St John Ogilvie Primary School

Wow!  I can’t believe that we’re almost at the end of January!  The children have worked very hard this week and I have been very impressed with some of the mature discussions we have had through our God’s Loving Plan learning.

We’ve been doing lots of writing this week to complete our narratives.  The children have thought hard about the structure of their texts, organising them into an orientation, a complication and a resolution.  They have been pushing themselves to include lots of description and interesting past tense verbs.

The children have also spent time completing a diagnostic assessment on Sumdog in school this week.  It was very important that this was completed independently, as with all Sumdog sessions, because the algorithms adapt the questioning to tailor to each individual’s need.  From now on, the children’s weekly numeracy homework will be set on Sumdog.  They are also encouraged to go on to complete additional tasks and games as it will support them with their learning in school.

Our highlights from this week:

Amelia and Khael: We enjoyed going on Sumdog.

Jude: I enjoyed doing basketball in PE because we were bouncing the balls.  We played a fun game where we had to take balls off other people.

Ishani M: I enjoyed writing my narrative because it was super fun.

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Mrs Brown

Wow, what a week we have had! As I am sure you can all imagine, a lot of this week was finalising the preparation for our Burns’ Supper and Class Assembly. We have been busy creating PowerPoints about the life and work of Robert Burns, making posters about famous Scots’, making Scottish dictionaries with all the news words we have learnt throughout the topic, creating highland ‘coo’ artwork on the Netbooks using 3D Paint and learning how to make tartan by weaving paper together. I hope you all enjoyed exploring the learning and discussing it with the children.

My definite highlight was the Burns’ performance – I am so incredibly proud of everyone (as we all are)! It was a beautiful performance by everybody! Thank you all so much who attended.

Well done to Zephaniah who won the hot chocolate. Zephaniah has been working really hard and trying to be focussed on his learning and following our rules.

Here are our some photo highlights – working hard to prepare for our events, doing some Narrative writing (in a relaxing setting!) and taking part in Number Talks.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday!

Miss MacGregor

Hello families of P2a

This week we have continued to work on subtraction within 20, using many different strategies. We learned how to use a number line to jump back and completed lots of number line challenges.

In writing, we continued to learn about narrative writing and we planned and wrote our own super narrative stories.

We enjoyed learning about different types of jobs and learned new phrases in Spanish. We can now tell people how we feel in Spanish and can ask others how they are.

Our Highlights:

Aadya – I enjoyed Spanish. I learned how to ask ‘how are you?’ and learned different ways to answer this question.

Angel – I liked writing my story about Big Dinosaur and Little Dinosaur.

Zion – My favourite thing was using the rekenreks to do subtraction.

Ollie – I loved dancing in the playground, with the Friday music, with Caleb, Rory and Jack.

Linda – I liked doing ball skills in PE.

Huge Congratulations to Tadiwa our hot chocolate winner and Chahiti, our reading champion.

Have a lovely weekend!

A few photos of our maths and literacy tasks:

We have had a great week in P4a.  This is our plan for the term.

We have had some good discussions about how to create a good story.

Our Teddies have helped.

We wrote a story about our teddy. It had an adventure.

It was nice to write about my teddy and its friend.

We learned about Robert Burns and how he wrote poems. We had a Scottish treat.

For maths we learned different words to use in multiplication.

Zofia was our Reading Champ and Sam is our Reading Champ this week.

Some people started to prepare for their Holy Communion. (We are all learning about what that means)

Ameya wins the hot chocolate at home this week. She has settled in really well.

Our library got bigger. It’s nice to have new books ( SJO is trying to create a whole school libra

ry space so we are all trying to collect in different preloved books to have a good range of titles once the space is organised – Mrs Ross)

Numeracy Homework – we are being challenged to use SUMDOG as much as we can. Aiming for 20-30 mins a week.

Wee reminder

Can homework pack please be returned on Thursdays. We try to sort and organise on a Friday morning so it helps a lot to have the jotters and books back.

Dear Parents,

Here’s what P7A got up to this week in our learning journey:

We now have our roles for Reciprocal Reading of A Monster Calls, with 4 chapters to read for next Thursday where we will complete a task and then share and discuss with our group.

In Numeracy, we have finished up the Fractions part of F.D.P and will move onto Percentages next week. Homework is now through Sumdog which the school has now paid a Subcription for. There was a diagnostic to complete to begin with, where everyone did well, and a Fractions homework task. I have also put up a 100 question bonus task on F.D.P. as some extra practice before the end of topic assessment.

Tuesday was an exciting day with our first visit to St. Margaret’s, where the children got a chance to experience some high school lessons with secondary teachers and get a feel for the building. Everyone was very excited, a little bit nervous but all enjoyed the experience. We began with a swimming lesson, followed by maths and then business. A good start to our transition to high school.

On Wednesday, as part of Burns’ Day, we got the chance tot try some haggis or vegetarian haggis if we wanted to – overall it was a hit with those who tried it and there are some in the class who never want to even smell it again! We had also had two weeks to prepare a poem or song of Robert Burns to perform for the class and everyone did braw! We took videos of our recitals but unfortunately they are too big to upload here, if you send in a usb drive, we’ll send home a copy if your child wanted a video taken.

We have concluded our work on relationships and moral education in the God’s Loving Plan scheme, approaching lessons in a mature and responsible way.

Here are some pupil highlights of the week:

Liam Said, “We went swimming in St. Margaret’s for the first time ever and for a visit. We had haggis for Robert Burns Night and did poems as well.”

Ruqayyah said, “This week we had our first St. Margaret’s transition. We did games for swimming and maths also business. In maths we had to record our strategies for seeing how many ways we can button up a coat. In business we designed our P7 to S1 transition logos on the computers. We also practiced our Burns poems for Burns’ day and recited them in front of the class! I had an amazing week in P7A!”

Millan said, ” I liked when we went to high school and it was fun. We also performed poems on Robert Burns Day, everyone had haggis, neeps and tatties.”

Zahra said, ” I  loved playing Sumdog and doing the diagnostics. I also loved doing the Burns poems.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner is…

Millan! Well done, Millan

Have a Great Weekend,

P7A and Mr McGurn

This week we wrote imaginative, narrative stories based on a film clip. Pupils came up with their own ideas about his feelings and activities. In Science we dissected flowers to investigate petals, stems, leaves etc. They glued them into their John Muir Journal as it also linked with John Muirs wonder at nature and how it works all around us. Pupils have been researching lots of different information about John Muir and his work so that they can create a powerpoint or short film which they share with you. Yesterday we enjoyed an orienteering session and look forward to parents taking part at our Assembly in a few weeks.

In Math we are continuing to learn about equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. In measurement we are finding the perimeter of shapes and knowing about decimals help us to add the measurements together. We hope everyone has a great weekend and are able to get out and explore the local area.

Pupil Highlights:

Amelia: today we are going to be having smores around the fire because it is a class reward we earned and we have had to wait till the weather been dry

Kieran: we created Anne Frank academic posters, we had to include information about on Anne Frank using subheadings.

Olly: this week in P.E  we did bench ball

Hannah: we were revising equivalent fractions and learning how to find them using a fractions wall. You can find an equivalent fraction by multiplying the numerator and denominator by the same number, or, divide them by the same number.

We also made a power point about Mrs Dwane because we wanted to thank her for all her hard work she has done for our class.

Kieran: we made a card for Tim and Olly . Some of us went around the class in secret to find out what Olly and Tim were good at.

Hot Chocolate Winner : congratulations to Susanna for her consistent effort in her work, the support she gives to her peers and her concentration and focus when working on her Anne Frank Poster.

Table Winners this week: congratulations to the table We Love Poland for improving their behaviour and their contributions in class to win this week.