring different multiplication strategies. We have started the planning process for our exposition texts and began thinking about a topic that we’re passionate about.

Our pupil highlights of the week are:

• “I enjoyed practising the times tables in different games and creating multiplication posters for the maths wall” – Connor
• “I liked how we got some extra free time as a reward for excellent learning” – Siddharth
• “I liked discussing the rights related to Remembrance Day and creating poppy art” – Niamh
• “I learned about the new writing targets for exposition” – Jude

Well done to Amelia who was this weeks hot chocolate winner. Amelia is growing in confidence everyday and has done an excellent job in all her learning this week.

As part of our class ethos, we have class targets that we work towards and once we met the target, we get a reward. This week, we managed to meet it, which meant we got some extra free time. Some of us went outside to play football, and the others stayed in and listened to music and played Just Dance! A great treat for all the hard work we’ve been doing!

Here are some photo highlights – solving and showing equations during Number Talks and creating the field of poppies artwork.

Have a great weekend!

Another busy week in P1B.  This week we have been learning the sounds ‘f’ and ‘e’.  We have been working very hard on the formation of these sounds and recalling words that begin with these sounds.  We continue to practise our common words.

As part of our topic about Space, we learned about the sun and the moon.

In writing we shared facts about the sun in our talking sentences then worked very hard to write in on paper.  Our teachers are very proud of how well we are doing.  We are trying hard to remember to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

In maths we have continued to work on addition within 10 and also used nonstandard materials to measure.  We have also been counting to 20 and beyond.

For Health and Well Being we have looked at road safety and how to cross the road safely with a grown up.  We looked at the job of the lollipop person and how they help keep us safe.  We also explored the role of doctors and how they help us.

We learned about Remembrance Day and looked at why people wear poppies.

Some of our personal learning highlights this week are: 

Owen, Connor, Victoria     ‘I liked the Doctor’s Surgery’

Luca  ‘I liked the spaceship’

 Faye ‘I liked learning about the sun’

Katie ‘I like playing’

Rose ‘I like learning new sounds’

Azmeer ‘I liked being a fire fighter

Elo ‘I liked being a doctor’

Maryna ‘I like learning with you’

Well done to Elo who is this week’s Hot Chocolate Winner!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!