St John Ogilvie Primary School

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Yellow and Blue Tables:

Kyle enjoyed listening to the story of ‘The Boy who Cried Wolf’ and learning the important message about always telling the truth.  He was a villager in our role-play of the story.

Ruari said his favourite part of the week was Word Boost.  He liked the word ‘explore’ best and shared how he loves to explore in the woods.  He got very excited to learn that one of our lessons next week will be in the woods!

Pola’s highlight was finding out the name of our new topic, ‘Good Versus Evil – The Moral of the Story’.  Next week we will focus on the story, ‘The Three Billy Goats Gruff’.

Paige liked PE this week and got excited to wear the bibs.

Ollie liked it when Mrs Ross taught the class on Monday when Mrs Devlin was off sick.  Mrs Ross brought cookies to teach about division.  Yum!

Ella loved PM writing this week.  The children continued to learn about persuasive writing (otherwise known as Expositions) and wrote about the importance of learning about road safety.  Ella’s writing in particular stressed the need to wear seatbelts to keep you safe in a car.  Well done Ella!  You included: Title, Statement of Position, Series of Arguments and a Concluding Statement – all the parts that make up a piece of persuasive writing.

My highlight was the RE lesson about how children are very precious to God.  We had a lovely service with music where each child received their name decorated that another child made for them.  In turn, each person was told how much God loves them and how precious they are in His eyes.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Izaan!

I hope you all enjoy the long weekend and I will see you all on Tuesday.

Click on the link below to see an overview of our learning planned for this term:

P2 – Forward Plan overview Term 4

A great week in P7B!

Numeracy 

For numeracy this week, Xander, Vivaan and Alex agreed on their enjoyment of function machines and the introduction of algebraic equations!

Literacy 

We finalised our fantastic expositions this week! Ask the children about these! We peer marked our partner’s work and provided great notes on what went well and provided feedforward to make them even better. We enjoyed working on our reciprocal reading strategies this week!

IDL 

We looked  democracy this week! We created our own self-directed political parties, gave each other jobs and started writing our manifestos, speeches and persuasive displays. The children have been working very hard on this and are working very well together! A special well done to our campaign mangers for directing their teams so well!

Health

Our right this week focused on access to information from the media. We were reminded to be critical thinkers and to speak up if we think something doesn’t seem quite right. We continued our work on Zones of Regulation and are becoming much more confident explaining which zone we are in and how to be ready for learning. We had a great session on our goals and how we can use other people’s experience to support us in achieving our goals! The children will continue thinking about this next week!

Hot Chocolate at Home – Shining Star

Sneha! Well done, very much deserved!

Reminder

We are off Monday and Thursday next week!

Have a great long weekend P7! I will see you on Tuesday!

RE: In RE this week we have revised our Pope Francis Faith Award and explored the Gift of Fortitude. The children are working on this gift in class but are encouraged to try some targets at home too. Next week we will begin to explore the Gift Fear of the Lord.

Literacy: We have been continuing to work on expositional writing and write with the use of persuasive language and convince our audience. We have been drafting and editing our House/Vice captain speeches and hope to have these ready to present to the other classes in the school soon.

Math: We have been learning the rules of coordinates and have successfully plotted points using the x and y axis. We also enjoyed our Sumdog and Prodigy challenges this week. On Friday we had fun playing times table bingo with some lucky children winning prizes. Next week we hope to work on symmetry as part of our outdoor learning.

IDL: This week we have been researching the Scottish Parliament and found out that the Scottish Government are in charge of devolved matters like, education, transport and health. But the UK Government are in charge of reserved matters like the army.

Over and above: Our hot chocolate winner this week was Julia, very well deserved, keep up the good work!

Have a fantastic weekend and enjoy the holiday Monday!

Mrs Roy

Here is the overview for Primary 6 for term 4.

P6B Forward Plan Overview – Term 4

Good afternoon dear Readers,

You can see here our Overview for Term 4:

Forward Plan overview Term 4 P3A

We hope you have had a good week.

This week’s highlights were:

• In Literacy, we have worked on our new weekly spelling words, planned and produced an exposition/persuasive text about the need to stop littering, learned better how and when to use exclamation marks to finish off our sentences and have ended the week with our weekly spelling assessment and our much loved Free Writing Friday.
• In Maths and Numeracy we have learned and worked a lot on fractions of a shape both by identifying the coloured/shaded fractions and also by colouring in the given fractions.
• We have continued our work on the Earth Day posters and are hoping to have them finished by the end of next week.
• For Health and Wellbeing we have started learning about the Eat well plate and the benefits of having a healthy diet.
• Our friendship bracelets have been randomly handed out at the beginning of the week and we have tried hard to be even kinder to the person whose bracelet we got!
• Our kindness jar continues being filled with kindness notes and it will need to be emptied by the end of next week since it is almost full due to all the amazing acts of kindness from our boys and girls! We can’t wait to find out who our new Kindness Champions are going to be!!💗

We wish you all a  sunny and wonderful weekend!

P3A and Mrs Valente😃

Dear Families

Literacy

This week we continued working on exposition in our writing.  We looked at an example of exposition and identified the features the author used. Then we wrote our own exposition text about litter.  We were trying to persuade the reader to not drop litter.

Maths & Numeracy

We were learning how to measure things using a ruler and measuring tape.  We were also learning how to solve sudoku puzzles, we found them quite tricky and we needed to work out where the numbers went.  Although they were tricky we had fun.

We also had to use our problem solving skills this morning to solve a problem, it was kind of like sudoku but with coloured squares.

Learning Across the Curriculum

This week we got to choose what one of our topics will be later on in the term, we are excited that we had a choice in it.

On Tuesday we had a special PE lesson, we had some visitors from a local Judo club come into school and give us a little taster.

In Music with Mrs Morrison we have been learning some songs, for example ‘We don’t talk about Bruno’.

Pupil Highlight

Markuss – I enjoyed making bug houses during outdoor learning.

Amelia – I enjoyed the Judo in PE because I felt like a ninja.

Stefi – I enjoyed doing Simon Says at PE.

Mariam – I enjoyed doing the songs with Mrs Morrison.

Layla – I enjoyed doing music.

Forward Plan overview Term 4 P5

Our learning about Children Rights this week was Article 17 (access to information from the media): Every child has the right to reliable information from a variety of sources, and governments should encourage the media to provide information that children can understand. Governments must help protect children from materials that could harm them.

We investigated how to check information on a website or games platform to check if it was reliable and discussed how to report websites or unwelcome information on games platforms.

We prepared for our future outdoor learning by carrying out a stock check of spades, digging forks and different gardening tools. Next week we hope to start planting in reuseable items brought from home. e.g. wellington boots too small or with holes.

In math we have been revising symmetry and coordinates which we hope to be able to use as part of outdoor learning next week.

This week we began to find out about how democracy works. We had a virtual tour of the Scottish Parliament and found out that the Scottish Government are in charge or Devolved matters like, education, transport and health. But the UK Government are in charge of Reserved matters like the army.

We also began to draft our House/Vice Captain speeches using our persuasive language. We hope to finish these next week. Hopefully!

In RE this week we have revised our Pope Francis Faith Award and explored the Gift of Fortitude. Next week we will begin to explore the Gift Fear of the Lord.

Have a lovely weekend and enjoy the Holiday Monday.

We have had a super learning time in P4.  We have been looking at traditional fairy tales and seeing them from an alternative perspective.  We particularly enjoyed ‘The Three Little Wolves and the Big Bad Pig’.  We used this to write an exposition (persuasive argument) about why the wolf isn’t bad.  We have been working on Fractions for our maths and also looking at the area of shapes.

Liliana : “I liked doing PE today as we were doing races and we learned a saying for when you crouch down at the start of the race, call TTKnee”

Emily : “I liked making flowers using oil pastels.  We used hot and cold colours to create contrast.”

Lucy : “I like doing maths.  Working out the area was fun and using cm² was fun”

Jacob : “I liked doing music because we got to sing and there was a lot of songs that we enjoy.  We will miss having Mrs Morrison for music each week but Mrs Callaghan has a fantastic music project planned for us!”

Eilidh : “I liked writing about the wolf not being a big bad wolf because he was actually making a cake for his Granny and needed some sugar.  It wasn’t his fault that he had a bad cold and his sneeze blew down their houses!”

Inaayah: “I really liked dong spelling this week.  I liked that we learned a lot of new words using the ly pattern.”

Leo “I really liked working with my group to make a house that would keep the three little pigs safe.  We used lots of different things and had to work out what to use and how to use it!”

We are looking forward to our day off on Monday and are hoping that the sun will shine for us!

Our hot chocolate winner this week is …….  Inaayah!   Well done on being ready, respectful and safe at all times.

Our new reading champion is Carina for always being an on-task reader during ERIC time.