St John Ogilvie Primary School

Good afternoon to our Primary 6 families!

This week we have had a busy and fun week in class with some of our highlights being our Christmas lunch, PJ day, watching the movie of our class novel ‘Wonder’ with popcorn and juice, we enjoyed an online pantomime and got to see a video of the Primary 1 Nativity!

We also enjoyed creating our own Christmas elves and the Grinch art.

Here are some of our own Maths games we have made and are looking forward to playing together.

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

Good Afternoon,

This week has been filled with festive fun!  The children (and staff) enjoyed a delicious Christmas lunch on Wednesday.  There were lots of fancy Christmas jumpers and even more happy, smiling faces!

On the same day, some of our children celebrated their Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time.  We were very proud of them all!  We will upload a photograph to their seesaw next week, however, it is on the school Twitter if you would like to see it before then.

Today, we had a pyjama day!  It was great to be so comfortable at school and we managed to raise lots of money for ‘The Larder’, which will help to provide Christmas meals for those in need in West Lothian.

Here are some of the children’s highlights for the week:

Daniel – I liked Free Writing Friday.  I wrote the next chapter of my book ‘The War’.

Aiden – I loved learning about Loki with Mrs Morrison in Music.

Szymon – I enjoyed my Reconciliation with Father Simon.  I felt nervous and happy and proud.

Matteo – I liked drawing the sausage dog with Rob Biddulph the author.

Ishani M – I loved making Christmas cards.

We wish you all a lovely weekend and we will see the children back here next week for the last few days of term.

Mrs Craig and Mrs Robson

We have had a really busy week in Primary 4B!

Here are some of our learning highlights.

Eoghan- I enjoyed our imaginative writing about a disastrous Christmas!

Aurora- I liked handwriting where we copied a Christmas poem using our best cursive handwriting.

Joy-  I enjoyed using the epic book website in technology.

Saujas- It was fun learning about Christmas coordinates!

Jude- I enjoyed hearing the story about the Three Wise Men  and then creating our own story board.

Hot Chociolate Winner- congratulations to Joy on receiving our hot chocolate award this week.

Our class had fun wearing  pyjamas to school for charity.

Have a super weekend.

Mrs Lea and primary 4

We have been so busy this week with lots of exciting activities.  We have written instructions on how to prepare for Christmas night, remembering all the important jobs like leaving out carrots for Rudolph and getting stockings ready.  For numeracy, we have been making links between multiplication tables, arrays and number lines.  We all enjoyed learning about Christmas in Spain, spotting traditions that are the same and different from ours and hearing the nativity story in Spanish.  After that, we used the laptops to research Christmas in a country of our choice.   On Wednesday we had our Christmas lunch and joined in with a virtual pantomime.  Our highlight today has been wearing our PJs to school and it certainly made us very colourful!

It has been a fantastic week for stories.  We have watched and listened to the P7s read us Christmas stories and this inspired some of us to want to read to our class.  So far, Eilidh, Emili, Lily, Emily, Farrah and Inaayah have read to the class using beautiful clear voices and making sure everyone saw the pictures.

Pupil Highlights:

Inaayah “My favourite moment of the week was Christmas lunch”

Dawid “I liked using my joined handwriting to write a Christmas poem”

Carina “I really liked using incredibox for music with Mrs Morrison”

Kuba “I liked doing maths this week because there were some hard questions!”

Nikola is our Hot Chocolate winner this week for being Ready, Respectful and Safe at all times!

Next week, we have a busy few days of Christmas activities planned and are super excited about our party on Tuesday!

This week we have been learning two new sounds ‘l’ and ‘r’.  We can say the sounds, we can write them and we can say our common words.  In writing we wrote about what we would do if Santa got stuck in the chimney.  We had lots of good ideas to get him out!

For topic we have been sorting out toys.  We found toys that we had to push and other toys that we had to pull.  We talked about how they work and what they do when they work.  Some made noise, some made light and some moved.  We used the toy catalogues to find toys that used electricity and ones that did not.  We cut the pictures out and glued them on a special sheet.

We have been doing lots of Christmas activities.  We even made ourselves into elves!  We made special cards for our buddies and we made snowmen pictures with our finger prints.

Every day we have listened to the Advent stories that the Primary 7s have been reading.  Our favourite was ‘Rudey’s Windy Christmas’.  We knew this story well because we had read it in our classroom.

Our personal highlights this week are:

Caiden – I liked playing the game duck, duck, goose in PE.

Ollie – I liked having a race outside with lots of other people.

Chimamanda – I liked playing with the lego.

Rory – I liked playing with the transformers.

Vivien – I liked making our craft bags.

Diana – I liked reading the Christmas books.

Aadya – I enjoyed playing tag outside.

Chahiti – I liked making Christmas crafts.

Pupil Highlights:

Emily: I liked writing all the sections of a discussion piece of writing. The issue I chose to write about was whether all children should own a metal bottle.

Josh N: I liked learning about Kosher and Non Kosher food.

Filip: I liked answering word problems involving negative numbers.

Daisy: I liked learning when we have to use negative numbers and writing my discussion text. I chose to write about whether boys should be allowed to wear girls clothes.

Elizabete: I liked writing my discussion text and I chose to write whether owning a parrot is a good pet to have.

Aoife: I liked ordering negative numbers from smallest to largest.

Teacher Highlights:

I am delighted that we have all completed a discussion text after practising the opening statement, the series of arguments, the concluding statement several times. We will be using our success criteria to self and peer assess our work next week.

Dear readers,

Welcome to our Primary 3A blog!

This week, as usual, we heve had lots of things going on in our class and in our school but we will give you an idea of the main things we have learned about.😊

We have worked really hard on our weekly spelling words throughout the week and as we didn’t have the opportunity to get our weekly spelling assessment done on Friday, because we had to let our Primary 2 friends borrow our classroom, we will exceptionally do it on Monday.

We also worked a lot on our Word Boost words, Reading and Writing. Our Writing session was on The Snowman and I would like to congratulate all the ones who have worked so hard on that!👍😃👏 We will have new Star Writers to be announced on Monday!🥇

For Maths, we have continued working on mental subtraction, word problems  and have started using the vertical layout to solve subtraction.

We have also had our final Reconciliation preparation lesson and have spent some time trying to understand the meaning of the Our Father, Hail Mary and Act of Sorrow. They can be really tricky to understand because they have words that are very old and we don’t use any more but after being explained, they make a lot of sense.

We have almost finished our Art work related to St. Andrew and we will hopefuly post a picture of it soon.

On Friday, to allow our younger friends to have their Nativity recorded, we got to use the Hall as our classroom for the whole day! We were very excited about that, of course!

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

Hope you are having a wonderful weekend!😃🏞

Mrs Valente and P3A

Hello P6B families!

It has been another busy week in primary 6, here are some highlights from our week:

Numeracy and Maths: We played times table bingo to work on our speed and accuracy of our times tables. We have been learning about the properties of 3D shape and by the end of the week got to create some of our own. We have also been learning about tessellation and how to use 2D shapes to make repeated patterns. Here are some examples below:

Literacy: We enjoyed using our skills we have learned so far this year in writing to create our own Christmas stories. We included lots of descriptions to interest our readers.

R.E: We have continued to research our faith through the gift of knowledge and gathered more evidence for our Pope Francis Faith award folders. We have been learning about the Advent wreath and created our own Advent alter in class with each candle representing a different meaning.

Over and above: Congratulations to our well deserved hot chocolate winner, Sophie!

Have a great weekend and stay safe,

Mrs Roy and Primary 6B

Hello P2A families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Yellow Table:

Eva enjoyed colouring in the paper chains that we will use to decorate the classroom next week.  They had trees, stars and candy canes on them.

Rebekah liked making the work ID badges as part of our topic learning.  I hope you enjoyed the photographs of your child wearing them on their Seesaw.

Pola loved story writing this week.  The title was, ‘When Santa Got Stuck up the Chimney!’  We had many different ideas about who could help Santa: police, reindeers, elves, firemen…….even Paw Patrol!  They were super!  Congratulations to Julia who won the competition for who could include the most adjectives in their story.

Aiden liked playing ‘Squashy Subtraction’ as we revised subtraction within 10.  Next week we move onto subtraction within 20 and beyond.

Ruari liked looking at the bird’s eye view of Livingston on Google Earth to spot local jobs and places of work.  Due to staff absences, we were unable to go on our walk on Monday but this was a good Plan B.

Kyle loved the filming of the Nativity today.  He was a Narrator.

My highlight has been the show today.  My heart swelled with pride.  The children did so very well!  The singing and acting was amazing! You will be sent out a code in due course that will allow you to access the fabulous ‘Donkey for Sale’ Primary Two production.  Look out for a photograph of your child in their costume next week on Seesaw!  A big thank you to Ella, Eva and Pola who created 3 of the beautiful background pictures that will form the backdrop for the show in conjunction with the green screen.

It has been another very busy week in P1B.  Today we were very excited to perform our Nativity.  We all gave our best performance and we can’t wait to see the video and share it with you all.

This week we learned the sounds d and g.  We can recall words that have these sounds at the beginning of the word and we have been practising how to write them.  We made a dog and dinosaur and we used glitter to make Christmas baubles and designed winter gloves.  We sounded out cvc words on the cat boards, one of them was den so we decided to make a den.

We tried to learn about making amounts using 1p coins and then making same amounts using different coins.

We received a letter from a teddy bear asking us to help him make a jigsaw.  We worked together as a class to make the jigsaw and found that it was a toy jigsaw with lots of different toys.  We had a discussion about the jigsaw and then we discussed what we would like to learn for our new topic Toys.

We read a story about old toys and designed and wrote about a new toy.  We also sorted toys into those that are old and new talking about how we can distinguish between them.  We also made penny twist toys.  We drew a picture of our favourtie toy and wrote about it.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and we look forward to another great week ahead!