St John Ogilvie Primary School

Forward Plan overview Term 4 P3B

This has been a very exciting week in Primary 1A! On Monday, we had a visit from a friendly dragon. The dragon left us a letter, which told us that Fairyland was destroyed and that he needed our help to rebuild it. Of course, we agreed to help and we wrote letters to the dragon to tell him.  We posted our letters in the special ‘D-Mail’ post box that he had left for us. On Wednesday, the dragon left us another letter that had lots of burnt bits on it as he was so happy we had agreed to help and little bits of fire had popped out of his mouth. He also left us some castle books so that we can keep all our Fairyland work in them. We can’t wait to see what tasks the dragon leaves us to complete! We learned about different castles and the parts of a castle after the dragon told us he used to protect a castle in Fairyland. We drew pictures of a castle and wrote a sentence about it. We even remembered to use the word ‘and’.

In maths, we have been learning to tell the time to half past the hour. We have been practising this using the Stop the Clock game where we have to match the analogue and digital clocks. We also used the part, part, whole model to complete some missing number addition sums.

In RE, we learned the story of the Good Shepherd and The Wedding Feast at Cana.

For Outdoor Learning, we listened to the story ‘Not a Stick’. We then had to find a stick and use our imaginations. It was a bit wet in the woodland so we saw lots of minibeasts. We loved trying to find lots of different minibeasts under the logs and in the leaves.

Our sunflower seeds have grown a lot over the past week and we have been very excited to see the difference each day. We have reminded Miss Stebbing to make sure they are watered!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Summer Rose – I enjoyed going to the woodland.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed seeing the animals in the woodland.

Harald – I enjoyed finding creatures in the woodland.

Connor – I enjoyed finding the animals and pretending the sticks were something else in the woodland.

Lillian – I enjoyed holding the woodlouse.

Eve – I enjoyed going up to the woodlands and finding bugs.

Filip – I enjoyed finding some bugs and a spider.

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

Dear Parents and Carers,

This week we have been extremely busy in Primary 3B.

We have been focusing on revising our knowledge of number and the four operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and applying these to worded problems. We have also been practising our mental maths strategies as part of our morning starters.

In literacy we have practised spelling and reading within our groups through a variety of strategies and questioning techniques. As a class we watched and read about Marli the Puffin and how plastic pollution affected her. Next week children will revisit this by completing a comprehension task. Furthermore, we have examined singular and plural and how this changes the spellings of animals’ names. Following an episode of newsround, we also wrote our own opinions about ‘What happened to Gary the Gorilla?’.

In Spanish we continue to learn the parts of the body and in Health we have been learning different emotion words to help us express ourselves.

We continue our topic ‘Endangered Animals’ and enjoyed finding definitions using both the classroom dictionaries and the Children’s Online Dictionary, using our Ipads. We have began practising for our class assembly on May 19th, which will focus on this current topic.

Congratulations to Addison, who is this week’s Hot Chocolate Award winner!

Please find the learning overview attached for term 4.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Broadley x

Hi Families of Primary 2A,

We have had another exciting week of learning.

In RE we have been learning about doubting Thomas and the story of ‘The Good Shepherd’. In literacy we learned the magic e sound, u-e. We began to learn how to write recounts and enjoyed studying the recount of ‘My Holiday Diary’. In numeracy we have been learning to multiply and divide by two.

The children really enjoyed planting seeds on Thursday. They are very excited to see if their cress grows and are doing a great job of caring for their seeds by watering them and making sure they have sunlight.

Here are some highlights from pupils in P2A:

Aadya and Vivien – We had lots 0f fun planting seeds.

Rory, Laura and Tadiwa – We liked learning the 2 times tables.

Linda and Jiade – We enjoyed learning how to divide by 2.

Diana – I enjoyed free writing  Friday. I wrote about unicorns.

Huge congratulations to Rory, our hot chocolate winner!

Here is a copy of our Term 4 overview:

Forward-Plan-overview-Term-4-P2

Have a lovely weekend!

Four Capacities this week in Primary 7b:

Confident Individuals

Rebecca: ‘ I have noticed that Lucia has been more confident in class.’

Hanna: ‘ Tanya really showed us what a confident individual sounds like by singing beautifully in our show rehearsal.’

Anthony:  ‘I am being confident because I am engaging so well in the drama.’

Successful Learners

Connor: ‘ Tim has been answering a lot more in Numeracy.’

Debbie: ‘ I have been more on top of my HW this week and asking Miss Smith for advice about my discussion.’

Responsible Citizens

The  class have been more responsible in terms of asking for hard copies of their HW, and, there has been a consented effort to keep the classroom tidier.

Effective Contributors 

Zak: ‘ Rupert has been contributed so much when note taking for our WW2 Topic.’

Miss Smith: ‘ Julek has been absolutely smashing it by contributing his prior knowledge of WW2 causes.’

Congratulations to Julia last week for being awarded Hot Chocolate. Julia is kind and respectful to everyone and she has been trying particularly hard to contribute more in class discussions. Your class and your teacher are so proud of you.

This Week’s Hot Chocolate Winner: Congratulations to Debbie for being an excellent researcher for any encountered vocabulary we meet, and, being able to show such a strong understanding in how evidence can strengthen your point of view in a discussion piece of writing.

We are very proud of how hard working P1B have been this week. They have followed school rules brilliantly and enjoyed learning experiences.

We have begun skip counting in 2s, 5s and 10s. We have also been learning how to work out the missing number in a calculation.

Khaleesi – I enjoyed counting songs.

Cameron – I liked doing maths group time.

Aaron – I like that we are allowed to do maths.

Luca – I liked watching counting songs and singing them.

Azmeer – I liked drawing number blocks.

We have been unscrambling words to put them into a sentence that makes sense. We also wrote a letter to the dragon.

JJ – I liked reading books.

We were all very excited to have a visit from a dragon. He left us a letter and asked us to help rebuild Fairyland. He also left us castle books to decorate. We learned about the features of a castle, drew our own castles and wrote a fantastic sentence.

Martyna – I liked learning about castles.

Following on from our Earth Day work last week, we were set a challenge to turn a toilet roll tube into a character. Please check out Seesaw to see the results.

Owen – I liked making toilet roll characters.

Faye – I like making a Rapunzel.

Rose – I liked making Cinderella.

Have a lovely long weekend!