St John Ogilvie Primary School

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!

This week in numeracy, we started our unit on measurement.  We’ve been measuring items around the classroom/area in mm, cm and m’s.  We have also been using our knowledge of the 10 times table to convert between cm and mm.

In writing, we have been learning about adventure narratives.  We watched a short film about a lighthouse keeper where something goes wrong.  We used our comprehension skills to predict what might have gone wrong before we watched it, and to predict how the problem might be solved once we’d learnt what the problem was.  We have been planning our own class narrative based on this, adapting the story line to show our own ideas, and have begun writing a shared narrative together.

We created some optical illusion art work with Mrs Lea this week too, and we tapped in rhythms using drumsticks with Mrs Morrison.  We have also learnt days and months in Spanish.  In PE, we played different tig games, including the linking arms game we played last week, and we started our athletics unit, beginning with javelin.

Our highlights:

Jude: I loved doing javelin because I do athletics (including javelin) on Tuesdays.

Matteo: I enjoyed tapping the rhythms with Mrs Morrison because we had to look on the smartboard and it had red squares and yellow circles, which told us what to tap. Red squares represented one syllable and yellow circles represented two syllables.

Ishani M: I enjoyed doing the optical illusion art with Mrs Lea because it was fun and it was really hard to do but I really enjoyed it.

Layla: I liked maths because it was really fun and it was challenging.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Brown

Dear families and loved ones,

We have had a really good week. We started our new project this week: bigotry and racism. Most of our work has been based around this. For literacy we have been reading about different influential figures across the world and their inspiring stories that have and continue to shape our world.

We are looking at Scotland, its people and how our country fits into the world. We are a small nation of a wonderfully diverse population and the children are loving learning about and challenging different issues here and across the world.

We have been using our notes from discussion and reading to inform our writing and I must say, I’m impressed by the level of engagement and work that has been produced.

The most important voices:

This week the children believe they have all been successful, confident, contributors and responsible. Here is what they have to say:

Successful Learner

“I used my numeracy skills when researching and learning about bigotry and racism” – Olivier

“I can explain what racism is” – Emily

“I learned how to play a new version of tig in PE” – Patrick

“I used my learning to write an information report on Rosa Parks” – Joshua

Confident Individual 

“I worked on my own this week to write my information report” – Grant

“I was aware of my self when discussing my identity and talking about me” – Sam

“I understand that people have different beliefs and that not all those beliefs are good. I need to be self-aware” – Emmanuel

“I set a goal this week and showed that I care” – Sylvia

Effective Contributor 

“I worked well with my friends this week when creating new games in problem solving” – Vanessa

“I like being involved with the class and talking with my friend” – Connor

“I worked well with a girl group and had my voice heard” – David

“I gave good answers and contributed to the SWOT analysis of the school grounds. I helped clean up outside the classroom fire door” – Myles

Responsible Citizen  

“I helped others and worked hard to help the school in outdoor learning” – Amelia

“I was kind and showed others respect” – Filip

“I have been respectful and problem solved in literacy when I couldn’t write” – Adam

“I showed good listening skills when I needed to” – Emily

Some Photo Highlights  

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Red Table:

Aaron said that he loved drama this week!  We explored the moral of the story, ‘The Boy Who Cried Wolf’ and the children then acted out the story.  Aaron played the role of one of the Angry Villagers.  We made links with the ‘Zones of Regulation’.  He was in the Red Zone.

Ciara really enjoyed making vegetable soup this week.  She enjoyed it so much that she had 2 servings!  What a healthy girl! I hope you enjoy the photos below that show the chopping, peeling and cooking!

Amy said that her learning highlight was our religion lesson where Jesus appeared to some of the disciples after his death when they were fishing.  Jesus told them to cast their nets over the other side of the boat as they could not catch any fish.  Their nets became close to breaking when they did this!  They then cooked and shared the fish together.  The disciples remembered the Last Supper as Jesus took the bread and gave it to them and then did the same with the fish.

Reesa loved a story we were studying this week called, ‘Who is our New Teacher?’ We looked at a different element of it each day and it linked with our comprehension and writing lessons.  Reesa loved it when Mrs Devlin pretended to be the Green Dragon and answered the childrens’ questions during a Hot Seat activity.

Georgia- Rose liked playing ‘Monkey Tig’ during PE.

Emily-Ann said she enjoyed learning how to use the dictionary.  The children were first introduced to the dictionary before the Easter holidays.  They know that the dictionary is organised into alphabetical order, that it can help with the spelling of words and that it also gives the meaning of words.  They played ‘Who can find it first?’ where they had to work with their partner to open the dictionary at a specific section and then they practised copying out meanings.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was when we went to the woodlands to make arrays for the 2 Times Tables, using natural materials (photos below).  This term we will be focusing on the 2, 5 and 10 Times Tables and links with division.  You will see this reflected in the homework also.

Congratulations to Evana, our Hot Chocolate award winner for this week!