St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear families,

Here are some of our highlights from our busy week of learning in primary 6!

Literacy: We continued to work on information reports for our writing. In order to do this we successfully created our own notes on the human heart. We are becoming more confident with the structure of an information report and we were able to independently write titles, general statements, descriptions and evaluations. Mrs Roy was very impressed! We also took part in some world book day activities such as drop everything and read each time the bell rang. We created character selfies for some of our favourite characters in books, we wrote book reviews on our favourite books and made corner book marks. We have also brought home our spoons to decorate and can upload them to teams when we are finished.

Here are some of our corner book marks:

Numeracy and maths: We had a lot of fun working with a partner to solve our maths mystery. We had to complete a range of maths questions to solve each clue and this gave us an idea of who the culprit (pancake pincher) was in the maths mystery. We were very engaged and although it was maths it was like a fun game of Cluedo!

R.E: On Tuesday we learned about Shrove Tuesday and the meaning behind this special day and on Wednesday we celebrated Ash Wednesday. Father Simon came in and some of us received our ashes as part of a mini service in our class. We also got to see the ashes being created in a video from last years palms burning.

Well done to Rebecca who has went over and above and is our hot chocolate winner this week!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Roy

Dear readers,

We hope you are all doing very well.

As this has been a week with very upsetting news related to what has been happening around the world, we have decided to say special prayers for peace. All the children reminded me daily about these extra prayers and asked many questions about the whole situation. They shared that they have been listening to the news and seemed to have a relatively good knowledge of what has been going on.

On a much more positive note, here are the highlights from this week:

Literacy and English

New spelling words, lots of spelling practice and the usual weekly spelling assessment with great scores;

Reading of our new books for the week/fortnight using increasing expression and awareness of punctuation;

Planning and writing an information report about puppies, following the structure we had learned;

Learning more word boost words to help us both with our understanding of what we read/hear and with the use of new words in our writing.

Numeracy and Maths 

We have continued working on the multiplication and division facts by 3 with lots of exercises and word problems and have also continued our work with money and giving change from a given amount, using increasingly higher amounts.

Learning Across the Curriculum

We learned all about Pancake day and even had the chance to have some tasty pancakes with chocolate! Yummy!

Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of Lent, a very important time for Catholics and we learned about its meaning, duration and things we should do during it. Many of us have chosen to have the ashes on Ash Wednesday, after having watched a clip on where they came from.

We have finished our first water colour art work with the West Lothian’s crest and are now ready to put it up on the Topic display. The work looks amazing and the children have put a lot of effort into it.

Today, we finished the week with an Aseembly to promote SCIAF’s Wee Box, Big Change appeal and have asked children to bring, if at all possible, coins to help with the campaign.

This week we have also learned a lot about Fairtrade and the importance of buying products with its logo when shopping with our families/carers.

These are just some of the highlights of our busy week and we hope you have enjoyed reading about them!

Wishing you all a good weekend!😃

Mrs Valente and P3A

Another great week in P1B.

One of our favourite tasks this week was learning about Shrove Tuesday. We carried out a survey to find out the most popular topping in the class and then Mrs Russell gave us a pancake with our favourite topping on it. They were delicious!

We also learned about the meaning of Ash Wednesday and enjoyed a visit from Father Simon, when some of us received ashes. We learned about Lent and discussed something we could give up or take up for 40 days and 40 nights.

We enjoyed taking part in World Book Day activities, such as ‘Drop Everything and Read’ and a mystery reader to the classroom. We enjoyed listening to her read to us beside the fire.

This week in topic we read the story ‘The Cautious Caterpillar’ and learned all about the life cycle of a butterfly. We enjoyed making a life cycle craft using pasta and rice.

Teacher Highlights:

We have been being putting in a lot of work and effort into how to take notes, how to identify  important information, and how to summarise a text, all in preparation for for writing an information report.

Once we will have finished our Victorian information report, we will be writing several more, once we have mastered how to write the general statement, the description , and the evaluation independently. We will be posting our fantastic work as a sway on our glow .

Hot Chocolate Winner this week : Congratulations to Patrick for winning the hot chocolate. We are all so proud of him for writing an excellent general statement and evaluation this week.

Pupil Highlights:

Natalia: I liked doing the different balances in P.E.

Aoife: I liked writing my notes and putting my notes into sentences for my information report.

Olivier: I liked writing my notes on the laptop.

Daisy: I liked  doing the pyramids in P.E.

Amelia: I liked using the Ipads in music when we had to make all these different sounds into one.

Emily: I liked dancing it out at the end of the day too.

Josh N: I liked learning about our SCIAF box.

Myles: I liked playing chess in brain break.

Sam: I liked dancing it out at the end of the day to unstoppable.

Vanessa: I liked making notes on the Victorian School life.

Marriyah: I liked getting my photo taken yesterday.

This week in P4A

Research Area :

We are really enjoying our research area and have been independently using the laptops and Ipads to research different elements of Roman life.  We have made fact cards using lovely pens and any really interesting facts are added to the facts of the week display.

Roman Pottery:

We all had great fun making pots using saltdough.  We used tools to inscribe Roman patterns on the sides and have left the pots to airdry.  Next week we are going to paint the pots.  We are all super proud of the pots we have made.

Fairtrade:

As part of Fairtrade Fortnight, we investigated the journey of cacao beans and how fairtrade helps to ensure that farmers receive a fair income for their beans.  We were also surprised to learn that fairtrade companies help to fund healthcare, schools and clean water in the villages where cacao farmers live and work.  We made posters to encourage people to choose fairtrade chocolate when they get to buy a special treat and talked about how we could make this choice when we are at the shops.

World Book Day:

We had great fun on world book day, where every time the bell rang, we stopped what we were doing and read our favourite book.  We all took a book token home in our bags that we can swap for a free book!  We are excited about making our spoons into book characters and can’t wait to share our fantastic creations.  Next week we have lots of book celebration activities happening and are very excited about them.

First Communion

As part of our First Communion preparation, the boys and girls who are making their first communion this year discussed our memories of the sacrament of reconciliation.  We had our own service of reconciliation where we remembered how important it is to say sorry for things we have done wrong.  We compared these wrongs to stones, thinking about how guilt and shame weigh us down, just like carrying around a pile of heavy stones.  We remembered how saying sorry lightens us of this heavy pile and cleanses us as people by placing the stones into clean water.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Akshaj.  Well done and keep up the good work!

We have had a great week in P4 and look forward to next week.

Dear Families

This week we have been learning about the 3 times table and data handling with bar graphs.

This week we were writing about puppies, using what we know to write an information report.

Thursday was World Book Day, we did lots of reading when the bell rang and we had a Mystery Reader who read a story to our class. It was Mr Pentland!

Highlights of the Week

Jude – My favourite thing was learning gymnastics in PE.

Mia – I liked doing the partner balances in PE.

Aiden – I loved the World Book Day activities.

Alexa – I liked the data handling work.

Zac – I like doing the gymnastics.

We are looking forward to more World Book Day activities next week!

Primary 3B 😃

On Monday, Primary 6 continued their learning about Fairtrade. The Childrens Rights Articles were linked to World Book Day. So far we have had great class discussions, created posters and shared information about our favourite books. We will continue to explore these rights next week in our school book week.

Article 17 – access to information from the media,every child has the right to reliable information from a variety of sources.

Article 29 (goals of education) –Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full.

Article 31 (leisure, play and culture)-Every child has the right to relax, play and take part in a wide range of cultural and artistic activities.

In Literacy, the children carried out research into the Human Heart and began to write information reports to be shared with other classes. They used writing targets to make these interesting and structured. The class explored character descriptions using adverbs, adjectives, metaphor and personification and we will be developing our understanding of these things over the next few weeks.

In math we have been continued developing our knowledge of fractions, decimals and percentages. It is great to know that we can use our multiplication and division skills to solve problems and change fractions into decimals, decimals into percentages and percentages into fractions.

On Shrove Tuesday afternoon we enjoyed eating pancakes with jam, butter and honey.

On Ash Wednesday we recieved our ashes from Father Simon and prepared for the beginning of Lent and our journey to Easter. In the afternoon we painted our Nessie sculptures in camouglage colours to keep them hidden below water.

Thursday was World Book Day, we read our books, examined characters in books we were reading and brought home our wooden spoons to create our favourite book character of all time. We also got a World Book Day token to buy a book with.

Next week is our School Book Week and we will be carrying out a great variety of fun literacy activities.

This week we have been learning the sound ‘sh’.  We wrote words that had ‘sh’ at the beginning and the end.  We celebrated World Book Day and we read the book ‘Robot Rumpus’.  We designed a new front cover.  Our mystery reader was Mrs McLaughlin and she read us a story about someone stealing jewels.

In maths we were programming the Beebots and we had to test them out.  We had to make them go forward, backwards, left and right.  We always have to remember to press the x before we put in the instructions.

On Tuesday we had pancakes and made a graph to show our favourite toppings.  We also learned about halves and quarters.  We carefully cut our pancakes and then we got to eat them!

In RE we have been learning about Lent and Ash Wednesday.  We enjoyed watching the video of Fr Simon burning the palm crosses to make the ashes.  We had an assembly about the SCIAF Wee Box.  We have our box ready for the coins.

Our personal learning highlights from this week are:

Diana – I enjoyed learning about writing sentences.

Zion – I enjoyed listening to the Robot Rumpus story.

Caleb – I enjoyed learning in creative zone.

Shay – I enjoyed playing outside.

Rory – I enjoyed learning with the Numberblocks.

Vivien – I enjoyed learning how to cut in creative zone.

Chimamanda – I enjoyed learning to use the Beebots.

Jiade – I enjoyed my free writing time.