St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have had another great week of fun and learning!   We are working on writing our own myths and legends story and working on a project to research and present about a commonwealth country.  One highlight from this week was our outdoor learning on Tuesday when we took ipads out of the school and used the camera to take close-up, mid-shots and long-range shots of nature.   We are hoping to be able to upload some of our pictures to the blog once they have been changed format.

Francesca “I liked doing our commonwealth countries and have learned a lot about Pakistan with Nikola.  Our presentation is going very well.  I also really liked starting our stories for Myths and Legends and I am really excited to see how my story turns out. ”

Emily “I liked meeting our new teacher on Thursday.  We are very excited to have Miss Ventisei next year!”  Francesca “I liked making the hands about our personalities and things that we like for Miss Ventisei.”

Aarya “I like taking the pictures outside because I liked looking at nature in a different way and I liked researching Kenya with Ashlyn.  We have learned loads.”

Eilidh “I liked learning about Nigeria with Lili and designed a kit for the athletes.  We looked at pictures of Nigeria falls at night when it is lit up and it is beautiful”

Lili “I liked playing a game called 21 in PE where you have to run to the middle and run back to your hiding spot before the time runs out.”

Jacob “I liked making the flag for New Zealand.  We used paint and it was really good fun!”

Bentley “I liked looking at the commonwealth countries with Tyler.  We have been learning about Jamaica.  I would like to go there because it is very hot and there are very cool looking houses.”

Max “I liked making my powerpoint about South Africa with Kuba.  I have learned that they have a food called Babotie which is made from spiced beef with an egg topping!”

Olivia “I am looking forward to moving into Primary 5 because I like my new teacher!”

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Farrah!  Well done on all your hard work this week.  😁

We are looking forward to another week of fantastic P4 learning next week.

Good afternoon dear Readers,

We hope you have had a good week.

This week was a particularly important one since we got to find out about who our new teacher in Primary 4 is going to be.

We were all happy to know we will have Mrs. Ross because we already know her very well and she is kind and caring to all of us.

Mrs Valente will miss us a lot because we are simply amazing and she will never forget about us!😁😪😪😪😪

• In Literacy, we have worked on our new weekly spelling words, planned our narrative texts, continued learning how and when to read and use different forms of punctuation and have ended the week with our weekly spelling assessment and our much loved Free Writing Friday.
• In Maths and Numeracy we have worked a lot on symmetry, lines of symmetry and how to draw a symmetrical half of a given shape.
• We have continued learning about Jesus and God and this week we have celebrated and learned about the meaning of Pentecost and when it happened.
• We continued learning about the Rights of the child and this week’s rights had to do with being respectful of other children’s cultures and traditions, even when they are very different from our own, of course!
• Our kindness jar continues being filled with kindness notes and it will need to be emptied by the beginning of the coming week since we ended up forgetting to do it today!  We can’t wait to find out who our new Kindness Champions are going to be!!💗

We wish you all a (hopefully but not very probably) sunny and wonderful weekend!

P3A and Mrs Valente😃

Hello P2A families!

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

Nathan enjoyed making a ‘Save our Oceans’ poster with a partner.  Wednesday was ‘World Oceans Day!’  We have been learning about what we can do to help take care of life below water (Global Goal 14).

Emily liked learning about Mother Teresa and how she helped the sick.  We learned how she won the Nobel Peace Prize in recognition for all her good works.  Mother Teresa was called ‘Agnes’ at birth.  We designed a medal for her.

Ben enjoyed our continued learning about The Zones of Regulation.  We did some ‘Whale Breathing (linked to World Oceans Day) to help us get to the Green Zone.

Isabel said her favourite part of this week were the maths stations we had to revise addition.

Lucas loved our learning about digestion.  We learned that food gives us the energy we need to move.  Once it goes into our mouth, it goes on a long journey, a bit like a rollercoaster ride.  We watched an AMAZING video showing food inside a stomach.  We then made our own stomachs using a small bag as the stomach, crackers for the food and lemonade to act as the digestive juices.  It looked “disgusting” according to our little learners!

Kayla liked working in the Area with a group independently.  They completed a comprehension activity called ‘Getting Dressed’.

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was our note-taking lesson.  The children listened to lots of information about different sea creatures and had to make notes.  We heard about penguins, sharks, narwhals and octopuses.

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

We also want to wish Ollie luck as he travels to America next week for the U.S. Kids World Championship Golf competition!  What an achievement!  We, at St John Ogilvie, are all so proud of him and look forward to hearing all about his trip! 🏌️‍♂️🏆🇺🇸

Dear Parents,

Here is an update about this week in P2B.

Anthony – I enjoyed banana tig in PE.

Ksawery – I liked Thursday’s maths, making a big triangle from small ones.

Addison – I like when we got to meet our new teacher, Mrs Broadley.

Cohen – I liked PE because we did some jumping with hula hoops, and tennis.

Ellie-May – We made hopscotch games which were fun.

Amelia and Alex are our new Lead Learners and Ksawery is this week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner!

For a bit of a change P2B had Mr McGurn as their teacher on Friday and the children were excellent at keeping me right.

The pupils impressed me with their Word Boost work and were even able to use these ambitious words in their Free Writing.

I was taught how to play Banana Tig at PE and they all did really well with their 2, 5, and 10 times tables in maths.

Well done P2B,

Mr McGurn.

Pupil Highlights:

Filip: I liked converting analogue into 12 hour time, then 12 hour to 24 hour.

Grant: I liked presenting my persuasive speech because it was fun.

Olivier: I liked learning how to read all the different times on an analogue clock.

Amelia: I liked converting 12 hour into 24 hours time.

Daisy: I liked meeting our new teacher.

Nilaya: I liked making the power point presentation on Recruitment and Conscription in WW1.

Congratulations to Grant for being our hot chocolate winner this week. He presented his persuasive speech with such confidence and added extra information for his cups of tea. Fantastic Work Grant

Hello families

It has been quite an exciting week because we found out who our P4 teacher is going to be! It is going to be Mrs Lea. We are excited to have her next year and we spent some time making origami photo frames.

We had a little assembly that was a surprise for Miss Lawrence (P2 teacher) who gets married this weekend.  When she returns we all need to remember her new name Mrs Wallace.

Maths

This week in maths we have focused on position and movement.  We have been learning about co-ordinates. We used a large grid and items from around the class and put them into the correct position using their grid reference.

We also looked at right angles. A right angle is where two lines meet in a shape, or a corner, that is a certain size. We used right angle finders to go on a right angle hunt around the classroom.

We looked at compass points; North, East, South and West.

Literacy

We looked at deciduous trees, which are trees that have there leaves fall off in Autumn and the leaves grow back in Spring and Summer. We answered some questions about the information we read and we used Ipads to research the names of some deciduous trees. For example: Oak, Cherry blossom and Maple.

Topic

For the last few weeks of the term, we are going to be looking at nature for our topic.

We created our own nature names. We also created our own picture using materials we collected from the woodlands. Some of us also decorated letters that spell out nature for our display.

Pupil Highlight of the Week

Zac – I enjoyed playing new games we have learnt in PE.

Alexa – I enjoyed doing the crafts with Mrs Lea.

Millie – I enjoyed doing the nature art.

Daniel – I liked Free Writing Friday and doing the blog.

Aiden – I liked doing ERIC time.

Mariam – I liked going into the woodlands to collect stuff.

Hello P2A families!

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

Ollie enjoyed handwriting with Mrs Ogunro this week.  We have only one more pattern to complete and then we have finished our P2 handwriting joins!  Very exciting!

Paige loved when we used balloons as part of our ‘oy’ phonics lesson.  Our partner called out an ‘oy’ word that the class composed and wrote on the big white board and we had to sound it out.  When we came to ‘oy’, we had to throw the balloon in the air.  We discovered that we were throwing the balloon mostly at the end of words.

Kyle liked working with a partner to build an array for our ‘Array City’ that then went onto our Maths Working Wall.  Unfortunately, not all of the buildings could fit but the children worked very well carefully placing the ‘windows’ in an organised way to represent the given Times Table.  Kyle and his partner built ‘2×6’.

Eva said the best part of her week was the ‘Ascension Thursday’ service with Fr Simon.  We were delighted to be able to join some other classes in the Hall for the first time in a long time.

Ruari liked PE with Mrs Lafferty.

Pola really loved using the Beebots and making them travel forwards, backwards, left and right’.  The children rotated around 5 different Beebot mats.  Pola’s favourite was the ‘Racing Track’ mat.

Aiden G’s highlight was playing with an app on the class ipad that allowed him to superimpose a picture of his and his friend’s head on a body.

Rebekah shares my highlight too, were the children had to work in pairs to find the missing numbers on a jigsaw piece of a 100 square using the given numbers as clues.  The jigsaw pieces had to then be slotted together to form a big 100 square.  There was a yellow 100 square to be made up and a pink one.  Rebekah was part of the pink one.  Super teamwork everyone!

Congratulations to Zosia, our Hot Chocolate Award winner this week.

Hello Families

Literacy

This week we started a new ebook called ‘The Whole Truth’.  It is about a boy called Armitage and a girl called Marcie, they are twins. Armitage always tells lie, at least that is what Marcie thinks.

We made a plan for our own story using the book ‘ The man who wore all his clothes’ as inspiration. We are making these stories for the new Primary 1s who are starting this August.

Maths & Numeracy

We have continued with our fractions work. This week we have focused on finding halves and quarters of numbers and amounts.  We also started looking a little bit at equivalent fractions.

We have also been measuring the weight of different objects using balance scales.

Topic

We have continued to look at conflicts in the classroom, this week we focused on how to resolve conflicts.

Highlight of the Week

Matteo – I really liked ‘The man who wore all his clothes’ and making our own story.

Amelia – I liked doing PE.

Markuss – I liked Free Writing Friday.

Alexa – I liked dancing outside during Boogie Breaktime.

This week, as part of our Rights Respecting School Award,  Primary 6 explored Article 15 (freedom of association): Every child has the right to meet with other children and to join groups and organisations, as long as this does not stop other people from enjoying their rights. Some children were able to link this right with the Gift of Counsel (making good/bad choices) and how this can impact on their relationships with others.

Due to bad weather this week we have not had the opportunity get outside but we are hoping next week for better weather to allow us to continue weeding and planting.

We have completed our House Captain Speeches (writing and filming) and should be able to share them with the rest of the school soon.

Maths we have been revising our knowledge of how to calculate the perimeter and area of shapes. We hope to take this outside next week and make a map of the outside area.

We have found out who our new little buddies will be and will are excited to meet them over the next few weeks. Some of us will meet them next week.

Next week we have Bikeability on Tuesday and we are looking forward to having a lot of fun.

Have a great weekend.