St John Ogilvie Primary School

Pupil Highlights:

Joshua D: I liked doing the draw along challenges using art hub for kids and I also liked writing the six times table in my maths jotter and doing the adaptable sheet.

Inaya: I liked writing a nice letter to the tree that was lonely, sad and anxious.

Filip: I liked using my maths booklet do so multiplication sums.

Adam: I liked drawing our bloom flowers.

Elizabete: I liked doing the time tables tasks.

Marriyah: I liked doing work in my multiplication booklet.

Olivier: I liked doing the six times tables work.

Natalia: I liked drawing a wilting flower and a flower in bloom. We had to write negative comments around the dying flower and positive comments about the thriving flower.

Aoife: I liked Miss Smith coming back to school today.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Anastasia congratulations on winning the hot chocolate. You always try your hardest in your work and are always kind to others.

Another great week in P7B

Numeracy
this week in numeracy we had fun exploring ratios and what this means in a real life context. We are looking at measurement and have a great plan on how to use our new measurement knowledge next week.

Literacy

We had a great time this week with different activities everyday this week for world book week! We joined in a full school collaborative writing task, reading activities and making bookmarks for our P1 buddies.

Health and Wellbeing

We linked our whole school reading book ‘Bloom’ to emotions and kind words this week. We made really fantastic posters for display of the impact of positive and negative words.

IDL

This week we learned how to create texture in art. The children had to continue the other half of a animal. They did and are continuing to do a great job at this.

Some photo highlights this week!

Dear Readers,

This week has been amazing!

It was Book Week and we have spent it doing lots of things related to them including reading, writing and illustrating!

All the classes of the school have read and explored the book ‘Bloom’ by Anne Both and have also completed activities related to it, including a big graph with the class’ favourite flowers!

Every day we have had to voto for one out of two books that we read and the big winner of the week was ‘Ninjabread man’, which left many of us very happy!

As the 10th of March is the feast day of our patron St. John Ogilvie, we have learned about his life and miracle and were all very impressed by them.

On Friday we had some very nice treats from the school to make snack time even yummier! Wow!

Also on Friday, our dress down day for SCIAF, we had to cover as many Malawi maps as possible with the coins we have brought from home and, believe it or not, we managed to cover 6 maps! Thank you very much to all of you for your support and for helping to improve the lifes of Malawi people by giving them the means to produce their own food, being independent and adapting to the changes and challenges that climate change brought them.

We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of the highlights of the week and wish you a lovely Sunday and a very good week!

P3A and Mrs Valente

Dear Parents,

This week we had lots of fun and interesting activities revolving around World Book Day.

Throughout the week we were writing stories with a difference. Each day a new class had to continue a story from the day before written by another class. We contributed to 4 really interesting stories that will hopefully be shared with you soon.

We also had reading each day, and then voting for our favourite book until there was one winner between the 4 P6 and P7 classes. The eventual winner was ‘The Boy in the Orange Cape’, a lovely story about empathy and overcoming bullying.

We took part in a whole school study of the book ‘Bloom’ which was incorporated into lessons across the curriculum.

Some pupils had taken part in the Decorate a Spoon activity and brought them in to share with the class. Well done to everyone who managed to join in the fun.

Thursday was our Patron Saint’s Feast Day so Father Simon was in school to celebrate Mass with us and on Friday we had fun activities to mark the Feast Day of St. John Ogilvie.

What a busy week we have had!

This week we celebrated Book Week.  We had the opportunity to write our own stories working with P2B and P3B.  Each day we took turns to write a different part of the story and we even got to draw the pictures.  Every day we read two books from Epic Books and we had to vote for our favourite.  Today we found out the over all winning story was ‘The Ninjabread Man’.

We completed a mini project on the story ‘Bloom’ written by Anne Booth.  It was a lovely story about showing kindness to others and using kind words.  We drew pictures of flowers.  We made a class bar chart of our favourite flower in P1B (which was a rose) and we created our own ‘Grass Head’.  We gave our grass head a name and whispered kind words to it hoping that it will start to grow and flourish soon. We made bookmarks for our Buddies in Primary 7 and we received bookmarks from them today.  We made cards for our family to say ‘Thank You’ for all they do for us.

We brought our favourite book to school and showed off the wooden spoons we were given to create a character from a book.

On Thursday we celebrated St John Ogilvie Feast Day.  We learned about the life of John Ogilvie and we also shared in a whole school mass through Teams with Father Simon.  We loved learning the hymn ‘Lay your hands’ and Mrs Russell was very proud of us.

Today we got to wear our own clothes to school and we brought our loose change in to donate to SCIAF.  We filled lots of maps of Malawi with all our coins.

We were so excited to receive a cup cake and juice today as part of our Feast Day Celebrations.  They tasted delicious.  Thank you Mrs McKissack.

Congratulations to Sofia who was our Hot Chocolate Winner, Lilly who was our first Reading Champion and the Green Table who had the most table points this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we look forward to another busy and exciting week to come.

Good afternoon to all of our families,

It has been a busy and fun week for Primary 6B, who have really enjoyed participating in all the World Book Day activities! We really enjoyed writing our collaborative stories as a whole class and designing illustrations to  go with our stories. We also enjoyed the ”Bloom” story by Anne Booth. We completed story boards show the key points and produced art work based on the story. We particularly liked creating bookmarks for Primary 2 and were very impressed with the bookmarks they made for us! Thank you Primary 2.

Here are also some of our wooden spoons transformed into different characters.

On Friday we presented our stations of the cross assembly to Primary 5 and Primary 7.

We also enjoyed making our coppers go as far as a mile and we hope they make a big difference to the lives of others.

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Well done to our reading champion Hanna who took part in all world book week activities with enthusiasm! Also, well done to Tim who has worked well both in class and at home on all learning tasks this week and has earned hot chocolate at home.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

This week we have been celebrating our SJO Book Week.  The children have been involved in lots of activities to try to promote and encourage reading.  This has included a whole school book project on the book ‘Bloom’, a collaborative writing project where we worked together to write a new chapter for a book each day and also making bookmarks for another class in our school.

Some of the children made book characters using spoons, here are a few examples:

On Thursday we celebrated the feast day of Saint John Ogilvie.  We learned all about his life and took part in a lovely online mass with Fr Simon.  Then on Friday, we received a very special treat of a cupcake and some juice to celebrate!

On Friday we brought lots of loose change to school for SCIAF.  We brought so many pennies, we managed to cover 6 maps of Malawi!

Here are some of our highlights this week:

Millie – Making a book mark for another class for world book day

Jonah – Doing activities relating to the book Bloom.  I liked making the flower pictures.

Aiden – Choosing the EPIC book winner.

Mia – Getting a treat for SJO feast day!

Matteo – learning the 4 times table.

Paige – Learning about bar charts and Venn diagrams

Have a great weekend,

Primary 3B

We have had a fantastic week.  Mrs Ross was with us on Monday and we began our collaborative story with her.  We had great ideas and made a creative start.   All week we have been working with P5, P6 and P7 to create books and can’t wait to read them all next week.   Eilidh said “this was the best part of the week.  I liked sharing my ideas and think the stories are going to be amazing!”

We have also enjoyed the story ‘Bloom’ by Anne Booth.  The story is all about a little girl, a flower and a grumpy old man.  It helped us to understand the impact of positive words and how they can help us to grow and ‘bloom’.  We are making a bloom garden for the area display and Max particularly enjoyed making the flowers and Fahad liked making the bugs and beasties for the garden.

Farrah said one of the best things this week was seeing the spoons that people had turned into characters from their favourite stories.  They were all fantastic!

Here are a selection of them.

In Spanish, we have been learning about ‘ma familia’ and are getting really good at being able to say the names of our family members.  To practice writing them we played a game of ‘100 Puntos’ and Francesca said this was her highlight of this week.  “I really enjoyed it because it was fun but we were practicing our Spanish at the same time!”

Callie enjoyed exploring Rangoli Patterns with Miss MacGregor while Mrs Callaghan worked with the boys and girls who are receiving First Holy Communion this year.

We have also been learning more about lent and the story of Jesus in the desert.

The highlight of the week was our celebration of St John Ogilvie’s feast day.  We had a beautiful mass on Thursday and on Friday we were given cupcakes and juice from Mrs McKissack and Mrs McLaughlin.  What a fantastic treat!

The first of our Reading Champions is ….   Madeleine.  Well done keep up your excellent effort with reading.

Our hot chocolate winner this week for his hard work and effort all week is …..    Leo!  Fantastic effort Leo – we are all proud of you!