St John Ogilvie Primary School

Here are some of the learning experiences your child will experience this term in Primary Five:

Termly Overview – Term 3

Hello families of P5B!  Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Blue Table:

Nicolas and Sean both report at having enjoyed the mapping skills lesson, part 1, where they used tracing paper to draw the outline of Scotland and locate the names of cities using Google Maps, marking them on the map using a key.  Part 2 will involve using the map to learn about grid reference in maths.

Georgia and Flynn loved celebrating National Hot Chocolate Day on Friday with some lovely hot chocolate and marshmallows.  The staff also had a lovely hot chocolate in the staffroom thanks to the generous senior management team.

Amelia liked PE.

Haadiya said the learning highlight of the week was when she demonstrated to everyone on the Smartboard, the steps to finding the answer to a Times Table question (see photo).  She did this confidently.  Next week, we are going to explore another way to find the answer to a Times Table question called ‘The Grid Method’.

David’s highlight was singing hymns with Mrs Callaghan.

Ava and Addison loved another lesson with Mrs Callahan about our worries and drew their own worry pet.

The highlight of my week was watching the entertaining performances of ‘A Dug, A Dug’ , a well known Scottish poem by Billy Keys (see photos).  We have some expressive performers in P5B!

Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate award winner, Ava and our Reading Champion, Nathan.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 6 has enjoyed settling back into their normal routine after the Burns’ Supper last week.

In literacy, we have still been studying Scots language and have looked closely at the poem entitled A Dug A Dug! Reciting it and performing it proved to be a lot of fun! This week everyone is going to write their own verse with a partner!

Numeracy, has included learning more about division using the written method. Our class have also consolidated the links between multiplication and division through looking at fact families. Mrs Morrison has been developing our knowledge of time.

Physical education has focused on developing fitness levels through a variety of exercises. Everyone did the bleep test at the start of the block and recorded their scores, this will be repeated in a few weeks to see if fitness levels have improved!

We had fun creating our own tartans using a weaving technique paying attention to pattern and colour. They have really brightened up our classroom.

Gods Loving Plan teaching continued this week to learn about the changes that take place to our bodies during puberty. We have also had fun discussing what we would do in particular situations and scenarios.

Our class has been learning about article 33 and how children have the right to be protected from harmful drugs. We are designing posters in pairs for our Rights Respecting wall.

Congratulations to Hannah on being nominated our hot chocolate winner and our reading champion!!

Hope you had a great weekend

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A

Hello families of P2

We had great fun on Monday doing our guess the baby challenge. The children loved seeing themselves and their friends as babies. In literacy we learned to add ‘y’ to words and worked on adding connectives to up level our sentences. We worked on addition and subtraction as inverse, in maths this week. We enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year and made beautiful lanterns.

Weekly Highlights

Laaibah – I liked free writing and making my Pug.

Ellie – I liked learning our new sounds and making ‘ar’ words.

Leighton – I liked making lanterns for Chinese New Year.

Garvit – I liked ICT.

Everybody – We loved doing guess the baby from all of our baby photos.

Maja – I liked learning about Chinese New Year.

Rose – I liked exploring the Woodlands.

Huge congratulations to Arjun, our hot chocolate winner and Garvit, our reading champion. Well done boys!

Have a lovely weekend!

Term 3 Overview

What a fantastic week we have had in P1, we have all been following our schools rules to be Ready, Respectful and Safe.

We learned our final initial sounds this week j and qu and enjoyed making a jellyfish craft and quail. We worked on bending our sounds together to make words and also read words than use these sounds.

Daniel – I liked the jelly and jam song.

In math this week we have been learning to tell the time to o’clock. We had lots of fun making an analogue clock and also playing the Stop the Clock game.

Alfie – I liked when Mrs Russell said a time and we had to put the time on our clock.

On Wednesday we learned about and celebrated Chinese New Year. We made a snake craft and also a Chinese lantern. We also made a red envelope and wrote some facts about Chinese New Year.

Cerys – I liked making a snake because it is year of the snake.

We have been learning about substances and which are safe and unsafe for us to touch or drink. We also learned about medicines and how to take medicine safely.

Our topic is ‘Our Local Area’ and we went for a walk to see what amenities around our school. We walked to Morrisons and bought some oranges, which are a special fruit at Chinese New Year.

Felix – Morrisons

Ava – The park

Arush – Houses

Ronak – Parking

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend.