St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

This week for Maths we were learning fractions, measuring the radius, diameter and circumference of a circle and using Netbooks as part of our Real Life Problem Solving which this week, was Cracking Codes.

For P.E we had basketball, learning how to dribble it and keeping control of the ball.

Our class topic is ‘Scottish Literature’ and we have been enjoying and learning poems by Robert Burns, learning how to write in Scots and writing our own poems. Also we’ve been reading our class novel ‘Skellig’ and completed tasks related to the book.

For R.E were learning about St. Paul (Saul) and doing our Pope Francis Faith Award work.

On Thursday we enjoyed drama, we had some warm up exercises and we performed with either a group or a partner in front of the class.

Today we had our regular Friday Prayertime and of course, our favourite, Fun Friday!

Dee won the Hot Chocolate at Home Award this week! She took responsibility for leading prayers all this week and earned lots of Class Dojo points for being Ready, Respectful and Safe.

By Maria and Jais, Lead Learners

Also this week we are sharing with you our Forward Plan Overview which will give you some information on what will be covered in our learning during Term 3 of Primary 7.

P7a Forward Plan Overview

Good Afternoon,

We have had a super busy week in Primary 3!

Between practising our Scottish Poem ‘The Sair Finger’ to learning how to multiply and divide by 2 and 10, it has been jam packed!

Here are a few of the children’s learning highlights for the week:

Matteo – I enjoyed learning the 2 and 10 times table and dancing to the songs to help us remember them.

Layla – I loved learning the Scots words for our body parts.

Stefi – I have enjoyed dividing and multiplying by 2.

Ishani – I love our new topic, West Lothian and have enjoyed learning about the West Lothian coat of arms.

Jude – I enjoyed writing about magical creatures.  My magical creatures were called Kirby’s and they can move very fast.

We have attached a copy of our learning overview for the term.  This will give you a better idea of what your children are learning through the different areas of the curriculum.

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week is Daniel!  Daniel really deserves it because he has been working very hard in class and is always kind and caring towards others.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Craig and Mrs Robson

Forward Plan overview Term 3 P3A

This week P4A have had another fantastic week of learning.

Eilidh: “I liked making imaginary castles”

Max: “I enjoyed learning how to make a presentation on PowerPoint”

Nikola: “I have really liked listening to ‘The Eejits’ which is the Twits in Scottish”

Lucy:  I liked learning words in Scottish, my favourite Scottish word is eejit”

Emili: “I liked doing a scavenger hunt to find right angles,  I found lots in the classroom and the back playground”

Liliana: “I liked learning hockey with Mrs Lafferty for PE.  I found it good fun trying to use the stick to stop the ball”

Francesca: “We learned about Greyfriars Bobby.  I know that he looked after his owner’s grave for 14 years and there is a statue of him in Edinburgh”

We are looking forward to lots more learning next week!

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Ashlyn who has been trying her very best in everything she has done this week!

We have taken part in number talks to find friendly numbers. This is a great way to make our calculations easier to work out in our head! The children really enjoyed sharing their different strategies with the class.

We enjoyed learning about different types of triangles. We made our own equilateral, isosceles, scalene and right – angled triangles. We can now recognise them and describe their properties. We also wrote a collection of relevant vocabulary; such as, hypotenuse.

We have been rounding to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000. Rounding is important because it helps us to estimate and to make friendlier numbers during working out.

We are currently reading The Spiderwick Chronicles (The Field Guide) as our class novel. Everyone enjoyed making their predictions for what might happen to Jared in chapter 3.

Many of the class enjoyed playing Volleyball during P.E. This week we learned how to ‘dig’ and how to ‘volley’.

We enjoyed practicing word problems related to negative numbers. It was challenging and we followed our guide to solving problems;

· Read the question carefully

· Highlight the important information

· Decide the operation

· Choose your preferred strategy

· Solve the calculation

· Finally, write down the answer

This week we have been researching Robert Burns and learning about the internal organs of the human body, where they are and what they do.

We have been learning all about our rights and the importance of having our own name.

Alessio – I have enjoyed getting to work with different people in my class.

Zahra – I enjoyed getting to make my own tartan, we measured out different sizes of our favourite colours and then threaded them together.

Lewis – I have enjoyed working with lots of different people in the class.

Lily – I have enjoyed working in teams, it is good when we are able to help each other.

Liam – I enjoyed learning about the body parts, i liked having to find the body part then label what it was.

Mrs McLaughlin has really enjoyed getting to spend a whole week with Primary 6. It is a joy to be in such a hard working, polite and fun class. Well done everyone!

Well done to our Hot Chocolate winner this week – Rhys. He produced some excellent self directed work all about famous Scottish Wars.

Below is a copy of our Learning Overview for this term, it will let you see some of the exciting things we are going to be working on in Term 3!

Forward-Plan-overview-P6A

Pupils Highlights:

Emily: I liked rounding numbers using the Teejay Books and then marking it afterwards.

Joshua D: I liked doing our prediction tasks for our Reciprocal Reading Skills.

Grant: I liked solving our riddles as part of our prediction tasks where we had to predict who the murderer could be.

Natalia: I liked answering our comprehension questions on our novel Adam 2.

Olivier: I liked completing our Prodigy Assignment on angles and shapes.

Sylvia: I liked solving the 7-second riddles as part of our predicting tasks.

Anastasia: I liked listening to Adam2 and answering the questions on the text.

Aoife: I liked doing our Word Boost Hanging sentences this week.

Myles: I liked drawing 2D Shapes and triangles and marking the equilateral and isosceles triangle to show the equal sides.

Josh N: I liked doing volleyball in P.E.

Ronan: I liked playing 21 in our brain break outside.

Hot Chocolate Winner – Myles

Teacher Highlights:

I have been really impressed with our efforts to round numbers to estimate an answer in word problems in Numeracy. I am really pleased at the improvement in our presentation in our Literacy Jotters.