St John Ogilvie Primary School

Primary 5 have had a wonderful start to the new term this week!

This term our interdisciplinary topic will be focused around Enterprise. We are all so excited to be creating our own products and selling these at our very own stalls in December. As part of this, we are currently focusing our maths topic around money. This week we had great fun engaging in lots of money games, challenges and practical activities! The children enjoyed their learning so much that they even created their own shop and gave Miss Ventisei and some other customers a set budget to spend there. We had lots of fun working together and built upon so many new skills too. During our morning challenges this week we have also been practicing our counting in steps of 12-25. Each morning our groups all had a different concrete material to work with and we’ve enjoyed watching all of the different ways that we can represent the same thing. Well done P5!

Throughout our literacy lessons this week we have been recapping and furthering our knowledge of alliteration. We started our week off by looking at some uses of alliteration in advertising (this tied in really well with our Enterprise topic!) and created our own company names and taglines for different products using alliteration. Leo was particularly proud of his tagline for a baked beans company- “the best baked beans in the beaniverse!”. On Thursday we used our knowledge of alliteration to create our own spooky Halloween poetry. We created an acrostic poem and made sure to use alliteration in every single sentence!

Whilst the weather this week hasn’t been great, we still braved some drizzle and ventured outdoors for Daily Mile and outdoor learning! We went on an autumn leaf hunt in our playground and collected at least 5 different types of leaves each. When we returned to the classroom, we used a key to figure out the type of leaves we each had and we were so shocked to discover how many different types of trees we have in our school garden! We also noticed that some leaves had some black dots on and so we researched why and how this had happened.

This week we were discussing poverty. We had lots of really mature class conversations about poverty and its impact upon mental, social and physical wellbeing, education and relationships with family and friends. Our class strongly believed that children’s rights are not being protected and respected where children are living in poverty. We decided to create our own posters to communicate our own thoughts and messages about this issue. Miss Ventisei was so proud of the empathy, maturity and kindness displayed by the pupils.

On Friday we loved playing lots of fun games with Mrs Lafferty during P.E.  We also really enjoyed having some time to get creative in the creation station and construction area.

Thank you for another wonderful week P5, have a lovely weekend!

We’ve had a very short yet lovely and productive week this week!

We played Musical Corners in PE yesterday.  We love PE and this was a real highlight!

We are learning about time still in maths.  We have been converting between analogue and digital times (to the nearest minute) and we are becoming much more confident at doing this.  Mrs Brown has suggested we practise this at home with our families too, particularly when converting an analogue time that is ‘to’ the hour.  Today, we applied our understanding through learning about am and pm.  We enjoyed our discussions about midday and midnight.

In literacy, we are continuing with our procedures work and we are continuing to learn about inventors and inventions in topic.  Next week, we are going to design and construct our own invention.  We have been asked to bring in clean, recyclable objects to use for this (but nothing that has held strawberries, kiwis or nuts). If we have any spare pots, tubs, boxes etc, can we please have them to share in our ‘junk bank’.  Please can we bring these into school before Tuesday 25th October.  Thank you!

Here are some highlights of this week:

Emily- I enjoyed maths.

Daisy Dee- I enjoyed drawing when we compared the 1920’s to today.

Matteo- I really enjoyed doing the midday and midnight work.

Markuss: I liked learning about time.

Khael: I enjoyed writing and maths.

Ishani S and M: I liked doing PE because we got to do Halloween Corners.

Daniel M: I enjoyed Free Writing Friday.

Please can the children bring their reading books back on Monday if they haven’t done so already.  Please can they also bring in their homework books for Monday.  Spellings will be given out on Monday and the children should be writing these into their homework books.   Thank you.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.  I have loved seeing you all back at school again after the holidays and look forward to seeing you on Monday.

Mrs Brown

A lovely week back after our break.  Everyone has been rested and ready to learn. Some great work was done over he break from a dedicated finger knitters. Please post photos on TEAMS if you can. Show off your hard work!

We have learned more about household inventions and today we decided which appliances we felt were important and why.(AM)

We learned about routine from Roger the routine rooster as part of Wellbeing Wednesday. We learned that routine helps us know what to do to get ready for the day or for night time. (SF)

We talked about our different routines for morning and night. (SF) We also talked about good and bad habits when trying to get a good nights sleep.

In PE we played musical statues and corners. Lots of dancing (JJ)

We went on the laptops to play Sumdog. (JJ)

We are hoping to have a creative day next week and use recyclables to build some inventions. If you have any spare pots, tubs, boxes etc can we please have them to share in our ‘junk bank’, then please bring into school before Wed 26th October.

We will be back to normal with homework on Monday. Reading, spelling and numeracy.

It was lovely to see all our friends again this week after the October holiday. Although it was a short week, we have managed to squeeze a lot of good learning and play into our days in P1B.

We have been learning the letter and sound ‘a’ this week. We started to blend our learned sounds together to make words, we were all very excited that we could sound out, build and read words.

Cameron – I liked colouring in an apple.

Owen – I liked using m to make words.

We have been adding up to 10 this week and enjoyed using the Ipads to do our task on Seesaw.

Connor – I liked using the Ipads.

Martyna/Owen – I liked counting conkers.

Outdoor learning this week was based on the book ‘Leaf Man’ because we have been learning about seasons. We collected our own leaves and made a leaf man in the playground for the wind to blow away on an adventure. We all know what trees look like in the different seasons.

Faye – I liked making leaf man.

Rhain – I liked leaf man.

Azmeer – I like it when leaves fall off trees.

Owen – I like picking leaves off the ground.

This week we learned the sound ‘a’. We have been practising the vowel house story and we are getting good at remembering the sounds for each part. We were spelling out words and had to hit the sounds in the correct order. It was lots of fun!

In maths, we have been looking at facts for 5 and we were able to give lots of examples. We have also been looking at our dot patterns and had to say it quickly before it disappeared!

We have started our new Topic all about Space. We are looking forward to learning about the sun, the moon, the stars and the planets.

In Art, we made Autumn trees using paints and cotton buds. They look very beautiful. We also went outside and collected lots of leaves from the tree in the nursery garden. We then made our own leaf man and watched the wind take it away on an adventure.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Joshua – I enjoyed playing with the cars.

Olga – I enjoyed writing.

Harald – I enjoyed playing with the trains.

Summer – I enjoyed hearing the Leaf Man story.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed drawing.

Alexander – I enjoyed making the Leaf Man and it did not blow away.

Miss Stebbing – I loved reading the Leaf Man story and seeing all the wonderful Leaf Men made with the leaves outside. I was also very impressed with how hard everyone tried to read and write words during Literacy Time.

Pupil Highlights:

Alex: In maths we have been estimating missing numbers in number lines starting from 0 to 10 million.

Rupert: We have started our Word of the Day and we created Ninja Dictionaries. Everyday we will find the meaning of a new word, identify the word class which is either adjective/verb/noun/adverb. We will use online resources like word hippo, nifty word to ascertain the synonyms, antonyms, prefixes and suffixes.

We will also be noting down any words  we stumble across and this will be part of our encountered vocabulary.

We had a great week to finish term 1!

P6 have worked brilliantly this week! We reviewed decimals and fractions, created Halloween place value charts to use at home after the break and continued our work on narrative. The learners have been very creative. To continue our germ experiment we looked at ways we can keep ourselves and others safe – even creating great posters for the upper area of the school.

Myles and Olivier, enjoyed drama this week- making funny scenes to teach people about Ancient Rome! Patrick liked writing his narrative this week on the netbook!
Grant liked reviewing decimals and linking it to our place value work!

The whole class mentioned they loved creating their end of unit IDL poster to showcase their learning! They are fantastic!

See below for some photo highlights:

Hello P2B families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Red and Green Tables:

Ollie said the best part of his week was when we were counting in twos during Maths.  He did a super job organising a pile of socks into pairs and counting in twos to find out how many there were altogether.  He discovered that counting in twos is quicker than counting in ones!

Ishaan absolutely loved watching a cartoon his grandparent may of watched called, ‘Morph’.  We then using the app ‘Stop Motion’ to create our very own Morph cartoons!  We manipulated playdoh to create different freeze frames that the app then put together to form a short film.  They were super!  Some children still need to make theirs as we ran out of time.

Maya liked playing ‘Green Light, Red Light’ during PE with Mrs Laffterty.

Olivia said the favourite part of her week was revising the ‘ch’ sound.  We discovered that ‘tch’ makes the same sound too and mostly comes after a vowel at the end of words.  She liked cutting coin shapes out and sticking them into a piggy bank that contained that sound.

Lewis loved our lesson about Capacity.  The children learned that the packaging of liquids tell you exactly how much liquid is in the bottle.  In P2 we focus on litres and half litres.  The children guessed the capacity of different sized containers and then compared their results withour findings after we actually filled them with a measuring jug that held one litre.

Evana said the best part of her week was watching the Morph cartoon.  They can be found on Youtube but the one we watched can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgeUu8pXDeY&t=453s

Safaa liked the game we played linked to our learning about the ‘tch’ sound.  We had to throw a ball or beanbag up into the air and catch it when we heard a word that ended with this sound.  Safaa was one of the winners!

Theo enjoyed the Autumn art we completed this week.  Look out for your child’s beautiful Autumn art on Seesaw over the weekend!

Amariah-Grace chose the House Group winners reward as her ‘best bit’ of the week as she was in the winning house, St Filan!  The winners enjoyed a movie in the Hall with snacks.

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was when we talked about the changes we see all around during the season of Autumn, Mrs Devlin’s favourite season.  We marvelled at the beauty of God’s world at this time of year.

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

I hope you all enjoy the break and I will see you all back to school on Wednesday 19^th!  I cannot believe we are at the end of Term One already!  Before we know it, it will be Christmas!  How time flies when you are having fun!

Click on the link below to see the final image as it contains a short video.  Press play a few times to fully appreciate the work that went into making this short animation.

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Dear Readers!

We can’t believe this is already the end of term 1! Wow!😄

We hope you have had a great week and are looking forward to having a bit of extra time together with your children!❤

Our highlights for the week were:

• All the learning about the Vikings, including their longhouses, their clothes, their jewellery and other practical aspects of their lives.
• Following the tutorial to draw our own versions of the Vikings longhouses.
• In Maths, we have revised the Days of the week, Months and Seasons of the Year and have also learned how to tell the time to a quarter past and a quarter to. It would be really good to keep practising at home so that nobody forgets about this!😊
• We have learned about all the situations in which we should use capital letters and have corrected the wrong punctuation in our tasks in a very successful way.
• As always, we have enjoyed all the activities with the new weekly spelling words, particularly making our own wordsearches and swapping them with our friends so that they could find the words we had hidden.
• We ended up the week with a special treat for the House Winners, the lucky St. Filan’s! Well done for all your hard work!
• We would also like to congratulate Ben, our new Hot Chocolate of the week! 🥇Well done Ben, for trying your best to be Ready, Respectful and Safe!👏👏👏👏

• We are very proud of our new Kindness Champions, Isabel, Julia and Kayla, for their many acts of kindness in class and for setting a lovely example for all! Well done, sweeties!😍🥇🥈🥉🥳

We wish you a very good weekend and holiday week ahead and would like to say goodbye for now!

P3A and Mrs Valente😘😘