Welcome back and a happy new year!
Mrs Bell and I, would like to thank all of Primary 4 and their parents & carers for our generous Christmas gifts. We hope everyone had a lovely break.
The children have been hard at work this week and have settled back into routines (there may have been some tired faces come Friday!).
Our Scots poem is “A Dug, A Dug” by Bill Keys and pupils have taken these home today to start learning.
Have a lovely weekend!
This morning we had a go at blowing bubbles within bubbles! We snipped pipettes and used these as our bubble blowers. We then dipped these in the solution to blow bubbles within bubbles. We tried to beat the P6/7 score of 3. After a few attempts one of us managed to get 4. It was such tricky task trying to carefully add a second bubble without popping the first! We all had a great time – have a look!
P6/7 were 
having fun with science creating a Bubble within a Bubble within a Bubble ……
Our record was 3!
P6/7 tips for blowing bubbles -blow gently, don’t make bubbles too big, when you are on your second bubble, push the pipette in from the top, not the side.
Many thanks to Lynn Morrison for the experiment instructions and resources.
Primary 1/2 are learning a Scottish poem and song to perform ( in school ) on Burns Day. The words/lyrics have been added to their reading folders yesterday. Please practice these with your child over the next couple of weeks.
Please note that we will not be singing all of the verses to the song, but all have been included on the lyric sheet for now until we decide which ones the pupils will perform.
The poem is, ‘Swallie’ by J. K. Annand.
The song is, ‘The Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede’ by Matt McGinn.
We look forward to seeing the children on Monday 9 January 2023.
Many thanks to Fiona Scott who spoke recently to the P 5/6 and P6/7 pupils about medical imaging. The children enjoyed learning about the different types of medical imaging there is. Highlights included guessing the body part from the images and trying on protective clothing.
Our World of Work programme will continue in the new year.
A magical day at Ochiltree Primay School ……………..
Since September P6/7 have been reading “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” by J.K. Rowling and have studied the text in depth. From each chapter different activities were covered by the children – lots of literacy and origins of language, letter writing, poetry, character studies; science experiments – colour changing flowers, growing cress and predicting results (all children shocked by how wrong they were!); art and crafts – sketching characters, drawing three different eyes, sewing a “sorting hat” from a pattern and many more activities.
To complete the study we intend to watch the film next week and compare it to the original novel. The film is rated PG. Please complete the attached form by Friday 16 December.
Thank you.
This week we discussed how to keep ourselves safe online. We looked at different scenarios and did a carousel activity sharing how we would respond to each of the scenarios safely. We also had lots of fun creating ‘perfect passwords’ and discussed how to keep our accounts safe. We also had a look at trolling and used the toothpaste experiment to illustrate this. The toothpaste represents the words we choose to say to people. We then tried to take all of our words back by scraping every single bit of toothpaste back into the tube. After LOTS of mess we discovered that we could not put all of the toothpaste back. This made us realise the weight of our words and even if we take them back they can still have a lasting effect on someone. Have a look!
Primary 1/2 have been learning to tell the time.
Thursday 8th December
Primary 4 took the opportunity to teach Primary 1/2 all about James and the Giant Peach. They chose their favourite activities from their recent topic, and in groups, delivered these as ‘mini lessons’ for the younger pupils.
We learned how to mix the perfect peach colour, create a rainbow, demonstrate how rain is made and took part in the ‘Stop that peach!’ challenge.
We ended the day watching the movie. A great time was had by all! Click on the SWAY below to see more.
Mrs Meek & Miss Mills
P1 Registration will take place from Monday 9 January 2023 until Friday 13 January 2023. Registration is to be completed online and submitted no later than Friday 13 January 2023. Parents should register at: – https://www.east-ayrshire.gov.uk/schooladmissions
Please note that you will require your child’s birth certificate and two proofs of addresses e.g driving
licence or utility bill.
Placing Requests should be completed online and the closing date for these is 31 January 2023.
Please note on Friday 23rd December the following menu will be: vegetable soup, cheese, egg or gammon sandwiches.
The menu will be updated on Parentpay for that day.
The Parent Council meeting will take place zoom tonight at 7.30pm. If you wish to join the meeting please contact the Parent Council at the following email address:
ochiltreeparentcouncil20@gmail.com
As you already know our Nativity will be held on Friday 16th December. We had originally arranged to have teas and coffees in the Ochiltree Hub after the Nativity. However, due to the huge response we have had to rethink our plans for the morning.
PLEASE NOTE OUR CHANGES BELOW:
We look forward to seeing you all there.
You may have heard that in P5/6 we get paid for completing our class jobs, showing kindness to others and taking initiative in our learning. Pupils can save their money and choose to purchase one of the class prizes that we agreed on in August. Here we have Libby and Jess who saved up to bring in their Jolly Jumps to incorporate into our P.E. lesson. Here we have our class enjoying sharing Libby and Jess’ hobby with them!
It was lovely to see some of the children wearing a little bit of tartan today. Mrs Phillips took this photo of the sky this morning above our playground.
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