April 21, 2025
by Mrs Brand
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Hi Families of P2
We have had a fantastic last week of term. The children were amazing performing their assembly. Well done everyone, we are very proud of you all!
The children had great fun taking part in lots of Easter activities, including crafts, baking and an Easter egg hunt.
We wish everyone a lovely Easter break and well deserved rest!
April 4, 2025
by Miss Duddy
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Happy Friday to all primary 3 families!
I hope you all had a lovely week this week. We were very busy this week in primary 3.
We started the week off on Monday with lots of spelling and fun maths outdoors!
On Tuesday we were lucky enough to go to Deans High School for our multisports festival, what a great day we had. The sun was shining and we had lots of fun. I will post a separate post with all the pictures for both our class and the children in Miss Mushet’s class who attended so you can all see how much fun we had!
On Wednesday we went for a lovely walk in the sun and enjoyed our day seeing different kinds of wildlife, we even got a chance to have a look in the reservoir at Eliburn park. We seen lots of lovely animals and some of us even seen some animals we had never seen before! To round off our conservation of wildlife topic we watched the animals in Edinburgh Zoo on a live stream! Unfortunately the lions and koalas never made an appearance but we got to see a sleepy tiger, some giraffes and penguins.
On Thursday we had a fun day and got a chance to play a new game called capture the flag and learned the end of the Easter story. The children made and hid eggs then wrote clues to find them, they sent me on a hunt to look for them.
Today we enjoyed a morning of making Easter crafts and watching team Scotland playing in the Transplant European Football Championship! We learned about what a transplant is and how this can help save someone’s life. The kids all cheered on team Scotland who were playing Spain!
You can also have a look at the children’s great habitat creations from last week!
Well done to this weeks Hot Chocolate winner, table point winners and reading champion!
I hope you all enjoy your much deserved two weeks off.
Miss Duddy
April 4, 2025
by Mrs Russell
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We have had a super busy and fun week in Primary One.
On Monday we had an outdoor learning session Kids Gone Wild with Rob and his therapy dog Jax. We got to play sticky boots and we walked along a slack line. It was very wobbly and we had to use our balance to help us stay up right. Mrs Russell was very proud and impressed with us all for walking across the line and being so brave.
In Religion this week we learned about Holy Week, we made palm leaves and acted out the Palm Sunday story. We also heard about what happened on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday.
In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘igh’ and ‘ng’ sounds and revising our common words and all sounds taught.
As part of our Health and Well Being and a follow up to our baby visit last week Mrs Carlyle brought in a doll that is the same weight as a real baby. We got to hold it and practise holding a baby correctly. We all really enjoyed holding the doll and giving it cuddles.
We have been making lots of Easter crafts and we particularly enjoyed making Easter nest cakes and baskets. We also made Bunny Ear Headbands and hopped around like bunnies.
This week we brought home our little sunflowers to look after at home. We know they need sunlight and water.
For Outdoor Learning today, we had an Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt and we wore our bunny ear headbands to complete this. We had lots of fun finding all the pictures.
We made Easter Gifts for our Buddies and they gave us all a lovely Easter basket with eggs. Our Reading Buddies in P6 organised a special Easter Egg Hunt for us in the area. They had made beautiful crochet chicks for us.
Today we took our door stops home with a wee message to let our families know about them. We had them on our class altar and now we will take them home to display at home.
Our weekly highlights:
Daniel ‘I loved the slack line’
Cerys ‘I liked making buddy cards’
Tiara ‘ I liked seeing the dog’
Emilio ‘I liked when I found the egg and the chick with p6
Alfie ‘I liked palying in the woods’
Oskar ‘I liked to play in the playground finding the pictures’
Felix ‘I liked drawing’.
Well done to Tiara our Hot Chocolate winner and to Antosh our Reading Champion for this fortnight.
We wish everyone a wonderful holiday with your family and Friends. Hopefully the weather stays nice and the sun continues to shine.
April 4, 2025
by Miss Stebbing
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This week has been very busy and very exciting in Primary 2/1.
We have been learning all about Holy Week in RE. We created some beautiful Easter art and completed a special cross with pictures of all the events of Holy Week. We made our own palms and acted out the events on Palm Sunday. Mrs Broadley read us the Easter Story in Spanish and we were very good at remembering the days of the week.
In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘igh’ and ‘ng’ sounds. We have a special activity in the tuff tray where we need to make the words hidden in the Easter Eggs.
Mrs Carlyle brought in a doll that is the same weight as a real baby. We got to hold it and practise holding a baby correctly. We took the baby outside during our Big Lent Walk and played an April Fool’s Joke on the staff. They thought it was a real baby!
We have been making lots of Easter crafts and we particularly enjoyed making Easter nest cakes. We also made Bunny Ear Headbands.
For Outdoor Learning, we had an Easter Egg Scavenger Hunt and we wore our bunny ear headbands to complete this.
We had some time with our P7 Buddies who gave us a card and a special treat for Easter.
Our Reading Buddies in P6 organised a special Easter Egg Hunt for us in the area. They had made beautiful crochet chicks for us.
Some of our personal highlights for this week are:
Freddie – I enjoyed playing in the Garden Centre role play area.
Martha – I enjoyed making Easter crafts.
Elsie – I enjoyed learning about Jesus.
Vivaan – I enjoyed doing PE.
Izhaan – I enjoyed colouring in the Easter crafts.
Dawid – I enjoyed playing with the stampers.
Well done to Danvith who is our Reading Champion for this fortnight. He has been confidently reading in a group. Congratulations to Viaan who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. He has settled so well into our class and has worked so hard this week.
April 4, 2025
by Maria Brown
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Hello P5B Families
We have reached our final week of term! What a super week it has been with all of our Holy Week learning. The children participated in some very special re-enactments of these Biblical events.
Here are our ‘best bits’ according to the Red table this week:
Jayden enjoyed checking to see what level the rain gauge reached. Due to all the lovely weather we have been enjoying this week, we were not able to see much collected. We are hoping for those April showers upon our return after the holiday.
Olek and Scott loved the Last Supper drama. After each day in Holy Week being dramatized, the children then recounted the story in their jotters.
Ella has continued to enjoy our class novel. Elsie, the main character has captivated us with all of her antics!
Matthias liked learning about the Smart tech, microbit with Miss Smith. Microbits will be used in our Climate Smart models.
Cohen LOVED working with his group to brainstorm some ideas for the model his group will be building after Easter. Everyone wants to win to go forward to Heriot-Watt but unfortunately only one model per class will attend. A real architect will decide who goes forward. Each group will make a presentation to them.
My highlight (apart from the obvious Holy Week learning) was the joke I played on the class! I pretended that school budget cuts meant that we had to cut the grass with scissors! As they started to cut, I revealed it was an April Fools! They were so disappointed as they wanted to do it! Flynn and Rowan played a super prank too by covering the door entrance with cellophane so the kids would bounce off it. It went down a treat!
Congratulations to Addison, our Hot Chocolate award winner and to Ellie-May, our Reading Champ!
I hope you all have a restful break and I will see the children back on Tuesday 22nd. We look forward to seeing what materials the children bring in on this day for building their Climate Smart models. If you have misplaced your letter, please see below:
April 4, 2025
by Mrs Lea
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Dear Parents and Carers,
Primary 6 have been working hard this week! In Literacy, we learned about the Easter Story and discussed alternative words for those in the passage and why the author had chosen particular words.
In Numeracy, we continued to learn about decimals using subtraction. We shared our strategies for solving mental calculations. On Monday our class went up to the woodlands and used flints to make a sparks ! We are looking forward to toasting marshmallows on the fire at the end of term! Other groups did outdoor weaving using ribbon and some people made dens for woodland animals. We all enjoyed it!
In art we continued to learn about perspective and used water colour to complete the aquarium. A group of us lead stations of the cross in the P5 Classes as part of our Pope Francis Faith Award.
Ameya, Zofia, Nell, Julia, Hamnah, Baibua and Bailey organised an Easter egg hunt for the P1 children and they crocheted chicks for them, they looked amazing!! I think the P1 children appreciated all their hard work!
Congratulations to Nell who is our reading champion this week!
Congratulations to Samanvi who was nominated as our Hot Chocolate winner this week for amazing behaviour and work!
Have a lovely holiday !
Mrs Lea and Primary 6A
April 4, 2025
by Miss Maxwell
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Hello families of P4a, this week we have lots of exciting things to share with you.
On Monday we enjoyed our NYCOS music lesson. We are really enjoying this time and learning new rhythms and sounds.
Aadya said: “ NYCOS is really fun because it is a fun way to learn about music by playing games”
Throughout this week P4a have completed their SNSA assessments and have worked very hard to do so. Pupils completed a numeracy, writing and reading assessment.
On Wednesday this week we went a walk through the community and to our local Morrison’s. Here, pupils were recognising the energy and power that surrounds us in our society as we have been learning all about this throughout our new IDL topic. We even bought some ice lollies as it was a lovely hot day!
Caiden said: “I liked going to the shop with my friends and enjoyed the ice lollies too”
On Thursday we went a walk to Dechmont Law. Here, the pupils learned a lot about the UFO sighting at Dechmont in 1979 and were able to investigate this further when we came back to class. Pupils enjoyed walking up the hill at Dechmont and exploring the woodland area.
Grace said: “I had so much fun when we had our picnic and spending time with everyone in my class outside of school”
Jack said: “I liked learning about the UFO sighting and reading about it at the park on the plaque, it is very spooky”
Laura said “I liked doing the research about it in class when we came back and learning about the facts behind it”
On Friday pupils enjoyed an Easter egg hunt in our class and had great fun!
Mrs Ross from P4B brought her very own Easter bunny into school on Friday and lots of us got to see him and hold him, it was so cute!
Diana said “I really liked petting the bunny and it was super cute! Its name was Domino”
P4A pupils that are making their First Communion have their books home to complete over the holidays.
Our hot chocolate winner this week is Jack! – Well done Jack
I hope that you all have a wonderful break P4! I am so proud of all of your hard work this term. I will see you all in 2 weeks for our final term!! Can you believe it?!
Miss Maxwell 
March 31, 2025
by Miss Duddy
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Happy Friday to all the P3 families! What a fun-filled two weeks we have had.
Over the last 2 weeks we have been learning lots of spelling sounds and patterns and been practicing all of our common words! We have been writing narrative writing stories and they have all been awesome! This week we planned our new stories which we all came up with ourselves, we will be writing these after the holidays! We had some great ideas and everyone was very creative.
We have had lots of fun with our numeracy, going outside and learning in the sun last week as well as playing multiplication board games and working in groups and independently doing sums.
Our topic ‘conservation of wildlife’ has been so much fun so far. We have been learning about different wildlife and their habitats, what it means if an animal is ‘endangered’ and which animals fall into the ‘endangered’ list. We have been thinking about the threats to wildlife and what we can do to help protect the wildlife in our local area. As a part of this, we decided to go litter picking around our school grounds to help create a clean and tidy environment for wildlife to live in. We took a lovely walk around the local area and even ventured down to the river to take a look and spot some wildlife, we seen beautiful flowers blooming and lots of creatures including bugs, birds, ducks bees and more! We have also spent some time crafting our own wildlife habitats and these were made out of anything we wanted! This included lego, cardboard, paper and craft materials and meant we had a large range of 2D and 3D creations!
In our RE we have been learning about lent and the story of Jesus on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. We have been learning how to make the sign of the cross properly and what this means.
We had an awesome joke competition two weeks ago in our school and classroom. There were lots of funny jokes and myself and Mrs Garvin had a tough time choosing the winner! We ended up having 2 winners and one of them represented our class in front of the whole school! They did awesome and I thought our joke was definitely the funniest (although I may be biased)!
Well done to everyone last week who created an Easter bonnet and brought it in, we had lots of awesome bonnets in our classroom and everyone did an amazing job!
Well done to all of our winners over the last 2 weeks!
I hope you all have a lovely weekend,
Miss Duddy.
March 30, 2025
by Mrs McKissack
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A very happy Mother’s Day to all our SJO mums. A very special message from our P7 Campers who are away from their Mums today.
March 29, 2025
by Maria Brown
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Hi P5B families!
We have reached the last week of term already! I cannot believe we are heading towards our Easter holidays and then one more term to go! Time is flying indeed.
P5 will soon be starting to build their sustainable school model for their Climate Smart Award (if you recall, information was given about this fantastic learning opportunity during ‘Meet the Teacher’ at the start of the year). Can I request that you speak to your child over the holidays about what recyclable materials (preferably but not exclusively) they would like to use for their model and for them to bring them in upon our return. That would be a really big help. The school model will be on a board with the dimensions of 60cm by 60cm. They need materials to represent the walls, roof, grass, soil, woodland, wind turbines, playground benches etc.
Here are a few photos of some of the learning that took place this week in class (apologies but I forgot to take the notes home of what the children enjoyed this week).
My highlight was the lesson on fire lighting. It was great to see the perseverance of the children and the end result of this resilience! Well done Primary 5!
I hope you all enjoy Mother’s Day this Sunday. P5 may have something special waiting for you.
Mrs Brown
