St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have had a very busy and exciting week in Primary 2!

This week in Primary 2

In numeracy, we have continued to practice our numbers to 30. We have worked hard figuring out the missing numbers that come before and after.

In our topic, we focused on technology from when our parents were young. We sorted technology into past and present and even invented our own technology!

In Literacy, we practiced the ‘ee’ and ‘oo’ sound and had lots of fun completing the different activities.

On Wednesday, we had our first house groups with the full school, it was lots of fun!

In RE we learnt about the creation story and created thank you cards to praise God.

Our Weekly Highlights

Conall – Numeracy stations and practicing my numbers.

Aria – Making thank you cards for God.

Hanna – The snakes and ladders game.

Tejasvi – Going to our house groups.

Marley – Practicing our sounds.

A huge well done to our hot chocolate winner Hanna!

Primary 2

Hello P1A families!

Here are our ‘best bits’ from the Red Table (again we have had a number of absences this week so only have 4 reporting this time):

Emily enjoyed our writing lesson this week where we put in to practise the 2 previous common words we have been learning, ‘I’ and ‘can’ and wrote a sentence that started this way.  Emily wrote, “I can play with Archie.”  Good job everyone!

Casey liked our outdoor learning in the woodland.  We have been learning about the sense of hearing this week and hoped to listen for sounds in nature.  Unfortunately, it was a windy day when we went up so could mostly just hear the wind blowing through the trees.  Casey did claim to hear some birds chirping though.

Archie said he has been enjoying our learning about the letter sound ‘c’.  In our Mystery Box, we had: a cat, a carrot and a candle, among a few other things.  Ask your child if they can remember what else was in there!

Luca liked meeting his buddy.  On Friday, the children met their buddies officially for the first time and enjoyed their time together where the P7 read a story to the P1.  There will be different opportunities throughout the year for the buddies to work together.  The children are very excited about this!

My highlight has been our new self-registration activity.  The children find their photo in a coloured bowl that matches their table name.  Once they have all done this, we count how many people are present.  We find it on the number line.  The children know that if the top ten frame is filled in, they just count on.  Super mathematicians in P1A!  (See it in the photos below)

I hope you have been enjoying your weekend!

Thank you to everyone who has sent in photos on Seesaw of any homework activities your child has chosen to complete.  We have enjoyed sharing this learning together!

Congratulations to Leah, our hot chocolate award winner for this week!

Mrs Brown

Dear all primary 7a parents and carers,

This week has been a busy one in primary 7a, here are some of our highlights:

We have been reading ‘millions’ and the children are enjoying it, this week we completed reading comprehension on chapters 6 and 7. We had a focus on writing a mystery story this week, the children will have the chance to finish these next week.

In numeracy we have been focussing on equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions. We have been looking at shape in our beyond number, after reminding ourselves of 3D shapes, we have moved on to circles, working out radius and diameter, and triangles, different types of triangles and their properties.

Our RE has been focussed on being stewards of the earth, the dangers facing wildlife and our earth and how we are responsible for looking after it. We started creating posters encouraging people to save the wildlife, everyone chose an endangered animal which they wished to campaign for and we will be creating these posters next week.

Unfortunately on Thursday, our outdoor learning was unable to happen due to the weather. We went outside and had time for a daily mile. Can I please ask that children are sent to school with a jacket on Thursdays so they can participate in outdoor learning even if it is raining.

Well done to everyone who competed in the cross country this week!

Well done on a great week primary 7! Have a lovely weekend everyone 🙂

Miss Duddy

Dear Parents and Carers,

Another busy week for Primary 7!  In writing, we used a picture as a stimulus for an imaginative story. We concentrated on our core targets and self- assessed our work using these.

Our class completed their diagnostic tests , to ensure everyone is working at the correct level to enter the Sumdog competition in September. We also learnt how to create equivalent fractions and the associated rules.

In Science, we investigated Da Vinci bridges and their structures . We worked in pairs to try and create our own using lollipop sticks. Everybody enjoyed this, but some of us found it very tricky!!

We continued to finish our Pagoda houses in art using bright traditional colours.

Primary 7 learned about the Creation story and how God asked us to take care of the animals and the planet. We had an interesting class discussion based on pollution and climate change. Working in pairs, we researched endangered animals, gathering information which will be used to create a poster.

During outdoor learning, we set up the zip line, hammocks and slack line, it was great fun!

Congratulations to our class members who competed in the West Lothian cross country event at Dechmont Law, everyone was amazing and participated with enthusiasm!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary 7B

Another fun week of learning in P1C.  This week we have been learning about the letter c and the sound it makes.  We were able to recall lots words that begin with ‘c’ and we made cats and had to find ‘c’ in story books.  We practised writing the letter c and wrote a sentence using ‘I can’ as these are the common words we have been learning.

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 6 and 7 counting out the amount using lots of different items and also showing different ways to make them 7 = 3 +4 or 5+2.  We continued to practise counting to 30 and counting backwards from 20.  We also used 10 frames and Numicon to help us learn about the numbers.

This week we learned about the sense of hearing.  We listened to different sounds and had to guess what the sound was, it was lots of fun.  We also made our own shaker to take home.

We looked at the yellow Zone from the Zones of Regulation and discussed how we feel in this zone.  We completed a black pen drawing of when we are worried.

In RE we learned about Mary and celebrated her birthday.  We made birthday cards and flowers and made a beautiful wall display.

On Wednesday we had our first House Group were we got to meet lots of different people and wear our school lanyards.

Today we were very excited to meet our P7 Buddies.  It was great fun chatting to them and they read us a story.  We can’t wait to meet up with them again.

Our Weekly Learning Highlights:

Falyn ‘I loved making my shaker’

Ruaridh ‘I enjoyed making the cat craft for ‘c’

Mikolaj ‘I liked writing number 7’

Vedha ‘I loved reading a book during ERIC Time’

Georgie ‘I liked being the register monitor’

Samuel ‘I liked playing with the marble run’

Hamza ‘I liked looking in books to find ‘c’ and ‘m’ and the words ‘I’ and ‘can’

Mrs Russell ‘I loved watching you all meet up with your Buddies and the big smiles on all your faces’

We’ve had a busy and brilliant week in Primary 5A!

In maths, we continued our work on place value and explored rounding numbers to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000 using our BTC strategies. We also revisited our learning in time, practising reading both analogue and digital clocks and using AM/PM in 12-hour time. We’ll be moving on to 24‑hour time next week.

In literacy, our spelling focus was ‘ur’ and ‘ure’ words, and we completed comprehension tasks on Part 1 of ‘Wonder’, seeing the story through August’s perspective.

During R.E., we learned about ‘The Canticle of Creation’ by St Francis of Assisi. Working in groups, we created posters based on different verses of the prayer.

In topic, we continued our journey into Ancient Rome, learning about Roman society and government. We researched roles such as emperors, senators and soldiers, and even held a lively debate on whether life would be better in modern Scotland or Ancient Rome. To finish the week, we explored Roman statues and created our own clay busts, inspired by traditional Roman sculpture.

Pupil Highlights

• Cameron, Owen, Lillian and Katie really enjoyed rounding in maths.
• Tiya, Ruth and Alex loved learning more about Ancient Rome and creating their Roman busts.
• Enso and Faye had great fun playing Mind Reader on Friday, working in partners to choose different answers to prompts given.

A huge well done to our Stars of the Week: Rose, Aaron, Alex and Kacper, and congratulations to our Hot Chocolate Winner: Fergus!

Wishing everyone a lovely weekend 😊 Miss Mushet

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here are P6’s learning highlights of the week:

Ethan, Amy, Chikamso, Inaaya, Theo and Nandu all thought PE was their highlight this week, “We had dodgeball and Mrs Lafferty made sure it was so fun.”

Ishaan, Iha and Elvin put Maths as their highlight, “We completed our diagnostics so we can take part in the Sumdog competition soon.”

Ollie and Ciara, “HWB was my highlight because we made ‘Rights’ posters.”

Lilly, Diyon, Amariah-Grace, Reesa and Sofia all had Mass at St. Peter’s as their highlight of the week, “…because Mrs Timmins said we have been the best behaved class at church so far.”

Blair and Maja chose Topic, “I really enjoyed learning about Natural Disasters.”

Caleb and Mahathi said the reading comprehension for Kensuke’s Kingdom by Michael Morpurgo was their highlight.

Olivia and Karina picked drama for being fun and working well with their groups on roleplay.

We had a few people muck in on the Lead Learner’s tasks this week so we’ve still to decide who should get the Hot Chocolate at Home!

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 6B

This week we have been learning all about the numbers 6 and 7. We enjoyed watching Numberblocks to meet the characters for these numbers. We used Rekenreks this week to show different numbers and tried to do this in only one push.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about the letter c. We made cats and we have a cupcake cafe role play area which has been very popular. We enjoyed sorting words by the sound at the beginning and we had to move around the classroom to show which sound was at the start. We wrote a sentence using ‘I can’ as this was our new common word and we had to remember a finger space and full stop.

We continued to learn about our 5 senses and this week we looked at our sense of hearing. We had to shake little cups and listen to the sound. We then had to match them to the correct picture. We also played a game on the smartboard when we had to listen to an animal sound and match the picture. Some of the sounds were very funny!

in RE, we learned about Mary and made birthday cards to celebrate her birthday.

We had our first House Groups meeting on Wednesday and we got to wear our lanyards which was very exciting.

On Friday, we spent time with our P7 Buddies. We got to read some books together and we had a great time!

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Michael – I enjoyed learning about number 6.

Cai – I enjoyed writing the letters.

Yahya – I enjoyed going to House Groups.

Maya – I enjoyed making the cats.

Rio – I enjoyed learning about number 7.

Congratulations to Moses who is our Hot Chocolate Winner. He has been trying so hard with his writing and works well with others.