St John Ogilvie Primary School

It’s been another fantastic week in P2A.  The children have been super busy and lots of learning has taken place!

In literacy we have been focusing on the ‘ch’ and ‘tch’ sounds and the children completed lots of fun tasks to practise reading and writing these sounds in different words.  In writing, the children used their imagination to write about what they will do when they are a grandparent.  They come up with some very interesting ideas, from learning to ice skate to spending their days drinking coffee and eating cake.

In Maths, we continued to practise counting in 2’s, 5’s and 10’s in preparation for learning the times tables.  We also learned about capacity, in particular how we measure liquids using litres and half litres.

We learned in topic about an animated TV programme from the 70’s called Morph.  We then used the ipads and playdough to create our very own Morph animations.

Here are a few weekly highlights from the children:

Jiade – I loved making a Morph animation, it was great fun!

Diana – I liked making myself as a granny because it was so fun!

Caiden – I liked writing about what I will do when I am a Grandpa.

Riley – I liked watching the movie in the hall because my house won the most house points.

Aadya – I loved learning about capacity and playing in the water, filling the tubs and seeing how many of one could fit into another.

Zion – I enjoyed free writing Friday.  I wrote about going on holiday.

Big congratulations to our Hot Chocolate Friday winner, Zion!  He very much deserves the recognition for always working hard and being kind and friendly to others.  What a star!

We hope everyone has a wonderful holiday and we look forward to seeing the children for the next term of Primary 2.

Dear Parents ,

This week P7A have been full of work like going up to the woods doing fun maths writing poems and much more.

On Monday we read Millions chapter 14-16, then we did maths. In maths we did rounding. The hot group were doing decimal points and the spicy and mild were rounding with no decimal points. In the afternoon we were doing some poems by Benjamin Zephania. After that we did Seven petitions of the Our Father.

On Tuesday we did a bit of literacy. then we did our daily km. during maths we continued our rounding. In the afternoon we did our poems and we practised reading in front of our classmates and we did a bit of French.

On Wednesday we wrote information reports, this week Lily was our star writer. After that we did some music. In music we practised some notes and then we sang songs. After that we went to the woodlands and we played conkers then we roasted marshmallows in the fire pit.

On Thursday’s literacy we did Millions comprehension on chapter 19. In the afternoon we watched a movie called Millions, seeing which bits were the same and different to the book.

On Friday we did P.E. The winners of the house prize was St Filan. They had a movie on the big screen in the hall! We finished off our ‘Frank Miller’ drama and then had Fun Friday.

Alessio was this week’s Hot Chocolate at home winner.

Jack said, ” I enjoyed meeting our new teacher Miss Davis, she’s nice.”

“I enjoyed roasting Marshmallows,” said Junaid.

“I enjoyed Millions the movie more than the book,” said Liam.

Have a great holiday,

Lead Learners Zahra and Ruqayyah

Dear families,

We have all had a great last week of term. We have managed to get a lot of done and have continued to be busy!

The pupil highlights of the week are:

• Gracie and Naman – finishing Narrative stories on the Netbooks.
• Niamh and Declan – researching and creating the Ancient Rome information posters.
• Praise – completing the morning design challenges.

Well done to Marcus who received this weeks hot chocolate for continuing to work hard and always try his best.

Well done to everyone in P6B for a fantastic Term 1! I can’t wait to see what we achieve next term. Have a lovely holiday!

Miss MacGregor

Pupil Highlights:

Olly: I enjoyed doing our research on the 70s for our powerpoints.

Rupert: It was fun watching the drama our class have been rehearsing Fam in 60.

Whole class : the whole class are delighted to have Mohid back in the classroom too.

Hot Chocolate Winner : Congratulations to Advay  for winning hot chocolate this week. He has worked so hard on his  first draft of his 70s information report for HW and is always a kind friend and considerate member of the class. Well done!

We have had a great week in Primary 3B!

As part of our work on time, children enjoyed learning about the days of the week, the months of the year and the seasons. We have also started looking at the days of the week in Spanish!

Furthermore in Spanish, we revised our numbers to 30 by playing Bingo! We also revisited our colours by completing a word search.

We continue our topic on The Vikings; and this week enjoyed learning about Viking Long Ships! Children watched an information video and had to label a diagram of a ship.

This week our Hot Chocolate Award winner is Amelia! We are so proud of Amelia who has been working so hard on her confidence!

We also congratulate our Star Table this week; Table Cinco (5)!

Mrs Broadley

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Hello P2B families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Yellow Table:

Ciara said the best part of her week was learning songs and rhymes with Mrs Morrison.  “10 Little Monkeys Jumping on the Bed” was her favourite one!

Amy liked handwriting this week.  We teaching handwriting at this time of the year in families of how they are formed.  This week we revised the formation of ‘l, i and j’ that all begin with a downward movement.  Amy, your handwriting was beautiful!  You remembered that ‘j’ does not rest on the line but hangs down like a monkey’s tail from a branch!

Georgia-Rose loved our ‘Maths Week Scotland’ activity where we worked with a  partner to see how many triangles we could see inside a larger triangle and how many squares we could see inside a larger square.  When we went over the answers on the smartboard, the children were amazed at how many there was to find!

Eli also said his learning highlight was a ‘Maths Week Scotland’ activity.  This one however was when we had a challenge to work with a partner to build as tall a tower as possible with lego without it toppling over and also to build as tall a tower as possible with marshmallows without it toppling over!  We learned from this that buildings need to be be created with sturdy shapes that fit together and do not change shape and need a strong foundation.  Well done Primary 2B, super teamwork!

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was our discussion on how we use maths in everyday life from the moment we wake up (Time), to when we brush our teeth (1^st we put the toothpaste on, 2^nd we …..) to when we go to bed! We also discussed the maths that different peoples’ jobs involve.  We discovered that doctors and nurses use A LOT of maths!  We had fantastic insightful comments about needing to know the correct amount of medicine to give patients and Blair talked about needing to be able to read the numbers on a blood pressure machine!

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

Just a little reminder that reading books remain inside the waterproof homework packs in your child’s school bag each day and that they will be collected up on a Friday.  Thank you for your continued support.  I hope you and your child enjoyed their first reading book home together in P2.

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Dear Families,

Wow, what a busy week we have had again!

Throughout literacy this week we have been focusing on our reading skill of clarifying. We thought about what this means and how we can use different strategies to clarify a word or term we don’t understand. We had great fun trying to clarify the meaning of words in different languages with Mrs Callaghan and worked on producing a Frayer model to clarify the definition of some vocabulary we had not heard of before. For writing this week we have continued our procedural writing where we have been looking at ‘bossy’ verbs and ensuring we always include a title, goal, material and steps. We wrote a procedure to tell others how to plant a daffodil bulb (we did this ourselves last week during outdoor learning!) and Miss Ventisei was once again so proud of the quality of writing produced. Well done P5A!

This week in maths we have been using our knowledge of rounding to estimate an approximate calculation. We worked really hard on some challenge cards and enjoyed playing lots of different games throughout the week to help us understand this concept. On Wednesday, we worked collaboratively as a class to share and practice our understanding of the concept by producing some fantastic posters for our maths working wall- take a look at these in our collage! We also really enjoyed learning all about the  properties of a circle with Mrs Callaghan this week.

Another highlight of the week was our learning through science. We were learning about all of the different inventions that have changed space exploration and also some that have impacted our daily lives today- who knew that Nike Air Max trainers were designed by a NASA aeronautical engineer?! We enjoyed taking part in a QR code hunt around the classroom to collaboratively find all of the different inventions and use technology to research each one. Super teamwork was shown by everyone!

Throughout IDL this week we have been learning about Robert the Bruce. We listened to and discussed the famous story about the spider and Bruce losing the battle against England 6 times and also researched his life using the iPads. Some of us presented our findings using videos, images, powerpoints, word documents and lots more. We even posted them on a padlet page so we can all view them together. We also designed our very own battle shields fit for William Wallace and Robert the Bruce! We thought carefully about the design of each one and worked really hard to produce some amazing artwork- well done Primary 5!

On Friday, we started our introduction to coding. We used a programme called Scratch to code a short animation of our choice and Miss Ventisei was so impressed with our enthusiasm, wonderful digital skills and creativity. We are looking forward to developing our coding skills throughout the year!

Here are some of our class highlights of the week:

Emily: I LOVED the estimation and rounding ball toss game in maths this week!

Leo: My favourite part of this week was definitely coding.

Farrah: I liked cutting up newspapers and magazines to make our spelling posters this week!

Our Hot Chocolate Friday winner this week was Tyler. He consistently showed our school values of Ready, Respectful and Safe all week- well done Tyler, we are so proud of you!