St John Ogilvie Primary School

What a fantastic two weeks in P3!

We have been working hard in our literacy focussing on common words again and practicing them using our active strategies! We are still flying through our books each week. We started recount writing last week, we planned our writing last week and did our written piece this week.

In numeracy we finished up our division last week by looking at the formal written method, and are now focussing on fractions. This week we have been focussing mainly on a half with a little bit of thirds and quarters too. Our beyond number as had a measure focus, last week we explored centimetres and meters and this week we measured objects and noted down sizes.

Outdoor learning over the last two weeks has been so much fun! We have been learning how to start a fire using a flint and steel. Lots of us managed to get a piece of cotton wool on fire but some of us didn’t manage it! Despite that we all tried super hard and gave it our best shot! On Monday, we had a visit from Rob with Kids Gone Wild and his lovely dog Jax. They led an outdoor learning session in the woodlands where we got to go on a rope swing and relax in hammocks.

Our space topic has been a big hit! We designed lots of planets and stars last week and this week we have been learning about the sun and moon.

We have been continuing to say a decade of the rosary in class over the last two weeks.  We designed a little card about a hope we have for the future for our Jubilee of Hope day and these are now on a shield which is displayed for everyone to see. We learned about the feast of the ascension and why we celebrate it.

Well done to all of our winners over the last 2 weeks.

Have a lovely weekend everyone! I will see you all on Monday.

Dear Readers,

The highlights of the week were as follows:

• Spelling work as before, together with weekly spelling assessment.
• Various Reading comprehension activities with discussion of the topics and written answers to differentiated questions.
• Finishing off own narratives following what had been taught about the structure and purpose of a narrative and also using the setting and character descriptions created in the previous weeks.
• Learning about Roman Numerals to over a 1000, attempting to write different numbers using the 7 Roman Numeral symbols and converting Roman numerals into base 10 numbers.
• Working on fractions of an amount and starting to work on fractions of a number, learning which will continue in the next weeks.
• The Story of Our Lady of Fatima including the apparitions, the Miracle of the Sun and the Three Little Shepherds – Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta.
• Continue working of Pope Francis Faith Award.
• Learning all the different steps for the election of a new Pope and making posters about this complex process for the walls of the Upper Area of the school.
• We would like to congratulate the Hot Chocolate of the last 3 weeks, Maeve, Matteo and Ishani M for setting a great example of responsibility, kindness and respect! Well done Maeve, Matteo and Ishani! 👏👏👏🥇🥇🥇✨✨✨
• Well done as well to The Points Monitors table, who won the weekly award! Super duper good job!👏👏👏👏🏆✨

We say goodbye wishing everyone a great week ahead!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

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.