St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been exploring Article 37 (inhumane treatment and detention) – Children must not be tortured, sentenced to the death penalty or suffer other cruel or degrading treatment or punishment. We have also explored Article 40 (juvenile justice) A child accused or guilty of breaking the law must be treated with dignity and respect. We made links to Global Goal 16 which explores how to improve Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions which protect children and families. The main question was “What if everyone did that” we discussed small acts of littering which became huge when everyone did it. How one person breaking a rule seems a small thing but everyone breaking the same rule would be huge. Then we discussed how one small act of kindness could become huge if everyone did it (give to charity), remembering to say please and thank you. We had a challenge today of seeing how many people would return a smile.

On Monday we  worked  on Halloween  coordinates we will continue to learn more about coordinates over the next few weeks. On Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday we continued to develop an understanding of giving and receiving change from £1 and £5. Some children worked on adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing larger money amounts.

In our writing we are exploring how to give a balanced viewpoint. This week we discussed reasons for and against “Why Fireworks should be Quieter?” This is a tricky type of writing and we will be working on it for the next month.

We continued our Christmas Enterprise making several products to sell as well as learning Christmas Songs to entertain families.

In our outdoor learning we are continuing to try and identify different types of trees from investigating leafs we find in the woodlands. We also made some cool leaf masks.

Pupil Highlights:

Alex:  This week we have been revising how to multiply and divide a number by 10, 100 and 1000.

Rupert: In our How to Maths Diaries, we are giving instructions on how to carry out important skills in maths.

Kieran: On Monday, we created Halloween bats and drew haunted houses using perspective. We also got to wear our Halloween costumes.

Zak: We played rounders.

Hannah: We juiced 100 apples from Miss Smith’s mum’s garden to have fresh apple juice.

Olly: We received an extra break time on Friday for  being the tidiest table in the lunch hall.

Connor: On Tuesday, we went to Mass.

Susanna: We also took part in a murder mystery task where we had to predict who the murderer was. The murderer was Arthur, the victim’s son!

Rupert: Our Article of the week was 37 and 40 and our Global Goal was 16.

Liam: On Thursday we went to wish Happy Birthday to Mrs Valente.

Tanya: We made our own Zones of Regulation check in card and we discussed the different emotions in each zone.

Congratulations to Alex for being a consistently enthusiastic, and, effective contributor in P7B.

Primary 6A have had a great week!

During our reflections the children commented on their enjoyment of brainstorming for their personal project!
They loved starting the new topic, climate action and linking this with writing expositions; creating adverts for Earth. We have been working on adding and subtracting decimals which the children have enjoyed!

Grant liked numeracy this week, working with decimals and linking our new learning with place value!
Connor enjoyed making paper lanterns for Diwali! Thank you to Daisy and Nilaya for sharing all they know about the festival of lights!
Ameila enjoyed word boost and exploring our vocabulary this week!

Photo highlights:

Dear Families,

We have had a very busy week in Primary 2A!

To round of ‘Our Grandparents Day’ topic, we tie-dyed socks using food colouring.  The children had great fun adding the colour to the socks and they are looking fabulous!  They will be dry and ready for the children to bring home next week.

We also started our new topic on ‘The Weather’, the children have been recording the weather each day using a weather chart.  You won’t be surprised to hear that we found most days last week to be cloudy and rainy, hopefully we will have better findings next week.

In literacy, we examined a poem about the weather and then we worked with a partner to create our own poems using our senses. Here are a few fantastic examples:

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week was Laura!  Laura is always kind and helpful towards others and works very hard to complete all of her work.  Well done Laura!

Have a fantastic week and we will be back with another update next week!

Hello P2B families!

Here are our ‘Best Bits’ from the Yellow Table:

Aaron said he loved making tie dye socks!  This was part of our learning about what fashion was like when our grandparents were young.  These socks will come home once everyone has had a chance to make them.  We still need to catch a few people who were absent this week.  Our knew topic for this term is ‘Weather and The Water Cycle’.

Georgia-Rose said the best part of her week was football skills during PE.  She scored a goal!

Emily-Ann liked writing a Senses poem about the weather with her partner and they successfully added 3 descriptive words!  Well done guys!  Next month, during our story writing lessons, we will be focusing on adding descriptive vocabulary to include words about: colour, size, texture, number, shape or verbs.  This will up level our writing and make it more interesting to read.

Amy said she could not choose.  She must of enjoyed everything!

Ciara loved identifying different trees in our woodlands.  Mrs Callaghan had taught the class the Bible story about Zacchaeus.  The story features a sycamore tree.  We decided to see if there was a sycamore tree in our wood land behind the school.  We gathered different types of leaves and used the app, ‘Plant Snap’ to identify the names of the leaves.  We discovered that there was!  We were very excited to find that out!

Ressa enjoyed singing the Zacchaeus song.  The link is:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IiAe6GNKtec).

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was watching the super interviews on Seesaw!  We have heard how one grandparent would travel on a horse and cart and that there were no seatbelts in cars when they were young!  We are looking forward to watching more!

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

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

We have had a great week in Primary 3B!

This week we have continued to practice our spellings in a variety of ways. Some activities included threading letters to form our words, which also allowed us to focus on our fine motor skills! Children took part in group tasks where they had to select a ball with the word and read it to their peers. Their peers then had to write the word using chalks, while the ‘reader’ checked the accuracy of everyone’s spelling! Children also constructed their own word searches and completed ‘look, write, cover, check’ as part of their learning.

In Maths, we have been revising telling the time on an analogue clock, using o’clock, half past, quarter past and quarter to. We discussed and practiced dividing the clock into halves and quarters to help our understanding. We also discussed and tested our prior knowledge of twelve hour digital time, which will become our main focus next week.

We have began to explore poetry as part of our Literacy work. Children enjoyed visiting the woodlands where they listened to some Halloween poems and joined in with these. This week we have focused on the rhyming language that exists within poetry; listening to examples, matching rhyming words and pictures, as well as completing sentences with an appropriate rhyming word.

As part of the lead up to Halloween, we enjoyed watching to the story ‘Room on the Broom’ in Spanish. Next week we will examine some key Halloween vocabulary in more detail.

As part of Health and Well Being, we have been discussing our emotions; and focused this week on anger. The children discussed feelings of anger and possible triggers. Children then discussed common strategies to become calm and shared their ideas.

We congratulate Table Tres on being our ‘Star Table’ this week with 19 pebbles!

Congratulations also to Matthias on winning this week’s Hot Chocolate Award! We are very proud of you!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Mrs Broadley

Dear Readers,

We hope you have had a great week.

As Term 1 has finished, we had to say goodbye to our much well loved topic of the Vikings and were all very sorry for that! So sorry that the class have asked to watch Vicky the Viking for story time, which is very much fun and continues to teach us many things about them.

Next week we will hopefully introduce our new topic, which will not be spoiled now but will hopefully be very interesting and fun.

The highlights this week were:

• Spelling wordsearch and different spelling activities.
• Working more and more on telling the time to become true experts! Some of our boys and girls can even read the time shown in the class’ clock, to the minute!
• Going to the Woodlands, for the first time in Primary 3, to read and listen to Halloween poems.
• Weekly spelling assessment.
• Reconciliation lesson during which we have discussed how we all belong to a Family, Class, School, Parish, Community and how we are loved within those groups to which we belong.😊
• Learning about the importance of the UN Convention of the rights of the Child and start working towards helping the school being awarded the Gold medal recognition for being an excellent Rights Respecting School. As always, in Primary 3A we believe that: Team work makes the dream work!😃👍

We would now like to congratulate our new Hot Chocolate of the week, John!🥇Well done, John!👍😃

And to our new Kindness Champions, Ollie, Zosia and Aiden, many congratulations as well! We are very proud of you🥇🥈🥉🥳! The total of kindness notes, awarded to pupils when they are caught being good and never when they say they have been good, was 41! Super kind class!

We hope you have enjoyed reading this and wish you a very pleasant weekend!

Mrs Valente and P3A❤

Dear Parents,

We can’t believe another fun week has flown by!

During literacy this week, we focused on learning about and using onomatopoeia. On Tuesday, we played a really fun game of onomatopoeia charades with Mrs Callaghan and then applied our knowledge to create some fantastic fireworks night poetry. We also played lots of fun games on Monday to practice our Wordboost spelling words.

Throughout maths we have primarily been focusing on money and budgeting. We worked really hard on solving some tricky 2-step word problems and adding lots of different coins together. Using our knowledge of this, we had lots of fun in our budgeting lessons. We were all allocated £15 to spend in a restaurant or cafe of our choice and we were challenged to buy a main meal, a side and a drink with this budget. We looked at some online menus and found that in some restaurants it was much easier to stick to our set budget than others! On Thursday, we were set another exciting budget challenge. We had to create a plan of purchases for a classroom revamp! We all had different budgets and discussed the importance of differentiating between a need and a want when planning for purchases within a set budget. We did extremely well and Miss Ventisei now has an extremely long shopping list!

This week we have been extremely busy getting ready for our sustainable Christmas Enterprise! We have all finalised our ideas and are now starting to create our products. Super collaboration, communication and problem-solving skills have been displayed by all pupils throughout this project- well done P5A!

During R.E. we have been learning about Diwali. We discussed how and why people celebrate Diwali within different religions and cultures and also some celebrations specific to Scotland. It was also really lovely to hear the personal experiences and beliefs from children within the class who celebrate this special festival. Through this, we learned about Rangoli art and even created some of our own to display in the school! We loved looking at all of the beautiful colours and patterns used to create this special type of art.

Another highlight of the week was Outdoor Learning. We had a challenge to work collaboratively to make a broomstick using only 1 piece of string and natural materials. This proved to be lots of fun but also built upon so many wonderful problem-solving and communication skills.

On Friday, we were lucky enough to have a special visitor- Dallas- to help us with preparing for our handball festival in November. We had so much fun playing lots of interesting games and learning how to play a new sport.

Our class highlights of the week are:

Leo: “My favourite thing this week was doing the crafts during IDL!”

Max: “I loved learning about our child rights this week and also singing the rights song!”

Bentley: “I liked learning about Diwali and making my own Rangoli pattern”

Jacob: “I loved ERIC and learning the 25 times table this week!”

Olivia: “I loved P.E!”

Weronika: “I loved learning the 25 times table with the counting stick!”

Eilidh: “I liked P.E.!”

Madeleine and Emili: “Our favourite part of the week was Outdoor Learning when we worked in teams to build a broomstick from natural resources!”

Our Hot Chocolate winner for this week was Jacob! He worked exceptionally hard to show super listening, kindness and respect to all those in his class. Well done Jacob!

Here is our learning for term 2.

What a busy week in P1B.  This week we have been learning the sounds n and t.  We created a night time scene and made toast.  We have been working very hard on the formation of these sounds and we are now learning to blend our sounds together to make words.  Our teachers are very proud of us.

In writing we read the story ‘Room on the Broom’ and we drew a picture and wrote a sentence about what was on our broom.  We read the Magical Muddle and turned ourselves into a creature.  We drew a picture and wrote a sentence about our picture.

Maths this week we have been learning all about numbers 12 and 13 and how to form them.  We have been adding numbers within 10 and learning about number families.

We investigated pumpkins, we read the story ‘Christopher Pumpkin’  and had the opportunity to help carve some pumpkins.  We then counted how many seeds in each pumpkin.

This week we were very excited to meet with our Buddies and create Halloween decorations we had lots of fun.  We made pumpkin paper plates and designed Halloween costumes.

In Health and Well Being we have been learning about how to keep safe when out Trick or Treating and in the dark weather.

Well done to Samraht our hot chocolate winner for the week.

Here are some of our learning highlights:

Ezno ‘I liked the Block play and being with my buddy’

Luca  ‘I liked when we sing ‘It’s Friday Again’

Katie ‘I like playing with the toys’

Connor ‘I liked gym’

Khaleesi ‘I liked dancing to the song

Bradley and JJ ‘I liked being with my buddy’

Mrs Russell ‘I loved reading the story ‘Christopher Pumpkin’

Have a great weekend everyone.