St John Ogilvie Primary School

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

Another great week in Primary 1A.  This week the Dragon left us the story of Hansel and Gretel.  We had to design a house made of sweets and for writing we wrote what the house was made of.  We continued a pattern and compared different character sizes.  We watched an alternative story for Hansel and Gretel and made puppets to retell the story.  We learned about looking after our teeth and sorted good and bad food for our teeth.  We played a game on the iPad on how to properly brush teeth.

We practised formation of letters and read the story using magnifying glasses to find high frequency words.

We looked at numbers to 30 and practised formation of numbers.  We also used the Beetbots and got to programme with instructions to make them move.

On Tuesday we had a visit to the library.  We got to ask questions and had the opportunity to look at lots of books.  We all got a book marker and a form if we want to join the library.  We also got information on the Library’s Summer Challenge.  Mrs Russell was very proud of our behaviour and our listening skills.

As part of the World Cup our class are learning about the country France.  We made French flags and located France on a world map.

Weekly Highlights

Paulo ‘I liked drawing’

Willow ‘I liked playing outside’

Mashal ‘I liked when the Dragon came and left us stars’

Monika ‘I liked learning about Hansel and Gretel’

Nathania ‘I liked learning about keeping our teeth clean and using the iPad’

Arire ‘I liked drawing’

Zaraan ‘I liked using the Beebots’

Stephen ‘I liked the Beebots

Well done to Aarya our Reading Champion and Willow our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

This week the Friendly Dragon brought us the story of Hansel and Gretel. We talked about Children’s Rights and how they were not kept in this story. We also designed our own sweet houses. The Dragon was worried about how much sugar Hansel and Gretel has eaten so it asked us to talk about brushing our teeth so we could help them. We had lots to say! In maths, we learned about Venn Diagrams and sorted different sweets.

On Thursday, we went to the Library and had a talk from the Librarian. We listened to a story of the Princess and the Pea. It was very good! We then got stickers and a special sheet to join the library. We need to take them back to the library to register for a card. We also found out about the Summer Reading Challenge.

We all agreed our highlight of the week was going to the Library.

Congratulations to Grace who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been a kind and supportive friend. Well done to Alayha, who is our Reading Champion for this fortnight. She has shown fantastic effort in her reading group.

Pupil Highlights:

Caiden: I enjoyed making the Cueva de las Manos as we are learning about the country Argentina as part of the school topic World Cup countries.

Grace: I liked drawing Argentinian landscapes.

Diana: I liked doing our co-ordinate work where we had to plot things and also give co-ordinates.

Alicja:  I liked learning how to divide with remainders with Miss Smith.

Linda: I liked doing the coordinate work in Teejay.

Rory: I enjoyed doing  division with remainders and learning how to use the multiplication grid.

Aadya: I liked creating our own co-ordinates on huge paper.

Chahiti : I liked going outside looking for the wild flowers to identify them as part of our Green  Tree Award.

Congratulations: Well done to Rory to winning Hot Chocolate this week. You have been so focused in all your learning this week. We are all so proud of you.

Hello P3 families!

I cannot believe that we are heading into June already!  Here are the learning highlights according to ‘Bathgate’:

Sophia and Nathan both report that programming a beebot with directional instructions has been the best part of their week.  The children rotated around different mats and worked together to make the beebot turn ‘clockwise, anticlockwise, forwards and backwards’.  The children were then tasked with designing their own beebot mat and the most creative one will be used for a class based task next week.

Matteo and Daisy both liked our lesson on ‘conflict and mediation’.  We observed a chemical reaction take place between white vinegar and bicarbonate of soda as a visual for what happens when we enter the ‘Red Zone’.  We learned strategies we could use to approach situations calmly in order to resolve them.

Vikashini liked writing a recount.  She wrote about a visit to the beach and met the success criteria of using time sequence words and past tense words.

Tyler T loved making a comic strip that linked to our ‘conflict and mediation’ learning.  We will continue working on that this coming week.  Through this, we have revisited speech bubbles.

Viaan said the highlight of his week was parachute games during PE.  This week, each child was given the name of an angle: acute, obtuse, right and reflex.  They ran under the parachute when their angle was called out.

Rahim loved our Building Thinking Classroom session where the groups had to figure out the different combinations that different groups of shapes could come in a race.

My highlight was when we went up to the local woodlands to look for and record, angles in nature.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate winner, Vihaan!

I hope you enjoy the photos from the last two weeks below:

Mrs Brown

What another great week in P1A

This week the Dragon left us the story of Little Red Riding Hood.  He left us a basket and we had to design a healthy snack to bring to Granny.  We also made Get Well Soon cards to give to Granny as she was feeling unwell.  We learned about fruit and vegetables and sorted them.  We also looked at where food come from its source either plant or animal.  We worked in groups of four and made  puppets of the four characters and we acted out the story.  It was lots of fun.

On Friday we went to St Peters Church with our Buddies for Mass.  Mrs Russell was very proud of all of us, we were very respectful and listened well.

Our Highlights:

Nathania ‘I liked the story of Little Red Riding Hood

Ini ‘I liked sorting the fruit’

Monika ‘I liked acting out the story with the puppets’

Mashal ‘I liked making the basket of fruit for Granny’

Conall ‘I liked going to Chapel with my Buddy’

Congratulations to Paulo our Hot Chocolate winner and well done to St Teresas’ our winning house this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you all again on Monday