St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well.

In this post you will be shown the highlights of both weeks, since there have been some issues with last week’s post and it ended up not being published.

So, here are our highlights:

• Spelling – We have learned many interesting and even challenging words related to our Topic War and Conflict, including the most common causes of war and words needed to explain those same causes. The spelling assessment had very good results, especially having in mind how hard the words were, both to understand and spell.
• Writing – We have continued and concluded our Narratives on the next chapter of the Spiderwick Chronicles and some of us loved it so much they wouldn’t want to stop writing! This week we have started learning about the Recount, its different parts and what it is used for. We will continue working on it at least for another couple of weeks.
• Literacy – In order to make our Writing even better and more interesting, we have been having a big focus on Similes, Metaphors and the difference between them. We had to write our own Similes and Metaphors and identify both within texts which was quite interesting.
• Maths and Numeracy – Learning about the Perimeter and the Area of squares and rectangles was one of the favourites of the weeks and we even learned how to find out the area and perimeters of shapes with more than one rectangle or square. We have finished the week with word problems and have also continued our work on multiplication and division.
• RE – Last week we have celebrated Pentecost and have remembered that it had happened 50 days after Easter, when the Holy Spirit descended on Our Lady and the Apostles. We have also been following the Pray in May Calendar from Mary’s Meals and every single day we learn about a country which is being helped by this charity, its political and economic situation, the contents of the meals in each country and how many school meals are being provided every school day. The children have been very engaged but also very shocked by the enormous need for help and by how so many children like themselves live in such poor conditions. They all want to help Mary’s Meals and we would like to ask parents and carers to donate what they can and bring it to school on the 31st of May, since we will have a special collection for this charity.
• Science – Continuing our super learning in Science we have been doing some really interesting STEM challenges, some in the classroom and some outside, since a group of us went to the Climate Smarter Celebration of STEM Event last Wednesday with their Eco-School Model.
• Outdoor Learning – As our gardens were needing urgent attention, we have spent a good amount of time weeding them and if you come to the school you will hopefully see the difference. We were going to continue our job this week but the rain has made it impossible so hopefully we will have the opportunity to finish our task next week. It’s hard but rewarding work and we got new tools which are good for the job!🌻
• Football – We have had 2 super fun sessions with Steven, the West Lothian Football Academy coach and got a taster of what it would be like to join one of WLFA classes, which was great!
• Many Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate from last week, Miss Samanvi, who has been a true role model of good behaviour and readiness to learn to all! Well done, Miss Samanvi!👏👏👏🥇🏆
• Well done also to The Philosopher’s Stone Table who have been amazing throughout the week, not only about their behaviour but also about their attitude towards learning!🏆🥇✨
• This week, Congratulations to the Chamber of Secrets Table for being super duper good! Well done! 👏🏆

We say goodbye for now, wishing all our Readers a very pleasant and, if possible, dry and sunny weekend!😀🌞🏔

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘

This week we have been reading The Enormous Turnip, we learned all about the words ‘heaved’ and ‘budge’. We have been practising writing words and sentences on the whiteboards and we were so proud of our sentences.

In Maths, we have been practising our subtraction strategies. We also played a game about fact families where we had to made 2 addition and 2 subtraction sums. It was great fun!

During Outdoor Learning we spent some time in the Woodland to practise our fire pit safety. We know what to do to roast a marshmallow and in a few weeks we are going to have a real fire.

For PE, we enjoyed a football session with a coach. We had fun scoring goals and dribbling the ball around the pitch. The grass stuck to our feet so we had to pretend to be penguins and move our feet across the playground to get the grass off.

On Friday, we all went to Mass at St Peter’s. The staff were all very proud of how respectful we were.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Zuraib – I enjoyed playing outside.

Rudhvick – I enjoyed playing with the Jenga

Tyler F – I enjoyed playing in the construction area.

Ollie – I enjoyed playing with the plus plus.

Matteo – I enjoyed playing in the big playground with the buddies.

Good afternoon

We have had a brilliant week in P2!

The children returned from the holiday weekend full of energy and enthusiasm to learn.

The children are doing great with multiplication and division, focussing on the ten times tables this week. We also began learning about weight this week and the children particularly enjoyed weighing objects on the balance scales.

We used our planning sheets from last week to write excellent recounts about our trip to the Five Sisters Zoo.

Our class vets is still very popular and the children are loving playing in here. They are showing a lot of care to our sick pets.

Weekly Highlights

Vasilisa – I liked playing in the vets with Lillian.

Faye – I loved free writing, I wrote about hugs.

Cameron – I liked learning about weight. I enjoyed using the balance scales especially weighing Enso’s Shoe!

Aaron – I liked playing in the vets.

Eve – I liked Maths.

Harald – I liked learning the five times tables.

Oliver – I liked free writing, I wrote about Astronauts.

Azmeer – I liked multiplying and dividing by 10.

Huge Congratulations to Oliver, our hot chocolate winner!

Have a lovely weekend!

Good Afternoon,

We’ve had another fantastic week in Primary 2!

The children are doing really well with their times tables and have started to look at the link between multiplication and division.  We have also continued to work on fractions and have been learning that a quarter, is a half of a half.

In Literacy, we have been learning how to write a recount.  The children have planned a piece of writing about their recent visit to the Zoo and will complete their writing next week.

On Thursday, the children worked hard on their entry for an Art competition.  They have designed their very own mythical creature.  Keep your fingers crossed that someone from P2 might win!

Over the past few weeks, the children have been having great fun exploring the woodlands. Here are a few photographs of them in action:

Highlights of the Week:

Lillian:  I loved creating a vets in our classroom and looking after the animals.

Faye:  I liked learning the 5 times table.

Alex:  I loved creating my own mythical creature.  Mines is very cool.  I hope it wins the competition.

Tudor:  I liked colouring Concorde picture that Mrs Craig printed for me.

Olga:  I loved going to the woodlands.  I moved the furniture with Owen and made a house.

Huge congratulation to our hot chocolate Friday winner this week, Olga!  Olga is always working very hard in school, her work is always presented beautifully and she is extremely kind and caring towards other.  We are very proud of you Olga!

Our Reading Champion is Aarav.  Well done Aarav!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mrs Craig and Mrs Brand

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Blue table:

Alicja liked changing the clothes on her avatar from the Pixton app.

Grace and Chahiti said the highlight of their week was our writing of a recount about the healthy blueberry and banana warm pudding we made last week.  The children worked hard to include an orientation, sequence of events and conclude with a personal statement.

Rory loved music with Mrs Morrison were the children finished the music story of ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’.

McPaul, our new pupil, who we welcomed in to our St John Ogilive family this week, enjoyed listening to the story of Pentecost during religion lessons.  This Sunday, we will celebrate Pentecost.  The children recounted this story within a flame template.

My highlight was maths.  The children have been working hard to multiply 2 digit numbers this week by 2.  We challenged ourselves by multiplying 3 digits and then 4!

Congratulations to Jack, our hot chocolate award winner this week and to Chahiti, our Reading Champion!

Lead Learners were Jiade and Angel.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

Jiade – “I liked Word Boost.”   The Word Boost story this week was called, ‘Eliot, Midnight Superhero’.  This will be up on Seesaw after school today for a further opportunity for the children to enjoy and listen out for the key vocabulary.

Angel – “I really liked drawing a dove.”  The children completed an instructional drawing of a dove.  This not only a symbol of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost links) but also of peace.  Our new mini topic is called, ‘Conflict Resolution in the Classroom.’  We will be further exploring the topic of peace for the remainder of May.

Just a reminder that we are off school on Monday and I will see you all back on Tuesday.  Enjoy the long weekend!

Regards

Mrs Brown

This week the Jolly Postman delivered another letter to us and he sent the book Little Red Riding Hood. We sequenced the story and made a healthy basket for granny. We have loved playing with the basket that the Jolly Postman delivered and pretending to be Little Red Riding Hood.

In maths, we have been learning about half past and we were very confident with this. We also did some more work on addition and subtraction.

In RE, we learned about Pentecost and how the disciples received the gift of the Holy Spirit.

In PE, we are practising throwing a javelin. We can throw them really far.

We have been busy building lots of models in the construction area and we have been taking lots of photos of them.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Alfie – I enjoyed playing in the construction area.

Ollie – I enjoyed drawing.

Rudhvick – I enjoyed reading the story.

Sophia – I enjoyed playing with the flowers.

Peyton – I enjoyed playing with the marble run.

Congratulations to Leah who is our Reading Champion and to Lewis who is our Hot Chocolate Winner.

Hello P3A families,

Even though we had a shorter week this week, we still managed to squeeze in many leaning experiences in P3A.  Here are this week’s highlights from the yellow table:

Laura and Linda both said the highlight of this week was brushing and flossing their teeth.  Recently, we have been learning about oral health and had a practical session with a timer.  The children also enjoyed a song I had made up to help my little sister brush her teeth properly we were kids.

Vivien and Hasika  enjoyed continuing their learning about Emotion Words with Mrs Brand.

Olivia and Diana liked tracking the growth of their plant.  We took them home on Friday as you know.  It would be super if you were able to send pictures through Seesaw or the school office when the flower blooms.  Remind that these plants have edible leaves!  There are many ideas online about how to use the petals in cooking.  Some can be found here: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/nasturtium

Ollie and Aadya enjoyed football with Miss Whyte.

Angel loved our learning about the Joyful Mysteries of the rosary.  During May, each day at noon, the children pray one decade of the rosary.  Moving forward, we are going to focus on one Joyful Mystery each day.  Angel liked the one called “Presentation of Jesus at the Temple.”

My highlight was a recount we read about a boy who made blueberry muffins for his grandma’s birthday.  He then wrote an email to his dad in the past tense about what he had done.  P3A then went on to make a healthy banana and blueberry warm pudding (one group still have to make them).  Like the boy in the recount, we are going to type up how we made it using past tense words.

Due to it being a short week, we had no new Lead Learners or Hot Chocolate winner.

Regards

Mrs Brown