St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear parents,

We have had another exciting week with lots of wintery fun! It is also now the third week of Advent and it was our turn to lead the middle area Advent Service. We explained that this week is the week of Joy, lit the pink candle and sang some hymns. We also researched a little more into the meaning behind the Advent wreath and drew our own. Miss Ventisei thinks they look beautiful!

This week during maths we have been learning more about money. We have been practicing our vertical calculations, including addition, subtraction and multiplication calculations and played a few competitive games of Kahoot! Oreo God (AKA Tyler!) won this week! Emily D says that her favourite thing about maths this week was our Countdown starter. We are all obsessed with this game at the moment, even Miss Ventisei!

Inaayah loved science on Thursday because we had a full afternoon of science stations. We were learning about circuits, conductors and insulators and we had lots of fun building and experimenting with these. Inaayah particularly loved building her own circuit on a cool circuit-building website and Lucy enjoyed doing an experiment where we checked to see if play dough was an insulator or conductor.

We have been learning about conjunctions throughout literacy this week and Bentley really enjoyed creating a story based on John Lewis’s 2021 advert ‘Excitable Edgar’. Emily D liked making a conjunction word cloud on the iPads too!

Julia enjoyed Health and Wellbeing this week where we discussed the Zones of Regulation and completed some class collaboration posters to display in our calm corner.

Lucy liked ERIC and Eilidh liked crazy hair day this week too!

This week our Hot Chocolate winner was Nikola! She always goes above and beyond to help others and show kindness to all in our school community. Thank you and congratulations Nikola!

A busy week working in our topic groups. We have been learning about cooperation and compromise. Some have found it tricky to share all the tasks and everyone has had to be extra patient and try extra hard to listen to each other. The groups have done some wonderful work on their challenges. Choosing a group name, designing a shield, building model castles and working together to cut and put together  a card castle and its towers. We took some great photos of our work.

We have been painting some blocks of wood to create a surprise. (HM)

We finally finished our castles. It was great and I was relieved to finish it. My favourite part was creating the drawbridge. (IS)

We have been doing our Jesse Tree stories and we are almost finished them. My favourite is probably number 4. The story of Noah’s Ark. (MM)

The Jesse Tree tells us about Jesus’ ancestors and all about our history as God’s people. (SR)

Today we have had crazy hair day and I sprayed it with 2 colours. (SF)

On Tuesday we had christmas jumper day and had an excellent Christmas lunch. (SF)

Other Groups will be posted next week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Hello Families of P2A

With the snowy weather outside, we were inspired to write wonderful stories about ‘The Snowman’ film.

We recorded our lowest temperature of -7 on our weather chart this week.

We learned about the Story of Christmas and made beautiful Mangers, using a selection of collage materials.

Highlights:

Rory – I loved doing free writing.

Caleb – I like drawing during activity time.

Hasika – I love painting during activities. I painted a rainbow.

Jiade – I liked learning about clouds during our weather topic.

Laura – I loved everything this week.

Angel – I liked doing the weather chart.

Aadya – I liked learning about magic ‘e’.

Zion – I liked playing in the snow.

Whole class – We loved crazy hair day!

Some photos of our crazy hair:

Linda even drew her snowman with crazy hair!

Huge congratulations to our hot chocolate winner, Shay and our reading champion, Zion.

Have a lovely weekend!

Hi P6B families,

We have had a busy and successful week, including our Advent Service performance, a trip to the library and playing in the snow!

Pupil highlights of the week:

Urwa and Naman: We enjoyed planning a birthday party with a given budget and trying to work out what the best options would be to afford everything.

Vivien: I enjoyed drawing and creating the Christmas symmetrical pictures.

Aditya: I enjoyed using the netbooks and exploring the TinkerCad website to create 3D images.

Well done to Vivien who won this week’s hot chocolate.

Dear Parents,

A busy week of National Assessments this week, all P7s in Scotland complete these standardised assessments, though at different times throughout the year, and they give some insight on how our children are progressing and any areas of development needed to work on before the transition to high school. When assessments are fully completed by the whole year group, I’ll share results with the pupils and look into the best way to share with parents.

After finishing our Reciprocal Reading Novel ‘Skellig’ by David Almond we watched the film and discussed similarities and differences between the film and book. The overall consensus was that the class enjoyed the movie more as it was easier to understand/follow than the book.

Christmas Lunch was on Tuesday this week and we had a Christmas themed murder mystery/problem solving activity in maths.

On Friday, we had a Class Advent Prayer Service after PE before we had a quiz with Miss Davis as it is her last day today. We have very much enjoyed learning with her over the last 10 weeks and will miss all of her help and exciting and interesting lessons.

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner was…

Ruqayyah! Congratulations Ruqayyah, lots of hard work and effort and a great positive attitude.

PUPIL HIGHIGHTS

Nellie, “We have been doing a lot of SNSA tests.”

Chiedochie, “We have done a Kahoot quiz for Miss Davis’ last day.”

Declan, “The thing I loved this week was watching Skellig.’

JJ, “I liked Christmas lunch because the food was good.”

Zahra, “I enjoyed playing Kahoot quiz, the snow, and Miss Davis.”

One week to go, Have a Great Weekend.

Mr McGurn & Primary 7a

This week we explored Article 14 (freedom of thought, belief and religion) We discussed why it is important for every child to havethe right to think and believe what they choose and also to practise their religion. We also discussed why Governments must respect the rights and responsibilities of parents to guide their child as they grow up. We created interesting artwork to show our understanding.

In math we have been practising our numeracy strategies and working on our times tables knowledge. We have also been measuring different size angles using a protractor and compass.

This week we wrote an imaginative story about walking through a Magic Door.

In Science we have been learning about Electricity and building Electrical Circuits.  We investigated conductors and insulators, static electricity, drawing and building electrical circuits to light bulbs, create sound and movement. In art lessons we had good fun creating some winter sketches of snowmen and penguins. We practised some different Christmas songs this week.

Have a great weekend. Primary 5 will have their Christmas Party on Monday Afternoon.

This week we performed our Nativity for our families.  Everyone was very impressed with our singing and acting.  Mrs Meikle, Mrs Russell and Miss Stebbing were so proud of us.  We got a special treat of a movie and popcorn because we were all superstars!

Pupil Highlights:

Alex: We got to start and finish our SNSAS.

Kieran: We have started rehearsing our very own Christmas Drama which we are going to perform to the Upper Area next week.

Lucia: We have chosen our two songs we are going to sing for our Upper Area get to together on the last day.

Tanya: I have enjoyed being part of the craft team because in this team, we are making the set and props for the drama.

Liam: We have secured the skill of converting improper fractions to mixed numbers.

Olly: We were invited to watch a dress rehearsal of our buddies perform their nativity.

Hannah: We had a big class discussion where we unpicked the Curriculum for Excellence, specifically ‘ The Refreshed Narrative’. We talked about why we go to school. We discussed  the importance of socialisation and the skills we gain at school not only for work but for life.

Miss Smith: We are going to start reflecting on how we have met the four capacities at the end of our day, and, next year, we are going to play more of a role in planning our week within the four contexts.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Congratulations to Debbie for winning hot chocolate this week. Your teacher is so proud of you for your consistent hard work and contributions in the classroom. Debbie you are also an excellent manager of the craft team for the Drama, not too bossy or annoying!

Josh – Helping the P2s.

Olivier – Watching the advent service.

Amelia – Playing word tennis

Aoife – PE, Dancing

Emily – 4 contexts display

Caleb – Tinkercad

Daisy – notetaking

Natalia – climate change poster

Elizabete – I liked going outside in the snow.

Well done Daisy for going over and above this week and getting the hot chocolate at home reward!

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Green Table:

Lewis loved our Christmas concert on Wednesday.  He was so happy that his parents were able to make it and enjoyed decorating the gingerbread men together and making the bauble.

Amariah-Grace liked writing about a raindrop’s adventure as it moved through the different stages of the water cycle.  We had some creative ideas involving a raindrop falling onto roof tops, puddles, children’s hair, dog’s noses….

Evana said the best part of her week was when Mrs McLaughlin put a Christmas movie on for the children to enjoy on Thursday afternoon.

Olivia  liked our Word Boost story ‘Owen and the Mountain’.  We will not have any new Word Boost stories now until the new year.

Theo said learning about words that have ‘ff’ at the end was what he remembered enjoying this week.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was of course, like Lewis, our Christmas Concert.  The children did so well remembering all the words and actions.  I was so proud of everyone!

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

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.  I know we have a cold week ahead.  If you are sending in any hats, scarves and gloves, can you please label them with your child’s name to ensure they can be returned to them if they get misplaced.  Thank you.