St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

Lots of learning in P7a this week starting on Monday with a visit from Mrs Amatler who gave us a wonderful literacy lesson on questioning.

Later that day we had a Well-being lesson from Miss Munroe from St. Margaret’s Academy as part of our transition to high school.

On Tuesday for IDL we compared temperatures of Scotland and The Amazon Rainforest and created line graphs to display the information.

Writing we have started a block on Persuasive/Exposition and picked a side and wrote about whether we believed there should be zoos or not.

Thursday saw the second of our Bikeability lessons and the feedback from pupils and instructors has been very positive.

Friday we had some drama for Fun Friday where the main theme was mime.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7a.

This week as part of our journey towards the Rights Respecting School Gold Award we discussed ways children could share their views and opinions. Primary 6 are beginning to think about becoming House Captain and how they will be able to find out the views and opinions of the other children in our school. They are also beginning to think about being Buddies to the new Primary 1 pupils who will join our school in August.

Literacy – We are working on developing a wider range of persuasive vocabulary and how to write persuasive posters, leaflets, opinion writing.

Math – We have been working on finding percentage of amounts (a useful life skill when buying things in a sale) We are going to be continuing this for the next two weeks. This week we also took place in the West Lothian Sumdog Competition and I am very proud to say that Primary 6B were Thursday Daily Winners and Primary 6A were runners up in second position. All of the children in Primary 6A exceeded their own expectations as when we joined the competition we were sitting in 48th position.

On Wednesday we had some Outdoor Learning and went for a short walk looking for signs of Spring.

The children recorded seeing flowers beginning to bloom, budding on trees, insects and a squirrel (which quickly ran away). Unfortunately they also saw lots of dropped litter, glass, abandoned shopping trolleys and dog mess.

Hope everyone stays well and we have a great week of learning next week.

Dear Families

Literacy

We have continued to read our class novel, George’s Marvellous Medicine. We made our own marvellous medicine recipes and designed the bottles, remembering to create warnings on the label! We even linked this to a science lesson, where we were testing out if vinegar or water mix with oil.

We have begun a focus on persuasive writing (also called exposition). We have been planning to write a persuasive writing piece about why we should wear school uniform. We have created the series of arguments we will use in our final writing next week.

Numeracy

We have been working on our 4 times table this week.

We were revising our knowledge of money and coins. We were working out the coins needed for certain amounts.

We discovered that you can reveal a shield when you put some of the new coins together.

Pupil Highlights

Mariam – I enjoyed the science experiment, finding out if oil and vinegar mix.

Szymon – I liked working with the Primary 7. We took part in a prayer day activity finding God’s creations in the playground. I was with my sister.

Paige – I liked finding out about the shield.

Layla – I enjoyed doing the George’s Marvellous Medicine bottles, or should I say Layla’s Marvellous Medicine.

Markuss – I liked Free Writing Friday.

Pupil Highlights:

Joshua D: I liked doing the draw along challenges using art hub for kids and I also liked writing the six times table in my maths jotter and doing the adaptable sheet.

Inaya: I liked writing a nice letter to the tree that was lonely, sad and anxious.

Filip: I liked using my maths booklet do so multiplication sums.

Adam: I liked drawing our bloom flowers.

Elizabete: I liked doing the time tables tasks.

Marriyah: I liked doing work in my multiplication booklet.

Olivier: I liked doing the six times tables work.

Natalia: I liked drawing a wilting flower and a flower in bloom. We had to write negative comments around the dying flower and positive comments about the thriving flower.

Aoife: I liked Miss Smith coming back to school today.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Anastasia congratulations on winning the hot chocolate. You always try your hardest in your work and are always kind to others.

Another great week in P7B

Numeracy
this week in numeracy we had fun exploring ratios and what this means in a real life context. We are looking at measurement and have a great plan on how to use our new measurement knowledge next week.

Literacy

We had a great time this week with different activities everyday this week for world book week! We joined in a full school collaborative writing task, reading activities and making bookmarks for our P1 buddies.

Health and Wellbeing

We linked our whole school reading book ‘Bloom’ to emotions and kind words this week. We made really fantastic posters for display of the impact of positive and negative words.

IDL

This week we learned how to create texture in art. The children had to continue the other half of a animal. They did and are continuing to do a great job at this.

Some photo highlights this week!

Dear Readers,

This week has been amazing!

It was Book Week and we have spent it doing lots of things related to them including reading, writing and illustrating!

All the classes of the school have read and explored the book ‘Bloom’ by Anne Both and have also completed activities related to it, including a big graph with the class’ favourite flowers!

Every day we have had to voto for one out of two books that we read and the big winner of the week was ‘Ninjabread man’, which left many of us very happy!

As the 10th of March is the feast day of our patron St. John Ogilvie, we have learned about his life and miracle and were all very impressed by them.

On Friday we had some very nice treats from the school to make snack time even yummier! Wow!

Also on Friday, our dress down day for SCIAF, we had to cover as many Malawi maps as possible with the coins we have brought from home and, believe it or not, we managed to cover 6 maps! Thank you very much to all of you for your support and for helping to improve the lifes of Malawi people by giving them the means to produce their own food, being independent and adapting to the changes and challenges that climate change brought them.

We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of the highlights of the week and wish you a lovely Sunday and a very good week!

P3A and Mrs Valente

Dear Parents,

This week we had lots of fun and interesting activities revolving around World Book Day.

Throughout the week we were writing stories with a difference. Each day a new class had to continue a story from the day before written by another class. We contributed to 4 really interesting stories that will hopefully be shared with you soon.

We also had reading each day, and then voting for our favourite book until there was one winner between the 4 P6 and P7 classes. The eventual winner was ‘The Boy in the Orange Cape’, a lovely story about empathy and overcoming bullying.

We took part in a whole school study of the book ‘Bloom’ which was incorporated into lessons across the curriculum.

Some pupils had taken part in the Decorate a Spoon activity and brought them in to share with the class. Well done to everyone who managed to join in the fun.

Thursday was our Patron Saint’s Feast Day so Father Simon was in school to celebrate Mass with us and on Friday we had fun activities to mark the Feast Day of St. John Ogilvie.

What a busy week we have had!

This week we celebrated Book Week.  We had the opportunity to write our own stories working with P2B and P3B.  Each day we took turns to write a different part of the story and we even got to draw the pictures.  Every day we read two books from Epic Books and we had to vote for our favourite.  Today we found out the over all winning story was ‘The Ninjabread Man’.

We completed a mini project on the story ‘Bloom’ written by Anne Booth.  It was a lovely story about showing kindness to others and using kind words.  We drew pictures of flowers.  We made a class bar chart of our favourite flower in P1B (which was a rose) and we created our own ‘Grass Head’.  We gave our grass head a name and whispered kind words to it hoping that it will start to grow and flourish soon. We made bookmarks for our Buddies in Primary 7 and we received bookmarks from them today.  We made cards for our family to say ‘Thank You’ for all they do for us.

We brought our favourite book to school and showed off the wooden spoons we were given to create a character from a book.

On Thursday we celebrated St John Ogilvie Feast Day.  We learned about the life of John Ogilvie and we also shared in a whole school mass through Teams with Father Simon.  We loved learning the hymn ‘Lay your hands’ and Mrs Russell was very proud of us.

Today we got to wear our own clothes to school and we brought our loose change in to donate to SCIAF.  We filled lots of maps of Malawi with all our coins.

We were so excited to receive a cup cake and juice today as part of our Feast Day Celebrations.  They tasted delicious.  Thank you Mrs McKissack.

Congratulations to Sofia who was our Hot Chocolate Winner, Lilly who was our first Reading Champion and the Green Table who had the most table points this week.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we look forward to another busy and exciting week to come.

Good afternoon to all of our families,

It has been a busy and fun week for Primary 6B, who have really enjoyed participating in all the World Book Day activities! We really enjoyed writing our collaborative stories as a whole class and designing illustrations to  go with our stories. We also enjoyed the ”Bloom” story by Anne Booth. We completed story boards show the key points and produced art work based on the story. We particularly liked creating bookmarks for Primary 2 and were very impressed with the bookmarks they made for us! Thank you Primary 2.

Here are also some of our wooden spoons transformed into different characters.

On Friday we presented our stations of the cross assembly to Primary 5 and Primary 7.

We also enjoyed making our coppers go as far as a mile and we hope they make a big difference to the lives of others.

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Well done to our reading champion Hanna who took part in all world book week activities with enthusiasm! Also, well done to Tim who has worked well both in class and at home on all learning tasks this week and has earned hot chocolate at home.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy