St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3 families!

It was so lovely to have met with you this week during our consultation evenings to discuss your precious children.  I hope you all enjoyed talking with me, looking through their jotters and noting how much progress they have made this year so far!

Our learning highlights this week come from ‘Broxburn’:

Amelia and Matteo both note how making unleavened bread was the highlight of their week.  We made this as part of our learning about Judaism (the faith Jesus was born into).  Ask your child to tell you about the Festival of the Passover and the Festival of Hanukkah.  I hope you enjoyed the lovely Menorah crafts that went home on Friday.  Here are links to the 2 videos we watched to support our learning, in the event that your child would like to watch them again:

KS1 Religious Studies: The Jewish Story of Moses – BBC Teach

The Jewish Story of Hanukkah – BBC Teach

Maks enjoyed playing a mental maths game to practise division skills.  2 children sat opposite of one another while I called out a division sum.  They had to write it in the bus stop method using a whiteboard and pen and the first person to get the answer squeaked the PE squeezy ball.

Rahim and Maja both report how they loved making their Menorah craft.  I hope the cleaners do not mind vacuuming up the gold glitter!  With the best will in the world, it is hard to contain glitter!

Sophia enjoyed our local walk where we spotted houses with solar panels.  This was part of our new learning about Sustainability.  We then went in to the playground with mini solar panels, an LED lightbulb and crocodile clips and watched solar panels creating electricity before our eyes!  Thank you to our P6 helpers who are Climate Smart warriors!

Danvith continues to enjoy playing Rounders for PE.

Vihaan said the best part of his week was listening to our new Word Boost story, ‘The Dragon Machine’ and we look forward to playing Word Boost Corners on Monday to practise our Word Boost words.

My highlight was our local walk to spot solar panels.  We also spotted some buds pushing their way out of branches!  It is lovely to see some signs of Spring and the brighter mornings.

A big congratulations to Matteo, our hot chocolate winner!  I believe his little brother was also the winner from his class this week too!  Also, congratulations to Joseph, our Reading Champ!

Just a reminder to send in your used pillowcase for our Tote bag making this term.  We hope to begin them week beginning 9th March.  Also, look out for this month’s homework (if you have opted-in) in your child’s homework pack on Tuesday.

Unfortunately our class ipad has still not been returned but I have a Plan B in place for photos, to capture some of our learning experiences next week, if it is not yet updated.

I hope you enjoy your weekend.

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning all about frogs. We had to label a frog and then correctly sequence the lifecycle. We learned about tadpoles and froglets. In writing, we wrote an information report all about frogs.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘ch’ and ‘sh’ digraphs. We used these in sentences and wrote words with these sounds.

In maths, we have been learning to tell the time. We had to match the digital and analogue clocks to show the correct o’clock times.

For Outdoor Learning, we were using the flints to make sparks and we enjoyed spending some time in the hammocks.

It was lovely to see all the families at the Parent Consultations this week and to discuss the great progress being made by our class.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Niall – I enjoyed learning about frogs.

Carson – I enjoyed making paper phones.

Mikayla – I enjoyed learning on the Smartboard.

Aayat – I enjoyed playing in the vet surgery role play area.

Alayha – I enjoyed writing about frogs.

Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate Winner, Freya, who has been working hard on her writing. Well done to our Reading Champion, Alfie, who has been confidently reading common words and finding them in books during ERIC time.

This week has been a really fun and exciting week in primary 6b. We have been working really hard in literacy to learn our different reciprocal reading strategies. This week we have looked at summarising and predicting. We have been using our core targets during our 15-minute writing and have gathered lots of information about a topic and will be using it to write an information report.

This week in numeracy  we did the four operations. We made bar graphs based on lunch choices and we worked on our multiplication. Everyone worked so hard.

In PE we began our block on tennis and worked on our racket control. We finished off our stations of the cross artwork that was started last week with Mrs Ogunro.

On Wednesday we had our wonderful trip to the BBC – it was definitely the highlight of the week for everyone.

Well done on a great week P6 and well done to out hot chocolate winner Adya!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss Duddy

Pupil Highlights:

Linda: I enjoyed making a power point on the netbooks and presenting it to the class.

Diana: I liked making the popcorn with the pop corn maker.

Angel: I liked doing 4 digit addition and subtraction using column method.

Zion: I liked challenging myself by reading about the advantages and disadvantages of smartphones in schools.

Deveena: I like making the post cards for Miss Smith’s friend in France to send positive energy.

Aadya: I liked being the teacher and showing others how to do 4 digit subtraction using column method.

Chahiti : I liked writing my information report on Florence Nightingale using the notes I took from the bbc teach video.

Grace- I liked clarifying words we did not know using the clues in the sentence.

Hot Chocolate Winner  – Congratulations to Laura who is our hot chocolate winner this week. These are the many reasons why Laura was awarded it this week but is someone who could always win it every week!

• ‘ she is encouraging’      ‘ she helps you when you are in need’      ‘she is fun’
• ‘ she is a good person’       ‘ she is friendly’  ‘ she will always play with you when you don’t have anyone to play with’

Hello P3 families! I hope you enjoyed our last post with photos from our recent class trip to Glasgow Science Centre.  The learning highlights this week come from ‘Livingston’:

Izhaan and Joseph both loved playing Word Boost Corners (Joseph won!).  I bought a new speaker for the class and they loved listening to Disney’s classic hits while dancing.

Navami said that litter picking in our local area was her learning highlight.  This week we were introduced to our new topic, Sustainability.  We started it off by taking care of God’s beautiful creation by picking up litter on a walk.  We were proud to have saved some animals from injury or even death!  We learned that litter can make its way to the rivers and then sea where it can be eaten by sea creatures or they can get trapped inside them and die!  Each Monday, we are going to appoint a ‘Planet Protector’ who will be responsible for turning off the lights and smartboard when we leave the room and they will check the recycling paper bin and make sure no other rubbish is in there.  They will also water our class plant.  We are excited to make our own Tote bags this term and have already designed them!  Thank you to those parents who have already sent their old pillowcase in for this exciting Sustainable task.

Alex and Ollie loved Pancake Tuesday!  The children had the choice of blackcurrant or orange marmalade.  They practised their spreading skills.  We used the pancakes for learning about fractions.  Some chose to transform their thirds into sixths by halving them while others halved fifths and turned them into tenths!  We used the phrase ‘equivalent fractions’.  The children then listened and followed instructions such as, “eat one fifth, eat three sixths” etc.

Tyler T said his learning highlight was our lessons on dividing.  After we ate our pancakes, we followed this up with halving numbers (dividing them by 2).  In P3, we divide 2 digit numbers by 2.  The children used their knowledge of the 2 Times Tables to help them find answers.  Next week we will move on the division with remainders.

Elize continued to enjoy Rounders in PE.  Our warm up involved balancing with beanbags – walking in a straight line, changing direction and even hopping with them on our heads!

Oscar enjoyed our Narrative writing lessons.  Narrative stories are those that have a problem that then gets resolved at the end.  This week we started to write a whole class story called ‘The Lost Dog’.  The children worked in pairs to write an ‘Orientation’ (introduction) where the main characters and setting are introduced.  Ollie and Joseph’s submission was chosen!  Together as a class, we then uplevelled their orientation.  On Monday, we will continue with paragraph 2, the ‘Complication’ (what is the problem).

My highlight was when we went to church to receive ashes for Ash Wednesday.  The children learned the meaning of the different words the priest may say when delivering the ashes.  We also made a Lenten Promise.  Ask your child what theirs is.

Congratulations to Tyler T, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

Unfortunately, the class ipad has been taken away for updates so no photos were able to be taken this week.  Hopefully it won’t be long before we have it back.

I look forward to seeing you next week at Parent Consultations.

Have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning all about Lent. We learned all about Shrove Tuesday and Ash Wednesday. Some of us went to Mass at St Peter’s on Wednesday to receive our ashes and we were praised for our excellent behaviour. We have drawn pictures on footprints of what we are going to do during Lent for a display in the area.

On Tuesday, we had pancakes and used them to practise making half during maths. It was great fun and we got to eat our maths work! We also used little plastic pancakes to make half of a given quantity.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about the ‘qu’ sound. We have been reading lots of words and writing them too.

In PE, we have been practising our throwing and catching skills. We used beanbags and scarves to help us with this.

We have started a new topic all about Minibeasts. We are very excited about this topic and came up with lots of things that we want to learn about. During Outdoor Learning, we used magnifying glasses to see if we could find any minibeasts in the Woodland.

We all agreed that the highlight of the week was eating pancakes!

Congratulations to Aria, who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She always tries hard with her learning tasks and is a good friend to everyone. Well done to Mikayla, who is our Reading Champion for this fortnight. She has shown confidence in reading CVC words.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s an update from P7B and what we’ve been learning and doing this week:

Jude said, ” On Wednesday we want to Mass for Ash Wednesday as it is the start of Lent.”

“We have had many rehearsals and have improved every week. It was hard because we had 10 songs to learn but we are not too bad,” said Benita.

Paige said, ” In PE we have started Club Golf. Some of us love it, some of us not so much.”

“On Thursday for Outdoor Learning we dug up the gardens so we can hopefully grow our own leeks and potatoes to make soup!” said Ishani M.

Daniel said, “On Friday we did the Stations of the Cross. It was a lot of kneeling but it is an important prayer during Lent.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner was…

Ashley! Well done Ashley, always great work with a positive approach.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7B

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