St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello everyone, we hope you have all had a lovely week!

We have had yet another wonderful week back at school-with lots to report!

Throughout the week we have been planning and drafting our exciting narratives. We have been working really hard on ensuring we paint a detailed image in our reader’s mind and using figurative language to uplevel our writing. Super work as always P5A! We have also loved using technology to help us classify and define our spelling words this week; this has been fantastic for our independence and individual spelling development.

This week we have continued to explore decimals with a big focus on using mental strategies for addition and subtraction calculations. We particularly enjoyed using an iPad app to measure and add together each of our heights and building, adding and subtracting decimals using giant floor dominoes!  This was Inaayah’s highlight of the week! We also had great fun learning lots more about measurement with Mrs Callaghan on Tuesday.

On Monday we spent some time co-planning the upcoming term and week, based on our own individual interests and goals. Vijval mentioned that he would love to do some biology so we made this our mission and started a Biodiversity topic through our science and IDL time (this fits in really well with our John Muir learning!). We investigated and researched living things, the need for classifications and all of the different types of animals and plants on Earth. To present our learning to others, we all collaborated on a huge floormat poster which will cover our classroom wall once complete! We absolutely loved getting creative and taking ownership of our own learning. Leo said this was his favourite part of the week.

Emili and Emily’s say that their highlight of the week was definitely creating their own John Muir journals! We will use these to document all that we learn and enjoy over the next few months. As these journals are personal to us and our interests, they can be taken home and added to whenever we feel we would like to document something. We can include research, pictures, drawings, poems, stories or anything else that is relevant to our John Muir learning.

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week was Francesca. She was incredibly helpful and respectful in class and continues to show immense maturity and responsibility for her own learning. Congratulations Francesca!

Similar to last week, we had lots of names on the recognition board by Friday! We were focusing on our school value of Respect and we did a fabulous job! Well done everyone!

Thank you for reading and have a lovely weekend!P5A and Miss Ventisei 

Here is an overview of our upcoming learning for this term:

Hi P6B families,

Another great week full of fantastic learning.

Teacher highlights:

• Up-levelling our descriptive writing by exploring ‘Show Don’t Tell’ sentences. Instead of just telling the reader what the character is doing/how they are feeling, we looked at how we can show them by using description and setting the scene up.
• Exploring Fairy tales/traditional stories and discussing how we can have alternative perspectives.
• In RE, we discussed our skills and talents and linked them to future aspirations. We looked at a story which reminded us that God always has a plan for us.

Pupil highlights:

• Jayden – enjoyed writing his Narrative story and including an alternative perspective to make the story more interesting to the reader.
• Praise – enjoyed creating geodesic domes with cocktail sticks and jelly sweets. We have been discussing how triangles are used in different structures due to their strength.
• Gracie and Vivien – enjoyed reading the ‘Tale of Three Tress’ for RE and creating a beautiful art piece.

This weeks photos:

Here is our termly overview:

Have a great weekend and see you on Monday!

Miss MacGregor

Dear Parents and Carers

It has been a fun week in Primary 3b.

This week we have enjoyed…….

• Health and Wellbeing – learning about the people who help to look after us and how they do their jobs..
• Music – looking at the different notes/sound waves
• P. E – passing skills (bounce and chest passes)
• Free reading and drawing
• Spanish – learning the four seasons of the year (Otono, Verano, Primavera and Invierno)
• Our Class Novel – The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe ‘My favourite character is Lucy’ (Daniel), ‘I liked it when Lucy went through the wardrobe’ (Scott), ‘I like the Faun’ (Ella)
• Reading work in class
• Topic Work (West Lothian) – we located Scotland on a map and next week we will locate West Lothian on a map of Scotland

A big well done to our Hot Chocolate Award Winner – Rowan! Rowan has been ready to learn all week and has shown fantastic listening skills!

See you next week!

Mrs Broadley

This week, as part of our learning about Children’s Rights, we examined articles 7 and 8 which highlight our right to have a name, be registered and nationality so that our Government can plan ahead for our education. We recognised that we all have a unique identity which is shaped by our family, friends and where we live. Our names are special and are chosen by the people who love us most and we should use peoples names kindly. In our narrative writing we have been writing using Scots words. Most of us found this to be fun and unusual but some of us found it tricky.

Our Topic this year is focussed on exploring nature and learning more about the Internationally famous environmentalist John Muir. This week pupils were given a journal for them to draw, write, stick things into. They are already taking control of the design of their journal, inside and out. They will follow their own adventure through nature writing, sketching and taking part in practical tasks outdoors that will help them understand their own local environment.

In Science we were investigating the lifecycle of a flower and next week we will be dissecting flowers to see how the stem transports water around the plant and how the leafs soak up sunlight to create its own food source – photosynthesis.

This week in math we have been adding and subtracting using decimals to 2 digits we will be using digits to multiply and divide over the next few weeks. We have also been doing measuring activities. Using a metre tape and rulers to measure                                               our height, length of legs, arms etc. We had a lot of fun.

We have had a great week in P1B. Both Mrs Meikle and Mrs Russell have been happy with how well we have followed our school rules. We have all worked really hard.

This week we have enjoyed learning about Chinese New Year. We made red envelopes and dragon masks.

Enso – I liked making Chinese dragon masks.

We have been learning about odd and even numbers. We liked making odd and even monsters.

Khaleesi – I liked learning odd and even.

We have been learning the common words He/She and how to use them in a sentence. We also learned all about the sound and letter j. We tried to write a narrative story.

Faye – I liked writing a story.

We learned about the parts of our bodies.

On Wednesday we went a walk around our school to find out more about our local area.

Katie – I liked choosing learning in the area.

Forward Plan Overview Term 3 P7

Pupil Highlights:

Alex:  This week, we started to look at and explore discussion types of writing. The purpose of a discussion text is to present two different sides of an argument, for and against.

Liam: This week we finished our Learning for Sustainability power point,  ‘ Russia and Ukraine, what do all the words mean?’

Zak: This week we have finally finished making our fraction walls and we look forward to going to primary one or primary three to show them how to make this. Why are we going to ‘teach’ another class how to do something?  Rupert: ‘because the most effective way of learning a skill or an idea is to teach others how to do so.

Hannah: We learnt about the life of Anne Frank and we are going to make an academic poster.

Kieran: We created a power point to explain the meaning of the words related to the war in Ukraine.

Lucia: We created power points to show our understanding of a discussion text. We had to create a key to show the structure, then, we had to describe the purpose of the introduction specific to the text we chose. We had to explain the arguments for and against, in our own words. We then had to identify the author’s opinion in the conclusion, and , describe it in our own words.

Olly: Monique worked very hard over the holidays to produce the first part of the drama that P7B will perform. This is going to be the story ‘ The Wizard of Oz.’

Hot Chocolate Winner: I am delighted to announce a pupil has been smashing it all in areas of the

curriculum. Liam! we are so proud of you.

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This week we have been learning about the ‘y’ sound. We have also been continuing our work on Narrative writing. We wrote a story all about a little boy looking at a scooter. We had to use our sounds and our word bank to help us write the words.

In maths, we have been learning about odd and even numbers. We read a story all about Osman Odd and Eshal Even who muddled up their shopping. We had to help them sort out the even and odd items.

In science, we left cups of water and balloons filled with water outside overnight. It was so cold that the water turned to ice. We then put them in the water tray to investigate.

Throughout the week, we have been learning about the celebrations for Chinese New Year. We learned about the dragons and lion dancer. We heard the story about Nian the monster and all the things they had to do to scare away the monster. We made a lucky envelope, couplets, a lantern and a dragon.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Summer Rose – I enjoyed doing the dragons.

Lillian – I enjoyed doing the lanterns.

Oliver – I enjoyed drawing.

Connor – I enjoyed playing.

Vedansh – I enjoyed playing outside.

Alexander – I enjoyed playing with my friends.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed with everyone trying to read words by segmenting and blending the sounds.

Congratulations to Oliver who is our hot chocolate winner this week.

These are the learning experiences we plan to cover this term in Primary Two:

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Blue Table: (The children have new seats for the new year so may now be seated at a different table.  They did have the choice of staying at their old seat if they wanted.)

Safaa enjoyed looking up Google Earth this week.  Our new Topic is ‘Local Jobs and Places of Work’.  After listing all the jobs nearby they could think of, we then tried to spot them on Google Earth.  I know some of the children were so excited about this that they looked up their address as soon as they went home!

Evana loved the story Mrs Lea read to the children called ‘Aliens Love Underpants’.  The class then designed their own alien and Evana drew her alien with stripes and zigzags on its’ underpants.

Amariah-Grace said the highlight of her week was playing in our ‘Barclay Medical Practice’ role-play area (linked to our new Topic).  She came to the doctors because she had a sore leg.  Thankfully, the doctor was able to make it all better.

Olivia liked our maths lesson on the months of the year.  The class worked together to create an AMAZING 2023 calendar for the classroom!  Olivia, (along with her partner, Karina) was responsible for August and the detail of that picture was impressive.   You will find your child’s fantastic contribution to the calendar on Seesaw over the weekend.  I know you will be as proud of them as I am!

Blair said he was really interested in the learning that took place around keeping safe in the home this week.  The children identified dangers in different rooms in the house and are keen to educate their family at home, if they spot anything that does not look safe.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our Number Talk lesson about using Friendly Numbers to help us find the answers to subtraction calculations (we will later make the link with addition).  We are going to be continuing this learning into next week but I was so impressed with how quick some of the children picked this new concept up.  Look out for a photograph below, of one clever cookie, demonstrating this to us.

Congratulations to Blair, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

Homework will resume as normal on Monday.

On Tuesday, we hope to go for a walk around our local area to spot some of the places to work that we found on Google Earth.  Please send your child to school that day dressed for wet weather conditions.  Thank you.  I will put a reminder of this out on Seesaw on Monday evening.

As always, thank you for your continued support and I wish you all a HAPPY NEW YEAR and I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend!