St John Ogilvie Primary School

RE: In RE this week we have revised our Pope Francis Faith Award and explored the Gift of Fortitude. The children are working on this gift in class but are encouraged to try some targets at home too. Next week we will begin to explore the Gift Fear of the Lord.

Literacy: We have been continuing to work on expositional writing and write with the use of persuasive language and convince our audience. We have been drafting and editing our House/Vice captain speeches and hope to have these ready to present to the other classes in the school soon.

Math: We have been learning the rules of coordinates and have successfully plotted points using the x and y axis. We also enjoyed our Sumdog and Prodigy challenges this week. On Friday we had fun playing times table bingo with some lucky children winning prizes. Next week we hope to work on symmetry as part of our outdoor learning.

IDL: This week we have been researching the Scottish Parliament and found out that the Scottish Government are in charge of devolved matters like, education, transport and health. But the UK Government are in charge of reserved matters like the army.

Over and above: Our hot chocolate winner this week was Julia, very well deserved, keep up the good work!

Have a fantastic weekend and enjoy the holiday Monday!

Mrs Roy

Here is the overview for Primary 6 for term 4.

P6B Forward Plan Overview – Term 4

Good afternoon dear Readers,

You can see here our Overview for Term 4:

Forward Plan overview Term 4 P3A

We hope you have had a good week.

This week’s highlights were:

• In Literacy, we have worked on our new weekly spelling words, planned and produced an exposition/persuasive text about the need to stop littering, learned better how and when to use exclamation marks to finish off our sentences and have ended the week with our weekly spelling assessment and our much loved Free Writing Friday.
• In Maths and Numeracy we have learned and worked a lot on fractions of a shape both by identifying the coloured/shaded fractions and also by colouring in the given fractions.
• We have continued our work on the Earth Day posters and are hoping to have them finished by the end of next week.
• For Health and Wellbeing we have started learning about the Eat well plate and the benefits of having a healthy diet.
• Our friendship bracelets have been randomly handed out at the beginning of the week and we have tried hard to be even kinder to the person whose bracelet we got!
• Our kindness jar continues being filled with kindness notes and it will need to be emptied by the end of next week since it is almost full due to all the amazing acts of kindness from our boys and girls! We can’t wait to find out who our new Kindness Champions are going to be!!💗

We wish you all a  sunny and wonderful weekend!

P3A and Mrs Valente😃

Dear Families

Literacy

This week we continued working on exposition in our writing.  We looked at an example of exposition and identified the features the author used. Then we wrote our own exposition text about litter.  We were trying to persuade the reader to not drop litter.

Maths & Numeracy

We were learning how to measure things using a ruler and measuring tape.  We were also learning how to solve sudoku puzzles, we found them quite tricky and we needed to work out where the numbers went.  Although they were tricky we had fun.

We also had to use our problem solving skills this morning to solve a problem, it was kind of like sudoku but with coloured squares.

Learning Across the Curriculum

This week we got to choose what one of our topics will be later on in the term, we are excited that we had a choice in it.

On Tuesday we had a special PE lesson, we had some visitors from a local Judo club come into school and give us a little taster.

In Music with Mrs Morrison we have been learning some songs, for example ‘We don’t talk about Bruno’.

Pupil Highlight

Markuss – I enjoyed making bug houses during outdoor learning.

Amelia – I enjoyed the Judo in PE because I felt like a ninja.

Stefi – I enjoyed doing Simon Says at PE.

Mariam – I enjoyed doing the songs with Mrs Morrison.

Layla – I enjoyed doing music.

Forward Plan overview Term 4 P5

Our learning about Children Rights this week was Article 17 (access to information from the media): Every child has the right to reliable information from a variety of sources, and governments should encourage the media to provide information that children can understand. Governments must help protect children from materials that could harm them.

We investigated how to check information on a website or games platform to check if it was reliable and discussed how to report websites or unwelcome information on games platforms.

We prepared for our future outdoor learning by carrying out a stock check of spades, digging forks and different gardening tools. Next week we hope to start planting in reuseable items brought from home. e.g. wellington boots too small or with holes.

In math we have been revising symmetry and coordinates which we hope to be able to use as part of outdoor learning next week.

This week we began to find out about how democracy works. We had a virtual tour of the Scottish Parliament and found out that the Scottish Government are in charge or Devolved matters like, education, transport and health. But the UK Government are in charge of Reserved matters like the army.

We also began to draft our House/Vice Captain speeches using our persuasive language. We hope to finish these next week. Hopefully!

In RE this week we have revised our Pope Francis Faith Award and explored the Gift of Fortitude. Next week we will begin to explore the Gift Fear of the Lord.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the Holiday Monday.

We have had a super learning time in P4.  We have been looking at traditional fairy tales and seeing them from an alternative perspective.  We particularly enjoyed ‘The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig’.  We used this to write an exposition (persuasive argument) about why the wolf isn’t bad.  We have been working on Fractions for our maths and also looking at the area of shapes.

Liliana : “I liked doing PE today as we were doing races and we learned a saying for when you crouch down at the start of the race, call TTKnee”

Emily : “I liked making flowers using oil pastels.  We used hot and cold colours to create contrast.”

Lucy : “I like doing maths.  Working out the area was fun and using cm² was fun”

Jacob : “I liked doing music because we got to sing and there was a lot of songs that we enjoy.  We will miss having Mrs Morrison for music each week but Mrs Callaghan has a fantastic music project planned for us!”

Eilidh : “I liked writing about the wolf not being a big bad wolf because he was actually making a cake for his Granny and needed some sugar.  It wasn’t his fault that he had a bad cold and his sneeze blew down their houses!”

Inaayah: “I really liked dong spelling this week.  I liked that we learned a lot of new words using the ly pattern.”

Leo “I really liked working with my group to make a house that would keep the three little pigs safe.  We used lots of different things and had to work out what to use and how to use it!”

We are looking forward to our day off on Monday and are hoping that the sun will shine for us!

Our hot chocolate winner this week is …….  Inaayah!   Well done on being ready, respectful and safe at all times.

Our new reading champion is Carina for always being an on-task reader during ERIC time.

We have had a fantastic week in Primary 5.

Pupils highlights:

Marriyah: I liked writing our exposition piece of writing because it was hard but also fun.

Adam: I liked playing rounders because I like baseball and both are similar.

Olivier: I liked making Joshua’s face out of leaves and twigs we found in the woodlands.

Aoife: I liked planning out our exposition, I just find it a bit fun. I liked doing the extra bit of HW Miss Smith gave us.  It was T.E.E. This stands for topic sentence, evidence and explanation.

Daisy: I liked learning about the causes of WW1.

Joshua: I liked learning about our new topic, The Great War, and, I liked getting to do Judo on Monday.

Amelia: I liked writing our Exposition, I just liked learning about it.

Josh: I liked doing the athletics in P.E when we had to do the races.

Inaya: I liked singing happy birthday to Joshua to nursery.

Here is our planned learning overview for Term 4.

P4 Overview T4

This week we had another visit from the Friendly Dragon. It left us a task to write to Jack to persuade him to pick either the harp or the hen that lays the golden eggs. We remembered our capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. We even used ‘because’. When we came back to school the next day our writing had little burnt bits on it and we knew the Dragon had read them and was so happy with our work. The Dragon also left us some special castle books to keep all our Fairyland work in. We got to decorate them.

In maths we have been learning to tell the time and we enjoyed using the Smartboard to draw the hands of the clock in to show the different times. We have also been practising counting in 5s and 10s this week and we are getting more confident each day.  We have been learning the numbers in Spanish and we can count all the way up to 10.

For Art we made our own beanstalks and put a photo of ourselves on it so it looked like we were climbing the beanstalk. We tried to make sure that the bottom of the beanstalk was bigger and the top was smaller so it looked like it was very tall.

In PE we took part in a Judo session and it was so much fun.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Caleb – I enjoyed playing with the lego and I made a giant house.

Diana – I enjoyed playing with the cinema.

Jiade – I liked playing during outdoor learning.

Riley – I liked building the movie theatre.

Rory – I liked playing with the cinema.

Vivien – I liked playing at outdoor learning with the bikes.

Chimamanda – I liked playing with the bikes at outdoor learning.

Laura – I liked playing with everything.

Ollie – I liked playing in Creative Zone.