St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P2A families!

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

Olivier enjoyed the lesson about the Angel Gabriel visiting Mary with the message that she would have a son, Jesus, the son of God.

David S loved our St Andrew’s Day celebrations, especially drinking Irn Bru and eating shortbread.  Thank you Mrs McKissack and Mrs McLaughlin for this lovely treat!

Julia said the best part of the week was today, Crazy Hair Day!  We noticed that Julia’s hair was symmetrical with all her lovely, bright hair bobbles.  We had been learning about symmetry with Mrs Brand this week!

Joe also loved eating shortbread.

David K liked making paper trees today for our window display.  The children completed instructional drawings for the trees and robins.  Be sure to have a look at our lovely Christmas themed window display when you are next in the playground.

Chiji liked listening to the story ‘My Big Shouting Day’ when the class explored the feeling of anger and how to self-regulate to calm their body down.  Chiji said he liked the strategy of getting a hug to help him feel better.

Zosia enjoyed the maths lessons this week where the children were learning to read and write number words up to 100.

My highlight has been watching the children become more independent in the Nativity rehearsals.  Most know their stage directions without prompt and the singing is beautiful!  We are very excited to have our dress rehearsal on Tuesday and filming will take place on Friday.

We have had another busy week in P1B.  This week we looked at the sounds h and u.  We practised how to say the sounds and identified words that have these sounds in them.  We also worked really hard on the letter sound formations.

In Numeracy and Maths we have continued working on our counting and adding and taking away.  We also introduced money.  The boys and girls are learning to identify the different coins up to £2 and also order them from smallest to largest amount.

We had a great St Andrew’s Day celebration we made our own Scottish flags and designed our own tartan.  We learned about St Andrew and how he gave up his job as a fisherman to follow Jesus.  We were very excited to get to taste Shortbread and Irn-bru.

We have been very excited to open our class Advent Calendar and learn about what Advent actually means. We made our own class Advent Wreath using our handprints.  We all have an Advent Bookle that we are working on in class to help us prepare for Christmas.  The countdown to Christmas has well and truly begun.

Our Nativity practises are going very well and we look forward to preforming next week.

Today we were very lucky to get to go into the hall with Father Simon for the Blessing of our school crib.  We even sang a song for all the boys and girls to hear.

Some of our learning highlights:

Lilly “I liked practising for the Nativity”

Amariah Grace “I liked learning my new sounds”

Blair “I liked Choosing Time”

Lewis “I liked making pictures for the windows”

Congratulations to Maja who was our Hot Chocolate winner.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we look forward to another very busy week ahead.

P1B Mrs Russell and Mrs Meikle

Numeracy

This week in numeracy we worked on multiplying decimals and finding patterns in multiples.

Literacy

This week in literacy we learned how to summarise what we are reading. We are currently learning how to write a discussion and reviewing different the forms this text can take.

HWB

This week in HWB we looked at staying safe online. We are learning about how to keep ourselves and our homes safe.

Rights focus this week:

This week’s rights focus was on children with disabilities.

Class Highlights:

Sara: “I enjoyed going to watch the blessing of the crib”.

Hesham: “I enjoyed finding different patterns when looking at multiples and learning about number’s digital sum and digital roots”.

Lucy: “I enjoyed holding the Second Advent service”.

Xander: “It was fun when a teacher from the high school took us for a science lesson”.

A huge congratulations to our shining star and hot chocolate winner:

Abdullah

Mr Pentland and the class agree that you should be proud of yourself for shining bright this week.

Have a great weekend,

Mr Pentland & P7B

This week was the beginning of our Advent Season and this morning joined an assembly on Teams to celebrate the blessing of the crib by Father Simon. We have been busy developing and evidencing our knowledge for the Pope Francis Faith Award and are beginning to create a large wall display outside the classroom which all P6 and P7 pupils will contribute to over the coming months. We have also been busy decorating our classroom window with candles and a scene from Bethlehem. We finished our Climate Change artwork and it is now on display around the classroom. We are still working on our Climate Activist research which we hope to finish next week.

In our writing lessons this week and last week we explored the pros and cons for oil drilling and whether zoos should be banned. We are starting to think more deeply about the world around us. This week we have explored fractions but we also investigated the properties of 2D shapes by measuring their angles with protractors and how many different lines of symmetry each shape has.

In our Spanish lesson we working together to play Spanish Bingo to develop our vocabulary.

It’s been another very busy week. Have a peaceful weekend.

Dear parents,

This week we have been very busy working together and having lots of fun.

St Andrew’s day: We enjoyed watching a fantastic assembly on teams performed by the Primary 7’s about St Andrew’s day and even got to have some Irn-bru and shortbread.  Here’s some of our St Andrew’s day art:

Rights of the child: We have been learning about article 2 and 23 this week which helps us understand how to support people with disabilities and what the government must put in place to make their lives better to help them to be treated fairly.

Blessing of the crib: At the end of the week we got to watch Father Simon blessing the crib on teams.

Tanya: I feel we are doing well with fractions and understanding the difference between improper fractions and mixed numbers.

Kieran: I have enjoyed working on my times tables and doing division.

Alex: I have enjoyed learning about earth heroes and how they can inspire us to save the planet.

Hannah: I liked creating sways about what we have been learning in term 2 and even set ourselves some targets to achieve.

Rebecca: I have enjoyed helping to create our Christmas window display.

Connor: I enjoyed working with Mrs McLaughlin to create an advent calendar with lots of kind ideas inside.

Over and above: Well done to Julia this week for always being ready, respectful and safe!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

This week we have been working hard to decorate our windows with our chosen Christmas theme.   Our windows are the scene from “Twas The Night Before Christmas”  It has been great fun cutting, sticking, colouring, painting and making a mess and tidying it up afterwards!   Liliana says “it was super fun making Santa for our window”

Farrah enjoyed describing our robots using adjectives and nouns to describe the characteristics of the robot.

Emily liked learning colours in Spanish and coloured in paint splats for homework!

“In spelling, we were learning about soft g and hard g” by Francesca

“we were using our addition and subtraction to play maths games” by Vijval

“It has been exciting to begin opening our advent calendars in class and count down to Christmas” by Aarya

Jacob is really enjoying our handwriting and says “he is getting really good at it”

Next week – we are really looking forward to PJ day 😊

We made snowmen for our window display and we have put up our Advent wreath that we made using our handprints.

On Monday a special teddy called Fuzzy came to our class with a special challenge.  We had to work together to make a jigsaw puzzle.  Our new topic is all about Toys and there were pictures of toys on the puzzle.  For writing we wrote sentences about Fuzzy using our describing bubble.

In maths we have been learning about money.  We had to put the coins in order, we sorted coins out into the right cups and we had to pay for ice lollies using the right coins.

We have been practising for our Nativity.  We are very good at remembering when to stand up, dance and say our lines.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Caleb – I enjoyed playing with the transformers.

Hasika – I enjoyed drawing pictures in creative zone.

Chimamanda – I enjoyed playing in the ice cream shop.

Jack – I liked playing tig outside.

Vivien – I enjoyed colouring in at creative zone.

Rory – I liked playing with the transformers.

Aadya – I liked drawing and colouring in at creative zone.

I am very proud of everyone’s writing this week.  They all managed to write a sentence about our teddy and used the descriptive bubble to help them.  It is great to see everyone trying to use their sounds to write words and most people remembered their full stops.

Have a lovely weekend!

Miss Stebbing

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Pupil Highlights –

Joshua D: ‘ I liked learning about decimal points and knowing when we move our numbers to the left or to the right.’

Aoife: ‘ I liked making our window display – we had to draw a sleigh and write ‘ Dear Santa, I would like….’ But we had to choose three things we would want to change in the world. ‘

Filip: ‘ I liked searching Bear Scotland on the ipads with Mr Pentland and making an information report.’

Josh N: ‘ I liked reading the differences between life in Rwanda and life in the UK.’

Olivier:  ‘ I liked reading our class novel ‘ Christophe’s Story’

Sylvia: ‘ I liked making my hair crazy for crazy hair day.’

Miss Smith’s highlights:

I have been really impressed with the high quality discussion we have had when identifying the arguments for, and, arguments against these issues:

‘Is Takeaway a Good Food Option?’         ‘Should Children be Allowed to Own a Pet?’

‘Should Children Be Allowed to Wear What they Want?’

We can now all explain what an Opening Statement of a Discussion text has to include:

There are many arguments for and against whether….

Some believe that…….

However, some believe that ….. 

• we need to include the word because to explain the most important reasons for the arguments for, and, the arguments against