St John Ogilvie Primary School

HAPPY FRI-YAY! 

Primary 7B have apparently had the best week… 2 days off – how great! However, I was also informed that the learning has also been great too, I’m glad to say!

Vivaan, Alex, Kuba and Alex loved Algebra this week! I must say that the whole class are putting in an amazing effort in numeracy! They should all be very proud.

The children are enjoying reading our novel, ‘The Boy in The Striped Pyjamas’! We have been doing a great job analysing the text using our reciprocal reading strategies.

To finish off our amazing work on democracy, the children took part in their very own election process! I have been so impressed since we returned to school, the children have showcased their leadership, creativity, critical thinking and communication skills! We had a great group reflection on the process also! Well done Primary 7, you have all worked so hard and today it has really paid off!

Please click the link below to see the Term 4 overview!

Forward-Plan-overview-T4-2022

Have a great weekend P7!

Mr Pentland 😀

Dear Parents,

Our topic has been Democracy and we have been learning about Local, Scottish and U.K. Politics. We have created our own new parties with their own manifestos. We decided to focus on what we would do to improve our own school. Very local democracy in action.

inviting the P6s to our hustings, our 10 brave candidates gave their speeches and we held a vote. A big well done to Lucy and Swag Scotland Party from 7b, who won by a single vote!

Preparation for Confirmation continues and it won’t be long now. Father Simon brought in a Bishop’s Crook and Mitre for the confirmandi to try out as Archbishop Leo will be celebrating the confirmation with our P7s. Here are a few new bishops!

Here is the curriculum overview for Term 4 to share with you what we will be covering up to June.

Forward Plan overview T4 2022

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7a.

It has been a bit of a strange week in Primary 3 with the two holidays splitting up our learning. However, on the days that the children have been in school, we are proud to say, they have worked super hard!

Maths – We have been working on rounding numbers to the nearest 10 and 100.  We have also been practising measuring classroom items using cm’s  and mm’s.  Today we did a bit of maths problem solving with a partner and as you can see from the photos, we all worked very well together to solve the problems.

Literacy – This week we wrote a piece of personal writing about a special day in our life.  The children had to recount the events of the day in the correct order, whilst also including details and feelings.

HWB – We have been learning about the Eatwell Plate and how to eat a balanced diet.  The children worked together to sort different types of food into the correct food groups.  I wonder if they can tell you the names of the different food groups and which ones we should eat most of?

Learning Highlights:

Daniel:  I enjoyed Free Writing Friday.

Ishani M:  I like measuring different things in the classroom using a ruler.

Stefi:  I liked doing the Maths problem solving with my partner.

Matteo:  I enjoyed doing rounding in Maths.

Markuss: I liked writing about a day in my life.

Jonah:  I loved doing javelin throwing in PE.

We hope you have a wonderful weekend!

P3B

Even though it has been a short week, we have been very busy. On Tuesday, we had a visit from the Giant. He made a huge mess in our classroom. We were very mad at him because we had to tidy up all the mess. Even the chairs were upside down and the tables were all moved.  He left footprints on the floor and we had to measure using them to find things bigger or smaller. At writing time, we made wanted posters and we put them up all around the school.  We had to describe the Giant.

In Science, we read Day Monkey Night Monkey and talked about the sun, moon and stars. We had to stick the sun and moon at the right pictures.

In PE, we went to different levels to practise our over throwing. We also did under throw. It was great fun!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Caleb – I liked playing with the lego.

Vivien – I enjoyed playing with the bikes.

Diana – I enjoyed playing with everything.

Zion – I enjoyed playing at PE.

Shay – I liked playing with the all the toys.

Jiade – I liked playing with marble run.

Our learning about Children Rights this week was Article 31 – Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities. We spent

For our Outdoor Learning this week we created a circle in the school ground using rakes and spade to clear an area for a Sunflower Circle to attract bees and insects to our grounds. On Friday we started to plant Sunflower seeds which will be transplanted into our circle in a few weeks. Next week we aim to plant more sunflowers and plant bedding plants into reuseable items pupils bring from home. e.g. wellington boots too small or with holes.

In math we have continued investigating symmetry of 2D shapes and calculating radius, diameter and circumference of circles which helped us with clearing a circle for our Sunflowers.

We researched different areas of daily life which the Scottish Government make decisions about. This we learned more about democracy by listening to P7 speeches and voting for the party we most agreed with.

We aim to complete writing our House/Vice Captain speeches and start rehearsing presentation techniques. We aim to start recording them over the coming weeks before sharing them with the School community. Pupils brought in Reading homework that they had decided upon in their group. I was very impressed by the amount of effort they put in to share their understanding of the book they had chosen.

In RE we  explored the Gift Fear of the Lord (Wonder & Awe for God’s creation).

Pupil Highlights:

Sylvia: I liked doing the task where we had to choose a song and match a times tables to it to help us learnt them.

Olivier: I liked singing Happy Birthday to Joshua.

Daisy: I liked clapping and clicking my fingers to the beat of 80s music.

Aoife: I liked Miss Skelton arriving to our class.

Joshua D: I liked learning about Miss Skelton.

Josh N: I liked making the welcome card with Sam for Miss Skelton.

Adam: I liked typing my exposition  ‘ Every child Should be able to Play Video Games.’

Marriyah:  I liked finding the area of  rectangles using the formula, area = length x breadth

Ronan: I liked making my mastermind weapon and learning about WW1 with Miss Skelton.

Here is our learning overview for this term.

P1 Learning Overview Term 4

It has been another very busy week in p1B.

We had another visit from the Friendly Dragon from Fairyland.  He was very excited to see the leaves we made last week and used them to make a magical beanstalk in our classroom.  He also left us Castle Books to put all our learning about Fairyland in to keep it safe.  We decorated our castle books drawing lots of different fairy tale characters.  We have also been writing letters and drawing pictures for the Dragon and posting them in our ‘D Mail’ post box.

In Literacy this week we continued to practise our sounds and common words.  We also completed a piece of persuasive writing.  We had to decide if Jack should choose the hen or the golden harp to take from the Giant’s castle.  Mrs Russell was very impressed with all our hard work.

In Art we created our own beanstalk using pencils and crayons.  We used cotton wool for the clouds and added a photograph of ourselves.  It looked like we were climbing up our own magical beanstalk.  We have them displayed in the area outside our classroom.

In Maths and Numeracy we have been counting in 2’s and 10’s.  We are learning some counting songs which is making it lots of fun.  We also looked at addition and subtraction sums as well.

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

Safaa is our Reading Champion and well done to the Green Table who won the most table points this week.

We hope you all have a lovely Bank Holiday weekend and we can’t wait for Tuesday to see if anything magical has happened in our classroom or if we receive a letter from the Dragon again.