St John Ogilvie Primary School

Our week started with a letter from the dragon who left us some magic beans to plant. The next day the children came into class to find they had grown into a gigantic beanstalk up through the clouds to a castle.

We decided to read ‘Jack and the Beanstalk’ and worked on retelling the story in our own words, through drama and sequencing pictures from the story into the correct order.

Lucas – The giant says Fe Fi Fo Fum I smell the blood of an Englishman.

Martyna – I liked acting out the story.

We drew our own beanstalks and imagined ourselves climbing it, using our senses to write what we would see and hear and thought about what the giant was eating for his dinner for what we could smell.

Connor – I can smell chicken nuggets.

Rose – I can smell chips.

Enso – I can smell egg and soldiers.

We used estimation strategies to estimate how many magic beans would fit in different size tubs and shapes. We also continued skip counting to count our steps up the beanstalk and started to think about sharing equally between two.

We also enjoyed play in the area where some children chose role play, sand, water and play dough.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well.

This week in P3A the highlights were:

• Learning what a recount is, identifying its different parts and understanding what each of them should include.
• Exploring a Reading Comprehension about Plastic pollution and its impact on animals and the planet.
• Practising the spelling of high frequency words that are always being used and that can be particularly challenging.
• In Maths, we are loving fractions and have learned how to find a half and a quarter of shapes, even shapes that are divided into many different parts. We have also explored the close link between fractions and division and have solved many exercises about it.
• Our Right of the week was Article number 6, which is all about what children need in order to survive and reach their full potential, which initiated a very interesting class discussion.
• We have continued our work drawing the endangered animals and they are looking amazing!
• Last week we have started learning about how May is the month of Mary and we talked about how important Mary is and why she is considered Mother of God, Mother of the Church and our Heavenly Mother. We’ve created our own pictures of Mary together with beautiful bouquets of flowers to make a May, month of Mary display and we think it is going to be adorable!
• We would like to congratulate Emily for being our Hot Chocolate of the week! Well done, Emily! Thank you for being an amazing and lovely role model for all!🥇👏👏👏🥰

We would also like to congratulate Gryffindor for winning the weekly House Prize!!!!!Go Gryffindor!!!!

Finally, we send our Well done to the following boys and girls who, because of their efforts during the whole week to be good listeners, excellent workers and kind classmates, got to enjoy Reward time today:

Pola, Zosia, Olivier, Kyle, Kayla, Julia, Ollie, Chiji, Ben, Ella, Eva and Emily!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

That’s all for now, we say goodbye wishing you all a great weekend!

Mrs Valente and P3A😘😘

We have been learning about Jack and the Beanstalk this week. The dragon left us some magic seeds and some magic soil. When we planted them a beanstalk grew in our classroom! We read the story and then we went on an adventure using our imaginations to climb up the beanstalk. We could see clouds, a huge door and big furniture. We drew our own beanstalks and  we stuck our photographs on them to look like we were climbing up. We also did some writing about the things we could see, hear and touch when we climbed up.

In maths, we have been counting forwards and backwards in 2s, 5s and 10s. We had a special sheet to help us with our take away and we had to find the correct number for the sum by using the pictures of things from the Jack and the Beanstalk story.

In science, we were learning about things that use mains electricity and things that use batteries. We also learned about the dangers of electricity and how we can keep safe.

We were playing in the Outdoor Classroom on Friday. We played with the toys outside and inside the classroom. We had to spell words by tapping the correct flowers on the wall.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Vasilisa – I enjoyed drawing.

Summer Rose – I enjoyed doing outdoor learning.

Joshua – I enjoyed making the castle and building the Lego house.

Olga – I enjoyed using my imagination going on the beanstalk.

Lillian – I enjoyed learning about safety rules.

Oliver – I enjoyed outdoor learning.

Miss Stebbing – I enjoyed seeing everyone’s reaction to the beanstalk growing in our classroom.

Congratulations to Vedansh who is this week’s Hot Chocolate winner.

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’