St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s a quick update of our learning this week:

“We were writing a Narrative story this week. I love writing imaginative stories because there are endless possibilities,” said Alexa.

Benita said, “This week Rob and his Dog, Jax, came and did outdoor learning. The good thing about this time is that we went further than normal and we played hide and seek!”

“This week in PE we did paired balancing. It was very fun but sometimes challenging after we practised we performed our sequence for the class and then put away the mats,” said Jude.

Paige said, “In maths we have been doing fractions, decimals and percentages. And working in groups for Building Thinking Classrooms mental maths tasks.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate winners were…..

Lyon and Jude

Another member of staff told me how mannerly and polite they were – well done on the excellent manners boys!

Have a great February break,

Mr McGurn and P7B

Another busy week for all Primary 1.

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘y’ and ‘j’. We have been reading and writing sounds.

In Maths we have been learning about odd and even numbers using 10 frames.

In Relgion we learned about St Brigid and listened to a story about her cloak.  We then decorated our own cloak.

Congratulations to Nathania P1A and Mikayla P1B our Hot Chocolate winners.  Well done to St Peters are winning house this week.

Have a wonderful mid-term break and well deserved rest everyone.

P3 had a fantastic day today!  There was so much to see and do and not enough time to see and do it all.  I know the children will all sleep soundly tonight!  A big thank you to our class parent helper, Ollie’s dad and a thank you to Daisy and Ellie who helped make the pic collage photos on the journey home.  I hope you enjoy the pictures below.

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘w’ and ‘z’. We have been reading and writing words using these sounds.

In Maths, we have been continuing our work on addition and subtraction. We had to look carefully at the sums to see which one we had to do.

For Topic, we went on a walk around our school to see the different types of houses. Ask us what types of houses we saw. We also looked at the street signs and ticked off the capital letters we could find.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Eloran – I enjoyed playing on the OSMO.

Victoria – I enjoyed having a walk.

Aria – I enjoyed playing with the new lego.

Alayha – I enjoyed colouring.

Mikayla – I enjoyed going on a walk.

Lincoln – I enjoyed doing writing.

Congratulations to Alfie who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week. He has shown confidence in reading cvc words and also did some very good writing this week.

Hello P3 families!

The learning highlights this week come from ‘Bathgate’:

Ellie has enjoyed writing her Robert Burns inspired poem.  Each child chose something in nature and entitled their poem, ‘To a ________’, just like Robert Burns’ ‘To a Mouse’ and other such poems.  We are now ready to produce our final drafts!  Look out for these super poems during February’s parent consultations.  You will be very proud!  This coming week we will also replace some of the words with some of those in old Scots.

Leighton loved being an audience for the P6 ‘Burns Night’ show and I know she was very proud watching her sister perform.

Both Nathan and Vikashini liked gymnastics.  The children continued to work on their shapes and balancing.  Next week, our final gymnastics session will involve learning the teddy bear roll and bunny hops over low apparatus (before we move on to multi sports).

Viaan said the best part of his week was visiting the local woods for some imaginative play.  See the photos below that captured our visit.

Daisy liked music with Mrs Morrison.

My highlight, like Leighton, was watching the P6 show.  I have a soft spot for this year group, having taught both classes in the past.  I was so very proud of them!  We really loved listening to them perform ‘A Red Red Rose’ as our class has been learning that poem in particular this week.  A big well done to all those who bravely recited the poem on Friday in front of the class.  I could tell you had been practising at home as well as at school.  Thank you parents for supporting your child with this.

Congratulations to our reading champion, Maja and our hot chocolate winner this week, Laaibah!

Homework for February will be sent home on Tuesday for those who have opted in.  Also, just a reminder that next Friday will be our last day before the mid term break and we will see your lovely children return on Tuesday 17^th February.

It has been another busy and fun week of learning in P1A.

In Literacy we have been learning the sounds z and w and have been working hard on formation.  We also completed word building tasks related to each sound.  We have been working on holding sounds to blend when reading.  For writing this week we wrote a sentence using z words.

In Maths and Numeracy we have continued learning to count in 2s, 5s and 10s.  We looked at estimation and used our knowledge of numbers to make a sensible guess of how many objects were in a pile without counting them.  We did colour by number subtraction also.  We also looked at odd and even numbers and are beginning to remember what numbers are odd and even.

We went for a walk around our local area and looked at types of houses.  We later drew our own house for a wall display.  We did a street sign letter scavenger hunt around our local area.

In Religion we listened to the story of Creation and completed an art activity to retell the story.

For Outdoor learning this week we enjoyed playing with the scooters and bikes, footballs and loose parts.  Lots of wonderful bridges and dens were made with the loose parts.

Learning Highlights

Ini ‘I enjoyed looking at the signs on the road’

Zahra ‘I enjoyed riding the bikes during outdoor learning’

Lillie-Belle ‘I enjoyed playing on the scooters and the bikes’

Conall ‘I enjoyed doing outdoor learning’

Nathania ‘I liked doing the maths’

Andy ‘I liked playing outside with the ball and my friends’

Arire ‘I liked playing football’

Pola ‘I liked playing with the ball’

Mrs Russell ‘I love how confident you are becoming in your writing and remembering your targets’

Congratulations to Willow our Hot Chocolate winner and well done to St Frances our winning house this week.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Pupil Highlights:

Laura – I liked attempting to make the rubber band car.

Aadya- I like attempting to make the catapult out of lollipop sticks, rubber bands , bottle lids and a pom pom. I

Chaiti – I liked doing our morning brain texts this week.

Deveena – I liked writing an information report on Victorian Schools.

Diana – I liked learning about the life of Thomas Bernardo.

Zion – I liked looking at primary seven information reports to mark using the WL writing targets.

Congratulations to Jack for winning hot chocolate this week. You have matured in your behaviour and you are working considerably harder at making your work neater in your jotter. Well done Jack. The class are so happy for you.

Here are some of the learning experiences your child will have this term in Primary Three:

Best wishes,

Mrs Brown

Hello P3 families!

The learning highlights this week come from ‘Broxburn’.

Maks has enjoyed demonstrating his understanding of subtraction.  P3 have moved on to subtracting 2 digit numbers from 2 digit numbers with exchanging.  Maks’ favourite subject is maths and he looks forward to it everyday and enjoys being challenged.

Both Maja and Danvith report how our class visit from the SSPCA was their favourite part of their week.  Last term when the children were exploring Scottish wild animals when the role of the SSPCA was risen.  The children expressed an interest in learning more about this important charity.  A volunteer came and spoke to us about the important job they do.

Sophia liked Spanish with Mrs Broadley.

Matteo and Daniel both loved our outdoor learning session in a local woodland.  For the next 2 Wednesdays (which we call Wellie Wednesdays), P3 will enjoy free play in the local woodland.  It was marvellous to see the creative play there and the resilience building while children climbed trees and balanced as they walked along felled trees and teamwork as they supported on another.  Unfortunately I forgot to bring my ipad but will be sure to pack it next week and capture some pictures for you to enjoy.

My highlight was when we learned about Judaism, the religion Jesus was born in to.  The children watched a video of a young boy talking about his faith.  We made comparisons with our faith.  As a follow up, the children made mezuzahs with a special prayer inside and Jewish symbols on the outside.  Ask your child about the different symbols and what they mean.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner Nathan!

Below are photos from the last 2 weeks learning: