St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week in math we have been taking part in Maths Week Scotland Sumdog Contest 2022. We practised a range of math skills during this time. P5B had good fun doing math. We continued learning about 3D shape during our outdoor learning on Thursday afternoon.

This week for RRSA – Making Rights Happen: Articles 1, 4 and 41. We discussed how important it was

that every child is supported to get their rights. In Religious Education this week we learned about the Jewish Festival of Rosh Hashannah. As part of our Scottish Wars of independence topic, we researched William Wallace and the Battles of Stirling Bridge and Falkirk. We sketched and painted wonderful portraits of William Wallace. NEXT WEEK we hope to make swords and sheilds like the Scottish Soldiers and want every child to bring a cardboard box e.g. cereal box, to make into a sheild. We have created our shield designs.

Our new lead learners this week are Joy and Saujas. Our Hot chocolate person is Halli.  We hope everyone has a great weekend and we will see our classmates on Monday.

We have had a short, but busy week in Primary 3B!

This week, children have enjoyed playing Banana Tig and learning basketball skills during P.E. In art, we made our own sketches of The Queen, with Paddington Bear and her Corgi.

In Numeracy, we have been counting backwards and forwards in twos and tens; and in Maths we have been reading, writing and showing the time by drawing hands on the clocks.

Children particular enjoyed our house activities this week, which focused on bullying.

During Music, the children have been learning notes with Mrs Morrison and were very enthusiastic!

Furthermore, within our Vikings topic we have researched runes (the alphabet). Children wrote their names in runes and also used these to illustrate Viking shields. Children also engaged in map work, by colouring and labelling the countries to show Viking Settlements and Homelands

As part of our work in Spanish, we revised greetings and responses to how are you and added and you? (Como estas? y tu?).

This week our star tables were Table Uno (1) and Table Cuatro (4), both earning 11 marballs each! Well done!

Finally, I would like to congratulate Kacper this week on winning The Hot Chocolate Award! Kacper always gives his best and displays wonderful manners!

Mrs Broadley x

Hello P2B families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week (however short) from the Blue Table:

Blair said the highlight of his week was when we went into the nursery garden with our whiteboards and markers and made tally marks when we saw any blue and red cars travel past our school.  We listened to a story called ‘Tally O’Malley’ and wanted to make tally marks like the characters in the story.  So just like them, we did this when we spotted red and blue cars.  Some children were the blue team and some the red team.  Ask your child which colour of car did we see the most!

Karina also loved our learning about tally marks only she has picked when we surveyed the class to find out their favourite food.

Ressa liked our House Group activity on Friday.  The whole school met in House Groups to complete activities surrounding the topic of bullying.  It was so exciting to be with other fellow House members and go into different classrooms around the school (unless you were St Margaret’s as that was Mrs Devlin’s House).

Sofia was so excited to recount that the best part of her week was being a Star Writer!  This week we wrote about our favourite toy as we compared them to toys that our grandparents may have played with.  Sofia met the success criteria of writing what was her favourite toy, what it looked like and how it felt.  She also wrote a further sentence about when she plays with it.  Impressive!

Lilly said her best part of the week was PE where she played Ninja Tig!

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was our writing lesson as mentioned above. Everyone worked very hard to meet the success criteria and there was a lot of detail in the pictures of their toys too!  Well done P2B!

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

I hope you all continue to have a great weekend and hope you can make our ‘Sharing the Learning’ event on Wednesday, an opportunity to view your child’s work so far this year and talk to them about the learning that was taking place.  Just a reminder that the two time slots are 2-3pm or 6-7pm.

This week we have been learning the ‘k’ sound. We made our own kites but it was too wet to fly them so we are looking forward to doing this on Monday.  We also wrote a sentence about what we can do and we tried our best to write the sounds we could hear.

In maths, we have been learning about shapes. We played a game where we had to feed the shape monsters the correct shape.

We have been learning about our sense of sight this week and we made our very own glasses. Do you know that our eyes see things upside down and our brain turns it the correct way?  We have set up an Opticians in our classroom and we have enjoyed wearing the glasses.

We also had a chance to learn with our friends in P1B and got a chance to visit their classroom. We spent some time with them in the Woodland where we were exploring the area and then we looked for shapes in the clouds.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Vedansh – I enjoyed playing with the glasses.

Connor – I liked being the Lead Learner this week.

Alexander – I liked making the glasses.

Darragh – I liked playing with the Numberblocks.

Tiya – I enjoyed playing with my friends.

Miss Stebbing

I was very proud of everyone for trying to write the words in their sentences. I also enjoyed spending time in the Woodland and sampling some chocolate ice cream made in our mud kitchen.

Congratulations to Lillian who is our Hot Choc winner this week.

We’ve had a lovely week!

Olivier, Aoife and David enjoyed our discussions about germs and our germ science experiment! Everyone seemed to enjoy this (even the ones who were freaking out and washing their hands every 2 minutes – this includes Miss Elliot).

Sam, Joshua and Patrick loved coding with Micro:Bit! The full class got very creative and showcased their passion and interest in technology!

Myles, Nilaya and Josh enjoyed our work on smilies, nouns and adjectives whilst writing narratives this week!

We’ve had many interesting discussions this week, including bullying and learning!

Over and Above: Patrick! Well done, you’ve truly been amazing this week, showing curiosity to discover new ideas and ways of thinking and demonstrated great leadership skills!

here are some photos of our week!

Dear families of P5A,

We have had yet another wonderful (and very short) week!

When we arrived back on Wednesday morning, the class took on the challenge of writing a procedure to tell others how to play their favourite game. We had lots of fun explaining and reminding each other of the steps and rules of our favourite games and some pupils even designed their own new games! We also discussed what we mean by ‘bossy’ words and how these can be helpful when writing the steps of a procedure.

After break we had numeracy where we were using our knowledge of rounding to help us estimate an approximate answer to a problem. To begin our thinking around this, Miss Ventisei placed tape all over the classroom and tables and we held a mini competition to see who could correctly estimate the approximate length of each piece of tape. After we had all estimated, the rulers were brought out to check for the final answers! Aarya’s group were closest in their estimations- well done!  Following this, we started to estimate the approximate amount of miles between Livingston and Edinburgh; this catalysed a lot of interesting discussions and questions! We then worked in partners to estimate an approximate distance between lots of different towns and cities shown on a map and used the iPads to find the actual distance.

On Wednesday afternoon we continued our science topic of Space. We really enjoyed watching a ‘Day in the life of an astronaut’ video and researching all of the different types of jobs that are involved in Space exploration. One member of our class even asked if we could go to a University on a school trip to learn all about space medicine and law!

Thursday was another busy day! We started our day with learning about and practicing the skill of clarifying in literacy. The class helped Miss Ventisei clarify a few things in the class novel that she was unsure of and then practiced their new skill with their own ERIC book. We continued to use our knowledge of rounding to estimate the answers to problems throughout numeracy and particularly enjoyed estimating how many cheerios were in a bag! Once we had decided upon a rough estimate, we had to work collaboratively to count them all. This was a little bit challenging because there were lots and lots of individual cheerios and we knew it would take too long to count them all in ones! We decided to count them in either 10s or 100s and this worked a lot better for us. We then worked out how far away our estimates were and rounded our answers to the nearest 10 and 100 to give an approximate answer.

After lunch, we had health and wellbeing where we were focusing on our SHANARRI indicators of Safe, Healthy and Responsible. We had a really open and mature discussion about our emotions, particularly when we get angry, and how we deal with these big feelings safely and responsibly. We spoke about ways of calming ourselves in stressful situations and what we can do to make ourselves and others around us feel better after an emotional outburst.

Our focus for outdoor learning this week was leaf and tree identification! We headed outdoors with our iPads to take some pictures of all of the different types of leaves in the school grounds-some pupils managed to take some fantastic quality pictures! We then used a key to identify the specific type of leaves we had found and looked closer at the shape and unique features of each individual leaf! We started to create some fantastic posters to show others the types of leaves around our school and will finish these next week.

On Friday we had our first ever House group meeting! We were all so excited to go to a different class and meet all of the other children in our house. In our house meetings we discussed and shared various different types and meanings of bullying, what happens in our school if this happens and why bullying might occur.

All in all, we have had a super successful week! Our Hot Chocolate winner this week was Akshaj who consistently demonstrated our school values of Ready, Respectful and Safe- congratulations Akshaj! Our lead learners this week were Ayden and Ashlyn; they both worked extremely hard this week and pushed themselves to be their very best, well done!

It’s been a short but busy week in P2a!

We have been learning about what life was like in our Grandparents day.  Our focus this week was toys and we discovering what toys were like in the past and how they have changed over the years. The children were fascinated to learn that some of the toys they play with now would have been around when their grandparents were young.

In maths, we read a story about Tally O’Malley who plays a tally mark game with her family.  We went out into the woodlands and practised using tally marks to record how many of different items we could find.  We have also been practising counting  in 5’s as this really helps us to count the tally marks!

In literacy we were focusing on the ‘sh’ and ‘th’ sounds.  We also wrote about our favourite toy in our writing lesson.

The children have been enjoying lots of play activities and have been discovering and creating lots of new things!

Today was a special day because it was the first time since the beginning of the pandemic that we got to work with our house groups.  This was very exciting for the children because they got to go to another classroom in the school and work with other children from different classes.

Here are a few of the children’s highlights for the week:

Linda – I loved learning about toys from the past.

Caleb – I liked drawing what I think I will look like when I am a grandad.

Aadya – I liked writing about my grandma.

Rory – I liked counting using tally marks.

Jiade – I loved working in my house group.

Here are a few photographs from the past few weeks:

Dear Parents,

These last two half weeks were filled with many activities such as building bridges using spaghetti and hot glue, finding conkers and much more. We are learning netball with Miss Lafferty.

On Monday we did our Steven brown art which many of our class mates enjoyed. Lily did a giraffe which was very pretty. During that some people did designs for the class worry box.

On Tuesday we we are learned French conversations Zahra and Ruqqayah did a fabulous job. After that we did some research on 1970’s Scotland. Then we did Number Talks which Rhys was the champion for this time.

On Wednesday we wrote information reports about Life in 70s Scotland using our notes. Aside from some tech issues we mostly managed to complete them and get a print out.

On Thursday we built spaghetti towers in Technology and John’s group won the prize for tallest tower.

On Friday we had House groups for the first time in a long time and we worked on an anti-bullying activity to share our views.

Tanvi, and her assistants Alessio and Lily, have been watching out for who has been following our school rules and have picked:

Ready – Danyal

Respectful – Bettina

Safe – Junaid

who win a prize from the Prize Box.

Some P7A pupils have shared their thoughts on their latest learning:

Lewis “I enjoyed PE because I have learned how to play Netball.”

Nellie “I enjoyed outdoor learning because it was fun and exciting.”

Millan “I enjoyed Fun Friday playing basketball. In technology I learned triangles make things strong.”

Our Hot Chocolate at Home winner this week was…

Katie. Congratulations! She will be taking over the role of Lead Learner next week.

Have a Great Weekend,
Tanvi, Alessio, Lily, Mr McGurn and P7A

We have had a very busy but very short week in Primary 4b!

We have continued learning hockey in PE.  We played a match and some of us improved our goal skills.

Today, we went to different classes and met up in our house groups.  We were talking about bullying to keep everybody safe.

In maths, we continued with our rounding work.  We found rounding to the nearest 100 a bit more complicated but we persevered and we got there in the end!  We are now really confident at rounding to the nearest 10 and 100.

In literacy, we looked at the structure of procedures.  We know they are made up of a title, goal, materials and steps.  We also learned about nouns and adjectives and Mrs Brown was very impressed with how quickly and confidently we found nouns and adjectives in the example procedure text.  We also drew some cute hedgehogs to go with our Hedgehog stories from last week in writing.  We used our active listening skills to follow instructions really carefully and then we added in our own ideas at the end if we wanted to.

Some highlights from this week:

Leah: I enjoyed highlighting nouns and adjectives in literacy.

Jonah, Markuss and Zac (… and everybody!): I enjoyed doing hockey.  Zac is very p

roud of himself for scoring.

Aiden: I enjoyed drawing the hedgehogs and learning about nouns and adjectives.

Ishani S: I liked learning about rounding.

Ishani M: I enjoyed our reading comprehension (How to catch a star).

Mrs Lafferty announced that we have a hockey festival on Thursday of next week.  Jude in particular is very excited about this!

We got a special book about Queen Elizabeth yesterday and it tells us about some of the things that happened during her time on the throne. Also, we have got special card design forms to make cards for Christmas or other special occasions. We have to bring them back by Thursday.  Reading books also need to be back by next Thursday please.  We also need to remember to do our homework please!

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Mariam for her brilliantly helpful attitude and class, for being a great friend and for always trying her hardest.  Well done!

Have a lovely weekend everybody!

Mrs Brown

After 2 days of rest this week we have worked hard. We have been learning about clocks and telling the time. We also have played hockey in PE. We practised how to play a proper hockey game. So we have only used one ball.

In music we have been learning about semi quaver, crochet, dotted crochet and we sang some songs together.

In RE we learned about the new commandment from Jesus. To love one another as I have loved you.

Today we went to other classes in the school for House Groups. we talked about types of bullying and bullies and what to do if we are bullied.

We went for a 10 min run/walk with P7 on Wednesday. We got a special book about Queen Elizabeth and some of the things that happened during her time as Queen. Also we have got special card design forms to make cards for Christmas or other special occasions. We have to bring them back by Thursday.

Next week we are going to try to learn how to crochet. Mrs Ross has showed us.  Next week we are going to a hockey festival.