December 20, 2024
by Mrs McKissack
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Christmas Wishes from all at SJO!

Well, what a busy final two weeks at St John Ogilvie PS. We have had so many different festive events and we are so proud of all of our wonderful pupils who have really embraced the Christmas Spirit. Some of our highlights have been:

P1 Nativity – Two amazing performances of Cheeky Cherubs followed by P1 visiting St Peter’s to share their wonderful singing with the Parish.

P5 Enterprise – A super showcase of both talent and creative skills raising money for Mary’s Meals. Thank you to all of the families who came to support P5.

Christmas parties – A full week of festive fun, dancing our socks off and eating Christmas treats. P1 also had a visit from Santa who brought them all a small gift.

Sacrament of Reconciliation – P3 children and their families joined Fr Clement at St Peter’s on Wednesday evening to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time. This was a beautiful, peaceful celebration and we are so proud of how well our children prepared in school and at home. A huge thank you to Miss Duddy for all of her work in preparing the children so well.

Christmas Assembly – We spent some time together today as a whole school. We sang some carols and said a special prayer together to reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. We also drew our Christmas raffle, well done to all of our winners.

We are delighted to be able to announce that our Advent Appeal has raised £492 which will be donated to Mary’s Meals and will help to feed a whole class of school children for a full year which is 9125 individual meals. Thank you, as always for your amazing support.

On behalf of all of the staff, thank you for all of your kind wishes and gifts.

We wish you a very Happy and Holy Christmas and a peaceful New Year!

December 20, 2024
by Miss Stebbing
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Primary 2/1 Learning Highlights 20th December 2024

What a fantastic final week of term we have had!

In Literacy, we have been learning the sounds ‘g’ and ‘l’. We have been practising forming the letters correctly in our jotters. We completed a Christmas themed CVC word activity where we had to match up the words and pictures. Miss Stebbing was very impressed with how confident we were in reading the words.

In Maths, we have been completing Christmas patterns and symmetrical pictures. We also measured different items to identify the tallest, shortest and longest. We then had to sort ourselves from shortest to tallest.

We have been doing lots of Christmas art and craft activities this week. We have been keeping them all in our special snowman bags and we can’t wait to take them home to show our families.

On Thursday, we had some time with our buddies who had made us some maths games to play. We then had our Christmas Party in the afternoon. We had lots of fun dancing and playing party games in the hall and then had our snack in the area. A huge thank you to Mrs Lafferty who organised all the dancing and games and to the support staff who organised all the snacks. We had a special visit from Santa who gave the P1 pupils a present.

Wishing all our P2/1 families a very happy Christmas and a huge thank you for all your support throughout this term. I can’t wait to see everyone back in 2025!

Miss Stebbing

December 20, 2024
by Mrs Brand
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Week beginning 16/12/24 – P2 Weekly Highlights

Hello families of P2

We have had a fantastic final week of term, with lots of Christmas fun!

Weekly Highlights

Willow – I loved making the Christmas trees and Christmas baubles.

Matteo – I liked making my elf.

Daniel – I liked making the Manger for Mary, Joseph and Jesus, using the little sticks.

Alfie – I loved dancing at the Christmas party.

Ellie – I liked reading at our Advent Service.

Leighton – I loved playing party games. My favourite game was musical corners.

Have a lovely Christmas break everyone. We look forward to seeing you all back in January!

Mrs Brand & Mrs Craig

December 20, 2024
by Miss Maxwell
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W/E 20th December 2024

Welcome families of P4A,

This week we have had a lot of Christmas fun!

On Tuesday afternoon we had our Christmas party. We danced, sang and had some treats. Some pupils have comments of what they loved most about their party;

Grace – I liked doing the dancing with my partner

Rory- I really enjoyed doing musical statues

Deveena- I loved playing corners at our party

On Thursday we decorated some lovely Christmas biscuits, they were so yummy! Pupils showed great creativity skills and did some beautiful designs.

P4A also painted some Christmas baubles that they can take home and add to their tree.

Zion- I liked doing this because I really enjoy painting.

Aadya- I liked making the baubles because I could use lots of different colours and glitter.

On Thursday afternoon P4A had their carol service with the rest of the middle area. They sang Last Christmas and Away in a manger. P4A did themselves very proud as they sang beautifully.

I hope that you all have an amazing Christmas with your families. I am so grateful for all of the cards and gifts that I have recieved. Thank you for your generosity, I really am so lucky to have such a great class and I cant wait to see what fun 2025 brings us!

Merry Christmas P4A,

Love Miss Maxwell <3 🙂

December 16, 2024
by Miss Maxwell
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W/E 13th December 2024

Welcome families of P4A!

We have had a lovely week enjoying some festivities.

P4A have been working hard to tie up all of their work that they have completed this term before the holiday’s next week. They have continued to work hard and stay focussed despite the excitement of Christmas.

They have completed some amazing creative stories this week based on Christmas Eve. Angel did super well and even received a head teacher’s sticker in his jotter! Well done Angel, fantastic work.

Angel : “I am so proud of myself and happy”

Pupils have been enhancing their technology skills as they use the ipads and netbooks for research tasks. Pupils have created some amazing fact files over the past couple of weeks based on a country of their choice. Pupils have a strong understanding of reliable and not so reliable sources when searching for information. A special well done to Diana who completed a wonderful powerpoint at home about Slovakia. She even presented this to the whole class!

Diana: “Everything in my powerpoint is special to me because I have visited most of the places. My favourite is the roller coaster slide”.

P4A have their Christmas party in school next Tuesday afternoon. All pupils are welcome to wear their party clothes to school or bring a change in their bag.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is – Olivia

Enjoy your weekend everyone!

December 13, 2024
by Miss Stebbing
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Primary 2/1 Learning Highlights 13th December 2024

This week we have been learning all about the sounds ‘d’ and ‘u’. We have been practising making words using these sounds and we are getting more confident is reading cvc words too. We have listened to lots of Christmas stories this week and we particularly enjoyed reading ‘Snowmen at Night’. We practised our cutting skills to create our own snowmen pictures.

In maths, we have been revising missing numbers to 20. We were also practising estimating using the mini snowballs in our tuff tray.

This week we performed our Nativity show 3 times. Once for our Buddies and siblings and then twice for our families. Everyone was very proud of how well we sang and remembered our lines. On Thursday, we went along to St Peter’s Church for Mass and we sang some of our Nativity songs at the end of Mass for the parishioners. We received lots of compliments for our singing!

As we did so well with our Nativity performances we got a special treat on Thursday afternoon. We had a movie afternoon with popcorn and Mrs McKissack brought us special stickers and a chocolate lolly.

We have been making lots of different Christmas crafts this week which has been very exciting. We also set up a Santa’s Workshop in our role play area and we have enjoyed using the little hammers to make toys.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Harrison – I enjoyed colouring in the elf.

Freddie – I enjoyed doing the Nativity.

Vihaan – I enjoyed playing Christmas games.

Elsie – I enjoyed making the snowman pictures.

Tyler – I enjoyed playing in Santa’s Workshop.

Miles – I enjoyed playing with the Santa.

Congratulations to Harrison who is our Reading Champion for this fortnight. He has been confidently reading CVC words. Also congratulations to Muhammad who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. He has been trying hard to be a good friend and was very good on stage at the Nativity.

December 13, 2024
by Mrs Meikle
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P1 this week

WOW! What amazing performers we have in P1. Our nativity on Wednesday was amazing! Everyone played their parts brilliantly and the singing was so loud. We are very proud of them all. Thank you to all our adults who came in to support us during our performances, we hope you enjoyed it as much as we did.

We attended mass on Thursday morning to sing some of our nativity songs to the congregation. They were full of praise for our wonderful singing.

Well done those in our class who made a nativity scene in a box, they are very impressive. Here are a small selection from our class.

We have started to do some Christmas crafts this week, we will not spoil our surprises and are all excited to bring them home next week to show you all we have made.

We have worked on the sounds u and d and have been learning to write these letters correctly and to use them when reading and writing words. Don’t forget to be practicing sound and high frequency flashcards at home to help with this also.

We all came to school a wee bit crazy today, everyone looked fab. I particularly loved Franek’s pilot/plane costume.

Well done to Dawid for winning the Hot Chocolate award this week.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and we look forward to a fun festive filled week next week!

December 13, 2024
by Mr McGurn
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P7A Weekly Update By Lili and Farrah

Dear Parents,

Here’s what we’ve been up to this week in P7A…

On Monday, we had technology, we had a competition for who can make the tallest tower out of spaghetti. On Thursday we then made the strongest bridges.

On Tuesday, we made little pop up cards for our buddies and we put little chocolates in them and we are looking forward to meeting up with them next week. We also did some Christmas vocabulary but in French!

On Wednesday, we got to watch a Christmas movie because our chairs were in the hall for the P1 nativity and we finished of our cards for our buddies.

On Thursday, we walked all the way to Eliburn Park where we got to walk around the reservoir and see the parts we will go to when we try orienteering there next year. But it was definitely worth the trip as we got 10 minutes to play at the park!

Finally on Friday, we had an online RE lesson with St. Margaret’s and started the new Sumdog competition. Then we had Fun Friday, some people were playing games and others were on their phones.

Have a great weekend!

PS our hot chocolate at home winner was Inaayah.

December 9, 2024
by Mr McGurn
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P7A Update

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update on what P7A have been up to for the last couple of weeks…

On the 22nd of November we went up to the woodlands to make a fire. At the fire place we where writing about our book on book week which was The Lorax. When we were writing Mr McGurn gave us marshmallows and cookies to make smores. When we got back to class we got hot cocoa to warm us up.

On the 25th of November we had SNSA tests, first we did maths, it was kinda hard, then we done reading, it was medium and the last on was writing, and it was hard. When people were getting to the end of their SNSA they played Sumdog for the West Lothian Competition, which we SJO P7A got first in!!!! The people in the top ten were Aarya, Francesca, Nikola and Vijval and they all got a certificate and all people that finished 1000 questions got a treat.

On the 5th of December we went up to Deans Woods to make a shelter out of leaves and sticks. We got into groups of 3-6 and found a place to start. Everybody’s shelters were outstanding, we are hoping they stay up until next week so we can continue working hard on them. When we came back to class we washed our hands, wiped our feet, packed our bags and went home.

Our hot chocolate winner this week was Lili, last week was Jacob and the week before that was Nikola.

Written by Emili and Nikola.

December 8, 2024
by Maria Brown
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P5B Week Beginning 2nd December 2024

Hello families of P5B! Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Blue table:

Amelia and David have enjoyed the super ending to our class novel, ‘The Midnight Gang’. There was lots of cheers for the happy ending. It had been close to 500 pages! We are excited to see what the new class vote reveals for our next one!

Flynn said the highlight of his week was when his group won Winning Group of the Week! He picked slime from the treasure chest for his reward.

Olek and Scott have thought that PE with Mrs Lafferty this week has been great! They have been preparing for their Christmas party by practising the dances and games.

Georgia and Sean have LOVED making tote bags for the Enterprise Showcase. They have used fabric pens to write positive affirmations on them or drew animated figures. We decided to design them so they could be used all year round.

Nicolas has also loved preparing centre pieces as his group’s Enterprise idea and carefully used the glue gun under adult supervision to attach real holly.

Alex said winning the hot chocolate for the Over and Above award was his highlight. Well-deserved Alex! Congratulations.

My highlight has been our Advent services. It has been special to have gathered together as an Area (P4 and P5s together) to think about what Advent means to us and pray to God in song with our beautiful hymns. This coming Monday, it will be P5B’s turn to lead the service.

I look forward to seeing you at 9.15am on Friday for our P5 Christmas Enterprise event. The children have been working hard all term to prepare their sustainable decorations to sell to raise money for the charity, Mary’s Meals. Please remember to bring lots of change as we have no card machine facilities or float (given we are a cashless school). P5B items will range from 10p-£3.

This week will be the last week for homework for this term.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Brown