St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have celebrated anti-bullying week by investigating Children’s Rights 2, 12, 13 and 19. We also explored Global Goal 16 which is about Peace and Justice. We worked in groups to create musical raps and made anti-bullying posters. We also celebrated Book Week. In our writing we wrote about protecting our local environment. We continued making excellent Christmas Gifts and practising our Christmas Songs for our Enterprise Show on the 9th of December.

Our highlight of the week was planting trees around the playground and beside the path, next to the woodlands. Although it was raining we had a great time. We are proud of improving our school outdoor environment, making the air cleaner by planting trees.

Pupil Highlights:

Liam: On Wednesday we were able to read books to our primary one buddies.

Amelia: Today the leading readers were asked to hand out reading champion medals to someone in each class.

Alex: We got extra literacy HW from Miss Smith so that we can be ready for high school.

Tanya: We were revising the column method for subtraction and addition. Miss Smith showed us how to use the number line for complex subtraction calculations.

Rupert: To use the number line for subtraction, you would place the largest number at the end of the number line, this is the destination we need to get to. You then place the smallest number at the start of the number line. To help get to our destination, you have to estimate where the half way point is.  Then, make your smallest number easier to deal with. You may have to round this number to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand and so on.

Keep the number easier by adding appropriate jumps in order to reach the destination number.

Then, you add up all the numbers ( your jumps) you used to make the number easier to get to.

Advay: Some of us got to take part in Drama where we hade to create a scene to show bullying.

Rupert: Myself, Connor and Alex were asked to help the primary fives plant trees.

Congratulations to hot chocolate winner this week – Hanna.  You have worked so hard at being responsible in your learning, challenging yourself and communicating to your teacher when you have not understood a task.

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Blue Table:

Blair said the best part of his week was listening to ‘Manfred the Baddie’, our Word Boost story this week.

Eli loved learning Christmas songs.  P2 will not be performing a Nativity this year but instead, will invite parents to a special Christmas event.  Look out for your invite on its way to you soon.

Karina enjoyed learning about the Creation Story, how God made the world in 7 days.  This led to some lovely discussions about how we can take care of God’s beautiful world.

Lilly said she liked making firework pictures after Bonfire Night last weekend.  We used a printing technique and inserted a photo of us “gazing” up at them (linked to our Word Boost vocabulary, ‘gaze’).

Sofia loved when we sang Happy Birthday to her in Spanish!  We hope you had a lovely day Sofia.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our Spanish lesson about the weather.  We enjoyed acting out the various weather conditions, shouting out the words as we went.  The one the kids and I most enjoyed was pretending to jump in puddles and we shouted, “Está lloviendo!” ☔️

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

A busy couple of weeks for P6A

last week:

Full of Halloween fun, we had many tasks centred around this! We solved problems, showed our comprehension skills by completing activities based on a spooky short film and dressed up for the big day! P6 children and adults loved going to cross country! The children should be so proud! We talked about saints last week and visited the church for mass!

this week:

This week was a great week for both the children and myself! I loved meeting with you all and discussing the children’s progress!

Aoife enjoyed making maths strategy posters for the four operations.

Amelia liked working with decimals.

Emily liked multiplying large numbers in numbers numeracy.

Grant, Adam and Patrick enjoyed making a Remembrance Day PowerPoint.

Well done to Emmanuel for getting the hot chocolate at home this week! You showed great resilience this week and a growth mindset!

some photo highlights:

We’ve had another busy week! Lots of revision of times tables and exploring different multiplication strategies. We have started the planning process for our exposition texts and began thinking about a topic that we’re passionate about.

Our pupil highlights of the week are:

• “I enjoyed practising the times tables in different games and creating multiplication posters for the maths wall” – Connor
• “I liked how we got some extra free time as a reward for excellent learning” – Siddharth
• “I liked discussing the rights related to Remembrance Day and creating poppy art” – Niamh
• “I learned about the new writing targets for exposition” – Jude

Well done to Amelia who was this weeks hot chocolate winner. Amelia is growing in confidence everyday and has done an excellent job in all her learning this week.

As part of our class ethos, we have class targets that we work towards and once we met the target, we get a reward. This week, we managed to meet it, which meant we got some extra free time. Some of us went outside to play football, and the others stayed in and listened to music and played Just Dance! A great treat for all the hard work we’ve been doing!

Here are some photo highlights – solving and showing equations during Number Talks and creating the field of poppies artwork.

Have a great weekend!

Another busy week in P1B.  This week we have been learning the sounds ‘f’ and ‘e’.  We have been working very hard on the formation of these sounds and recalling words that begin with these sounds.  We continue to practise our common words.

As part of our topic about Space, we learned about the sun and the moon.

In writing we shared facts about the sun in our talking sentences then worked very hard to write in on paper.  Our teachers are very proud of how well we are doing.  We are trying hard to remember to use capital letters, finger spaces and full stops.

In maths we have continued to work on addition within 10 and also used nonstandard materials to measure.  We have also been counting to 20 and beyond.

For Health and Well Being we have looked at road safety and how to cross the road safely with a grown up.  We looked at the job of the lollipop person and how they help keep us safe.  We also explored the role of doctors and how they help us.

We learned about Remembrance Day and looked at why people wear poppies.

Some of our personal learning highlights this week are: 

Owen, Connor, Victoria     ‘I liked the Doctor’s Surgery’

Luca  ‘I liked the spaceship’

 Faye ‘I liked learning about the sun’

Katie ‘I like playing’

Rose ‘I like learning new sounds’

Azmeer ‘I liked being a fire fighter

Elo ‘I liked being a doctor’

Maryna ‘I like learning with you’

Well done to Elo who is this week’s Hot Chocolate Winner!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

We have had a lovely week this week.  We have started our new poetry unit and we have explored some poems together, learning all about the structure and features.  We wrote some fantastic similes and metaphors about some photos of the sea and we used our comprehension skills to explore a poem about a dragonfly.  We worked in groups to present a poem to the class and Mrs Brown was so proud of us for performing confidently, projecting our voices clearly and using actions to engage our audience and help them to create images in their heads.  Next week, some of us are going to perform them to Primary 4a.

In maths, we’ve done lots of work on mental calculations.  We have done lots of number bond practise and Mrs Brown has asked us to keep practising this at home so we can become really fluent and fast and recalling these. We’ve also been sharing our strategies for how to calculate mental addition and subtraction calculations and we’ve explained these clearly using mathematical vocabulary such as ‘partitioned’ or ‘tens’ and ‘ones’.

We have also practised our Spanish greetings and we had some short conversations with our classmates in Spanish, using questions and answers.

Mrs Brown has asked us to make sure we bring in our spelling books on Monday (because that’s when we get our new spellings).

Well done to Paige who is our hot chocolate winner this week!  She listened really carefully and produced a fantastic poem analysis.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Brown

To prepare for Road Safety Week we have been learning about crossing the road safely. We practised using the painted road in the playground and took turns to be the School Crossing Patrol.  We also walked up to the zebra crossing at the back of the school and practised crossing safely. 

We have been learning the sounds ‘f’ and ‘e’ this week. We enjoyed playing games to find the words Miss Stebbing was sounding out. In writing, we wrote about the sun and we remembered lots of facts from our discussion during Science. 

In maths, we have been using the Numicon to add two numbers. We also learned about number 15 and 16. We have been using the scales to investigate heavier and lighter items.  

In RE, we watched the CBeebies video about poppies and discussed how Article 38 of UNCRC protects and cares for children affected by wars. 

As part of our topic about Space, we learned about stars. We created some constellations using sticky stars and black paper. 

Some of our personal learning highlights this week are: 

Harald – I enjoyed learning building with the cups. 

Joshua – I enjoyed colouring in. 

Vedansh – I enjoyed learning about the Numberblocks. 

Eve – I enjoyed colouring in and making the star things. 

Alexander – I enjoyed drawing. 

Miss Stebbing – It was lovely to share all the hard work and fantastic learning with our P1 families this week during our Learning Consultations. 

Well done to Vedansh who is this week’s Hot Chocolate Winner!