St John Ogilvie Primary School

In writing this week, we started to write our adventure narratives.  We started by drawing pictures of our setting and main character(s) and then we used a planning sheet to briefly describe the plot, making sure we followed the structure of a narrative.  Then, we began to write the introduction (the opening paragraph).  We had to describe our setting (place) and our characters using lots of adjectives, non-finite clauses, expanded noun phrases and adverbial phrases.  Today, we worked with a partner.  We took it in turns to read out our paragraph, and the other person had to picture in their head what their partner described.  We drew the setting and characters that we could imagine based on their description, and then we worked together to see if we could improve that description.

In PE this week, we went outside now that it is warmer.  We were very happy about this!  We played some games using the compass directions and changing our speed.

In Spanish, we learnt about body parts and the weather.

Our highlights:

Jonah: I liked doing PE, especially the speed game and the compass game.

Jude: I liked doing the start of our narrative because I used non-finite clauses and expanded noun phrases to make my writing really, really descriptive.

Mariam: I enjoyed doing the narrative because I got to write my favourite type of story.

Feranmi: I enjoyed doing the body parts and the weather in Spanish because it was fun.

Well done to Feranmi who is our hot chocolate winner this week!

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Brown

Dear parents and loved ones,

Here is an overview of our week:

Literacy: We have been working hard on our exposition writing. On Monday the class decided which topic they would like to write about and decided upon:

‘All children should have time to play football during school time’.

We worked really hard on Thursday and Friday to include lots of powerful and emotive language, complex conjunctions and time sequence words to persuade our reader. We did a fantastic job!

The children also enjoyed creating another episode of their reciprocal reading podcasts.

Maths: This week we have been focusing on using mental and written division strategies to solve tricky word problems. We discussed methods such as chunking, the bus stop method and using our multiplication knowledge. We also really enjoyed a new style of numbertalks this week where we had to work out the total amount of cubes used to build a 3D structure.

We have also been working on telling the time, using an analogue clock and we are growing in confidence with this! Please remember to practice at home everyone!

Languages: This week we have been learning how to ask and say our name in French. We have also been learning how to greet each other and respond to simple phrases. We played a really fun musical game with lots of French singing to practice!

Outdoor Learning: This week we were learning about a special type of artwork called ‘land art’. We researched some famous artists who specialise in this type of art and then visited the woodland to create our very own! The children were very confident with identifying their own patterns and lines of symmetry.

Science: We have been learning about the human body this term, so this week we focused on the digestive system! We watched an interesting documentary and then worked collaboratively to research the process and involved organs a little bit deeper! We have made some fantastic infographic posters to display around the classroom.

Right of the Week: This week’s Right of the Week was article 6 which recognises that all children and young people have the right to survive and the right to develop. We worked in groups to think about everything a newborn baby needs to survive and develop and then compared this with the needs of a teenager. We found lots in common but also lots of different things too!

R.E. : We have continued to learn about Mary since it is the month of May. We have really enjoyed listening to some lovely Mary-inspired hymns and looking at some Mary icon artwork. Some of us even created our very own fantastic Mary artwork.

Thank you for another excellent week P5A!

Hi! It’s Siddharth and Niamh, this weeks lead learners. We hope you have had a good week. This is this weeks blog. We have been doing B.O.D.M.A.S in maths  and in literacy we are now doing exposition  texts. This is going to help us with our speeches for house and vice captains for next year – we are starting to think about these! Also, throughout the week we have been learning about substance misuse in health and wellbeing and learning about the different effects and risks they have on the body. On Thursday we went outside and played football with P7B. Everyone worked well as a team.

Pupil highlights:

I enjoyed algebra revision during math.-Aditya

I enjoyed the substance misuse scenarios in health and wellbeing and identifying the risks for different situations -Sophia

I liked doing B.O.D.M.A.S in math -Praise

I found it fun doing the exposition on why Miss MacGregor should be our teacher next year. We had to convince her why she should be our P7 teacher, using persuasive techniques.-Gracie

Ali was the winner of the hot chocolate this week. He has been working hard, well done!

Thank you for reading and we hope you have a great weekend.

Siddharth and Niamh.

*Note from Miss MacGregor

Here is our overview for the term – completely forgot to attach this the other week on the blog!

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Blue Table:

Blair said he loved making a crown for the Coronation tea party we had.  The crowns looked amazing!  Well done everyone!  I think they were even nicer than King Charles’ actual crown!  I hope you enjoy wearing them when you watch this important moment in history on Saturday.

Evana liked dancing to the ‘Cha Cha Slide’ as part of our learning about ‘left and right’.  We know we can look at our hands to help us if we forget, as one hand’s thumb and forefinger make a ‘L’ shape.  ‘L’ for left.  We also know that our right hand is the one we bless ourselves with.

Safaa said the best part of her week was our Coronation tea party!  The kids enjoyed juice and cupcakes and of course, dancing.  Mrs Craig led the conga line!

Lilly liked making a prayer flower for Mary, the mother of Jesus.  We know that May is a special month when we think about and pray more to Mary.  The children wrote some beautiful things on their flowers, such as, “Mary, you are beautiful and kind” (Ishaan) and “I love you Mary.  You have the best son” (TJ).  The children are invited to bring a flower/flowers in for our May altar.

Olivia  said the best part of her week was learning a beautiful song about Mary.  Here is the link in case your child wanted to practise is at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPISwWu7IKA

Theo liked making rosary beads.  We know that decade means 10.  During the month of May, we will pray a decade of the rosary each day after lunch.  Your child will keep their beads in their school bag.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our writing lesson, using Time Sequence words.  We examined a recount called ‘Children’s Farm’.  We will continue to examine this story next week.  Mr McGurn, one of our P7 teachers, joined us for this lesson and was very impressed with all that the class could do.  He thinks they are definitely ready to move in to P3!

A short but busy week this week with lots of learning taking place.

In Literacy we revised the sound ‘oa’, unscramble sentences and wrote about what we would do if we were the King.

In Maths we looked at number families, addends and skip counting.

We had another letter from the Dragon asking us to help build a castle.  We worked very hard and made an amazing castle to play in.  We also designed our own castles and wrote a sentence about it.

This week we learned about the Coronation of King Charles.  We listened to information about what a coronation is and made coronation crafts we made flags and crowns and also made pants for the King.  We also made a card to send to King Charles.

Today we had a Coronation Party.  Primary one and two joined together to have a celebration.  We had a parade through the school and then had a party in the Hall.  We even got to dance!  Everyone had a great time.

Today we also got to take our sunflower seeds home as they have started to grow.

Our learning highlights

JJ ‘I liked Gym’

Martyna ‘I liked writing about castles’

Cameron ‘I liked making the crowns’

Khaleesi ‘I liked making the castles’

Victoria ‘I liked watching the sunflowers grow’

Katie ‘I liked playing in the area’

Owen ‘ I liked making things in the construction’

It’s been a short week, but we have still managed to pack in lots of fun and learning!

In Maths, the children have continued to work on multiplication and division and they are getting very quick with their recall!  They have also learned the difference between left and right and practised using the ‘ChaCha Slide’ song!

In Literacy, we continued reading George’s Marvellous Medicine, the children love the story and can’t wait to find out what will happen next.

Today, we had a Coronation party to celebrate the King’s Coronation.  The children made flags and crowns and we paraded through the school.  Afterwards, we went to the hall, where we had some cake and juice followed by some dancing.

Here are a few highlights from the children:

Angel: I liked the party with the music.

Grace:  I enjoyed making flags and crowns to celebrate the King’s Coronation.

Jack:  I enjoyed Free Writing Friday.  I wrote about Legoland.

Diana: I loved the activities about the Coronation.

Linda:  I loved the party in the hall!

Laura: I liked learning about Mother Teresa.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and enjoy the extra Monday holiday!

This week, we wrote an adventure narrative about a lighthouse keeper called Chris (Class write).  We were inspired by this story:  https://youtu.be/6HfBbSUORvo  In our story, the light broke in Chris’s lighthouse and a ship was coming.  The villagers came up to help Chris.  Half of them fixed the light and the other half stood outside with their lanterns.  We made our narrative really exciting because we used lots of adjectives and exciting verbs/adverbs to add description and detail.  We used non-finite clauses, fronted adverbials and expanded noun phrases.  We did a great job and next week, we are going to write our own narratives using just as much description.  We have been set a challenge of starting to think about what we want to happen in our stories, including the setting, the characters and what could go wrong.

In maths, we finished off looking at measuring using cm and mm.  We now know how to confidently measuring using a ruler and how to convert between mm and cm.  Mrs Brown has reminded us to do our maths homework on Sumdog each week because many of us keep forgetting!

Here are a couple of examples of our art from last week:

Highlights:

Matteo: I enjoyed music because we used drumsticks to make rhythms.  We had to use our jotters as a drum pad.  Mrs Morrison said that if we ever want to use drum sticks, a mouse pad is also good for this.  We had to remember to keep our elbows up and the stick needs to bounce up.

Ishani S: I liked writing the story because it had lots of description in.

Dhanvi: I liked writing the story because you liked using description and adding detail.

Jude: I liked doing the drums with Mrs Morrison because my grandad had drums and I got to use them once.

Aiden: I liked the writing because the story was amazing and I was very interested in the story.  My partner and I chose Chris’s name.

Layla: I liked PE because we got to play Bulldogs and the hook arm game (linking tag).

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Brown

Term 4 overview