St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello Families of P2

This week the boys and girls had a great idea to create a class Cafe. They did all of the planning, creating and setting up – showing off all of their amazing skills! Our Cafe is called Flower Cafe and it serves delicious drinks, cakes and snacks. We even made our own cooker!

In numeracy this week, we continued work on subtraction and began working with money. We learned all of the coins and notes up to £20. In literacy we learned new sounds ‘oe’ and o-e’ and wrote some super predictions about our new reading books.

Weekly Highlights

Faye – I liked learning about money.

Summer – I liked learning the ‘oe’ sound.

Cameron – I liked writing about our school,

Samuel – I loved making and playing in the Flower Cafe. I made a menu for it.

Olga – I liked doing the cafe and learning coins.

Joshua – I liked doing take away in maths.

Luca – I liked the Burns poems.

Have a lovely weekend!

Term 3 Overview

On Monday, we brought in the cups of water we had left outside and they had frozen. We loved touching the ice and we put it in the water tray so we could play with it. We were very good at using the words solid and liquid.

This week we have been continuing our work on subtraction. We are able to say different words for take away and we have shown confidence in using different strategies to solve the sums. We got special workbooks to show our learning and we used the ten pin bowling to learn to subtract from 10.

In Literacy, we have been learning the z and w sounds. We also started our Reading Books and Miss Stebbing was very impressed by how well we listened and tried to read the sentences. We wrote a sentence about what people were doing in a Winter Scene and we were able to check our work with the Writing Targets.

In RE, we learned about the Bible being a special book and we learned to be respectful of it. We remembered to bow our heads before we picked up the Bible from our altar.

As part of our Topic work, we read the story ‘Hamish McHaggis and The Clan Gathering’. We learned about what a Clan is and we made our own tartan. We put all the tartan designs together to make our own Clan Banner.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Leah – I liked playing in the vets.

Posy – I like doing the take away sums.

Rudhvick – I liked playing with the ten pin bowling.

Maksymilian – I liked playing in the area at the block play.

Vikashini – I liked drawing.

Dawid – I liked tidying up.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of everyone when they were using their strategies to complete the subtraction calculations.

Well done to Rudhvick who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.

Dear Parents,

This week was a fun one, and it starts on Monday when we made our homework for the week (hopefully everyone did it!) for spelling. Then we had Religious Education, opening up with a service prayer then some bible work on Jesus and women. Then we did some Numeracy by doing number talks and Algebra in textbooks. Then a little bit of ERIC reading, nothing special. After that we all did our topic, the activity was to research famous Scottish Authors. Finally we did Gymnastics for PE.

On Tuesday we did some work on speech marks for grammar. After that we all wrote a plan for a poem using the Burns Stanza we learnt last week for writing. After snack time we did some Algebra textbooks for Numeracy. We did ERIC reading after lunch. Then we did Music with Mrs Morrison as our teacher. To finish off we continued food and drink for French.

On Wednesday we did our poem: Address to a Burns Supper for writing. After snack we did RLPS (Real Life Problem Solving) for Numeracy. Then we did some light ERIC reading after lunch. Then we all practiced our Burns Recital for Topic. Finally we gave up our PE time to the P6’s so we went outside and ran about a bit.

On Thursday we did some Comprehension on our book ‘The Last Wolf’. Then we did Health and Wellbeing with Mrs Morrison. After snack we worked on the volume of a shape for numeracy. Then we did some more ERIC reading. After that we did some Spanish with Mrs Broadly as our teacher. Finally we did Charles Rennie Macintosh art.

On Friday we did some work on our Rights for HWB. We all had a Teams meeting with the St. Margaret’s art teacher for transition.

Then some people did Pope Francis Faith Award. We started some new Profiling using World of Work through Glow.

Then after it we hade fun Friday.

Signing off,

Myles, P7a Lead Learner.

P.S. This week’s Over and Above Hot Chocolate at Home winner was Joshua, who made a great job of sorting out the Netbook cabinet and helped lots over the week.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 7A.

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