St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

This week we have had a range of learning in maths, looking at integers, angles, time and graphing weather as part of our IDL on Japan.

We had a big focus on HWB Mental Health as it was Mental Health Awareness week and P7 had to supply the display in the hall.

Our confirmation group continue our progress to becoming full members of the church soon by looking at the fruits of the Holy Spirit whilst in other RME lessons we have learned hymns and prayers to Mary in the Month of May.

Writing has been transitional writing for our Yearbook and we are doing the best we can with current IT restrictions. reading has been Non-fiction based.

We continue to work towards the Woodlands Trust Schools Platinum Award and on Thursday we were in Deans Wood, creating interesting trails to lead others around. (There are photos but the iPad says they are too large, even a collage)

Max was our Hot Chocolate at home winner this week.

Have a great long weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A

Hi to all Primary 3 families this week. I hope you have had a lovely week and have been enjoying the sun.

This week in our class we have been having a common word focus in literacy. We have been doing lots of reading and writing. We wrote steps on how to make a jam sandwich this week and I followed them quite literally and this helped the children understand that their instructions had to be more concise and clear. We redrafted our writing to make it perfect.

In numeracy this week we have been focussing on division using the formal written method. All of the children have grasped the concept brilliantly and did great at their whiteboard and jotter work. We will be moving on to doing measurement next week as our last few beyond number slots have unfortunately been disrupted!

We learned that our new topic is going to be space and we did a short introductory lesson on it. The children had lots of great and insightful questions and this allowed for a great conversation and gave everyone the chance to share any knowledge they already have on space. The children already knew so much including the names of the planets and their order. I drew the orbit of each planet on the board and we talked about how long it takes for each planet to do one full orbit of the sun. We learned a mnemonic to help us remember the order of the planets from the closest to the furthest away from the sun. We then used our dictionary skills to look up the definitions of some space themed words.

For our health and well-being this week, we finished up our ‘farm to fork’ unit and had the chance to think about things that make us happy. We drew things that make us happy on the ground outside with some chalk.

We learned about May and that this is an important month for Mary. We discussed why May is dedicated to her and we learned how to say a decade of the rosary. The children used their rosary beads to help them to pray the decade of the rosary.

On Wednesday we went to the woods at the back of the school to litter pick. Every class in the school took a turn and had a designated area to help clean up the local community! Primary 3 did an awesome job and the woods and path looked much better after we were finished.

Well done to this weeks hot chocolate and special table winners!

I hope you all have a wonderful long weekend and the sun keeps shining for everyone!

Miss Duddy

A very exciting week with lots of letters from the Dragon and the Giant.  We read the fairytales Jack and the Beanstalk and The Three Little Pigs.  We sequenced the story of Jack and the Beanstalk and completed a measuring task, a challenge the Giant set us.  we measured different sized beanstalks using beans.

For The Three Little Pigs we were given a challenge to make a house using marshmallows and cocktail sticks.  When we were finished the ‘wolf’ tried to blow them down.  We also completed a huff and puff challenge.  We had to huff and puff to blow different objects across the floor.  We retold the story of the 3 little pigs on the iPads.  We read an alternative 3 little pigs story from thevwolf’s perspective and voted which story we thought was that actually happened.  We wrote sentences about the 3 little pigs and we wrote a wanted poster for the wolf.

We designed a poster of what we think Fairyland is like.

We had Celtic Croft and we planned our ceilidh for next week.

We went litter picking and worked with a partner to pick rubbish and help keep our community clean and tidy.

Our learning highlights:

‘I liked the huff and puff challenge’ Joy, Emma, Aroush, Dawid, Cerys, Felix, Lena, William

‘I enjoyed Celtic Croft’ Emilio, Alfie

‘I enjoyed making the house challenge’ Tiara, Daniel, Guhan Kumar, Antos

’I enjoyed drawing what Fairyland looks like’ Franek

Well done to St Francis our House Winners this week.  Congratulations to Guhan Kumar our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a lovely long weekend and we will see you all on Tuesday.

We had a short but busy and exciting week.

The Dragon visited us again this week and delivered a book ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.  We read it as a class, and watched an animated version and acted out scenes in small groups.  Mrs Meikle was particularly impressed with Guhan Kumar and Williams impression of the giant.  Each group worked really well together.

The letter from the Dragon asked us to make some big leaves.  He said the bigger the leaves the more magical they were.  We went into the woods to look at leaves and their different shapes then enjoyed working outside painitng, chalking and colouring leaves.

We also started to make our own beanstalks, drawing a fantastic castle and making a fluffy cloud.

We have finished learning all our P1 sounds but continue to work on consolidating these to ensure we an recognise and use them independently.  This week we focused on ng and igh.  We used magnetic boards to build words using these sounds.

Today we had gym outside in the beautiful sunshine.

For outdoor learning today we went up to the Woodlands and tried to identify the different trees by looking at their leaves.  We also drew some of the leaves.
All classes in the Infant Area worked collaboratively to make a display in rememberance of Pope Francis and we spoke about the new pope, Pope Leo XIV.

Well done to Emma this weeks Hot Chocolate Winner and congratulations to Cerys our Reading Champion.

Our Learning Highlights this week:

‘I enjoyed doing tens and ones’ Cerys

‘I liked drawing the beanstalk’ Tiara

‘I liked playing in the Woodlands’ Kaya

‘I liked gym outside today’ Lena

‘I liked looking for leaves today’ Oskar

‘I liked drawing leaves’ Alfie

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and enjoy the beautiful weather.

Below is a brief overview of some of the learning experiences your child will have this term.  As always, we hope you find it helpful: