St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week as part of our learning through rights we discussed how to protect the local environment. We took part in a whole school anti-litter poster competition. We were excited to share our ideas and opinions.

Article 12 – respect for the views of the child Every child has the right to express their views, feelings and wishes in all matters affecting them, and to have their views considered and taken seriously.

Article 13 –  Every child must be free to express their thoughts and opinions and to access all kinds of information, as long as it’s it is within the law.

Article 24 – Every child has the right to the best possible health. Governments must provide good quality healthcare, clean water, nutritious food, and a clean environment and education on health and well-being so that children can stay healthy. Richer countries must help poorer countries achieve this.

Climate Smarter (Science) – This week we found out more about Solar Energy and next week we will be carrying out experiments using small solar panels.

All four Enterprise Groups have planned, designed and located the resources to start creating their first product on Monday.  Today during outdoor learning we collected a lot of twigs as it is a key part of some of the products being created.

We wrote Halloween themed sense poems

In Math we have been using coins and notes to show our understanding of money and showing the correct change. This will be a very important skill to have when selling their products during the Enterprise Sale.  Also in Math we are continusing to learn how to use protractors more accurately to measure angles.

Today both P5 classes attended the Hockey Festival at Deans High School. It was cold and rainy but everyone had fun. A few children said ‘scoring’ was the best part, others said it was when ‘their team won’ But Ashley said just playing with everyone was her best part.

We hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Ogilvie Bear has returned to our classroom after his adventures around the world. He brought us lots of postcards which we had fun looking at and discussing all the different things we could see in the pictures. We have now started our new topic all about Space. We learned about the Earth orbiting the sun and how we get day and night.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘t’ and ‘n’ sounds. We have been practising writing these letters correctly and also building words with the sounds we have learned so far. We loved watching Alphablocks to see letter ‘n’, he kept saying, ‘No!’ which made us all laugh. We have also been practising the sounds from the vowel house story and we are getting very confident with this. In writing, we wrote a sentence about the pumpkins that Miss Stebbing brought in. We did really well trying to use the sounds we could hear.

In maths, we used the pumpkins to do lots of measuring tasks. We ordered them from the smallest to the biggest and then we measured them using blocks and linking chains.  We have also been decorating them using the whiteboard pens and we wrote letters and words too.

In RE, we read the story of Abraham and Sarah. We then talked about how special our families are and drew a picture of our families in a love heart shape.

We had our first Outdoor Learning session in the Woodland and we learned all about the rules for the fire pit area. We then had some Choosing Our Own Learning time to explore the Woodland. We found lots of exciting things!

On Monday, we spotted a Fire Engine parked outside the school gates as the fire officers were in school to see the P6 and P7 pupils. We went out to have a look at the fire engine and one of the fire officers put on the lights and the siren for us. It was very exciting!

On Wednesday, we had a special PE session with the football coaches. We listened so well to the instructions and enjoyed playing the games during the warm up. We did very well scoring goals into the nets!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Lewis – I enjoyed playing with the marbles.

Maksymilian – I enjoyed playing with the trains.

Peyton – I enjoyed playing with the marble run.

Tyler T – I enjoyed sitting on the logs at Outdoor Learning.

Maja – I enjoyed playing in the water.

Joseph – I enjoyed playing with the mini cubes.

Leah – I enjoyed playing outside in the Woodland.

Miss Stebbing – I enjoyed watching everyone making potions in our potion area. I had to try some of the potions and I was turned into a frog!

Well done to Peyton who is this week’s Hot Chocolate winner.

2324P5-learning overview term 2

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

Forward Plan Overview Term 2

Hello P3A families,

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

Alicja loved receiving a Halloween ring as a big ‘well done everyone’ for their efforts in maths.  This week the children have been recording their written work in their squared maths jotters.  The children focused very hard on the correct layout.

Rory liked when we searched for the words “100% cotton” on the tags of our jumpers and cardigans after listening to our new Word Boost story, ‘The Obvious Elephant’.

Chahiti said the learning highlight of her week was Health with Mrs Broadley.  The children were thinking about things that bring happiness into their lives and the different spaces they take up in their brain.  Chahiti recorded how ‘slime’ brings her happiness as well as some things such as her family and her friends.

Ethan enjoyed it when we used the balloons again for PE as part of learning to work together.  This coming term we will be learning how to play benchball, which will indeed involve working together to win the game, as well as social dancing.

My highlight was of course seeing the children again after the holiday.  I swear they have grown an inch!

Congratulations to Hafsah, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

Another post will follow this one that will show some of the learning highlights your child will experience this term.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well and are keeping safe from this storm.🌧

In P5A we have been so busy that we didn’t even have time to think about the weather!

These were the many highlights of our week:

• The introduction to our amazing new Science Project Climate Smart and all the learning about the different kinds of energy, how to generate electricity and how electrical circuits are made. This was only our first approach to this project that will hopefully cover terms 2, 3 and probably even a part of term 4.
• Going to Mass and praying the Rosary with the people of the Parish who very kindly welcomed us in the Church on Wednesday. It was a lovely experience and the whole children seem to have enjoyed it very much.
• Revisiting how to tell the time, which is still very challenging for many but really enjoyable for others. We will continue our learning about this during term 2.
• Finishing off our Shields from our previous topic of The Scottish Wars of Independence. They’re almost all finished and ready to be displayed in our class! Exciting!
• Our cards with Poems for the person of our choice – we have been trying our best to write poems by using words to describe our emotions regarding a special person. We hope you will enjoy these when they are ready.
• Our learning about the Glorious Mysteries and where to find them in the Bible – the whole class found it very interesting.

We congratulate our Hot Chocolate of the Week, Mr John😀, who has consistently been setting an amazing example of kindness, friendship and Respect for the School Rules!🏆🥇🎉✨Well done, dear John!

In the coming week, on Friday, the 27th, both P5 classes will have the opportunity to take part in the Hockey Tournament taking place in Deans High School and they are very excited about this!😀

That is all for this week, we say goodbye for now hoping that you have enjoyed reading our post and wishing you all a happy weekend!

Mrs Valente and P5A😘

It’s been a short but busy week in Primary 2!

Ogilvie Bear travelled all the way to Australia and we have been learning some facts about life ‘down under’.  The children particularly enjoyed learning about Australian animals and made excellent factfiles about Koala’s.

In literacy, we were learning that if something is happening now, the action often ends with ‘ing’.  We then practised spelling words ending with ‘ing’.

In Maths we were rounding to the nearest 10.  We learned that numbers that end 1,2,3 0r 4, round down to the previous ten and that numbers that end in 5,,6,7,8 or 9, round up to the next ten.

We have moved onto a new block of ball skills in PE and this week we focused on throwing and catching.  The children worked with a partner to see how well they could pass the ball to each other.  They all did very well!

Here are a few learning hightlights from the children:

Enso – I loved throwing and catching in PE.

Lillian – I enjoyed drawing Koala’s in Art.

Luca – It was fun learning to count in 2’s.

Aarav – I enjoyed playing the rounding to the nearest ten game on the ipads.

Summer – I liked learning about Australia. 

Vasilisa –I loved everything!

Huge congratulations to our Hot Chocolate winner Summer! Summer is always a super star but this week she has been working extra hard and being extra kind.  Well done Summer, we are very proud of you!

Please find below our learning overview for the term:

Forward Plan overview – Term 2

We hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Welcome back everyone, this week I have attached a copy of our Learning Overview for this term.

2324P5-learning overview term 2

This week we are  exploring the lives of different people throughout Black History Month –

Article 2 (non-discrimination)

The Convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family background.

Article 30 (children from minority or indigenous groups)

Every child has the right to learn and use the language, customs and religion of their family, whether or not these are shared by the majority of the people in the country where they live.

We have also started our Climate Smarter – Young Scientist & Engineering Project. We carried out an energy audit of some of the electrical equipment we use daily in class. On Friday we created circuits lighting up bulbs, noisy buzzers and motors using clips, batteries and switches. They are all keen scientists investigating how things worked.

As part of our Christmas Enterprise Topic we have formed groups and have been working on the different responsibilities group members must have. Each Group has agreed their Business Titles and will be working on their logo’s and product selection next week.

To support our learning through Enterprise we began our practical knowledge of maths concepts of  Money and Time. This will help us create budgets and plan activities. Also in Math we are learning to measure angles using protractors. We hope to become more accurate with more practise but most people thought it was fun.

Today our whole class was able to attend 9.30 Mass at our Church. The Parish Priest presented the children with their beautiful certificates and encouraged them to follow their parents and God’s wishes. We then joined the parish for the Glorious Mysteries,

Homework begins again from Monday the 23rd of October and can be accessed through Teams but a copy of this Term’s Homework Grid and spelling words has been stuck inside Homework Jotters.