St John Ogilvie Primary School

The boys and girls in P1A have had a very busy week!  We were excited to receive our Bookbug bags and have been working on activities based around the books inside.  We really enjoyed reading “Brenda is a sheep” and completing our tasks about it.

Today we joined our friends from P1 – P3 for an assembly where P3b told us about the importance of respect.  After the assembly, we talked about how we can show respect and our lead learners for next week chose showing good manners as something that they will be looking for when we come back to school on Monday.

Well done to John who was this week’s hot chocolate at home winner!

Dear Parents,

Here’s an update for this week’s learning in P7B:

In comprehension and writing this week we have been learning about Haiku, Japanese poems of 3 lines containing 17 syllables.  We wrote about different seasons which is the original theme of Haikus but then we had a bit of freedom to write about other subjects too.

In maths we’ve been doing a bit of revision before our SNSA assessment next week, just to have a quick look at some topics we haven’t had a chance to visit yet this year.  We have also spent a bit of time on the West Lothian Sumdog Competition and I’m pleased to report that we managed to finish tenth which means the class wins a treat from me as a reward.  There’s also a special mention for Zain, Finlay, Faryl, Laiba, Adrian, Anya and Mereecia who completed all 1000 questions

On Thursday we held an assembly for P4-7 via Teams.  Our message was about respect and we shared some stories, drama and a cool song. We hope that everyone took something from our assembly and remember to be respectful to each other.

We managed to get outside on Thursday afternoon and we used our time to help tidy up the playground.  While we now have our snacks indoors to reduce litter and to avoid wasps in autumn, plenty of trash still makes its way into our playground.  We filled a couple of bin bags with rubbish using litter pickers and wearing our own sets of gloves.  The playground is now a good bit tidier than we found it.

Now we’ll hear an update from this week’s Lead Learners:

In this week we made bookmarks for our buddies for Scottish Book Week and we Joined in with the Sumdog Competition and placed Top 10.

Tuesday we had P.E. in the afternoon, it was all about team work with hoops, with a fun race at the end.

On Wednesday we wrote haiku’s and learnt all about them.

Thursday we went litter picking all around the school including the woodlands, also we had enough time to do free writing. We also had an Assembly all about respect, we worked really hard on it.

On Friday we were working on Perimeter and Area.

Xavier and Nicola

Have a great weekend everyone,

Mr McGurn & Primary 7B

What a week!  We have just finished our assembly performance for the P1-P3 classes and we taught them about Respect.  We had loads of fun and told them the story of Mr Rude and how important it is to have manners.

Our other news this week – Fatima M really enjoyed playing number board games with her friends and James especially enjoyed learning what was in our Read, Write, Count bags.  Everyone loves the tape measure and we have been measuring everything in our classroom – including Mrs Callaghan!  We are taking our bags home today and cannot wait to show our adults the books.

We made fact posters about Owls and used our drawing skills and what we have learned about owls to put facts on the poster.

Jude and Olivia really enjoy watching Newsround every day with our snack and milk.  Jude likes learning facts about our world and Olivia likes that it gives you information about the world and that you learn about animals that you don’t know.

Next week, we will have lots of fun and are looking forward to meeting the next bird on our wellbeing Wednesday journey (we think it might be a penguin!).

Hello Everyone,

We’ve had another busy week in P7A.

We played longball in the gym for PE this week.  We haven’t used the gym since coming back in August, and we won’t be able to again for a while, so it was quite exciting!

We’ve entered a nature writing competition and we have to write about the four seasons.

In maths, we were learning about calculating the perimeter of compound shapes and drew large shapes outside in the playground before working out the length of the perimeter.

Father Simon has asked us to help some of the members of the Parish to walk/run the number of miles it would be to Bethlehem.  Everyone who was here has managed to walk two miles each so far this week.  45 miles so far!

We have started creating personal projects about different aspects of life in Japan.  We are working with the person next to us and we will create a power point presentation to share our projects with the rest of the class.

We are also working in small collaborative groups with the folk sitting close to us to create and design a 10 star********** hotel for kids.  we are having so much fun imagining all the fun and wonderful things we can include.

Have a lovely weekend!

This week has been super busy in P2A as it has been Book Week Scotland and Road Safety Week. Here are some of our highlights from this week.

Nell: I liked learning about crossing the road safely.

Ignacy: I really enjoyed outdoor learning this week where we guessed the number of trees in the school woods. Then we counted how many trees there are.

Baibua: I liked writing instructions on how to cross the road.

Jemima: My favourite part of this week was reading the stories from my Read, Write, Count and taking the bags home.

We have had lots of great learning in P1B this week.

In maths we have been learning number bonds to 6. Addison liked doing finger patterns to make the number bonds. We enjoyed using Numicon to work out our number bonds.

This week we have been learning all about the letter and sound ‘o’. We liked filling a fox with orange o’s and did brilliantly using o to make CVC words.

It is book week this week and we have been reading lots of fabulous books and are very excited today to be coming home with our Bookbug Family Bags. Alex really liked learning about birds and Amelia loved the story Brenda is a Sheep.

It is also Road Safety Week and we have been learning about how to keep safe during the dark nights by wearing reflective clothing, about being safe while travelling in the car and how to cross the road safely. All the class have safely crossed our imaginary road using Stop, Look, Listen and Think.

Haadiya/Scott/Daniel – I liked playing with the fire engine.

Ella – I liked playing with the new safari animals.

Rowan – I liked making wolf masks.

Nicolas – I liked playing with the fire engine toys.

Mrs McKissack has asked that all class homework is posted on Teams to leave space on the School Blog for messages.

A copy of  group spelling words in the Teams – Files – Class Materials

Weekly homework grids are also in the Teams – Files – Class Materials

An optional home learning grid with different types of activities is also available with activities linked to class learning.

Miss Smith and Mrs Broadley’s highlights of the week:  We are so pleased to see the pupils identify and use imperative verbs in their writing. We introduced the structure of noun pronoun pronoun noun and the pupils could tell us why it makes our writing better – to avoid repetition ! Well done to Josh Nelson for identifying that it would be better to use ‘ he’ instead of ‘Sam’all the time in Miss Smith’s story.

Emily – I liked decorating my cloak which we are going to write about.

Aoife – I liked writing doing words for our description bubbles.

Connor – I liked having more time to play outside.

Josh  N– I liked listening to Harry Potter.

Elizabete – I liked making the clocks in maths.

Daisy – I liked doing  the HWB check in.

Natalia – I like decorating my cloak with the oil pastels.

Sylvia – I liked making the clocks.

Adam, Josh, Amelia, Marriyah- We all like learning what personal pronouns were.