St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P6B families!

We have had another great week.

Miss MacGregor’s highlights:

• Creating the Christmas Door Display together
• Starting to understand how to calculate percentages of an amount and using our knowledge of division.
• Exploring different expositions and marking them against the genre targets in our Learning Groups.

Pupil highlights:

• Vivien – I enjoyed doing the Nativity Star of Light artwork
• Jayden – I enjoyed trying to catch up to P6A in the Sumdog competition. I am very glad that we managed to get to 15th place after starting in 102nd in 2 days!
• Praise – I enjoyed learning how to calculate percentages of an amount and understanding the real life skill.
• Jude – I liked creating the fraction walls to better understand equivalent fractions.

Well done to Jude who was this week’s hot chocolate winner. Jude has been working really hard across all areas this week!

Here are some photo highlights – exploring the different expositions, creating fraction walls and our finished door display!

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘l’ and ‘r’. We have used these sounds to read words and we even read a whole sentence! In writing, we wrote about our aliens and were able to describe them very well.

In maths, we have been practising our subtraction skills. We are getting very good at using our finger patterns to help us. We also talked about quick ways to read the ten frames so we do not have to always count from one.

We celebrated St Andrew’s Day by making Scotland flags and eating some delicious shortbread.

We have been learning about Advent and we have made an Advent Wreath in our classroom. We also have an Advent Calendar and we will each get a turn to reveal the picture. We also have a book Advent Calendar to open.

In Health and Wellbeing, we discussed what we do when we cough or sneeze. We took photos of each other and uploaded them to Seesaw to make an information poster.

Today we went to St Peter’s Church to visit the Planetarium. We went into a special dome and watched Ted and Plant visit the planets. We also learned about astronauts and the moon. It was great fun!

Our personal highlights this week are:

Lillian – I enjoyed being in the dome and seeing Ted and Plant crash.

Summer Rose – I enjoyed watching Ted going to space.

Vedansh – I enjoyed learning about being respectful.

Joshua – I enjoyed watching the astronauts.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed watching the planets.

Eve – I enjoyed watching the astronauts.

Miss Stebbing – I was very, very proud of P1A when they visited the Planetarium. They were very respectful and listened so well. It was great fun seeing all the stars and the planets.

Well done to Kacper who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Pupil Highlights:

Rupert: We have been rehearsing our Advent Service and practising O Holy Night and Silent Night.

Liam: We have been practising our own nativity drama Bethlehem Act written and directed by Monique and Zak.

Hanna: We have been using the open number line to solve subtractions calculations.

Connor: We have been using the inverse operation to prove that the answer is correct in an addition or subtraction calculation.

Alex: In Maths, we have been using the bar model method to help us visualise par part whole in a calculation.

Kieran: We have secured the skill of subtracting 5 digit numbers with exchanging.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Congratulations to Anthony for  being awarded Hot Chocolate this week. You have worked so hard on completing your subtraction and inverse work in Maths. You have worked hard at listening better in class and your attitude to your learning has really improved. We are so proud of you .

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Yellow Table:

Reesa loved finding out that she was the winner of the Christmas Concert invite that was going to be emailed to parents.  Everyone did so well, it was challenging to pick a winner!

Emily-Ann enjoyed our handwriting lesson this week were we focused on r, n, m and h.  Ask your child what all these letters have in common.

Amy has loved practising our songs for the concert.  Her favourite is, “We Call His Name Jesus”.

Georgia Rose said the best part of her week was writing about rainbows.  Our new topic has been ‘Weather and the Water Cycle’.  As well as this, we have been learning about the Bible story, ‘Noah’s Ark’.  The children can confidently talk about why we have rainbows after rain.

Ciara has also loved the lessons on Weather and the Water Cycle.  This week we heard a story about a raindrop that went on a journey.  You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIkRu9LL4sk

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our lesson about Advent.  The children drew around their hand on green paper and together they will form a beautiful wreathe.  We learned that the leaves on a real wreathe are ever green leaves and the shape a circle, so like God’s love for us, it will never end.

Congratulations to Emily-Ann, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

We look forward to welcoming another new pupil next week, Isabelle.  We hope she will feel welcome and part of our St John Ogilive family.

Just a reminder that on Wednesday, St Andrew’s Day, the children are welcome to wear tartan.  It will also be the day of the flu vaccine (nasal spray) and Friday will be PJ day where the children are invited to bring a food item for the food bank to school that day.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Dear Readers,

we hope you are all very well.

This week’s highlights were the following:

• Continuing the work on column addition, now carrying to the tens and hundreds for most of us. We have really been enjoying it!
•  Reading comprehension about an excert of George and the Marvellous Medicine. We are trying to get better at answering with full sentences since we used to doing it the easiest possible way!😄
• Our Art lesson when we have designed our own super creative bottles for George’s Marvellous Medicine with pastels. What a beautiful display we have created!🌈
• Reconciliation/RE lesson on how God has given us free will to choose between what is rights and wrong. Although He guides us and has taught us to make good choices, in the end it is up to us to do it or not. To ask for God’s help we have created our Class Prayer that we are going to start saying every day in the morning. Let’s hope it will inspire us all to always be respectful, kind and caring.
• The work on spelling is weekly and so is our famous Weekly Spelling Assessment every Friday. We absolutely love it!😍
• Many Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate of the Week, David, who has been trying really hard to improve his listening skills and to be respectful at all times! Well done, David!👏👍🥇😃
• We are also very proud of our new Kindness Champions! Every kindness note is evidence of how kind and thoughtful we are and of how much we enjoy and feel proud to be like that!❤ Well done Ollie, our 1st Kindness Champion, with 10 kindness notes! 👏🥇❤ Well done also to John who is our 2nd Kindness Champion with 6 kindness notes! 👍😃🥈Well done to Pola, our 3rd Kindness Champion with 4 kindness notes! Wow!😃👏🥉

We hope you have enjoyed reading our post and say goodbye for now wishing you all a lovely weekend!

P3A and Mrs Valente😘

And that’s the end of another busy week in Primary 4b!

In numeracy, we’ve been working on column addition and column subtraction.  We’ve done a great job at building our knowledge and understanding of how to exchange when we are crossing a boundary.  Any number bond practise at home would continue to help us build our calculation skills.

We’ve also learnt how to use dictionaries this week.  We understand their purpose and we know how to use our alphabet knowledge to find words, including checking the definition to see if it is the word we are looking for.

In topic, we’ve learnt about the features of inside and outside a castle, and we’ve also learnt about what knights were, their role during the Medieval Period and what they would wear to battle.  The best bit from our castles work was learning about the toilets.  We thought it was disgusting that people went to the toilet in a castle over a hole that hung over the moat.

In Health and Wellbeing, we learnt how to find our inner peace and why this is important.  We also learnt about being observant and talked a lot about self regulation.

Our highlights:

Jonah and Alexa: I enjoyed dodgeball this week in PE because we got hit by balls.

Aiden: I enjoyed learning about castles.  My favourite was learning about the toilets.

Ishani M: I enjoyed doing maths.  My favourite part was column subtraction.

Our hot chocolate winner this week was Alexa.  Well done Alexa.

Have a lovely weekend everybody!

Mrs Brown

Last week was Scottish Book week and we collected our thoughts about all the places we can find things to read.

We have continued to be very busy with our craft work. Finger knitting and crochet. If anyone has spare wool then we will gratefully receive it and put it to good use.

This week was a little different, we had Mr McGurn visiting while Mrs Ross was doing Number Talks with some other classes. We were adding numbers up to millions. (BS) We played some maths games too. (SF) It was a 2 player game when you have to race each other to find the right number. (JJ)

For spelling we have been practising long vowel patterns.  We have been learning about the rules of spelling them.  This week we learned about ‘ai’ and ‘ay’. (MM)

Did you know when using ‘ai’ in a word we have to check there are consonants on either side of the sound. If there is another vowel we need to use ‘ay’. But we can use ‘ay’ if the sound is at the end of the word. the y is an anchor to hold the vowel sound in the word.

We have done some Number Talks to get better at numbers. (LS) (To improve our number knowledge) We have spent time on laptops. (PF) We started painting panels for our Great Hall. (SF)