St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello families of P2a

This week we have continued to work on subtraction within 20, using many different strategies. We learned how to use a number line to jump back and completed lots of number line challenges.

In writing, we continued to learn about narrative writing and we planned and wrote our own super narrative stories.

We enjoyed learning about different types of jobs and learned new phrases in Spanish. We can now tell people how we feel in Spanish and can ask others how they are.

Our Highlights:

Aadya – I enjoyed Spanish. I learned how to ask ‘how are you?’ and learned different ways to answer this question.

Angel – I liked writing my story about Big Dinosaur and Little Dinosaur.

Zion – My favourite thing was using the rekenreks to do subtraction.

Ollie – I loved dancing in the playground, with the Friday music, with Caleb, Rory and Jack.

Linda – I liked doing ball skills in PE.

Huge Congratulations to Tadiwa our hot chocolate winner and Chahiti, our reading champion.

Have a lovely weekend!

A few photos of our maths and literacy tasks:

We have had a great week in P4a.  This is our plan for the term.

We have had some good discussions about how to create a good story.

Our Teddies have helped.

We wrote a story about our teddy. It had an adventure.

It was nice to write about my teddy and its friend.

We learned about Robert Burns and how he wrote poems. We had a Scottish treat.

For maths we learned different words to use in multiplication.

Zofia was our Reading Champ and Sam is our Reading Champ this week.

Some people started to prepare for their Holy Communion. (We are all learning about what that means)

Ameya wins the hot chocolate at home this week. She has settled in really well.

Our library got bigger. It’s nice to have new books ( SJO is trying to create a whole school libra

ry space so we are all trying to collect in different preloved books to have a good range of titles once the space is organised – Mrs Ross)

Numeracy Homework – we are being challenged to use SUMDOG as much as we can. Aiming for 20-30 mins a week.

Wee reminder

Can homework pack please be returned on Thursdays. We try to sort and organise on a Friday morning so it helps a lot to have the jotters and books back.

Dear Parents,

Here’s what P7A got up to this week in our learning journey:

We now have our roles for Reciprocal Reading of A Monster Calls, with 4 chapters to read for next Thursday where we will complete a task and then share and discuss with our group.

In Numeracy, we have finished up the Fractions part of F.D.P and will move onto Percentages next week. Homework is now through Sumdog which the school has now paid a Subcription for. There was a diagnostic to complete to begin with, where everyone did well, and a Fractions homework task. I have also put up a 100 question bonus task on F.D.P. as some extra practice before the end of topic assessment.

Tuesday was an exciting day with our first visit to St. Margaret’s, where the children got a chance to experience some high school lessons with secondary teachers and get a feel for the building. Everyone was very excited, a little bit nervous but all enjoyed the experience. We began with a swimming lesson, followed by maths and then business. A good start to our transition to high school.

On Wednesday, as part of Burns’ Day, we got the chance tot try some haggis or vegetarian haggis if we wanted to – overall it was a hit with those who tried it and there are some in the class who never want to even smell it again! We had also had two weeks to prepare a poem or song of Robert Burns to perform for the class and everyone did braw! We took videos of our recitals but unfortunately they are too big to upload here, if you send in a usb drive, we’ll send home a copy if your child wanted a video taken.

We have concluded our work on relationships and moral education in the God’s Loving Plan scheme, approaching lessons in a mature and responsible way.

Here are some pupil highlights of the week:

Liam Said, “We went swimming in St. Margaret’s for the first time ever and for a visit. We had haggis for Robert Burns Night and did poems as well.”

Ruqayyah said, “This week we had our first St. Margaret’s transition. We did games for swimming and maths also business. In maths we had to record our strategies for seeing how many ways we can button up a coat. In business we designed our P7 to S1 transition logos on the computers. We also practiced our Burns poems for Burns’ day and recited them in front of the class! I had an amazing week in P7A!”

Millan said, ” I liked when we went to high school and it was fun. We also performed poems on Robert Burns Day, everyone had haggis, neeps and tatties.”

Zahra said, ” I  loved playing Sumdog and doing the diagnostics. I also loved doing the Burns poems.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner is…

Millan! Well done, Millan

Have a Great Weekend,

P7A and Mr McGurn

This week we wrote imaginative, narrative stories based on a film clip. Pupils came up with their own ideas about his feelings and activities. In Science we dissected flowers to investigate petals, stems, leaves etc. They glued them into their John Muir Journal as it also linked with John Muirs wonder at nature and how it works all around us. Pupils have been researching lots of different information about John Muir and his work so that they can create a powerpoint or short film which they share with you. Yesterday we enjoyed an orienteering session and look forward to parents taking part at our Assembly in a few weeks.

In Math we are continuing to learn about equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. In measurement we are finding the perimeter of shapes and knowing about decimals help us to add the measurements together. We hope everyone has a great weekend and are able to get out and explore the local area.

Pupil Highlights:

Amelia: today we are going to be having smores around the fire because it is a class reward we earned and we have had to wait till the weather been dry

Kieran: we created Anne Frank academic posters, we had to include information about on Anne Frank using subheadings.

Olly: this week in P.E  we did bench ball

Hannah: we were revising equivalent fractions and learning how to find them using a fractions wall. You can find an equivalent fraction by multiplying the numerator and denominator by the same number, or, divide them by the same number.

We also made a power point about Mrs Dwane because we wanted to thank her for all her hard work she has done for our class.

Kieran: we made a card for Tim and Olly . Some of us went around the class in secret to find out what Olly and Tim were good at.

Hot Chocolate Winner : congratulations to Susanna for her consistent effort in her work, the support she gives to her peers and her concentration and focus when working on her Anne Frank Poster.

Table Winners this week: congratulations to the table We Love Poland for improving their behaviour and their contributions in class to win this week.

Term Overview

A great week in P6.

Pupil Voice
Josh liked our work on up levelling sentences from a ‘telling sentence’ to a ‘showing paragraph’

Natalia enjoyed our HWB drama this week!

Inaya liked starting our Scots language dictionaries. They’re looking great!

David liked collaborating on the Robert Burns infographics!

Sam enjoyed RE this week, reading ‘The Tale of The Three Trees’ and creating inspiring art.

Adam enjoyed making a Robert Burns PowerPoint.

I had a great week with you all. Thank you P6.

Well done Aoife for getting the hot chocolate at home award this week! Fanatic job!

some photo highlights:

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Yellow Table:

Isabella reported that the highlight of her week, were the lessons on a new Narrative story that we have been studying, called, ‘Big Cat, Little Cat’.  A Narrative begins with addressing, who, when and where and then goes on to present a problem and a solution.  Isabella is looking forward to writing her own Narrative story next week!

Ollie enjoyed looking at the baby pictures that came in early.  The children hardly ever guessed right!  This helped us to learn that we develop and grow as we get older and that our needs and wants change.  We are looking forward to the remaining photos coming in and continuing this fun game!  Thank you parents for taking the time and effort to send them in.

Musa said that he enjoyed PE with Mrs Lafferty where the children continued to practise their ball control skills.

Tharun enjoyed our final handwriting lessons of letters in isolation.  He (and the class) are so excited to begin joined up writing now!

Lewis recounted that the best part of his week was the learning about the emergency services that can be accessed when phoning 999.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was when we learned about Chinese New Year.  The children had good fun using chopsticks, making Chinese lanterns and of course, receiving a chocolate coin in a red envelope.  Silly Mrs Devlin forgot to bring in the fortune cookies!  We have that to look forward to next week.

Congratulations to Karina, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week and to Isabella, our Reading Champion!

It looks like the weather will be much improved next week, so fingers crossed that we can go on our walk around the local area on Tuesday.

Dear Parents,

P7 have settled back in to our routine and have been learning through a wide range of interesting lessons.

In Literacy we have been enjoying our new class novel, ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness. At the moment we have been completing comprehension task on the book but we will be moving to Reciprocal Reading tasks soon.

We have also been looking at the works of Robert Burns and have poems to recite next Wednesday for Burns’ Day and we have even written replies To A Mouse, trying to use Scots and follow the structure of a Burns Stanza.

In Science we have been learning about dissolving and making a saturated solution. We then let the solution evaporate to create salt crystals.

In RE/HWB we have begun the P7 God’s Loving Plan lessons and have shown ourselves to be mature and respectful.

On Friday we celebrated Chinese New Year by making Hong Bow wallets that are shared with people at this time of tear. It also turns out most of us were born in the year of the Rabbit.

Finally here is this term’s Forward Plan Overview

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn

Please follow this link for P3′ s termly Overview😀:

Forward Plan overview Term 3 P3A 20.01