St John Ogilvie Primary School

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…

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.