St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3A families,

It has been so great to see the children after the Easter holidays and everyone settled back in quite quickly.  Here are this week’s highlights from the Yellow table:

Ollie enjoyed our learning about Spring.  The children looked at some images online of animals feeding their young.  We also learned about breastfeeding as a healthy choice for babies.  We recalled Mrs Lafferty’s visit with her new baby before the Easter holidays when she spoke to us about how to take care of a baby.

Hasika loved planting seeds.  The children planted nasturtium seeds 2cms deep and have been tending to them all week.  They know that plants need water, sunlight, soil and air to grow.  They are looking forward to taking these flowers home and tasting these edible petals!

Laura  said the best part of her week was PE.  We linked or maths learning about ‘clockwise’ and ‘anticlockwise’  with a ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’ game.  The children had to run in the given direction.

Zion liked our lesson on angles.  The children went on a hunt for angles that were bigger or smaller than a right angle.  We met Mrs Right who always wears a square necklace with 4 right angles.

Olivia’s highlight was joined up handwriting of the letters ‘ve’.  We made a list of words that have those 2 letters together and discovered that there are quiet a lot of them such as ‘have, gave, live, vegan, cave…’

Diana loved rounders.  The children are super at working together to run around the cones and a couple have managed a home run!  They are improving with their throwing, catching and batting skills.

Hafsah said a learning highlight of hers was completing an instructional drawing of a bunch of flowers with Mrs Brand.

Tvisha was excited to share that a maths lesson about fractions was the best part of her week.  The children cut a piece of bread in to four equal parts and then halved them again to make eighths.  They had a choice of spreads for their bread.

My highlight was the maths lesson about left and right (we had lots of directional learning this week).  Some children were blindfolded and were given directions that had them travelling around the room.  Many children were already confident with this learning as we use our right hand to bless ourselves during prayers.

Congratulations to Riley, our hot chocolate award winner this week and Alicaj our reading champion!

Lead Learners were Ethan and Haskia.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

Hasika – “I also liked the raspberry jam on the bread when we were learning about fractions.”

Ethan – “ I loved GoNoodle.  I can’t pick my best song.  I liked them all.”

This week we had a trial of moving seats for the term ahead.  At the end of the week after careful deliberation, I have decided that going forward, we will have ‘Move it Mondays’ instead and the remainder of the week we will stay in our old seats.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Parents,

Here’s a quick update of our learning as we start our final term at St. John Ogilvie PS!

In PE we have started fitness and athletics which will run for this term. On Monday we completed a Bleep Test and we will do that every few weeks to measure and hopefully see progress in our stamina levels. On Wednesday we worked on Running for Athletics, with a few games and them some relays.

We are writing Narratives at the moment so on Wednesday we wrote our own imaginative stories though we had some story starters if we needed an idea to get us started. Next week we will be writing about UFOs so on Friday, for Outdoor Learning, we took a walk to the UFO landing site up at Dechmont.

For maths we have now finished our work on long division and started a new approach to Problem Solving where we worked in trios to solve the problems. We worked on graphing tied to our Topic creating line graphs for temperatures in Edinburgh and The Amazon.

In RME the Confirmands have continued on their journey towards their Confirmation and on Friday we had our weekly prayer service based on Philippians 4:4.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 7

This week’s winner of Hot Chocolate at Home for going Over and Above was Inaya, though she doesn’t know yet as we were a little late getting back from Dechmont – she’ll get her prize on Monday.

Good Afternoon,

It’s been great to have the children back in the classroom after the Easter holidays.  They have been working very hard and have shown lots of enthusiasm for learning.

The children have started learning the times tables in maths, and we are very impressed with how well the children are getting on.  If you get a chance to work on these at home, that would be very helpful.  We will be focusing on the 2, 5 and 10 times tables to begin with.

In health and wellbeing, we have been discussing the importance of getting enough sleep and how this impacts our body and mind.

Highlights of the Week:

Azmeer – I liked learning the times tables.

Cameron – I loved free writing Friday.  I wrote about Fortnite.

Owen – I enjoyed learning about sleep and why it is important that we get enough sleep.

Lillian – I liked writing an information report about my family.

Summer-Rose – I liked learning new sounds. 

Huge congratulation to our hot chocolate Friday winner this week, Zaroon!   He always works very hard and is a kind and helpful boy!  We are very proud of you Zaroon!

We were delighted to welcome two new pupils in to our class, David and Tudor.  The children have been very welcoming to our new starts, and they have settled in very well.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mrs Craig and Mrs Brand

Dear parents,

P.E: We have been working on our fitness during our athletics lessons. On Wednesday we took part in the beep test and achieved a range of different levels. Mrs Roy was very impressed as we all pushed ourselves to keep going. Over the next few weeks we will be working on a range of different skills within athletics such as running, jumping and throwing.

Literacy: In writing we have been planning and writing our recounts about school camp or a past experience that we could remember and describe well. We have successfully planned our structure to include orientation and the sequence of events in a chronological order.

Maths: This week we have been working on co-ordinates and have a clear understanding of the x and y axis within 4 quadrants.

R.E: We have been preparing for the sacrament of Confirmation and learning about other world religions.

Art: We used a range of resources to draw a realistic toucan as part of our rainforest topic.

IDL: We have researched different aspects of the rainforest and created posters to display what we have been learning about.

Hot chocolate winner: Well done to Sophie-Leigh for working extremely hard this week!

Have a fantastic weekend, from Mrs Roy and P7B.

We were delighted to be the class who got to choose the music in the MUGA at break today. We were the tidiest and most well behaved class in the lunch hall this week.

We are excited to welcome a new person to our class on Monday. Sadly we found out a class mate has moved to a new school. We hope she makes lots of new friends and is very happy.

In numeracy we have been looking at fractions and decimals. For PE we are learning summer games and we are doing activity stations.

We are learning about different wood types and what wood is suitable for different purposes. This is so we can decide what wood we would use in our Eco school models.  We are now planning our presentations and practising what we want to say.

P3A have had an eventful Easter themed week with many RE lessons about Holy Week.  I hope the photographs below help to share some of the learning experiences the children had this week.

The highlight of our week was our fundraiser to conclude our learning about ‘Conservation of Wildlife’.  The children had previously voted for adopting a hawksbill turtle, one of the endangered animals they learned about this term.   The children sorted their coins and placed them on the corresponding turtle picture.  Through discussion, we decided to group the 1ps, 2ps and 5ps into tens to make it easier to find the total.  Thank you to our fantastic P7 helpers who supported the children to count the coins.  We made a whooping £39.07!  We look forward to our cuddly toy, certificate and updates throughout the year on the valuable work of the WWF, made possible through schemes such as adopting an animal.  We are glad to play a small part in taking care of God’s creatures.  We also know that being responsible citizens by recycling our rubbish and reusing paper can contribute to less plastic in the oceans and less trees (animal habitats) being cut down.  These small actions can help conserve our wildlife too.

I hope you all have a lovely Easter holiday.  I cannot believe we are going to be entering into our final term upon our return!

Mrs Brown

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