St John Ogilvie Primary School

It’s been another very busy week in Primary 3B!

In literacy, we have been continuing to work on persuasive writing (exposition).  We used the plans that we made last week to write to the rest of the school, telling them why we think it is a good idea to wear school uniform.  The children did a fantastic job and were very persuasive!

In Maths and Numeracy, we continued to learn about counting different amounts of money. We have also began working on division.  We quickly realised that the better we know our times tables, the quicker we can work out the answers to division questions.  It would be fantastic if all the children could practise the 2, 3, 4, 5 and 10 times tables at home.

The winner of the Hot Chocolate Friday award this week is Jude.  This was very well deserved as Jude is always hard working in class and is very kind and helpful to others.

We have a new award which is for a class Reading Champion.  Our new Reading Champion is Ishani M.  Ishani loves reading books and is always enthusiastic when discussing books in class.

Here are a few of the children’s learning highlights this week:

Daniel: I liked doing gymnastics in the hall.

Jude: I enjoyed Art on Friday morning.

Stefi: I enjoyed learning times tables and division.

Amelia: I enjoyed music with Mrs Morrison

Matteo: I liked telling people why school uniforms are a good idea!

Ishani M: I loved reading our class book, George’s Marvellous Medicine!

Layla: I liked the word boost book this week – Tyrannosaurus Drip!

We wish you all a fantastic weekend!

Primary 3B

Good afternoon,

Literacy: This week our class participated in a valuable lesson on visualisation. We were able to successfully draw what we had imagined in our heads as we listened to descriptions. We enjoyed looking at all of our drawings and comparing as we all visualise things in different ways.

Numeracy and Maths: We have continued to work on missing numbers and algebraic equations. We were able to successfully represent numbers for letters and shapes using inverse rules. In maths we used our knowledge of times tables to work on area and could use A=LXB to work out the area covered.

Art: We tied our art lesson in with our outdoor learning as we looked for signs of Spring.

Outdoor learning: We went out on our class walk to look for signs of Spring. We came across some flowers beginning to bloom, trees blossoming, and signs of new life.

Over and above: Well done to Ethan for working hard in Literacy and maths to achieve the hot chocolate at home.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

This week in Primary 5 we have been learning about compass point. We have been learning how to draw spring flowers using different colours and patterns. In PE we have been learning balancing skills using the benches, and horsebox.

Aditya – My highlight has been learning how much sugar content is in different drinks.

Niamh – I really enjoyed making the spring flower pictures.

Naman – I really liked when we were working on the genre exposition task in our writing.

Sophie-Leigh – I really enjoyed drawing the flowers.

Marcus – I enjoyed all the different stunts we were doing in PE.

Mrs McLaughlin was really happy to spend Friday in P5. There was some amazing work on compass points, and Primary 5 have shown a great understanding of directions and how to move particular ways.

This week our Hot Chocolate winner for excellent Maths work and an amazing piece of flower art is – Vivien.

Happy weekend from Mrs McLaughlin and Primary 5b!

On Tuesday this week it was World Water Day.

This week’s Children Rights activities linkedto the following articles:

Article 24 (health and health services): Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality health care, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

Article 27 (adequate standard of living): Every child has the right to a standard of living that is good enough to meet their physical and social needs and support their development. Governments must help families who cannot afford to provide this.

We made posters to highlight the dangers from pollution and climate change to the amount of clean useable water. We were shocked to learn that 1000 children a day die from lack of clean, drinkable water.

In math we continued developing our understanding of fractions, decimals and percentages by using our knowledge of multiplication and division

We made Persuasive Tourist Posters which your child can show you theirs on Teams.

On Wednesday we explored the woods and played cooperative games. In Art this week we created cherry blossom trees.

Next week we will continue our persuasive writing ‘Why should every child should learn to swim?’  and continue to find fractions, percentages and decimal amounts.

Have a lovely weekend.

This week we started looking  at expositions.  We learned this was persuasive writing telling one side of the story.  We watched some adverts for Ikea and Iphones and looked at printed adverts.  We then worked out what the purpose of the adverts were and who the intended audience was.  We also enjoyed a persuasive poem about cats.

In maths we worked with function machines.   Bentley learned that there is “inputs and outputs” and Dawid learned that “process is the job it does in the middle”.

Liliana enjoyed “PE because we had lots of different equipment out and it was fun.  I learned how to do a back walkover off a piece of equipment.”  and Emili “learned how to do a front walkover.”

Tyler liked learning about the gladiators who fought at the colosseum.  Eilidh, Max and Carina enjoyed creating a newspaper article all about their ‘Night at the Collosseum’

Jacob liked hearing the story of Joseph and his brothers.  He couldn’t believe that his brothers would tell such lies!  Farrah liked designing a beautiful and colourful coat for Joseph.  She used lots of different rainbow patterns and dots.

Our hot chocolate this week is Emili.  Well done and keep up the hard work.  Our new reading champion is Liliana.

We are looking forward to our last week before Easter and learning all about the Easter Story!

Pupil Highlights:

Grant: I liked having Mexican crackers as a treat on Friday.  They are healthy because they are baked and not fried.

Aoife: I liked Amelia and Sam coming back to class.

Daisy: I liked writing my information report on Florence Nightingale for HW.

Elizabete: I liked making the water posters for national water day.

Joshua D: I liked reading and looking at the different exposition texts.

Vanessa: I liked measure objects in the classroom. We had to estimate the length first and then measure in cm using a ruler.

Natalia: I liked making the water posters.

Josh N : I liked measuring the width and height of the windows, doors and chimneys of a house on our worksheet.

Teacher Highlights: I am really impressed with how quickly we have understood the purpose of an exposition text. The pupils can identify the structure of this text

Title

Statement of Position

Series of Arguments

Concluding Statement

Our hw next week will involve looking at an exposition example and identifying the main arguments, the evidence, the purpose and audience.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Congratulations to Joshua D for being so focused every day at school.

Hello P2A families!

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

Aiden G loved making his grass head.  The children are growing grass as a follow up to a book week activity as well as learning about what plants need to survive.  They personalised them with different facial features.  They are looking forward to watching them grow and eventually being able to give them a haircut!

Pola liked learning about the moon.  We saw images of it up close on the NASA website and watched the very first moon landing!  We practised saying, “One small step for man, one giant leap for mankind” in an American accent.

Ruari enjoyed our St Patrick’s Day craft.  I hope you enjoyed the pictures on Seesaw.

Rebekah liked our Word Boost story, ‘Owen and the Mountain’.  Her favourite word was ‘enter’.  Mrs Devlin says this word each day in Spanish as the children enter the room.

Eva loved PE with Mrs Lafferty this week as the children continue to develop their gymnastics skills.

Kyle said the highlight of his week was writing a list about what he would pack for a trip to the moon.  He said he would definitely need to take a book to enjoy.

My highlight was our Day of Prayer activities on Friday.  The children where split into small groups and each had a P7 helper.  Clipboard in hand, they went into the playground in search for different items in nature.  Upon finding these items, they ticked them off on the chart and gathered together in their group where the P7 led them in prayer, thanking God for his beautiful creation.  Thank you P7s for your support with our P2s.  You were very responsible and respectful.

Lots of super learning in P1B this week.

This week we learned the sounds oi and ou. We enjoyed carrying out activities such as formation in flour and making cloud books.

We have been practising our addition of double numbers and linked it to subtraction by looking at halving numbers.

We planted seeds to observe how seeds grow into plants and wrote instructions on how to plant a seed.

We also learned about the human life cycle and looked at similarities and differences between humans. We continued our learning of mini beasts and used ChatterPix to talk sentences about which mini beast we thought was the best.

This week we helped Mrs Russell celebrate St Patricks Day and made some fantastic hats.

We finished the week working with our P7 friends doing a Prayer Trail in the playground.

Good afternoon,

A great week of learning in Primary 6B! Here are some of our highlights:

Literacy: We started our week with a visit from Mrs Amatler and took part in a lesson on clarifying. We were able to use our skills in reading to clarify the meaning of some unusual words. We have also been learning about expositional/persuasive writing and have created our own word banks that we can use to help us in our writing.

Numeracy: We have used our knowledge of fractions, decimals and times tables to help us complete equations. We enjoyed working out what number the letters or shapes represented. We also took part in the West Lothian Sumdog competition and came 9th out of 142 classes that qualified! On Thursday we were also the daily winner and gained the highest score for that day. Mrs Roy was very impressed with the teamwork and motivation across both P6 classes!

IDL/Art: We completed our Loch Ness monsters by painting them and gluing them down ready to take home.

Positive recognition: On Friday our class got an extra break as we have been keeping our table in the lunch hall clean and tidy in order to show we are being safe and respectful towards others.

The rights of the child: We have completed our work on articles 2, 12 and 30 to show that we all have the same rights no matter what our beliefs are or where we come from and this should always be respected.

Over and above: Well done to our hot chocolate winner Olly!

Thank you for your continued support, Have a great weekend!

Mrs Roy