St John Ogilvie Primary School

Lead learners: Our lead learners Luke C and Anneli have worked to create three class targets for us to focus on this week. They have also awarded points to children they have noticed being ready, respectful and safe.

Maths: This week we have been working on equivalent fractions and have successfully been able to multiply the numerator and denominator to create a new fraction. We have also been learning how to simplify fractions too.

Literacy: We have been learning about compound nouns and we were able to use them in our writing. We have been writing about peace and what this means to us using our senses. We enjoyed free writing Friday and had fun writing in the style of our choice.

HWB: With Mrs McLaughlin we have been continuing with our emotions works and have started to create an A to Z of strategies for overcoming different emotions.

Art: We designed medals and created poppy wreaths to remember those who fought in the war.

IDL: We have been enjoying the start of our new topic which is Space! We had fun making mnemonics to help us remember the order of the planets.

Rights of the child: The article of the week is anti- bullying. We have been learning about different types of bullying and what to do if we were to experience or witness it.

Over and above: Well done to our over and above winner Caoimhe, excellent effort this week!

Have a great weekend and stay safe,

Mrs Roy

Another GREAT week of learning in P6B!

Numeracy 

This week we began looking at Fractions. We started looking at equivalent fractions; exploring fractions which were the same but with different numbers. We have made good connections from what we learned whilst doing decimal fractions.

Literacy

For literacy this week we learned about Remembrance Day, completing some remembrance day activities. We finished writing our scary stories and the children had the opportunity to share their writing with the class in our ‘authors chair’.  They were very creative… and well… scary!

Lucy Enjoyed word boost this week, building our vocabulary in fun and engaging ways!  We all loved finding different opportunities to use the word boost words throughout the week.

John and Emily enjoyed continuing their creative work for Free Writing Friday! Our FWF jotters are filling up fast with lots of brilliant ideas!

IDL 

The children and I have had a blast researching our new topic, space.

Sneha said “I enjoyed researching about space and really liked doing art this week too”. Charlotte also exclaimed her enjoyment doing the space research. The class are designing our new IDL display wall and have discussed what they know already and what they would like to learn about space in P6.

R.E.

For R.E we have been learning about all souls. This week we focused on remembrance day and made our own poppies and designed medals for all service people. The class have done a great job with these – they look great. They have been wearing their poppies in class and very proudly when they took part in the two minute silence.

HWB

We have been discussing bullying this week. The children have discussed this with great maturity and came up with lots of good ideas and comments on how to be kind and what to do if they know of any instances of bullying (in any form). We have been celebrating difference, promoting the inclusion of all, and working on the wellbeing indicators. Well done Primary 6!

A message from Mr. Pentland

This week, it was great to see the children praise each other with our new ‘class stars’ recognition board. This gives the children the opportunity to recognise their peers for their achievements throughout the day! The comments have been so kind and lovely to hear – I’m sure the children would agree.

I would just like to say well done to P6B for remembering the timetable changes this week and keeping me right. I am super impressed with everyone. I would also like to take this opportunity to say a huge well done and thank you to all the children in P6B and their families. We had a great term 1 and an amazing start to term 2! The children have positively responded to the new safety measures needed in school due to the current global situation and I would like to thank you all for your patience and understanding. I hope you all have a great weekend and a happy Diwali! Take care, stay safe and I look forward to seeing you all on Monday! 🙂

Dear readers,

We hope you are all either very well or getting better!

This week started with our visit to the woodlands to enjoy some minutes of free play with our friends! We absolutely loved exploring, picking up falling leaves, playing and having a bit of fun together in such a beautiful space!😃😃😃

We felt energized when we went back to have our lunch after that fun time!

We have done a lot in Literacy having started with our new spelling words, their meaning and how to use them in context. We have also done another week of reading comprehension, this time on Chapter 8 of the Secret Garden and every week we seem to understand it better and better. To make our writing more interesting, we have learned about Personification and how to write amazing sentences using it. We have also learned how to identify personification in sentences.

In maths, this week has been dedicated to master subtraction with up to 6 digits and also on how to check that it is correct at the end.

RE was about the beautiful biblical story of the Genesis and we have had the opportunity to draw and write what happened day by day, until God rested on the 7th day.

All the boys and girls loved our new topic of the Wars of Independence and we have only just started to learn about it!

Because we wanted to surprise Mrs McKissack on her birthday and we could not sing to her, we have all learned how to do it with sign language and we all did it at the same time throughout the school through Teams. We think she liked it a lot!🥳

Of course we would not finish off the week without our spelling assessment and Big Maths, beat that,  and also by awarding the Hot Chocolate prize and send the Three notes home to let parents and carers know how amazing a week we have had!🥇Congratulations to Alex, Susanna, Sophie and Amelia! Well done and keep up with your kindness, care and participation!👍👍👍👍🥇🥇🥇🥇

Have a wonderful weekend and stay safe!😘😘

Love from Primary 5B and Mrs Valente

We have had another busy week in P1B.

We have been learning the sound ‘K’. We can write the letter, we can say words with the sound and we can say where the sound is made in our mouths.  We designed kites using paper, string and straws.

In maths we have been learning what + and = means.  We have been adding sets of objects together and used objects to make addition sums.

We read Percy Park Keeper story and went in to the woods to build new houses for the animals.

We have been learning about Robots.  We read the story Robot Rumpus and then designed our own robot which would be able to help us.

We programmed Bee bots and made them move.

It was world Kindness Day today and also Children In Need.  We designed our own Pudsey Bear and we created a heart to give to someone special.

We read the story ‘Kindness is Cooler Mrs Ruler and wrote a sentence about how we are kind.  We remembered to use a full stop at the end of our sentence.

We hope you all have a lovely weekend and look forward to seeing you all again on Monday for another busy, fun filled week of learning.

Dear Parents.

Here is an update on some of  our learning over the past week:

The highlight of the week, as chosen by the children, was our Origami lesson.  We looked at the origins of Origami and also what the word means, then we took to work and tried to create some Origami birds of our own.  It was very tricky, however after a lot of hard work and retracing of steps, many of the children managed to create the finished article.  Others were not quite so successful but thankfully nobody gave up and everyone persevered right until the end.  In fact, some of the children were so keen to improve their skills, they took paper home with them to practise and brought different examples in the next day.  Here is a picture of a completed bird:

Another learning highlight this week, was our outdoor learning.  Last week we worked in groups to create our own games, this week we spent time with another group, teaching them our game and playing theirs.  Lots of fun was had by everyone (including Mrs Craig).

In Maths this week, we worked on finding the perimeter of shapes, including compound shapes.  We also continued with our work on decimals with Mrs Morrison and finished our posters for the Maths wall with Mrs Craig.

For Remembrance day, we wrote poems, made poppy pictures and took part very respectfully in the 2 minute silence.  Here are some examples of our work:

Finally, we helped Mrs McKissack to celebrate a very special birthday today by signing Happy Birthday over teams.  We hope she enjoys her socially distanced celebrations over the weekend.

We wish you all a lovely weekend and we will be back with another update next Friday.

Mrs Craig, Mrs Morrison and Primary 7A

Dear Parents,

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

In writing we have been working on instructions.  Since we successfully made Origami frogs in art, we have written instructions on how to make your own jumping frogs using time connectives and imperative verbs.  There were some excellent examples of clearly written instructions and some people included useful diagrams to help. IKEA could learn a thing or two from us!

In maths we continue to use the RLPS (Real Life Problem Solving) App which puts maths problems into everyday situations and scenarios and we have to use different strategies to solve them.  This week we used reasoning and guess, check and improve strategies to solve a school fundraising problem involving tombola, prizes and profit and loss.

West Lothian are holding a Sumdog Competition this week which runs up till 8pm next Thursday (19th). There are 1000 questions to answer and I will give P7 the chance to particpate in class but to complete all questions, they’ll need to do some at home.  I will give prizes for good effort and special prizes to anyone who manages to finish in the Top Ten!

We have completed the SNSA Practise assessment and will complete the Literacy and Mathematics assessments soon.  These are standardised assessment used right across Scotland and they will give us individual strengths and targets to work on before the move to Secondary school.

We helped Mrs McKissack share an important BIG birthday by signing Happy Birthday using British Sign Language.

Happy Birthday to Mrs McKissack, I’ve still got a few years until I catch up to her!

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

On Tuesday in PE we did orienteering with a partner to find different cards with countries on them, we got a clipboard to write down the one we had found.

On Wednesday we did numeracy in textbooks and played maths games. In art this week we made origami water bombs you could fill them up with water it was fun and enjoyable. We had some excellent water bombs and we were really excited to make them.

Thursday we had PE again and this time we have done team building exercises. We had a hoola hoop and had to balance in it on our fingers in groups of 5 – 6 and in the end we got to play a game.

Donnie and Kashvita

Have a great weekend everyone,

Mr McGurn and P7B.

We have had a busy week this week. We have been learning about fireworks. We learned they can be dangerous but are pretty. (FF) Some animals can be scared of fireworks. (WK) Fireworks cn be really loud. (NS) Babies and kids can be scared. (MB) Firework night started because Guy Fawkes tried to blow up the king. (LM) There is fire in the fireworks. (JD)

We made bats out of black card and white pencils. (BD) We drew owls  and watched a film about owls. (EM, AS) We learned that owls have no teeth.  (ED) They eat the whole animal and the feathers and bones and fur go into  a part of their body called gizzards. Then then spit up a pellet to get rid of it. (FG) Owls have big eyes so that they can hunt at night. (BM)

We have been doing lots of work on adding, I was happy. (AS) We did some spelling in our groups. (BD)

Wellbeing Wednesday

We learned how to not be scared from Fle the fearless flamingo. (VK) We learned to breath in and blow the fear away. We talked about how our family can help us to face things. (NS)

Have a great weekend.