St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have had a fantastic week in Primary 5.

Pupils highlights:

Marriyah: I liked writing our exposition piece of writing because it was hard but also fun.

Adam: I liked playing rounders because I like baseball and both are similar.

Olivier: I liked making Joshua’s face out of leaves and twigs we found in the woodlands.

Aoife: I liked planning out our exposition, I just find it a bit fun. I liked doing the extra bit of HW Miss Smith gave us.  It was T.E.E. This stands for topic sentence, evidence and explanation.

Daisy: I liked learning about the causes of WW1.

Joshua: I liked learning about our new topic, The Great War, and, I liked getting to do Judo on Monday.

Amelia: I liked writing our Exposition, I just liked learning about it.

Josh: I liked doing the athletics in P.E when we had to do the races.

Inaya: I liked singing happy birthday to Joshua to nursery.

Here is our planned learning overview for Term 4.

P4 Overview T4

This week we had another visit from the Friendly Dragon. It left us a task to write to Jack to persuade him to pick either the harp or the hen that lays the golden eggs. We remembered our capital letters, full stops and finger spaces. We even used ‘because’. When we came back to school the next day our writing had little burnt bits on it and we knew the Dragon had read them and was so happy with our work. The Dragon also left us some special castle books to keep all our Fairyland work in. We got to decorate them.

In maths we have been learning to tell the time and we enjoyed using the Smartboard to draw the hands of the clock in to show the different times. We have also been practising counting in 5s and 10s this week and we are getting more confident each day.  We have been learning the numbers in Spanish and we can count all the way up to 10.

For Art we made our own beanstalks and put a photo of ourselves on it so it looked like we were climbing the beanstalk. We tried to make sure that the bottom of the beanstalk was bigger and the top was smaller so it looked like it was very tall.

In PE we took part in a Judo session and it was so much fun.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Caleb – I enjoyed playing with the lego and I made a giant house.

Diana – I enjoyed playing with the cinema.

Jiade – I liked playing during outdoor learning.

Riley – I liked building the movie theatre.

Rory – I liked playing with the cinema.

Vivien – I liked playing at outdoor learning with the bikes.

Chimamanda – I liked playing with the bikes at outdoor learning.

Laura – I liked playing with everything.

Ollie – I liked playing in Creative Zone.

Hello P2A families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Red Table:

Babfola loved playing Bingo with our magic e words with the ‘u’ vowel.  He and his partner won!  He was excited about getting a pop-it keychain prize.

Julia enjoyed playing ‘Table Mountain’ to practise her Two Times Tables.

Chijiakwu said the best part of his week was Number Talks.  This week involved using a 100 Square and eliminating different numbers based on clues.  The kids loved them!

David K was proud of himself for being awarded this week’s ‘Reading Champion’ which celebrates and recognises progress made in reading.  Well done David!

Joe also loved playing ‘Table Mountain’, especially as one of the teams was called, ‘Team Joe’!

John said the highlight of his week was playing on the ipad during Choosing Time.

Zosia found the RE lesson about what happened to Jesus after her rose from the dead very interesting.  She picked it as the best part of her week.

Aiden S enjoyed music with Mrs Morrison.

My highlight was our lesson on what is the difference between what is a ‘fact’ and what is an ‘opinion’.  This was delivered through an Earth Day activity.  The children learned that April 22^nd is Earth Day, a day when people all over the world try to take care of our planet for God, for ourselves and for our future, even more than they already do (P2A had their lessons without the lights on).  We went out into the playground and I called out various statements about Earth Day.  The children had to go to the ‘Fact’ or ‘Opinion’ sign and then I revealed the answer.  They all did very well – FACT!

Congratulations to this week’s Hot Chocolate award winner, Babafola.

Congratulations to David (as mentioned above) for being this fortnight’s Reading Champion.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well and have had a good Easter.

This week’s highlights were:

• In Literacy, as Easter had just passed, we have started by reading a text about the Holy Week and what happened during the first Easter and also by answering to questions about it. To help us getting better at Grammar, we have spent the week revising nouns, adjectives and verbs and have, once again, practised identifying them in different texts, to make sure we know what they are and how to properly use them in our writing.
• In Maths and Numeracy we have learned abut estimation and rounding to the nearest 10, something that we are now absolute experts doing!
• Since Covid rules have changed again, we have had, for the first time, the opportunity to go to the Woodlands with our friends from P3B! It was simply amazing! After we went over the risk assessment to keep everyone safe outdoors, it was time to choose partners between the boys and girls from both classes and create our own medicine for Grandma based on our Topic book ‘George’s Marvellous Medicine’. They were almost as disgusting as the real one and some of us managed to add very interesting ingredients from the woodlands!
• As today is Earth day, our Rights of the week were all about protecting the planet and reminding people of its importance to our own survival. We have also started our artistic posters on ways to help save the planet, which will hopefully be ready by the end of next week.
• For Health and Wellbeing we have focussed once again on the qualities that a good friend should have and finished by making a list of them to remind us to always being good friends ourselves. Next week we will be randomly given one of the friendship bracelets we have made this week and will try to be the best possibe friend to everyone and even more to the one who will pick the bracelet we made! We’re really looking froward for that!
• Our kindness jar continues being filled with kindness notes and it won’t be long until we have to empty it again to find out the names of our new Kindness Champions!💗

We wish you all a wonderful weekend!

P3A and Mrs Valente😃

A great week back after the Easter Holidays! 

The children have enjoyed a range of activities this week.

Xander’s highlight was using a new website for numeracy and literacy learning which we will be using for homework next week.

Charlotte had two highlights this week. She enjoyed writing a letter from Gaia (Earth) to humanity and learning about Ramadan.

Lewis’ highlight was doing work for world Earth day!

Sneha enjoyed Spanish this week, learning about different rooms in our homes.

Lucy enjoyed her work on Expositions this week.

A huge well done to our Shining Star this week: Alex! you have had a great week.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! I will see you on Monday!

– Mr Pentland 🙂

It has been a very busy and exciting start to our last term of Primary One.  We have been practising our common words and writing words using all the sounds we know.  We wrote a sentence to tell Miss Stebbing which book she should read and most people chose the Three Little Pigs.  For our Word Boost book we read The Smartest Giant in Town and we have heard our boost words lots of times this week.

In maths we are learning to count in 5s and we listened to a song to help us with this.  It is quite fast but we are getting better each day.  We have been doing lots of different addition sums this week and we are trying to remember to count on from the biggest number.

On Thursday a Friendly Dragon visited our classroom and left us a scroll!  It was asking us for help to rebuild Fairyland as it had disappeared because people are not reading enough fairy tales and believing in them.  We wrote letters back to the dragon to say we would love to help.  We have also been looking for the dragon and lots of us thought we saw it in the playground at lunchtime.  We think it might be watching us from up in the Woodland. When we came in on Friday the letters were not in the post box and there was another scroll, a pot, magic soil and magic seeds!  The dragon told us that it was so happy when it was reading our letters that little bits of fire had come out of its mouth and it had burned them. He then asked us to plant the magic seeds and make some leaves for Jack’s beanstalk. We are wondering what is going to grow in the pot!

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Caleb – I liked playing with the lego.

Ollie – I liked playing with my friends.

Jiade – I liked playing in the cinema.

Jack – I liked playing with the marble run.

Rory – I liked playing with the cinema.

Diana – I liked playing at outdoor learning.

Laura – I liked playing with everything.

This week in class, our learning highlights have been:

Our special learning about Holy Week, the week before Jesus died.  There was much drama in class and in the playground as we recalled this important learning.  The children enjoyed riding donkeys, getting their feet washed and eating and drinking as they took part in The Last Supper.  (As part of keeping safe, we used 2 loaves for The Last Supper, one for “Jesus” to hold up and break and one for eating.  We also had our own cup of “wine”).

We also completed some beautiful art.  The children used their senses to explore seeds and flowers.  The soft texture of the flowers and the lovely smells and bright colours were noted.  The children found the patterns on the seeds interesting too.  They have taken home some sunflower seeds if they wish to grow them at home.

The biggest highlight of all has to have been giving the grass heads a hair cut in the playground.  We were careful not to undo our great work and make them bald in all the excitement.  Although I did reassure the children that the grass will continue to grow with sunlight and water.

We also learned about taking care of a baby and what they need to grow up to be healthy too.  The children enjoyed playing with dolls and pretending to bath them, dress them, feed them and take them for walks.

My highlight, apart from the special Holy Week lessons, was the April Fools joke I played on the class on Friday.  I told them that Mrs McKissack was so impressed with our grass head haircuts that she wanted us to cut all the grass in the playground with scissors!  They were so disappointed to hear it was a joke!

I hope you all have a lovely Easter break and I will see you all on our return, Tuesday 19th April.

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