St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear parents,

P.E: We have been working on our fitness during our athletics lessons. On Wednesday we took part in the beep test and achieved a range of different levels. Mrs Roy was very impressed as we all pushed ourselves to keep going. Over the next few weeks we will be working on a range of different skills within athletics such as running, jumping and throwing.

Literacy: In writing we have been planning and writing our recounts about school camp or a past experience that we could remember and describe well. We have successfully planned our structure to include orientation and the sequence of events in a chronological order.

Maths: This week we have been working on co-ordinates and have a clear understanding of the x and y axis within 4 quadrants.

R.E: We have been preparing for the sacrament of Confirmation and learning about other world religions.

Art: We used a range of resources to draw a realistic toucan as part of our rainforest topic.

IDL: We have researched different aspects of the rainforest and created posters to display what we have been learning about.

Hot chocolate winner: Well done to Sophie-Leigh for working extremely hard this week!

Have a fantastic weekend, from Mrs Roy and P7B.

We were delighted to be the class who got to choose the music in the MUGA at break today. We were the tidiest and most well behaved class in the lunch hall this week.

We are excited to welcome a new person to our class on Monday. Sadly we found out a class mate has moved to a new school. We hope she makes lots of new friends and is very happy.

In numeracy we have been looking at fractions and decimals. For PE we are learning summer games and we are doing activity stations.

We are learning about different wood types and what wood is suitable for different purposes. This is so we can decide what wood we would use in our Eco school models.  We are now planning our presentations and practising what we want to say.

P3A have had an eventful Easter themed week with many RE lessons about Holy Week.  I hope the photographs below help to share some of the learning experiences the children had this week.

The highlight of our week was our fundraiser to conclude our learning about ‘Conservation of Wildlife’.  The children had previously voted for adopting a hawksbill turtle, one of the endangered animals they learned about this term.   The children sorted their coins and placed them on the corresponding turtle picture.  Through discussion, we decided to group the 1ps, 2ps and 5ps into tens to make it easier to find the total.  Thank you to our fantastic P7 helpers who supported the children to count the coins.  We made a whooping £39.07!  We look forward to our cuddly toy, certificate and updates throughout the year on the valuable work of the WWF, made possible through schemes such as adopting an animal.  We are glad to play a small part in taking care of God’s creatures.  We also know that being responsible citizens by recycling our rubbish and reusing paper can contribute to less plastic in the oceans and less trees (animal habitats) being cut down.  These small actions can help conserve our wildlife too.

I hope you all have a lovely Easter holiday.  I cannot believe we are going to be entering into our final term upon our return!

Mrs Brown

week with

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all doing very well.

The highlights of this week were:

• Our lessons with the Microbits during which we have learned how to use them, have programmed them on the laptops in MakeCode and have seen the Microbits doing what we wanted them to do! It was very exciting and all the boys and girls were super enthusiastic! We have made love hearts with the LEDs on the Microbit, have made our names appear in the LEDs and have used them to turn on a little lamp! We are now big Microbit fans and are looking forward to our next lessons!
• We’ve continued studying the Narrative through our Spiderwick Chronicles, which are absolutely addictive! When Mrs Valente says it’s time to stop, nobody wants to stop and all beg for more! P5A are loving the Spiderwick Chronicles! We have already learned about the importance of the setting’s description, the characters and the narrator and have done lots of work on each of these.
• We have had our New and always tricky Spelling Words and our Weekly Spelling Assessment, another one of our class’ favourites.
• Our Maths continued with multiplication sums of 1 by up to 5 digits and most boys and girls enjoy multiplication a lot by now! Well done!
• We have learned all about the requirements for our Eco School Models which will hopefully be started next week!
• The boys and girls went back to their Lenten promises and shared with the class how successful they were being at them. Also regarding sacrifice and self-control, we have asked one of the girls in our class, who follows the Muslim faith, to share with us her experience of fasting during Ramadan. The class have prepared several questions to which she kindly agreed to answer in order to make us all more aware of what she is going through. It was very interesting and a brilliant example of how people from different religions and beliefs can learn so much from one another.❤❤
• We would like to congratulate John for being the Hot Chocolate of last week!!!!!! Well done, John!!!! 👏👏👏🥇Always behaving and being kind to others!
• We would also like to congratulate Mia for being the Hot Chocolate of this week! It was lovely to see her positive attitude and great work throughout the week! well done, Mia!👏👏👏🥇
• After counting our kindness notes, we were super happy to see that most people had at least a couple of notes, which means our class is getting kinder by the day! Our Kindness Champions are: 1st 🥇👏❤- Ailsa, 2nd🥈👏👏❤ – Aaron and 3rd🥉👏👏❤ – Emily & Sophia! Super well done!!!!!Keep spreading the kindness!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
• Finally, many congratulations to our Table of the week, The Cursed Child! Well done! Super good work! Always tidy, organised and ( most of the times🤣) behaving!

That’s all for this week. Have a wonderful weekend!😀

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘