Hello all,

Mrs Rooney and I just wanted to say that it has been an absolute pleasure teaching P5/6 this year. The pupils have worked so hard all year long and it has been amazing watching them thrive over the year.

I have loved getting to know each of your children and I have loved my time at Ochiltree. Thank you for all the kind words and gifts from you all, it is very much appreciated.

We will miss everyone over the holidays and hope everyone enjoys this well-deserved break!

If you have a child that uses boost learning for their reading, I have uploaded books for them to use at their leisure over the holidays!

Enjoy your summer!

Miss Murray and Mrs Rooney 🙂

Hello all,

This will be the last week of spelling words. I can’t believe how fast this school year has gone! Thank you for any tasks that you have done at home to practise their spelling words!

We continued with our ‘or’ and ‘r’ phonemes this week.

Different tasks to practise your spelling words are: 

Spelling training: https://www.spellingtraining.com/ 

Book detectives: Look for your any of your spelling words that are in your favourite book! See if you can identify other words with your phoneme! 

LSCWC: Look, say, cover, write, check. Look at your word, say it out loud, cover your word, write your word and see if you got it correct! 

Rainbow Writing: Use your favourite colours to write out your spelling words. 

Spelling Aloud: Have your parent say your spelling word and you must sound it out back to them! 

Diacritical Marking: Identify the different sounds within your words 

Thank you!!

Miss Murray

Pupils are practising hard for our 50 year celebration performance!!

Hello all,

Below are this week’s spelling words.

Our focuses this week are the ‘r’ and ‘or’ phonemes.

Different tasks to practise your spelling words are: 

Spelling training: https://www.spellingtraining.com/ 

Book detectives: Look for your any of your spelling words that are in your favourite book! See if you can identify other words with your phoneme! 

LSCWC: Look, say, cover, write, check. Look at your word, say it out loud, cover your word, write your word and see if you got it correct! 

Rainbow Writing: Use your favourite colours to write out your spelling words. 

Spelling Aloud: Have your parent say your spelling word and you must sound it out back to them! 

Diacritical Marking: Identify the different sounds within your words 

Thank you!

Miss Murray

Hello all,

As part of our 50 year celebration, I have sent the pupils home with lyrics to Somebody to love by Queen. This song was released in 1976 hence why we are learning it.

If you could practise the lyrics with your children whenever you get a few minutes that would be great!

Here is the video and we are only learning up to 2:37

Hello all,

This morning, we were enjoying this lovely weather by doing outdoor learning. We were taking characters from our reading books and using outdoor materials to recreate them. The results were great and so creative!

L.I. We are learning to create characters using outdoor materials.

Thank you!

Miss Murray

Hello all,

Below are this week’s spelling words.

Our focuses this week are the ‘ay’ and ‘n’ phonemes.

Different tasks to practise your spelling words are: 

Spelling training: https://www.spellingtraining.com/ 

Book detectives: Look for your any of your spelling words that are in your favourite book! See if you can identify other words with your phoneme! 

LSCWC: Look, say, cover, write, check. Look at your word, say it out loud, cover your word, write your word and see if you got it correct! 

Rainbow Writing: Use your favourite colours to write out your spelling words. 

Spelling Aloud: Have your parent say your spelling word and you must sound it out back to them! 

Diacritical Marking: Identify the different sounds within your words 

Thank you!

Miss Murray

Hello all,

Here is a wee look into what we have been doing with Archaeology Scotland this week!

On Tuesday, we were going around stations looking into life at Ochiltree, being tour guides, writing stories, doing interviews and labelling artefacts.

On Wednesday, we were looking at pottery and creating our own pieces.

I hope you enjoy!

Hello all,

Below are this week’s spelling words.

Our focuses this week are the ‘n’ and ‘a-e’ phonemes.

Different tasks to practise your spelling words are: 

Spelling training: https://www.spellingtraining.com/ 

Book detectives: Look for your any of your spelling words that are in your favourite book! See if you can identify other words with your phoneme! 

LSCWC: Look, say, cover, write, check. Look at your word, say it out loud, cover your word, write your word and see if you got it correct! 

Rainbow Writing: Use your favourite colours to write out your spelling words. 

Spelling Aloud: Have your parent say your spelling word and you must sound it out back to them! 

Diacritical Marking: Identify the different sounds within your words 

Thank you!

Miss Murray

Here’s a look into yesterday’s science centre trip!