St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have had a lovely week this week.  We have started our new poetry unit and we have explored some poems together, learning all about the structure and features.  We wrote some fantastic similes and metaphors about some photos of the sea and we used our comprehension skills to explore a poem about a dragonfly.  We worked in groups to present a poem to the class and Mrs Brown was so proud of us for performing confidently, projecting our voices clearly and using actions to engage our audience and help them to create images in their heads.  Next week, some of us are going to perform them to Primary 4a.

In maths, we’ve done lots of work on mental calculations.  We have done lots of number bond practise and Mrs Brown has asked us to keep practising this at home so we can become really fluent and fast and recalling these. We’ve also been sharing our strategies for how to calculate mental addition and subtraction calculations and we’ve explained these clearly using mathematical vocabulary such as ‘partitioned’ or ‘tens’ and ‘ones’.

We have also practised our Spanish greetings and we had some short conversations with our classmates in Spanish, using questions and answers.

Mrs Brown has asked us to make sure we bring in our spelling books on Monday (because that’s when we get our new spellings).

Well done to Paige who is our hot chocolate winner this week!  She listened really carefully and produced a fantastic poem analysis.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Brown

To prepare for Road Safety Week we have been learning about crossing the road safely. We practised using the painted road in the playground and took turns to be the School Crossing Patrol.  We also walked up to the zebra crossing at the back of the school and practised crossing safely. 

We have been learning the sounds ‘f’ and ‘e’ this week. We enjoyed playing games to find the words Miss Stebbing was sounding out. In writing, we wrote about the sun and we remembered lots of facts from our discussion during Science. 

In maths, we have been using the Numicon to add two numbers. We also learned about number 15 and 16. We have been using the scales to investigate heavier and lighter items.  

In RE, we watched the CBeebies video about poppies and discussed how Article 38 of UNCRC protects and cares for children affected by wars. 

As part of our topic about Space, we learned about stars. We created some constellations using sticky stars and black paper. 

Some of our personal learning highlights this week are: 

Harald – I enjoyed learning building with the cups. 

Joshua – I enjoyed colouring in. 

Vedansh – I enjoyed learning about the Numberblocks. 

Eve – I enjoyed colouring in and making the star things. 

Alexander – I enjoyed drawing. 

Miss Stebbing – It was lovely to share all the hard work and fantastic learning with our P1 families this week during our Learning Consultations. 

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

This week, we’ve finished with our inventions topic.  Today, after lots of hard work learning our lyrics and lines, we presented an excellent assembly to our adults.  We should be very proud of ourselves!

We also finished off our time unit.  Our last lesson was looking at timetables.  We will be continuing to practise this whenever we have the opportunity but anything we can do at home to practise would be really helpful too.

We also used the computers to write up our procedures onto Word.  We thought carefully about the audience (our customers) and the purpose (to tell our customers how to put up our invention) of our writing.

Some highlights from this week:

Jonah and Ishani S:  I liked doing the assembly.  The singing part was our favourite part.

Layla: I liked doing time in maths.  I liked reading the timetables.  I also enjoyed doing the timelines with our families.

Jude:  I liked going to look at the books at the Book Fayre.  I enjoyed looking at all the different books.

Matteo:  I really liked the Halloween art that we did on Monday.  I enjoyed following the instructions for drawing the castles and loved making it a little spookier than the original.

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Red and Green Tables:

Ollie said he liked PE on Monday when the class played Hallowe’en Corners!

Ishaan enjoyed visiting the Book Fayre on Friday and selecting a book he hopes he might get from his parents or Santa.  (See slip in your child’s school bag.)

Musa loved building a lego ship during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.

Maja said the best part of her week was when we were exploring our senses in the woods.  We worked with a partner and went on a scavenger hunt.

Lewis recounts how learning about Climate Zones, as part of our new Topic, ‘Weather and the Water Cycle’ was his highlight.  He knows that we live in a Temperate climate, a bit like Baby Bear’s porridge, not too hot and not too cold.

Olivia and Evana both said that Hallowe’en fun was the best part of their week.  They enjoyed apple bobbing and dressing up.  The children had an opportunity that afternoon to visit the other classrooms in the Infant Area and engage in Hallowe’en themed activities including craft, songs and dancing.

Theo enjoyed music with Mrs Morrison.

Amariah-Grace loved the ‘Flora the Frog’ Word Boost story and her favourite new vocabulary was ‘gaze’.  She shared how she likes to gaze at the stars at night.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was when the children spoke to me about their lesson with Mrs Callaghan.  With her, they had a lesson linked to the Gospel reading on Sunday about God welcoming everyone who believes, into Heaven.  They drew what they think Heaven might be like and showed the rest of the class their picture on the Smartboard.  Some children spoke at length about their picture and some just wanted to share the picture with the class.  We had lots of angels and happy faces.  They know there is only happiness and love in Heaven, no pain or suffering.

Congratulations to Tharun, our new pupil, who is our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend and I look forward to seeing you all at our Parent Consultations appointments this coming week.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well and feeling excited about the fireworks displays of the weekend!😃

Here are our highlights:

This week we have had lots of extra fun, since we have started the week being given the chance to wear our favourite costumes to celebrate Halloween! 🎃🎃🎃

We got to learn all about the ancient history of Halloween, which has started a long time ago, and found it both very interesting and spooky!

Even our spelling was Halloween themed! And some of our Numeracy activities on addition as well! It was indeed a very enjoyable Halloween themed week! 😊

During this week we have also learned the meaning of the 1st of November, All Saints Day, and of the 2nd, when we remember the ones departed before us.

Also regarding RE, this was our 3rd lesson preparing us for Reconciliation and we have learned all about the Baptism of Jesus, as well as about the symbols of Baptism: Holy water, oil, white clothes, the sign of the Cross and the candle. We have discussed why and how these are used and some of us even remembered seeing them before.

We have been reminded of how to be safe during Bonfire Night and have also learned the history behind it, Guy Fawkes’ ‘explosive’ history, of course!😄

We have finished the week learning the colours in Spanish and, as usual, doing our weekly spelling assessment.

P3A would like to congratulate Kayla for being awarded the Hot Chocolate of the week due to her efforts to follow the school rules of Ready, Respectful and Safe! 😃Well done, Kayla!🥳🥇👏

To all the other boys and girls, keep working hard and following the school rules and soon you will be tasting that delicious Hot Chocolate, you’ll see!

That is all for now and we say goodbye wishing you a super weekend😃

P3A and Mrs Valente😍👩‍🏫

What a busy week we’ve had! Firstly, we started off with spooky Halloween activities on Monday which were closely linked to our learning.

Another big well done to everyone for completing the Cross Country on Wednesday – everyone did a super job and we are all so proud of Vivien and Gracie who came 1st and 2nd place in the girls race!

Our highlights of the week are:

• Declan and Connor – “we liked Number Talks this week. We like seeing our scores and time getting better during Fluent in 5”
• Sophia – “I liked going to mass at church on Tuesday.
• Siddharth and Keaghan – “We enjoyed Cross Country and seeing all the training we have done pay off”.

Well done to Rabail for winning this weeks hot chocolate!

Here are some pictures from the week – working hard together during maths and cross country. 

This week started off spooky with lots of Halloween activities. The class enjoyed a join the learning session with the other P1 class and both P2 classes. We loved seeing everyone dressed up and having fun.

We have been learning about keeping safe recently, this week how to stay safe on Bonfire Night. We also learned about the important job of a firefighter for People who Help us. We had great fun dressing up as firefighters.

This weeks sounds were ‘i’ and ‘o’ and we have enjoyed blending these sounds together with other learned sounds to make words. In maths we carried on our learning of addition.

Today we joined together with P1A for our outdoor learning where we drew fireworks with chalk, dressed as firefighters, played with the loose parts and on the trikes.

Hi Families of P2a

Our week started with a very busy, fun filled Hallowe’en. For the first time this year, the children spent the afternoon mixing with the other Primary 2 class and both Primary 1 classes. We had a joining the learning afternoon where all children in these classes got to choose activities in  the area and the 4 classrooms. The children loved this and were very excited to participate in the singing, crafts, dancing and games.

Some of our highlights:

Vivien – I loved all of the Hallowe’en activities. My favourite was making a ghost in Miss Stebbing’s class.

Chahiti – I loved making ghosts.

Zion and Rory – We really liked doing the Hallowe’en colouring.

Angel – I loved the disco and catching apples.

Diana – I liked dooking for apples. My face was all wet, it was fun!

Laura – I loved all of the Hallowe’en activities.

Chimamanda – I loved going to my sister’s class and doing the ghostbuster songs. I also love dooking for apples.

Also this week, we began to look at descriptive writing and we continued working on nearest 10 in numeracy.

We created a thunder and lightning collage as part of our weather topic and designed clothing for different types of weather,

Huge Congratulations to Rory, our hot chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend.

What an exciting week in P4a. We had fun doing Halloween activities on Monday and spent lots of time practising for our assembly. Our assembly was great and Mrs Ross is very proud of everyone. She thinks we are amazing.

Also our crochet hooks finally arrived and we can now start crochet.

We have been waiting for the assembly and practising for it. We enjoyed it. (MM)

I learned that the telephone discovered by accident when AG Bell was working on another project. (AO)

Our parents came to the class to do an activity with us about the inventions and when they were made. We found out that lots of things were made a long time ago. (SF)

We hope our families enjoyed the assembly. (AM)

We got the laptops and worked hard on Sumdog. (JJ)

This week’s Hot Chocolate winner was Ishaan.

Next week we will begin our Magical new topic…