St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been learning all about the ‘m’ sound. We have been making ‘m’ using marshmallows and writing it in our jotters.  We also had a game where we had to feed the monkey pictures of items that started with ‘m’.  In writing, we learned to write the word ‘I’ and we wrote a sentence about what we loved.

In maths, we have been learning to write the numbers 4 and 5. We made 5 using the loose parts in the classroom, it was great fun!  We have also started to learn about identifying numbers before and after. We got to use the fly swat to hit the correct numbers.

This week we made our own friendship soup.  We got to put the different ingredients that we knew made a good friend. These included being kind, helping others, sharing and telling an adult if something happened to our friends. We also read the story of A Little Spot of Love and drew pictures on a big heart to show how we can grow a love spot.

We have started to use Seesaw in class to show our learning and we learned how to log in on the iPads. We know it is important to sign out when we are finished.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Harald – I liked playing with the trains.

Olga – I liked drawing outside.

Lillian – I liked doing my ‘m’ sound.

Aarav – I liked building houses with the straws.

Vasilisa – I liked drawing.

Vedansh – I liked playing with the Numberblocks.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed by all the great writing this week and how everyone tried their best to write ‘I’ and the letter ‘m’.  I also enjoyed being served lots of different food and smoothies during Choosing Our Own Learning time!

Well done to this week’s hot chocolate winner who is Tiya.

Another week over! We are having a lot of fun!

Joshua liked numeracy this week, working with numbers to 100,000!

Olivier enjoyed the collaborative art activity this week where the children had to work as a team to create something great!

Amelia liked creating and using the zones of regulation check-in this week!

Aoife liked the new ideas we had for our classroom and the change of layout to create our ‘resource resort’. A place for collaboration, challenge and innovation.

Josh liked learning about the 6 thinking hats, the brain and metacognition.

Hot chocolate at home: Emily! Well done, you really did go above and beyond this week in everything you did.

See below for some photo highlights and our term 1 overview.

Have a lovely weekend, see you on Monday!

Mr Pentland

Forward Plan overview p6

Hello P2B families!

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

Aaron said that the best part of his week was hearing the Word Boost story ‘Goat, Donkey and the Noise Downstairs’.  He liked learning about the meaning of ‘fierce’ and ‘dash’.

Emily-Ann loved our shape lesson and enjoyed building shapes using connecting straws.

Amy liked drawing on the smartboard during ‘Choosing our own learning’ time.

Georgia Rose said her highlight was PE with Mrs Lafferty where they played Musical Statues.

Ciara also recounts the shape lesson as her favourite.

Mrs Devlin’s highlight was our RE lesson about home time prayer when we say to God, “Thank you for my family and all the friends you give me to me”.   We drew our family last week and this week we drew our friends and what we enjoy playing with them.

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

I hope you all have a great weekend!

Here is a brief overview of our learning for Term 1:

Dear parents and carers,

This is our Term 1 overview for your information.

Mrs Valente😊

Forward Plan overview Term 1 P3A

Dear Readers,

We hope you have had a wonderful week!

In Primary 3A we have been very busy with our learning and here are the highlights for this week:

– We have worked on our first spelling words, learned how to do Read, Cover, Write and Check, how to do Rainbow Writing and even how to make our own Spelling Wordsearches!

– We have worked with concrete materials to continue developing our understanding on Units, Tens and Hundreds and have started Partitioning numbers into their different parts.

– We have learned the meaning of the words from the Hail Mary and started singing it, together with the Our Father. At the end we even managed to complete the prayer with the missing words!

-We have been very proud of all the boys and girls who have been bringing their acts of kindness to stick to our kindness wall! It’s starting to look amazing!

-We have learned and discussed the meaning of being Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included, after which we have started to complete our Health and Wellbeing check- ins for the First term.

– Today, we have also had our first weekly spelling assessment and the scores were very,  very good, something that made Mrs Valente very proud!👍👍👍😊

-We would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate winner of the week, Eva, and thank her for being such an inspiration to all by setting an amazing example of behaviour, hard work and happiness! 🥇💗Well done, Eva! Keep it up!🥳

– As every fortnight we count our kindness notes, next Friday we will find out who our new kindness champions are! Can’t wait!😉

We wish you an amazing time over the weekend!

Love from P3A and Mrs Valente😃🏞

Hello families of P5A!

We have had another busy and fun week in Primary 5! Our Hot Chocolate Friday winner was Carina who was extremely hardworking, helpful and kind to all of her classmates- well done! This week we have been working hard on partitioning larger numbers in numeracy and procedural writing in literacy. We also continued with our class topic of ‘Scottish Wars of Independence’, as we learned all about the life of King Alexander III of Scotland and filmed our very own ‘P5 Newsround’ to share our knowledge. Our focus for R.E. this week was centred around The Confiteor prayer and we all contributed towards a ‘prayer wall’ to help us remember this in the future.

Here are some of our class favourite moments of the week!

Emili: “I enjoyed art this week!”

Akshaj & Jacob: “I liked using the iPads to create posters in I.C.T”

Olivia: “My favourite part of this week was Daily Mile!”

Here are some pictures of Miss Ventisei’s favourite moments this week!

Have a lovely weekend and see you on Monday P5A!

Hello P6B families,

We have had another fantastic and busy week. We have continued to follow our class charter rules (Ready, Respectful and Safe) and shown what Awesome Ogilvie’s we truly are in all our learning this week. This week, Niamh received Hot Chocolate at Home for being incredibly helpful and respectful – well done Niamh!

Some learning highlights from 6B:

• Alex – enjoyed recapping how to divide and multiply by 10, 100 and 1000 and then solving these types of question in Number Talks.

• Vivien – liked working through the “Fluent in 5” maths challenges and beating my time!

• Naman – liked learning about the different ways we learn and discussing the ‘Thinking Hats’ to help us understand what happens in the brain when we learn new things!

• Jayden – enjoyed developing basketball skills in PE with Mrs Lafferty.

Here are some photo highlights from the week – including creating a class display of the Thinking Hats (the way we think and understand to help us learn new things) and an art activity where we had to work and communicate effectively as a team to bring together a picture – : Have a wonderful weekend everyone and see you on Monday!

Miss MacGregor

Hi Primary 4B families.

We have had a very busy week this week.  We have continued with place value work and have been working hard with adding 1, 10 and 100 to numbers, including when finding the missing numbers to complete a sequence.  We will be moving on to rounding numbers soon.  We have continued to work on our punctuation in literacy and English, and we have improved our editing skills so that we are becoming more confident at going back and checking our capital letters and full stops, as well as our question marks, commas and exclamation marks.  We have also been learning about the Bible this week in RE, and we continued to deepen our knowledge and understanding through some focused reading comprehension.  We are also learning about the SHANARRI indicators and have shown our understanding of these through some lovely drawings for our display. We also started reading Buddy Bots and we discussed what makes a good buddy, for examples someone who is kind, caring, grateful and generous.

Some pupil comments from this week:

Alexa- I liked learning about The Bible.

Millie, Daniel M and Markuss- I liked doing Free Writing.

Jonah, Jude and Mariam- I liked doing hockey.

Shelby- I liked doing 10x tables.

Ishani M- I liked doing English and comprehension.

The hot chocolate winner this week was Markuss for always trying his hardest with his learning and for also being very kind and helpful in the classroom.

Next week we will be finding out how to get on TEAMS through GLOW so we can do some homework. We will also start bringing a book home to share. This needs to be returned on Thursday!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Brown

Dear Parents,

A busy week of learning and P7A are now well and truly back into the swing of things.

We continue to read our class novel ‘Millions and this week used Chapter 4 to complete a comprehension task in Literacy.

For writing we are working on information texts and have begun writing a piece about Rattlesnakes which we will complete next week before we then use the netbooks to edit and redraft them to have a fully complete piece of writing.

In Numeracy and Maths we have been working on Word Problems involving Number and Time. Homework is to spend 20-30 minutes using IXL to complete the Diagnostic Assessment and targeted outcomes which this week were on Place Value.

In HWB we used a fantastic new resource we have available in the school called Treehouse. The Subject was Buddy or Bully and it generated a lot of good discussion and offered strategies for coping with bullying and how to see how much we all have in common.

In outdoor learning we worked on tidying up the woodland area, clearing a path at the top of the woods so the infants have better access and cutting back a Holly bush which has been getting out of control. We had a shot of using different gardening tools, under supervision, and have made great progress at enhancing the woodland area.

Our Scotland through the decades topic focussed on the 1940s and we expanded our notes and will use them next week to create PowerPoints that we can present to the class.

On Friday we used apples from Mrs Meikle’s garden to make apple crumble which most of us really enjoyed though it wasn’t everyone’s cup of tea.

Only one quote this week as we were too busy eating apple crumble:

Tanvi said, “I loved when we did drama because it was fun.”

Our Hot Chocolate Winner last week was Lily who has been our Lead Learner this week, and who has taken our photos of lessons.

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner, and new Lead Learner is…..

Declan! Well done on being a great example of someone who is always ready, respectful and Safe.

Forward Plan overview Term 1 p7 (1)

Here are some of the highlights which P7 will be covering in the term ahead.

Have a Great Weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A.