St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello families!

It has been so lovely to have had the children return this week after our Easter break.  I have missed them so much and some have even sprouted up!  Here are some of the learning highlights this week according to ‘Bathgate’:

Tyler T enjoyed learning about the 4 Times Tables.  We looked at lego pieces with 4 spots, cars with 4 wheels and white boards with 4 corners to help us use this Times Table in a real life context (see photo below).

Viaan loved the Building Thinking Classroom session were the children worked in randomized groups to solve some problems.  Ask your child what the BTC rules are!  This week the children had to place numbers inside some hexagon shapes listening to instructions such as, ” The number 1s are not to touch the number 3s” etc.  The children all loved this and are looking forward to more BTC sessions next week.

Matteo continued to enjoy playing Rounders for PE.  This month the children are working on developing their run/jump/throwing skills.

Vikashini said that listening to our class novel White Fang has been something she has enjoyed this week.  We are so relieved to hear that White Fang is a fiction story as we are at a part where White Fang is being mistreated by his owner.  This led to a discussion about animal cruelty and the law today.

Daisy and Laaibah both enjoyed our ‘Thursday Outside of the Box’ activity were the children use their creativity to turn an image in to something.  This week they had ‘This is not an aeroplane’.  Daisy transformed her ‘not aeroplane’ in to a gingerbread man and Laaibah transformed hers in to a stingray!  Both were very impressive!

My highlight was our BTC session, like Viaan.  It was great to see the excitement as the children discovered who was in their randomised groups and to see the co-operation and ‘light bulb’ moments as they solved the problems.  I have also been very proud of the children as we have begun to prepare for our upcoming assembly.  The singing is beautiful, narrators and actors are are becoming increasingly confident  and some super dance moves have been suggested for our choreography!  Parents you are in for a treat!  Just a reminder that our assembly is on Friday, 1st May.  Look out for the personal invitation that your child will make and give to you next week.

We welcomed a new pupil to our St John Ogilvie family this week, Gabriela.  The children have helped her to feel welcome and I hope she has been enjoying her time with us so far.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Brown

It was so lovely all being back together again after the Easter Holidays.  We had a great chat to find out how everyone was and what they had been up to.  It was a shorter but still busy week.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘oo’ and ‘igh’ sounds.  We also practised reading our common words.  We unscrambled a sentence using igh words and play a game of find the right common word.

In Maths we have continued to practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and also quick recall of number bonds.  We have also been using a counting on strategy to complete addition sums.

In Religion we made our own tomb to show Jesus has Risen.  Mrs Russell put them up on display and said they all look amazing.

Health and Well Being we have looked at how to save water and how we can all play our part at home and at school.  We all contributed to a class display which is up in the hall.  It looks great.

In Gym we have started our new lessons of run, throw, jump.  We are learning different ways to move and also throw different items and see how far they go.  Today we completed Go Noodle and dance songs and moves in our classroom.  It was lots of fun.

Weekly Learning Highlights:

‘I liked making the tomb’ Conall

‘I liked playing ‘Go Noodle’ Ini

‘I liked counting’ Zaraan

‘I liked dancing’ Zahra

‘I liked unscrambling the sentence’  Arire

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

We have had a great first week back in P1B!

This week we have been learning all about plants and flowers. We talked about what plants need to grow, the lifecycle of a plant and how to plant a seed. We got to plant our own sunflower seeds and we wrote instructions about how to plant a seed and we used our new common word ‘put’.  We are very excited to see how quickly our plants grow.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘oo’ and ‘igh’ sounds. We got to play some games to read and spell words with these sounds.

In Maths, we have been practising using a counting on or counting back strategy to complete addition and subtraction sums. We also did our first Building Thinking Classrooms task. We had to connect coloured dots without crossing the lines. We got random partners and we were very good at writing our partners ideas when we had the pen.

For Outdoor Learning, we read the book ‘Not a Stick’ and then found sticks in the wood and used our imaginations to change them into something else. We also did some bug hunting and played on some obstacle courses that some upper area classes had made.

We all agreed the highlight of our week was planting the seeds.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Here’s a quick update on what P7 were doing this week.

“This week we started reading a book called ‘Skellig’ by David Almond. It’s about a boy called Michael who finds a strnage person/creature in his garage,” said Daniel.

Layla said, “We start our new topic on the Scottish Election and created our own political parties. It was really fun creating our own group names. We gave people jobs such as speech writers and campaign manager and one person has to be the politician.”

“In PE, the Bleep Test was fine. It was super hard to do. Some people quit quite early but some lasted for lots of levels, I drank all my water from my water bottle,” said Ishani M.

Srihaun said, ” We’ve been learning Algebra in maths and we are making great progress. It seems that most of the people in our class are enjoying it.”

“On Thursday morning we went to Sky Academy, made posters about the Scottish Election using Adobe Express and made a news report about the election too,” said Benita.

Matteo said, “We had Outdoor Learning on Thursday afternoon and it was very fun. We used blindfolds for games like follow the leader, where the leader is not blindfolded but everyone else is. And ‘find the tree’ where you need to touch the tree blindfolded and memorise it and then try to find it.”

A very busy first week back!!!

Have a great weekend,

P7B and Mr McGurn

Pupil Highlights –

Aadya: I liked going behind Dechmont Hill on Tuesday morning with Dog Man and using the ropes to climb the steep hill.

Alicja: I liked going to Kids Gone Wild with Jacks and Rob. I was very brave to face my fears about dogs.

Linda: I liked doing negative numbers in maths.

Angel: I liked practising my times tables 8 and 9.

Riley: I liked going with Rob and Jacks on Tuesday.

Vivien: I liked adding and subtracting money with decimals.

Chaihiti: I liked adding decimals when working with money.

Hot Chocolate Winner this week: Congratulations to Bodhini for winning hot chocolate this week. She has been supportive to her peers in maths, helping others with their work and becoming more and more confident.

Wishing everyone a happy and holy Easter from Primary Three! 🐣

We had a very special final week of term learning all about Holy Week.  I hope you enjoy the photos below that capture some of these learning experiences as well as some other highlights such as a visit from Baby Sophie as part of our learning about how to take care of a baby.  Alex proudly helped mum talk about what baby Sophie needs.  What a very good big brother!  We enjoyed listening to the class talks of when the children were babies.  Everyone spoke with confidence and answered questions from their peers.  👶🍼. Well done to those who took part in this activity.

I hope you all continue to enjoy the holiday and hope to see you all on our return on Tuesday, 14th.

Best wishes

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning about all the events in Holy Week. We drew pictures on a cross to illustrate these events and we added lots of detail. We also created some beautiful paintings, linked to our work on Good Friday, to display in the area.

We have been revising our sounds and addition/subtraction skills. We had a special egg hunt in the area where we had to work together to solve the calculations and then to find pictures to match the words on our sheets. It was great fun! We also used eggs with picture magnets in them to practise writing words. We worked well with our partners to do these activities.

Mrs Ross brought in her rabbit Poppy to see us. This was very exciting, especially when she was running around the classroom.

On Wednesday, we were invited to see the P7 show Edith’s Wartime Scrapbook. We were so proud of our buddies and the fantastic performance they gave. Mrs Morrison also complimented us on our excellent behaviour.

The highlight of this week was making our own hopping bunnies!

Have a lovely holiday everyone!

A super busy week this week in P1A.  We have been revising all sound and common words taught.

We learned about Holy Week and what happened each day.  We made palm leaves and acted out the story of the crowd waving palms at Jesus.

We have completed lots of Easter Activities and we met up with our Buddies and exchanged Easter cards and gifts.

Today we completed an Easter Egg hunt, looking for eggs in the Area.

Mrs Ross brought her rabbit Poppy in to visit us. We were very excited, she told us how she looks after Poppy and what she needs to stay healthy.

Weekly Highlights:

Zahra ‘I liked drawing the Easter things’

Elina ‘I liked the Easter Hunt’

Marcel ‘I liked doing the crafts’

Conall ‘I liked learning about Holy Week’

Nathania ‘I liked designing an Easter egg’

Have a wonderful Easter everyone, you have worked very hard this term, now enjoy your time off.