St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been learning the sound ‘igh’.  We had an Easter hunt to find words and then we had to circle the correct answer on our sheet.  We had great fun!  In writing we had to write a sentence about which Easter egg we thought was the best.  We are getting very good at using the word ‘because’.

In maths we have been practising our subtraction strategies through word problems.  We also decorated some egg shapes and made sure the pattern was symmetrical.

In RE we have been learning about the events in Holy Week.  We made beautiful crosses using the paint dabbers.  We think they look like stained glass windows.

We finished the term with time up in the woodlands with our buddies.  We had hot chocolate and marshmallows at the fire pit.  We also had an Easter egg hunt and some time for play.  Thank you to Mr McGurn, Mrs Dwane and Mrs Carlyle for helping to organise it all.

Have a lovely Easter holidays everyone!

Miss Stebbing

Dear Families

This week has been another busy week in Primary 3.

Literacy

In Literacy, we have been focusing on exposition writing (persuasive). We created a piece of writing together as a whole class, focusing on the importance of staying safe in the sun (we are disappointed the weather has turned). Then we created an individual exposition about being safe on our bikes, skateboard or skates. We have learned the correct structure and the importance of giving a reason for our arguments. Our last step was to create posters using our arguments.

Maths

We have continued to work with money this week. Focusing on adding 2 amounts within £1. We were fairly confident with this.

We also kept practising our times tables knowledge with bingo, it was really fun!

IDL

We finished our class novel (George’s Marvellous Medicine) and came up with alternative endings.

Using our class novel as our inspiration, we completed a science experiment to see whether items would float or sink in water and in oil.

Pupil Highlight

Millie – I enjoyed doing P.E with Mrs Lafferty. Especially the monkey bars.

Paige – I liked making a folder to store all my loose paper.

Jude – I enjoyed P.E, we are doing gymnastics.

Mariam – I enjoyed April Fool’s day, Mrs Robson fooled us with a spelling test!

Daniel – I enjoyed the science experiment.

We are all now looking forward to our Easter holiday.

This week’s Children Rights were linked to help and support Government should give to Support Parents.

Article 5 (parental guidance and a child’s evolving capacities): Governments must respect the rights and responsibilities of parents and carers to provide guidance and direction to their child as they grow up, so that they fully enjoy their rights. This must be done in a way that recognises the child’s increasing capacity to make their own choices.

Article 18 (parental responsibilities and state assistance): Both parents share responsibility for bringing up their child and should always consider what is best for the child. Governments must support parents by creating support services for children and giving parents the help they need to raise their children

Your children were able to talk about all the things you do for them everyday and how proud they are of their parents loving and supporting them as much as you do. Your child really appreciates everything you do.

In math we can all divide and multiply using percentages. We also took place in a Sumdog Times Tables Challenge which they all really enjoyed as well as achieving high scores.

Our persuasive writing this week has been focussed on persuading parents and government that all children should learn to swim. These will be completed after the holidays.

In RE this week we have explored Jesus tribulations during Holy Week and have looked forward to the beginning of Ramadan tomorrow. We also made prayer cards for Peace in Ukraine. This week in art we created beautiful sunflower art which your child will bring home to you today.

Next term Primary 6 will be looking towards their future responsibilities in Primary 7. Preparing to be Primary 1 buddies, taking part in elections for House Captains. They will also be taking part in Bikeabilty training at the end of May/beginning of June.

We have had a long but busy term and look forward to new, fun challenges when we return

from Easter Break. Have a lovely holiday.

Another fun week of learning in P4A.  We have been very busy this week where we have learned all about the Easter story – from Jesus arriving in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday through to his Resurrection.

Our First Communion boys and girls enjoyed visiting St Peters on Wednesday where Fr Simon showed us all different parts of the church and explained lots of the different parts of Mass.  We also talked about how to receive Holy Communion.  We were all able to share our knowledge with Fr Simon as we have been listening very respectfully and practicing our prayers during our Communion lessons.

For our exposition writing, we explored different verbs for thinking, feeling and sensing.  We worked with partners to sort the words and used some of them in an activity.

We made Easter cards with moving parts and are delighted that our Roman Pots are now finished and we are taking them home.

Everyone is looking forward to our Easter holidays and we are crossing our fingers (and toes) for some nice weather.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Aarya.  Well done on being Ready, Respectful and Safe all week.

Pupil Highlights:

Inaya: I enjoyed watching Encanto as a class reward for handing in our HW.

Aoife: I liked pranking Miss Smith on April Fool’s and dancing with Kayla in p2.

Olivier: I liked using the language of opinion to express my view on whether or not crisps are the best snack, whether children should have to wear school uniform, and should Mother’s Day be banned.

Daisy: I liked doing the prodigy assignment.

Vanessa: I like doing the HW this week.

Hot Chocolate Winner this week: It is without a doubt that the hot chocolate winner is Adam because he has consistently shown respect and responsibility towards pupils and adults this week. He has also shown an excellent understanding in our unit Exposition. His teacher and his class is very proud of him.

This week we have been learning about the five cogs for Emotion Works.  We have sorted out cards to match up with the cogs and have been thinking a lot about words that name our emotions.  We enjoyed having choosing time outside on Wednesday when the weather was lovely.

Our seeds have now started to grow into seedlings.  We are very excited to see how much they will grow over the next week.  Then we will be able to take them home.

In phonics we have been learning the ‘oi’ and ‘ou’ sounds.  We have been practising reading words with these sounds and also spelling words.  In writing we have been learning about exposition texts and we wrote about which baby animal we thought was the cutest.  We are getting very good at remembering our capital letters and full stops.

In maths we have been working on our addition skills and using the games on Topmarks to help us.  We also did some more work on the greater than and less than symbols.

In RE we listened to a story about Jesus walking on water.  We coloured in a picture to show what happened in the story.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week are

Shay – I enjoyed going outside.

Zion – I liked playing outside in the sun.

Jack – I liked playing outside with my buddies.

Linda – I enjoyed doing the fairies with the buddies.

Caleb – I enjoyed making a tower with the loose parts.

Ollie – I enjoyed playing duck, duck, goose with all the buddies.

Aadya – I enjoyed playing in creative zone.

Hello P2A families!

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

Paige enjoyed making our space art.  The children used a printing technique to create craters on the moon and a toothbrush to flick paint on for the stars.

Ella like making our Mother’s Day gifts.  I hope all you lovely mothers enjoyed your day and loved the different things your child wrote about you.  A lovely keep sake.

Ollie said he loved learning about Global Goals.  The childrens’ cheers could be heard throughout the school as they heard how the global plan for 2030 is for there to be no poverty, no hunger, no pollution in the sea, gender quality……17 goals in total that will make our world a better place to live in.  We learned how we can play our part in helping achieve these global goals by ensuring we recycle and do not litter.

My highlight was our lesson on Creation.  The children were amazed that God just had to say the words, “Let there be…..” and these things appeared that make up our beautiful world.  We know we need to help take care of God’s beautiful world.

Congratulations to Chiji, our Hot Chocolate award winner for this week and Nathan, our Reading Champaign.

It has been another very busy week in P1B

In Literacy we have been learning the ‘igh’ sound and can recall the sound and read words with this sound.  We did talking sentences about whether I should give my mum a flower bouquet or a chocolate bouquet.  We then used this to write our own persuasive sentence about whether a lamb or a chick was cuter.

We went on a minibeast hunt in the Woodlands using magnifying glasses and containers to collect them to have a closer look.  We found lots of bugs and were very excited to share our finding with our friends.  We then made our own minibeasts using natural materials from the woodland.

In Numeracy and Maths we have continued to work on addition and subtraction and we can recall the rule for subtraction – “big number take away smaller number”.  We learned about greater than and less than and made Mr Greater Than and Mrs Less Than crocodiles to help us.

We learned about what babies need and looked at class baby photos.  We looked at the life cycle of a worm and learned why worms are very important for the soil.  We watched a video that showed us how to make a wormery.

This week we got to bring our Grass Heads home.  They have started to grow lots of hair so we are now going to continue to look after them at home and said kind words to them to continue to help them grow.

We worked very hard making Mother’s Day cards and crafts for our mums.

Congratulations to Amy who was our Hot Chocolate Winner and to Reesa who was our Reading Champion.  Congratulations also to the Orange Table this weeks points winners!

We hope all our mums have a lovely Mother’s Day and that everyone has a lovely weekend and enjoys this great weather.