St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello everyone, we are so excited to tell you all about our week in Primary 2! 

Today, we attended Mass, followed by a well deserved treat day! After working so hard this term, we enjoyed some extra playtime with skipping ropes, chalk and lots of fun games. 

In outdoor learning, we headed to the woodlands and had a fantastic time exploring the mud kitchen, building dens and playing with all the different toys. 

In topic, we have been very busy! Last week we used junk modelling to create toys from the past. This week, we created mini people with outfits inspired by 90s fashion. 

In Literacy, our focus has been on the ‘ai’ and ’ay’ sounds. We have been working very hard practicing these sounds. 

In PE, we have been practising our balance and coordination skills by balancing bean bags. We had lots of fun with these challenges! 

Our Weekly Highlights 

Lillie-Belle – I liked making the dens outside. 

Marley – I liked going to the woodlands. 

Hanna- I liked having extra break. 

Andy – I liked PE. 

Alfie – I liked playing outside with my friends. 

Grace – I liked practicing our doubles in maths. 

Marcel – I liked going outside to make dens. 

Lincoln – I liked making our mini people. 

Amelia L- I liked going to Mass. 

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Marley! Well done Marley for always going above and beyond. 

Have a lovely October Holiday! 

Miss Rocks and Primary 2 

This week we have been learning the sound ‘n’ and the common word ‘my’. We have been reading lots of words and trying to match the pictures.

In Maths, we have been learning to order numbers correctly. We did a cut and stick activity to put the numbers in the correct order and then played the caterpillar game to help us practise.

In Topic, we became Palaeontologists for the day and learned about fossils. We used paint brushes to hunt for fossils in the sand tray.

In RE, we said thank you to God for Autumn and made some beautiful Autumn artwork.

We have been learning all about the fire pit safety rules during Outdoor Learning and then enjoyed making conker soup in the mud kitchen, climbing trees and finding the fairy doors.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Alan – I enjoyed drawing a cute pumpkin.

Moses – I enjoyed doing numbers.

Maya – I enjoyed learning the fire pit safety rules.

Ava – I enjoyed drawing.

Congratulations to Freddie who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. He tries hard in all his tasks and is always helpful.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s a quick update on this week in P6B:

We have started our new class novel though it is a non-fiction text called Earth Heroes where we are going to read about people making a difference to our planet like David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg.

Multiplication and Division are going well and children have some extra times table work sent home each Friday to help with solidifying fast recall of tables facts.

In science we created our own volcanic eruptions using vinegar, bicarbonate of soda and some red food dye.

Unfortunately we didn’t manage a fire in the firepit on Wednesday as the wind made the woodlands unsafe – we will reschedule.

Blair was this week’s Lead Learner and received the Hot Chocolate at Home reward.

Have a wonderful October break,

Mr McGurn and P6B

We have had a lovely week this week in class.

We have learned the new sound ‘n’ and had lots of fun making our own Ninja Turtles.

We revised all our learned sounds and high frequency words and used them to write a simple sentence.

In maths, we have revised all our learning on numbers to 20 and enjoyed playing number games such as dominoes, snakes and ladders and playing cards.

We had lots of fun learning about dinosaur bones and enjoyed digging for bones and making our own fossils.

Samuel – I liked drawing dinosaurs.

Vikranth – I liked playing in the same and breaking the eggs.

Georgie – I like cutting superhero masks.

Safwan – I liked colouring cards and pictures.

Ruaridh – I liked making a spidey mask.

Check back on Monday for this week’s blog, as I forgot to get the children’s contribution on Friday. Apologies.  Meanwhile, here are a few pictures of some of the things we got up to this week:

Hello P1 families!

Here are the highlights from the Yellow table:

Aidhel liked forming our sound ‘t’ with the torch.

Luke said he loved learning the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer and doing the actions.

Ellie’s highlight was when we played ‘Guess What Shape is Missing?’  We were learning about the 3D shapes: pyramid, cube, cuboid, sphere, cone and cylinder.  The shapes were hidden and then one was removed.  If the children could not remember its name, they would say, “The big fat brother of the circle” etc.

Vinayak loved outdoor learning in the playground where the children played a matching game with dominoes and cones.  Thank you to Miss Stebbing for lending us this super game.  The children then played with loose parts.

Leah said her favourite lesson was when we continued to learn our Spanish colours.  We now know: red, blue, yellow, pink, orange, black and brown.  We will continue to work on these next week.

My favourite was the success some children had a blending the sounds we have made so far to form words.  It was so magical to see the realisation happen!

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Archie!

Mrs Brown

What another super week in P1C.  This week we have been learning all about the letter t and the common word and. We made our own tiger craft and read the story The Tiger Who Came to Tea.  Mrs Russell brought in a big tiger teddy and tea set and we role played having tea with the tiger.  We looked at pictures of the story and discussed what order to put them in.  Mrs Russell was impressed with how well we completed this task.  We wrote a sentence using all our common words about a cat a mat and a map.

In maths, we have been learning all about the number 13. We have been doing lots of counting forwards and backwards, we even counted up to 100.  We played the game show me a number and we were able to show different ways to make the number.

For Outdoor Learning this week, we were in the Woodlands.  We went over the rules and boundaries and how to risk assess.  We made numbers using loose parts we found on the woodland floor and we had some free play to choose our own learning.

In RE, we learned during the month of October we pray the Rosary to Mary.  We made a class rosary beads for our wall display.

We have started a topic about Dinosaurs, we were able to give lots of information we already know about dinosaurs and also discussed lots of things we would like to find out and learn about them.

Our personal highlights

Mathias ‘Playing outside with my friends’

Samuel ‘I liked running in gym’

Hamza ‘I liked maths’

Georgie ‘I liked music we were singing five little ducks’

Viranth ‘I liked being in the Woodlands’

Falyn ‘I liked running outside with my friends’

Ruaridh ‘I liked playing in the Woodlands

Taro ‘I liked the Tiger who came for tea and playing with the tea set and tiger’

Mikolaj ‘I liked playing outside.

Vedha ‘I liked playing in the woodlands.

Mrs Russell ‘I loved how well you all played in the woodlands and you all had such good listening ears.  I also loved watching you role play the tiger how came to tea’

Well done to Falyn our Hot Chocolate winner this week.  Falyn is such a helpful, kind, caring girl.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 7 have had another busy and fun week!

In Literacy, we read a passage about JK Rowling and learnt about her life before she became a successful novelist.  Our class researched different authors who experienced similar struggles before becoming famous all around the world!

In Numeracy, we learnt how to add fractions with a different denominator and we practised our ” Rock” tables.

During R.E, we studied the four evangelists and created a fact file about them. We learnt about their individual qualities and attributes. Our class enjoyed our area service where we prayed the Rosary.

This week, we took on the spaghetti bridge challenge and worked in teams to create strong bridges using the triangular structures. We will test their strength next week using a variety of weights.

Some of the P7’s  took part in the West Lothian Cross Country championships and they all performed brilliantly and enjoyed the event.

Congratulations to Olivia who was nominated for our hot chocolate award in our class this week.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary 7B

This week we have been learning all about the letter t and the common word and. We read the Tiger Who Came to Tea and we had to sequence the pictures to show beginning, middle and end. We wrote a sentence using all our common words and even used our sounds to spell two words. The staff were very impressed with us!

In maths, we have been learning all about the number 12. We also learned about 3D shapes and played a game where Miss Stebbing said the name of a shape and we had to race against a partner to find it.

We have started a new topic all about dinosaurs. We have made a poster about all the things wee know and all the things we would like to learn. We also sorted toys and discussed how we knew they were dinosaurs or not.

For Outdoor Learning, we were in the playground. We used magnetic letters to spell words on the green sheds and tried to write our letters in the MUGA. We then had some choosing our own learning time and a turn on the bikes and scooters.

In RE, we have been learning the Hail Mary. We have been watching a video which shows us the Hail Mary in sign language. We tried hard to copy the signs.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Cai – I enjoyed doing Dough Disco.

Rio – I enjoyed learning about the number 12.

Thomas – I enjoyed playing with the Magnatiles.

Ava – I enjoyed doing writing.

Penelope – I enjoyed writing my sentence.

Nevansh – I enjoyed learning outside.

Congratulations to Rio who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. He shows fantastic skills in maths and has been so kind to other people in our class. He always makes sure everyone is included in his play.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here are the highlights for this week in P6B:

On Monday Mrs Callaghan led the Upper Area Hymn Practice, choosing 3 of her favourites which P6 and 7 sang brilliantly.

On Tuesday, Kids Gone Wild led our Outdoor Learning again and we walked over 4.5km collecting conkers and scaled Dechmont Hill.

Wednesday, after Mr Montgomery had kindly drilled holes in our conkers, we went outside for a game. Everyone’s conkers survived but a few had some damage!

On Thursday we finished our Kensuke’s Kingdom Comprehension tasks and started our Book Reviews. Everyone is looking forward to our cinema trip.

And Friday we prayed a Rosary together in the Upper Area and it was a lovely prayerful service.

Well done to Inaaya for doing a great job as our Lead Learner and she takes home the Hot Chocolate award.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P6B