St John Ogilvie Primary School

Even though it has been a short week, we have been very busy. On Tuesday, we had a visit from the Giant. He made a huge mess in our classroom. We were very mad at him because we had to tidy up all the mess. Even the chairs were upside down and the tables were all moved.  He left footprints on the floor and we had to measure using them to find things bigger or smaller. At writing time, we made wanted posters and we put them up all around the school.  We had to describe the Giant.

In Science, we read Day Monkey Night Monkey and talked about the sun, moon and stars. We had to stick the sun and moon at the right pictures.

In PE, we went to different levels to practise our over throwing. We also did under throw. It was great fun!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Caleb – I liked playing with the lego.

Vivien – I enjoyed playing with the bikes.

Diana – I enjoyed playing with everything.

Zion – I enjoyed playing at PE.

Shay – I liked playing with the all the toys.

Jiade – I liked playing with marble run.

Our learning about Children Rights this week was Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. We spent

For our Outdoor Learning this week we created a circle in the school ground using rakes and spade to clear an area for a Sunflower Circle to attract bees and insects to our grounds. On Friday we started to plant Sunflower seeds which will be transplanted into our circle in a few weeks. Next week we aim to plant more sunflowers and plant bedding plants into reuseable items pupils bring from home. e.g. wellington boots too small or with holes.

In math we have continued investigating symmetry of 2D shapes and calculating radius, diameter and circumference of circles which helped us with clearing a circle for our Sunflowers.

We researched different areas of daily life which the Scottish Government make decisions about. This we learned more about democracy by listening to P7 speeches and voting for the party we most agreed with.

We aim to complete writing our House/Vice Captain speeches and start rehearsing presentation techniques. We aim to start recording them over the coming weeks before sharing them with the School community. Pupils brought in Reading homework that they had decided upon in their group. I was very impressed by the amount of effort they put in to share their understanding of the book they had chosen.

In RE we  explored the Gift Fear of the Lord (Wonder & Awe for God’s creation).

Pupil Highlights:

Sylvia: I liked doing the task where we had to choose a song and match a times tables to it to help us learnt them.

Olivier: I liked singing Happy Birthday to Joshua.

Daisy: I liked clapping and clicking my fingers to the beat of 80s music.

Aoife: I liked Miss Skelton arriving to our class.

Joshua D: I liked learning about Miss Skelton.

Josh N: I liked making the welcome card with Sam for Miss Skelton.

Adam: I liked typing my exposition  ‘ Every child Should be able to Play Video Games.’

Marriyah:  I liked finding the area of  rectangles using the formula, area = length x breadth

Ronan: I liked making my mastermind weapon and learning about WW1 with Miss Skelton.

Here is our learning overview for this term.

P1 Learning Overview Term 4

It has been another very busy week in p1B.

We had another visit from the Friendly Dragon from Fairyland.  He was very excited to see the leaves we made last week and used them to make a magical beanstalk in our classroom.  He also left us Castle Books to put all our learning about Fairyland in to keep it safe.  We decorated our castle books drawing lots of different fairy tale characters.  We have also been writing letters and drawing pictures for the Dragon and posting them in our ‘D Mail’ post box.

In Literacy this week we continued to practise our sounds and common words.  We also completed a piece of persuasive writing.  We had to decide if Jack should choose the hen or the golden harp to take from the Giant’s castle.  Mrs Russell was very impressed with all our hard work.

In Art we created our own beanstalk using pencils and crayons.  We used cotton wool for the clouds and added a photograph of ourselves.  It looked like we were climbing up our own magical beanstalk.  We have them displayed in the area outside our classroom.

In Maths and Numeracy we have been counting in 2’s and 10’s.  We are learning some counting songs which is making it lots of fun.  We also looked at addition and subtraction sums as well.

Congratulations to Lilly who is this week’s Hot Chocolate winner.

Safaa is our Reading Champion and well done to the Green Table who won the most table points this week.

We hope you all have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend and we can’t wait for Tuesday to see if anything magical has happened in our classroom or if we receive a letter from the Dragon again.

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Yellow and Blue Tables:

Kyle enjoyed listening to the story of ‘The Boy who Cried Wolf’ and learning the important message about always telling the truth.  He was a villager in our role-play of the story.

Ruari said his favourite part of the week was Word Boost.  He liked the word ‘explore’ best and shared how he loves to explore in the woods.  He got very excited to learn that one of our lessons next week will be in the woods!

Pola’s highlight was finding out the name of our new topic, ‘Good Versus Evil – The Moral of the Story’.  Next week we will focus on the story, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’.

Paige liked PE this week and got excited to wear the bibs.

Ollie liked it when Mrs Ross taught the class on Monday when Mrs Devlin was off sick.  Mrs Ross brought cookies to teach about division.  Yum!

Ella loved PM writing this week.  The children continued to learn about persuasive writing (otherwise known as Expositions) and wrote about the importance of learning about road safety.  Ella’s writing in particular stressed the need to wear seatbelts to keep you safe in a car.  Well done Ella!  You included: Title, Statement of Position, Series of Arguments and a Concluding Statement – all the parts that make up a piece of persuasive writing.

My highlight was the RE lesson about how children are very precious to God.  We had a lovely service with music where each child received their name decorated that another child made for them.  In turn, each person was told how much God loves them and how precious they are in His eyes.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Izaan!

I hope you all enjoy the long weekend and I will see you all on Tuesday.

Click on the link below to see an overview of our learning planned for this term:

P2 – Forward Plan overview Term 4

A great week in P7B!

Numeracy 

For numeracy this week, Xander, Vivaan and Alex agreed on their enjoyment of function machines and the introduction of algebraic equations!

Literacy 

We finalised our fantastic expositions this week! Ask the children about these! We peer marked our partner’s work and provided great notes on what went well and provided feedforward to make them even better. We enjoyed working on our reciprocal reading strategies this week!

IDL 

We looked  democracy this week! We created our own self-directed political parties, gave each other jobs and started writing our manifestos, speeches and persuasive displays. The children have been working very hard on this and are working very well together! A special well done to our campaign mangers for directing their teams so well!

Health

Our right this week focused on access to information from the media. We were reminded to be critical thinkers and to speak up if we think something doesn’t seem quite right. We continued our work on Zones of Regulation and are becoming much more confident explaining which zone we are in and how to be ready for learning. We had a great session on our goals and how we can use other people’s experience to support us in achieving our goals! The children will continue thinking about this next week!

Hot Chocolate at Home – Shining Star

Sneha! Well done, very much deserved!

Reminder

We are off Monday and Thursday next week!

Have a great long weekend P7! I will see you on Tuesday!