St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello families of P1A!

The children are continuing to settle in to school each day and it has been a pleasure to have gotten to know them so far.  They are growing in confidence with our routines and are beginning to make new friends.  Each week, one of the three table groups will feed in to the weekly blog, reporting on what they have enjoyed most about their learning for that week.  This week, we have the Red table:

Maddison loved colouring in and cutting out a picture of a tree as part of our learning about Creation.  The children have been thanking God for our beautiful world and learning about all the different things He made over the seven days of Creation.  We watched a beautiful little video to support their understanding.  Here it is again, in case you wanted to watch and talk about it together Bible Story Series: Genesis The Creation of World.

Archie said that the best part of his week was listening to stories.  His favourite one was, ‘Gorilla Loves Vanilla’.  Afterwards, each of us shared our favourite flavour.

Emily liked practising writing her name.  We worked hard to copy the shapes of the letters and did so on chalk boards, white boards and searching for the letters within a tray of mini magnetic letters.  Regular practise at home will be very helpful to your child.

Theo loved playing with the marble run.  This has proved to be a favourite activity with most of the class and it has been super watching the children share and work together to build creative runs.

Casey, like Maddison, said that the best part of his week was contributing to the Creation display.  Casey chose a bird to colour in and cut out.

My favourite part of the week was watching the teamwork during ‘Tidy up Time’.  I was amazed at their super ability to return the classroom resources to the correct place after ‘Choosing our own Leaning’ time.  We have been learning about ‘Safe Sam’, ‘Ready Rosie’ and ‘Respectful Rahim’ and tidying up very well keeps our classroom safe.  Thank you everyone for being respectful of our classroom resources.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Luca.  Each week, one child will be chosen for going ‘over and above’ in their behaviour and attitude.  I hope you enjoy your yummy hot chocolate, Luca!

I have some beautiful photographs to share on the Blog and will do as soon as all of the parents have returned their photo consent forms.

The P1A blog will be updated each weekend.  I hope you and your child enjoy looking at it together and talking about the learning that is going on in the photographs.

I hope you have a lovely weekend.

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning all about ‘same’ and ‘different’ in Literacy. We matched up pictures that were the same and then found the odd one out on a worksheet. Our favourite part was listening to sounds to see if they were the same or different. The duck noise was very funny!

In Maths, we have been learning about 0 and 1. We have been trying hard to write them correctly and show the number using our finger patterns.

We have learned all about the different adults in school who help us and recognised lots of them.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Alan – I enjoyed playing with the Numberblocks.

Thomas – I enjoyed making models.

Ava – I enjoyed learning about same and different.

Cai – I enjoyed learning about loud and quiet.

Yahya – I enjoyed using the lego.

Congratulations to Millie who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been very helpful and has been a great friend.

Hello Everyone

We have had a great start to Primary 3 and have all settled back into school very well. We have had fun learning lots of new things.

In Writing we created imaginary houses after listening to the story ‘ A New Home for a Pirate’. We drew beautiful pictures and wrote our favourite things about the house we designed. We also wrote some summer acrostic poems.

In Maths we practised place value, tens and ones. We followed number sequences and shape patterns and learned how to divide.

In Health and Wellbeing we talked about our feelings and the zones of regulation. We learned about being a good friend and made lovely posters about them. We made ‘ourselves’ from lots of different materials and displayed these beautifully on our class charter. We made our own group names for our tables and created our class rules to help us to be Ready, Respectful and Safe.

We had fun learning Spanish colours and numbers through songs.

Weekly Highligts

Alfie, Felix and Martha – We liked doing the art hub. We drew Red Panda’s. They are very cute!

Hallie – I loved all of the writing tasks as writing is my favourite thing.

Tiara – I liked writing my acrostic peom.

Zenith and Vivaan – We loved all of the maths. We really liked division.

Kaya – I liked learning Spanish.

Zoe – I liked learning how to divide and doing the division worksheet.

Have a lovely weekend!

From Primary 3

Primary 1 have had a fantastic first week in school. They have been making new friends and learning all about their new classrooms. They have enjoyed playing with all the resources in their classrooms and have been fantastic at tidying up!

We are looking forward to seeing everyone on Monday!

from

Mrs Brown, Mrs Meikle, Mrs Russell and Miss Stebbing

This week the Dragon left us the story of ‘The Gingerbread Man’.  We desinged our own gingerbread man, sequenced the story, completed ordering by size and retold the story.  On Wednesday we were sad that we received our last letter from the Dragon.  He was delighted with how hard we had worked to help him rebuild Fairyland and as a thank you he gave us all our own little dragon to remember our Fairyland topic.

On Tuesday afternoon we went to the firepit in the woodlands with our buddies.  We sat around a campfire and toasted marshmallows and made smores, they were delicious.  We also sang some songs.  It was lovely spending time with our buddies.

Today Friday we had our Fun Day, everyone had an amazing day and have lots of fun memories of our first Fun Day at SJO.  Thank you to Miss Stebbing for all her hard work organising it.

Everyone agreed our highlight of the week was Fun Day.

Have a great weekend everyone.

See you all Monday for our last week in P1.

Hello P3 families!

I cannot believe that after today, we will only have two more weeks left of term!  When I look back at photos of the children from earlier in the year, I can see how much they have grown and how much they have achieved and I feel so proud to have been part of their learning journey.

Here are our learning highlights from this week according to ‘Broxburn’:

Maja loved making World Oceans Day craft!  She made a super lollipop lobster!  The children already knew so much about the importance of taking care of our oceans due to their Sustainability topic last term.  They also learned why sea water is so salty and they came up with ways to remember the names of the position of the different oceans (Southern Ocean as it is at the South of the planet, Arctic Ocean as it is in the Arctic, Indian Ocean because it is below India, Atlantic Ocean because Alex, our classmate, lives in Scotland and the Atlantic Ocean is next to Scotland and ……..we could not think of a clue for the position of the Pacific Ocean so we figured this was the only one left.  If any of our super family readers can help us out with a way to remember its position then please send me a message on Seesaw!

Umaez and Izhaan said that the KIDS GONE WILD session was the best part of their week!  Umaez loved swinging on the hammock (I doubt if me singing a lullaby to him while I swayed it was part of the reason) and Izhaan loved the zipline!  The children are really looking forward to their next session on June 23^rd.

Dawid enjoyed watching a kid’s show about the World Cup.  The children practised their ability to note take during this exercise.

Danvith and Nathan both said that football skills during PE was a highlight for them.  The children practised stopping and passing the ball, dribbling and shooting.  As so many of the class are already in football teams, they served as my assistants, helping those who have never played.  Next Wednesday, in aid of it being the World Cup, I have organised for a coach to take the children for football and we hope to have a match!

Daniel liked listening to the P6s give their House Captain speeches for these important roles next year as P7s.  We then voted for who we thought would be a good candidate.

My highlight was KIDS GONE WILD also.  It was great seeing the children have fun in the outdoors, building their resilience and trying new things!  I also took some lovely close up photos of nature for a future lesson so that was also nice as the sun was shining and they look so special.  The wonder of God’s creation never fails to astound me!

A big congratulations to Maja, our hot chocolate award winner this week.  Maja was so happy to receive this award as she already received the winning title for the design of our new ‘Conflict and Mediation’  space that we are setting up and also won the Beebot mat design for maths.  What a super star!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!  Just a reminder about Sports Day on Tuesday and that your child is invited to wear their House colours (blue/green for St Peters, yellow/orange for St Francis and red/purple for St Teresa).

Mrs Brown

This week the Friendly Dragon brought us the story of The Three Little Pigs. We had to complete a challenge to make a house from marshmallows and cocktail sticks. Then The Wolf (a hairdryer) tried to blow them down. Our houses were sturdy so they survived!

The next challenge we received was a Huff and Puff Challenge. We had to blow different things across the classroom while our partner kept a tally of how many puffs we did. It was great fun!

We also got to write speech bubbles for the characters from the Three Little Pigs and the staff were so impressed with how confidently we sounded out the words we needed.

We have been learning some facts about Portugal, our World Cup country. Ask us what the capital city is.

We made crowns and flags to celebrate Scotland being in the World Cup and wore these on Friday.

We all agreed our highlight of the week was the Huff and Puff Challenge.

Congratulations to Eloran who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. He did some fantastic writing this week!

Hello P3 families!

Here are our learning highlights for this week from ‘Livingston’:

Navami liked our phonics lesson about the spelling pattern, ‘tion’.  The children were challenged with building the tallest tower with 8 sheets from the recycled paper drawer, in teams, within a given time.  The children came up with very creative ideas; with the tallest structure measuring a whooping 182cms!  After we measured each and created 1st-6th place, we then created some destruction by knocking them down!  That was the best part, according to Navami!

Maks loved Building Thinking Classrooms this week were the children worked together to find out how many scoops of ice cream Mrs Brown and her family had one hot day.

Ollie said the best part of his week was our Word Boost story, ‘Myron’s Magical Cow’ and he liked learning about the vocabulary ‘nudge’ best.  The children are excited to play Word Boost Corners on Monday morning!

Elize enjoyed designing her very own Beebot mat.  Some children are still working on their design.  They are taking their time to make it just right; hoping theirs is chosen to be made in to a mat for the whole class to use in a lesson.  Hopefully we will have the winning design soon!

Leighton said the highlight of her week was going to our class mass today.  The children received a lovely compliment from the priest and congregation about how enthusiastically they joined in with the prayers and singing.

Oscar loved our maths lesson this week on area.  His group decided to use magnetic tiles to find the area of a jotter.  The children knew to use objects that were the same size.  They discovered that the area of the jotter was 20 magnetic tiles.  Afterwards, they learned to find the area of squares and rectangles by counting squares, for a more accurate reading.

Alex and Joseph recount how bench ball was the best part of their week.  The children are excited to learn football skills for PE for the next few weeks (linked to The World Cup).  With so many  children already being in a football club, Mrs Brown is going to have lots of assistant coaches to help!  Lucky me!

Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate award winner, Ellie and our Reading Champ, Ollie!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brown