St John Ogilvie Primary School

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.

We had a short but busy and exciting week.

The Dragon visited us again this week and delivered a book ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’.  We read it as a class, and watched an animated version and acted out scenes in small groups.  Mrs Meikle was particularly impressed with Guhan Kumar and Williams impression of the giant.  Each group worked really well together.

The letter from the Dragon asked us to make some big leaves.  He said the bigger the leaves the more magical they were.  We went into the woods to look at leaves and their different shapes then enjoyed working outside painitng, chalking and colouring leaves.

We also started to make our own beanstalks, drawing a fantastic castle and making a fluffy cloud.

We have finished learning all our P1 sounds but continue to work on consolidating these to ensure we an recognise and use them independently.  This week we focused on ng and igh.  We used magnetic boards to build words using these sounds.

Today we had gym outside in the beautiful sunshine.

For outdoor learning today we went up to the Woodlands and tried to identify the different trees by looking at their leaves.  We also drew some of the leaves.
All classes in the Infant Area worked collaboratively to make a display in rememberance of Pope Francis and we spoke about the new pope, Pope Leo XIV.

Well done to Emma this weeks Hot Chocolate Winner and congratulations to Cerys our Reading Champion.

Our Learning Highlights this week:

‘I enjoyed doing tens and ones’ Cerys

‘I liked drawing the beanstalk’ Tiara

‘I liked playing in the Woodlands’ Kaya

‘I liked gym outside today’ Lena

‘I liked looking for leaves today’ Oskar

‘I liked drawing leaves’ Alfie

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and enjoy the beautiful weather.

Below is a brief overview of some of the learning experiences your child will have this term.  As always, we hope you find it helpful:

Hello P5B Families!

I hope you managed to enjoy some of the lovely sunshine we had this week.  I know we used the opportunity to go outside for our class novel and took refuge in the nice shade under a tree.

Here are our learning highlights from the Yellow Table:

Daniel really enjoyed a micro:bit lesson with Miss Smith about how smart technology can be used to help the environment.  This week, the children explored the sensors on the micro:bits and have incorporated some of these great ideas in to their Climate Smart models.  The models are almost finished now and the children will now focus the remainder of their time largely on preparing their presentations.

Aadhya liked playing outside in the sunshine.  After our class novel, we played ‘Duck, Duck, Goose’.  A favourite all around!

Georgia loved our class novel.  We have reached a VERY EXCITING part where there is a plan to bring an extinct animal back to life!  Some of the children enjoyed making daisy chains as they listened.

Rowan said he liked House Groups today.  The children will have a follow up activity on Teams so look out for this.

Alex continues to enjoy learning about Time with Mrs Morrison who takes us for maths once a week.

Anthony has been making progress with playing the recorder during music and has now mastered a tune called ‘Apples and Bananas’ he tells me.

Ksawery was quite engrossed in a lesson at the start of the week that related to materials needed to build a school.  The children were given a list of how much an item costs as well as its environmental impact.  Each group had a £2000 budget and the challenge was to spend this (or close to it) but to have the lowest environmental impact.  This activity involved much discussion e.g. “Should we buy metal desks that cost less but have a high environmental impact or wooden desks that cost more but have a low cost to the environment?”  Tricky decisions indeed!  This prompted a pupil wondering what our school budget was and he asked Mrs McKissack and found out.  This lesson helped the children to think about what materials they will select for their own pretend sustainable school and why.  A worthwhile lesson indeed!

My highlight was reading our novel under the shade outside.  The sun was shining and the birds were singing.  It was very restful.

Congratulations to Kasper, our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

I hope you all enjoy the long weekend and I will see you back on Wednesday.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Parents,

Our Lead Learner for this week, Madeleine, is going to update you on what we were doing this week…

On Monday in PE P7a practiced doing long distance running for the event coming up. After PE we did spelling for literacy, then we did numeracy finishing off decimals. Then after lunch for ERIC the class read our class novel ‘A Monster Calls’ reading a chapter. For the rest of the afternoon we started to make posters about voting for the new Pope. We did our daily mile then lastly for IDL we are soon going to start a new topic about Japan.

On Tuesday we did a letter on the netbooks to our woodland friends then we carried on with our a monster calls book. And in the evening made our mini ovens and made s’mores. Also we did drama and we played some games.

On Wednesday, both P7 went to St Margaret’s high school to take part in a sports competition against other schools. And it was called the almond cup. We did a mix of things like tennis, football, javelin and wheelie races. and St. john Ogilvie got 3rd place!

On Thursday morning P7 did music with Mrs Morrison getting things ready for the graduation. For PE we did an activity game with Mrs Lafferty. After maths, in the afternoon for outdoor learning P7 went pond dipping. P7a went to the burn just near Eliburn, and finding some bugs/fish in the water, with our nets. P7 caught loads of fish then releasing them into the water, back into the wild. It was a fun time.

On Friday in the morning we are finishing our Pope Francis posters but then after that is House Groups. During house groups we are gonna be talking, about and doing an activity about hope. For maths we are gonna do timetables then lastly of our week we have Fun Friday, P7A had a fun and interesting week.

Madeleine.

Have a great Long-weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7A

Another great week in P1 and a very exciting one at that!

A letter appeared this week in our classroom from a Dragon looking for our help to rebuild Fairyland. We did fantastic writing to write back to the dragon and to thank us he left us some special castle books to keep all our Fairyland tasks in. We have a post box in the area where we can post our letters and pictures to Fairyland.

The dragon told us in his letter about living in a castle, we decided to learn about castles and their features. We drew our own castles and labelled their features.

This week we have also been revising sounds we have learned so far in P1, looked at capital letters and how to form them and also started to think about place value – how numbers are made up of tens and ones.

We hope you all have a fantastic long weekend.