St John Ogilvie RC Primary

The pupils from P4-7 all took part in an exciting careers morning where they were able to ask a range of parents about their careers.   Pupils prepared questions in advance based on the careers they were most interested in.  The parents involved complemented our children on the quality of their questioning and their good manners.

Well done to our Behaviour Award winners this week, Lleyton, Lucy and Joshua! They have all worked extremely hard this week in all areas. Fantastic work!

Primary 5 have been inspired by Halloween and have creating some spooky passages using some creepy sentence starters. Here are some highlights!

I was absolutely delighted with the quality of writing produced! The children have really thought about VCOP and have created some very frightening stories. Luckily Ethan has some advice if you feel scared at Halloween…

In Science we have been learning about microorganisms. We carried out an investigation to find out whether Microorganisms grow better in a clean or unclean environment. We rubbed white bread with our hands after lunch, then we washed our hands and repeated on a different slice of bread. These are our results. Yuck!

Mr Stink Project. We shared our learning through with Primary 5S discussing the key features Mr Stink needed to live comfortably. We had amazing ideas.

Maths. We have been learning about using different mental strategies to solve addition, subtraction, multiplication and division problems. We enjoy working cooperatively as we help each other to learn.

PE. We have been improving our fitness completing circuits and improving our stamina and health.

Ancient Egyptians. We were finding out about farming in Ancient Egypt and made model Shadufs in trios.

We mummified a chicken leg. The High Priest had to wear an Anubis Mask. As it was a scientific experiment we measured and weighed everything.

Caitlin McLachey the Commonwealth Medal Winner came to visit and we had a great Friday morning doing fitness activities and listening to her motivatio

We have been making paper mache canopic jars this week. We learned about how important the canopic jars were in the mummification process. The canopic jars were decorated with the heads of the four sons of Horus.

Each canopic jar guarded a different organ. Imsety had a human head, protected the liver, Qebehsenuf had the head of a falcon and guarded the intestines, Hapy had a baboon head protected the lungs and Duamatef had the head of a jackal, and guarded the stomach.

The four canopic jars were put into a special chest which went into the tomb with the mummy.

The canopic jars have turned out really well! Great work P5S!

Well done to all our primary six pupils who took part in the deans cluster cross country event despite the damp weather.   A special congratulations to Rebecca and Arran who came first and second in their races.  The P6 girls won the team event and will be able to enter a team for the P7 race next year.  Super running everyone!!

A well deserved mention to our P7 girls team who also won the team event in the West Lothian P7 race.

Hello P1D Families,

It is lovely to have met you during Parent Consultation Evenings and have the opportunity to share with you how wonderful and clever your children are. Below are some pictures of what we have been getting up to lately in our classroom.

As the season of Autumn continues to unveil itself with beautiful oranges, browns and reds, we decided to take a walk through those leaves and brought some back into class for rubbings to accompany our ‘Thank you God for Autumn’ prayers. We were amazed to watch the shape and detail of the leaves appear before our eyes during the rubbings exercise. How wondrous is God’s creation!

We have been further exploring patterns in class also during Maths with making bunting for Elmer’s party. The children’s colouring skills have improved so much since the start of P1. We have also been learning Time. The children were able to confidently list the different places they have noticed clocks before such as wall clocks, watches, ipads, mobile phones etc and discovered that face clocks have 2 hands of a different length. We made our own face clocks and when we return after the holidays we are going to learn how to read ‘o’clock’! We are very excited about this.

We enjoyed tasting jelly for our ‘j’ sound and watched it wobble! Mrs McEwan wanted to taste some but we told her it was just for the P1s. Sorry Mrs McEwan!

We are getting better at reading and writing our sounds and numbers and enjoyed looking at examples of our super writing in our Learner Journeys that we knew the mums and dad were going to be looking at during Parent Meetings.

Primary 3D really enjoyed participating in the sporting activities that were organised as part of the Sponsored Sports for Schools.  They listened intently to Caitlin McClatchey talking about her inspiration and training.

The children worked hard to raise money for sports equipment and Ariana raised a spectacular £104.50 – Well done!

Miss Drennan

Primary 5 has been practicing our Spanish greetings and asking each other how we are. We used Spanish fans to record who we have spoken to. Most of us were ‘estupendo!’ however some of us were only ‘rrrrrregular’ or even ‘fatal’! Oh no!