St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello all, this week primary 4b have had great fun! In our literacy we have begun looking at information reports and had a shot at writing an information report in groups of 4 all about SJO! Our spelling this week focussed on the ‘lk’ pattern and the children did some great activities to learn their words.

In our maths this week, we have been  focussing on multiplication and using the written method to work out two-digit by one-digit multiplication sums. We had 4 stations of activities to practice multiplication, a teacher station where I would work with each group on a small scale, an iPad station where children played games relating to multiplication, an active station with an active maths multiplication game, and a work station where children did sums in their jotters. The children, in groups of seven, moved around the four stations over two days, spending twenty minutes at each station. We did a survey at the end where the pupils gave their opinion on what we did and gave suggestions on how we could change it to improve next time, and what they liked/enjoyed. the feedback was mainly positive with some suggestions on changing things for next time!

Our topic we are beginning this term is recycling, today we watched a video clip all about recycling and discussed what recycling is and what it means. The children did a cut and stick activity of recyclable and non-recyclable items and sorted them into what is recycling and what is rubbish. Those who finished then got some time to do a bit of research and write down some facts about recycling.

In PE, we have been doing gymnastics and putting the skills we have learned into a routine. We have done cartwheels, forward rolls, tuck jumps and balances. We did a 3 step routine incorporating forward roll, cartwheel and balance. Then we did a routine where we walked along a bench, did a balance at the end, then went onto the floor and did a forward roll, tuck jump and a balance. The children were great and had fun coming up with the routine themselves.

We started our new class novel ‘the boy at the back of the class’ by Onjali Q. Raúf, about a boy who comes to a new school and is a refugee. The children made some predictions and so far have been enjoying it.

Our RE has been fun and we have had a look at ST Vincent De Paul, and highlighted facts about him on an information sheet that we like and we would like to aspire to be like.

Next week, the sacramental children will be starting to prepare for their first communion, whilst we do this, the non-sacramental children will be going to Mrs Lea’s class to look at other world religions.

Cohens highlight of the week this week was maths. He enjoyed doing his times tables and using the iPads to practice tables while playing games.

Kacpers highlight of the week was Spanish with Mrs Broadley, he loved the bingo game that we played.

Alex’s highlight of the week was PE, he liked practising cartwheels and forward rolls.

Amelias highlight oft he week this week was the same as Alex’s. She had lots of fun in PE!

Well done to our hot chocolate winner David!

Well done to our secret student winner Sean!

Have a great weekend everyone,

Miss Duddy

Here is an overview of some of the learning experiences that your child will engage in during the coming term:

Here is an overview of some of the learning experiences that your child will engage in during the coming term:

Hello P3A families,

Happy New Year!  I hope you all had a restful break overt the holidays.  I swear the children have all grown!  I was so happy to see everyone again and the children enjoyed being back at school and seeing their friends.  Our daily emotions check-in did see quite a few names pegged to the ‘sleepy’ emotion stone for the first few days but thankfully as the week progressed, that changed.  I think we are all back to our early morning start routines now.

Here are this week’s highlights from the Yellow table:

Riley loved football with Miss White and scored 10 times!  Whow!

Diana enjoyed our winter themed art called, ‘Catching Snowflakes’.  I have posted each child’s on their Seesaw if they were present for this activity.

Laura said the best learning highlight for her this week was a lesson taken by Mrs Brand about keeping safe at home.

Vivien loved our first gymnastics lesson and was proud to model some of the basic moves to the rest of the class to practise.  Thank you Vivien.

Linda really enjoyed making a class calendar.  The children worked in pairs to research a given month’s key dates to add to the calendar.  Linda and her partner had the month of February.  Linda is looking forward to Valentine’s Day.

Hasika loved benchball.  This is a favourite PE game for P3A.  I am always amazed at the super teamwork when I watch the children play and the strategies that ensure their team scores.

Aadya said the best part of her week was Number Talks.  This week the children have continued with a Number Talk we started before Christmas called ‘Esti Mystries’.  They need to estimate how many of x they see in a jar.  Using a 100 square, the children work with their partner to eliminate numbers that are not in the jar using different clues.  For example, ‘The number is bigger than 47’ so they need to score out the numbers less than 47 etc until only a few options are left.  The aim of the lesson is to see if their estimate was correct.

Angel LOVED Word Boost Corners.  Each day (or most days), the children listen to the same story and listen out of key vocabulary.  We then explore that vocabulary.  We usually have 5 or 6 words.  By the end of the week, the children can orally join in with the story.  Such good listeners!  On Fridays, the children will play Word Boost Corners.  It is a game that promotes the reading of the words also.  Plus, it is fun to dance around the room with your friends.

Olivia enjoyed a game we played this week as a means of revising our common words.  If the child could read the common word, they got to roll the paper up and throw it into a basketball hoop Mrs Brown wore on her head.  The paper was in the recycling bin already so no trees were harmed in the making of this game!  Next time, Mrs Brown has suggested we write the words on small balls to throw as only 1 person shot and scored!  It was tricky!

My highlight was our discussion on New Year’s Resolutions.  We talked about things we could try to do to become better people.  Some examples were cleaning rooms, helping parents around the house more, drinking more water and eating more fruit and vegetables.  We decided that one way to eat more fruit and vegetables was to have ‘FRUIT FRIDAYS’ in P3A (if our parents had any on that day – we discussed how fresh food goes out of date quickly).  An encouragement to eat it will be a sticker reward.  The children are looking forward to starting this next week and loved the new stickers Mrs Brown has for this health promotion task.

Congratulations to Alicaj, our hot chocolate award winner this week and Tvisha, our Reading Champion!

Lead Learners were Laura and Zion.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

Laura – “I liked making common words out of playdoh.”

Zion – “I enjoyed benchball.”

Look out for a separate blog post this weekend that will show you some of the learning experiences your child will experience this coming term.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Happy New Year everyone! We hope you all had a lovely break. P6A have had a busy first week back and I am so proud of them all for getting stuck right back into it.

Our highlights of the week included:

– identifying a ‘word of the year’ as a goal to work towards. Some examples included ‘leadership, bravery and optimistic’. We then linked this to our HWB focus ‘the power of yet’. This was about how adding ‘yet’ makes everything possible and how we should all adopt a growth mindset attitude!

– we started to explore our new story book for critical literacy – Into The Woods, by Anthony Brown. We looked at the front cover (without the title!) and took notes about what we noticed, any questions we had and created a prediction for the story. We also made guesses about what the title could be based on the information and pictures we had.

Pupil highlights:

– “Adding and subtracting decimals and using the new maths textbooks”

– “Making gymnastics routines and leading the warm up stretches in PE!”

– “Trialling out the microphone in music for our Burns’ songs”.

Well done to Emily who received the hot chocolate this week. Emily was super resilient in numeracy and had a “light bulb moment” within subtraction after trying super hard!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss MacGregor 🙂

Good Afternoon,

We’ve had a super first week back at school and we are delighted to report that the children have all been working very hard!

Our first topic this term is Scotland and the children have been learning a Scottish poem for Burns Day.  We have uploaded the poems to SeeSaw and we have sent a paper copy home for the children to practise.  We are really looking forward to hearing the children recite them and some of them will be chosen to perform their poem at our Burns Supper on the 25^th of January.  As part of our topic, we are also going to be learning about Scottish Food, Animals and Words.

Over the next few weeks, in Maths, we are going to be developing our subtraction skills.  Today we were working on solving problems involving subtraction and the children managed very well.

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week is Tiya!  We are extremely proud of Tiya, who is always, kind, helpful and friendly and is making excellent progress with her learning.

Well done to Rose, who is our new reading champion!

Highlights of the Week:

Cameron:  I liked doing subtraction problems in maths.

Summer:  I loved Free Writing Friday, I wrote about a puppy.

Lillian:  I liked doing RE with Mrs Callaghan

Filip: I enjoyed building with the K’Nex

Have a great weekend and we look forward to seeing the children next week!

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update of what P7A have been learning this week:

On Monday in numeracy & maths we started work on Algebra. We found out how to calculate an unknown by solving equations. Most people found it tricky at first but by Wednesday, they had grown in confidence. On Thursday for maths, we went outside for a bit of measure. We used meter sticks to find the length and breadth of the MUGA. We then used this to calculate the perimeter and Area. On Friday, we were tested on our 7 times table using ‘Round the Clock’ – a game Mr McGurn’s P7 teacher made him play!

In PE on Monday and Wednesday, we started work on gymnastics. It was pretty basic this week with rolls and shapes but we worked well and will progress to more advanced things in the coming weeks.

Our topic for January is Scottish Literature so on Monday we read and discussed Tam o’ Shanter and on Wednesday picked a Burns poem/song which we have to learn for reciting on Burns Day in a couple of weeks. We also worked on materials for a Burns wall display.

In writing, we wrote poems using the Burns Stanza, based on To a Mouse but with our own choice of animal. We learned the Burns Stanza is 6 lines with rhyming scheme A-A-A-B-A-B and lengths of 8-8-8-4-8-4. It was pretty hard but we all tried our best and managed to produce at least one verse.

For RE we had our usual Prayer Service, this week on the Baptism of Jesus, we did some bible work and on Friday the Focus was on the PFFA, which we are nearly finished!

For technology (engineering) we found out about Da Vinci Bridges, and tried to make our own using lollipop sticks. It was confusing and tricky but we gave it a go!

P7As Reading Champion for the next fortnight is Adam, who participates actively in all reading activities.

The Over and Above hot chocolate at home winner was Nehaal, who always tries his best at everything.

Have a great weekend,

Myles (Lead Learner), Mr McGurn and Primary 7A.