St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello families of P5B!  I cannot believe we have reached mid term already!  Here are our highlights for this week as recorded by the Yellow Table:

Ksawery and Alex have both loved having Fr Clement come to visit our class.  Fr Clement knew that we had been learning about The Beatitudes so he read them from the Bible and spoke of each one in depth.

Anthony liked music with Mrs Callaghan.

Ronan and Vinayakarthik both report that PE with Mrs Lafferty was the best part of their week.  Both boys amazed me with their endurance during the Bleep Test.

Moeez enjoyed Word Boost Corners.

Daniel has been enjoying his independent work on researching a Scottish town or city of his choice.  The children will be presenting their findings via Powerpoint upon our return to school (pupil choice).

Michael said his time in P2/3 as a helper was a favourite experience of his week.  Michael won ‘Best Teamwork’ award, along with his partner Aeryn-Leigh and got to choose his own reward.  He picked this.  Miss Mushet reports how well Michael helped out and both are looking forward to the experience again in the future.

Nathan reported that learning The Grid Method, one method to solve longer Times Tables sums, was the learning highlight of this week.  Nathan proudly and confidently demonstrated to the class, under the visualiser, the different steps involved in this strategy.

My highlight was Fr Clement’s visit.  The children listened very attentively and as always, it is a pleasure to have our school chaplain visit.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner this week, Cohen.

A big thank you to Vinayakarthik who made the Pic Collage’s below to help you get a glimpse of some of the learning experiences your child had in school.

P5B said farewell to our classmate Ava this week.  We will miss her and wish her well in her new school.  We know she will be made very welcome there and it won’t be long before she makes lots of new friends.

I hope you all enjoy the mid-term break and I will see everyone on Tuesday 18th (Monday will be an In Service).  There will be no homework issued for this first week.

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers!

We hope you are all well and super proud of P6B!

We won the West Lothian Sumdog Challenge and managed to end 1st Overall! 🏆👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🥇😀So,so proud! Team work did make the dream work! Thank you very much to all the ones who have put all your effort into this! It’s really special! ♥✨

Here you can see our beautiful certificate:

OVERALL WINNER FEB 25

We were also the daily winners every single day but as each class can only get that prize once, here is our certificate for one of the 6 days that we won!

DAILY WINNER CERTIFICATE 31 JAN 25

This was obviously the most important thing from our week but here are the other highlights:

• Our Spelling work and spelling assessment on Friday with the words from the Elsewhere Emporium, which is almost finishing and super exciting, as always!
• Our division sums of 3 and 4 digits that we have spent the whole week practising and have been enjoying more and more!
• Adding more verses with words in Scots to the traditional song Katie Bairdie. We have enjoyed so much this activity that some of us have decided to do more than the double of what they had been asked to do! And they are really funny!
• This week we have had our first session of the Pope Francis Faith Award and some of the children are already gathering evidence, it’s simply amazing!
• We have looked up and read the Scripture about the Beatitudes according to Matthew and the discussion around them was extremely positive and took us to problems in different countries, including Syria and North Korea.
• Our posters for the Rights Respecting wall of the school have been finished and some of the best ones have been displayed. Although we would have liked many more to be displayed we had to share the display with P6A so only a few of each class could fit in.😀
• We would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of the week, Maeve, for being an excellent example of good behaviour, listening and respectfulness! Well done, Maeve!🥇👏👏
• Congratulations also to the Cheese table, who have had an amazing week being independent, quick to follow instructions and always neat and tidy! Well done to Szymon, Mariam and Ishani M!🏆🏆🏆😃😃😃

We say goodbye for now wishing all a very good February break with lots of happy moments spent together!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

This week has been a really fun one for primary 3!

We have been working hard on our spelling and word boost, as well as revising how to use exclamation marks, question marks and full stops. We have spent lots of time revising our spelling pattern this week which was adding ‘un’ and ‘dis’ to the starts of words to change their meaning.

We have been focussing on finishing off our subtraction by looking at the column or chimney method. Everyone did great at this and worked through our work stations brilliantly. Our beyond number focus is now time, this week we looked at the minute hand and identified ‘o’clock, quarter past, half past and quarter to’ we then made posters explaining what they meant to help us in the future when we are telling the time.

We have again had a focus on teamwork and how important it is, this week we did a lifeboat and a hula hoop drop challenge and everyone did amazing. There was lots of incredible teamwork on display and we had a great time out in the muga doing it.

We have been creating a fact file, all about West Lothian, and this week, as a class, we wrote an introduction to West Lothian and what is on offer to come here to see. We created it using everyone’s input on amazing adjectives we could use, as well as making our sentences better and more exciting with exclamation marks.

We have been helping the upper school, who collaborated and wrote some short stories, by designing front covers for them. A lot of hard work and time has went into them and we can’t wait to see what they will look like when they’re done.

Well done to everyone of a fab week, you’ve all worked so hard and have had lots of fun!

well done to all prize winners this week.

Have a lovely week off and I will see you all in 10 days!!

Miss Duddy

Here are some of the learning experiences your child will experience this term in Primary Five:

Termly Overview – Term 3

Hello families of P5B!  Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Blue Table:

Nicolas and Sean both report at having enjoyed the mapping skills lesson, part 1, where they used tracing paper to draw the outline of Scotland and locate the names of cities using Google Maps, marking them on the map using a key.  Part 2 will involve using the map to learn about grid reference in maths.

Georgia and Flynn loved celebrating National Hot Chocolate Day on Friday with some lovely hot chocolate and marshmallows.  The staff also had a lovely hot chocolate in the staffroom thanks to the generous senior management team.

Amelia liked PE.

Haadiya said the learning highlight of the week was when she demonstrated to everyone on the Smartboard, the steps to finding the answer to a Times Table question (see photo).  She did this confidently.  Next week, we are going to explore another way to find the answer to a Times Table question called ‘The Grid Method’.

David’s highlight was singing hymns with Mrs Callaghan.

Ava and Addison loved another lesson with Mrs Callahan about our worries and drew their own worry pet.

The highlight of my week was watching the entertaining performances of ‘A Dug, A Dug’ , a well known Scottish poem by Billy Keys (see photos).  We have some expressive performers in P5B!

Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate award winner, Ava and our Reading Champion, Nathan.