St John Ogilvie Primary School

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!

Happy New Year to everyone from P4b!  It has been so lovely having everybody back and seeing everyone’s brilliant renewed enthusiasm for their new learning.

Our new numeracy topic this term is multiplication and division. We have been learning our seven times table and we have learnt that division is the inverse of multiplication.  Next week, we will learn our nine times table and we will be looking at multiplying by 10 and 100.  We will also be revising our other times tables across the term.

In literacy, we started the term by writing a recount about what we got up to over the Christmas holidays.  We have since been learning about how to punctuate speech using speech marks (inverted commas) and we have been improving our use of verbs, including using the past tense correctly.  We also used Word to publish our Hogwarts setting descriptions that we wrote before the holidays.  Mrs Brown was SO PROUD of us for our setting descriptions!  The level of detail included in our sentences was amazing!  We will be writing narratives in our writing lessons over the next couple of weeks and will aim to continue using our fantastic descriptive features.

In Spanish, we learnt how to say some classroom objects in Spanish. Mrs Brown’s favourite word is un sacapuntas, which means pencil sharpener.  We also played some games to practise our new vocabulary.

We also met Mrs Day-Lewin, who came to do some singing with her.  We enjoyed using different languages in some songs.

Our highlights:

Matteo: I really liked Spanish, especially learning ‘sacapuntas’.

Shelby: I really liked doing counting and writing on the laptops.

Ashley: I enjoyed singing with Mrs Day-Lewin.

Daisy-Dee: I enjoyed using the laptops to do my writing.

counting and writing on the laptops.

Ashley: I enjoyed singing with Mrs Day-Lewin.

Daisy Dee: I enjoyed using the laptops to do my writing.

Well done to Daisy Dee who was our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and well done for a great first week back!

Mrs Brown