St John Ogilvie Primary School

A great week of learning in Primary 6B!

Here are some of our highlights:

At the beginning of the week we celebrated Chinese new year and made dragons and calendars for the year of the tiger. We also learned which animal was the year of our birth. 2011- Rabbit and 2012- Dragon.

Zak was a confident individual as he spoke to all classes at an assembly about safe parking around our school. He informed everyone about the competition we are taking part in in order to promote safe parking. Here are some of our entries!

Literacy: We have been learning about the structure for writing information reports and look forward to developing our writing skills in this style over the next few weeks. Our reading champions this week were Amelia, Tanya and Monique, well done!

Numeracy and Maths: We have been working on fractions, decimals and percentages and improving our knowledge of times tables and division. Our wizards of the week were Kieran, Connor and Lucia. Keep up the great work!

Over and above: Well done to our hot chocolate winner Liam who has been ready, respectful and safe!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

This week in P1B:

In math, we were consolidating our learning of teen numbers to 20. We had great fun playing a game of Bingo and Guess the Number. We also learned about lines of symmetry.

We enjoyed learning the new sound ‘qu’ and practising all our learned sounds. For Book Talk, we read the story ‘Peace at Last’, recalling what noises in the story kept Mr Bear awake. We worked on our listening skills to guess where bear was hiding in a house using sound clues.

Amariah-Grace – I enjoyed learning sounds.

Evana – I liked learning about predictions.

Aaron – I have enjoyed listening times.

Reesa – I liked blending sounds and making words.

We celebrated Chinese New Year making dragons and tiger masks. Mrs Russell made us some noodles to try.

There was lots of learning through play, from building computer stations with big blocks, painting rainbows and volcanoes, playing in the Post Office role play area to drawing and cutting out.

TJ – I liked building marble runs.

Olivia – I liked stamping letters.

Amy – I liked tidying up.

Dear families,

This week we were using our listening skills to guess the sounds, some were really tricky, and to follow a drawing tutorial.

We have continued our West Lothian topic, researching James Young Simpson and Linlithgow Palace.

We continue to work on our 2, 5 and 10 times tables. We even listened to a song to help us learn them!

Pupil highlights:

Amelia – I have enjoying doing music with Mrs Morrison, we have been listening to a band from Shetland.

Aiden – I liked listening to the sounds and having to guess what they were.

Ishani M – I liked doing the topic about James Young Simpson.

Layla – I liked doing the Linlithgow Palace research.

Jude – I liked colouring the map of Scotland showing were West Lothian is on the map.

Primary 3 😃

A great week of learning, practicing and using our new technology skills. We have begun learning about the Romans and as part of our Gods Loving Plan we have been learning all about why people get married and the people in our lives that we love! We have learned lots this week in numeracy, literacy, RE, Art, Topic, Music, Listening Skills and PE!

Lili “I enjoyed making posters for the ParkSmart competition the JRSO’s are running”

Francesca “I liked learning about Boudicca.  I think she is fierce and strong and hopeful that she will defeat the Romans”

Leo “I enjoyed our work on Information Reports.  I know there is a description that usually that should not be jumbled up but needs to be in the right order.”

Farrah “I liked learning how to play Kahoot on the Ipad.  We worked as a team to answer questions about our learning”

Fahad “I liked using the computers to find out about Roman Houses.  I found the toilets very funny!”

Vijval “I liked learning about apostrophes and how they get used in words.”

Akshaj “I like our new class novel about a Roman Mystery.  There are lots of strange words about things in Roman times.”

We are working really hard to learn our times tables and are practicing at home.

Our hot chocolate winner this week has been very responsible  and has been ready to learn all week.  We are very proud of your hard work Jacob!

Our sacramental boys and girls are looking forward to starting our First Communion preparation with our enrolment service on Tuesday with Fr Simon.

We are looking forward to lots more learning next week!

Aoife: My highlight this week has been making an internet safety poster.

Filip: I liked measuring and making perfect circles using compasses.

Joshua D: I liked completing the prodigy assignment on angles, decimals and rounding.

Marriyah: I liked rounding decimals to the nearest whole number. If the tenths digit is 5 or more you round up, if it is 4 or less, you round down.

Caleb: I liked drawing a  cube using a ruler to scale it properly.

Olivier: I liked making a sway on rules for rounding to the nearest ten, hundred, thousand and to the nearest whole number.

Elizabete: I liked measuring the circles using the compasses.

Grant: I liked using the calculators in maths for part of our tasks.

Anastasia: I liked doing the Adam2 comprehension questions.

Josh N: I liked rounding numbers and using the calculator to give us remainders to work with.

Sam: I liked listening to Taylor Swift whilst making my sway.

Hot Chocolate Winner : Congratulations  to Caleb this week. You have worked really hard at completing your tasks and you have helped others learning their word boost words. You have also made a great start on your Internet Safety Sway.

Teacher Highlights:

I am so impressed at our perseverance using the compasses. We did not give up so easily and after practising on scrap paper, we were able to draw perfect circles and label the diameter, the radius and the circumference.

I am also delighted with our Internet Safety Posters. We drew cubes and included bullet points with advice for how to stay safe online.

In phonics we have been learning about the letters ‘qu’ and ‘y’.  We now know all of the single sounds so we are going to keep practising making words.  In writing, we were writing sentences about Chinese New Year.  Some people wrote three sentences!

In maths we have been doing our take away sums.  We are getting very good at using different strategies.

On Tuesday we celebrated Chinese New Year.  We have a Chinese Restaurant role play area and we have been making lots of different food.  We tasted prawn crackers. We even tried using chopsticks to pick up pom poms.

Some of our personal highlights are :

Ollie – I have enjoyed learning in the Chinese Restaurant area.

Laura – I enjoyed learning about 11 and 12.

Vivien – I enjoyed learning about building in block play.

Chimamanda – I enjoyed learning about block play.

Rory – I enjoyed playing in block play.

Hafsah – I enjoyed playing the Chinese Restaurant.

Shay – I enjoyed playing with lego.

Dear Readers,

This week we followed our normal routine and started with our new spelling words. We have worked a lot on them troughout the week to make sure we become absolute stars at spelling!

Our Reading Comprehension was very interesting and reminded us of how important it is to always look after our pets and never to stop loving them.

Our goal in writing is trying to add more detail to our stories to make them even more interesting.

We all did very well while reading our new books and answering questions about them, which made Mrs Valente very proud!

We finished the week with our weekly spelling assessment and hope to have really good scores.

In Maths, we have worked hard on counting in 2, 5, and 10 as quickly as possible. We have also learned everything about arrays and how to write a number sentence to describe an array. We ended up the week understanding even better timestables and revised the 2 timestable.

Our new Topic is West Lothian and we have started it by learning about our place in the world. It was very interesting to learn that we are in Livingston, which is in Scotland, a nation of the United Kingdom, a country in Europe and one of the continents of Planet Earth…

We celebrated Robert Burns with the traditional Irn-Bru and shortbread and have learned all about his life. In Music, we have learned a Scottish traditional song which is simply amazing: Katie Beardie!

We hope you have enjoyed reading about some of the highlights of our week and wish you a wonderful weekend!

P3A😃 and Mrs Valente