St John Ogilvie Primary School

We hope you enjoy the pictures below that have captured the fantastic learning experiences your child had on today’s trip to Bannockburn.  As you may know, the children were learning about The Scottish Wars of Independence earlier in the school year.  It was great to witness how much information they could remember which is a reflection on how enthusiastic they were when learning about their country’s history.  Well done to P5!  👏👏🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 A big thank you you our parent helpers who were invaluable today, Moeez’s mum and Suhanth’s mum.

Hello families of P5B!  Happy New Year!  I hope you all had a lovely holiday.  I have missed the children so much and am delighted to see them all return.  Some of them have really sprouted up!

Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Yellow table:

Daniel, Vinayakarthik and Ellie-May have really enjoyed Dodgeball with Mrs Lafferty (don’t worry, the balls are soft).

Alex has appreciated our lessons on recreating the famous painting ‘The Angelus’ as part of our learning about this prayer.  The children heard how Mrs Brown had this painting hung in her home as a little girl.

Anthony said that the highlight of his week was a very special prayer service we had on Monday about God’s forgiveness.

Ksawery has loved making a PowerPoint about Scotland’s towns and cities for our new topic.  The children have not only been improving their research skills but have been learning to save images, copy and paste.

Nathan has recounted how the story he started on Free Writing Friday was the best part of his week.  The children were tasked with creating an imaginative story with the character of a polar bear (this will link to an upcoming art lesson).  They were welcome to read out what they had written so far and we had some very creative ideas!  We look forward to finishing it next Friday as we only had limited time this week.

Moeez reports that having fun in the snow was a memorable moment for him this week.

Olek has been enjoying learning some Scots language with Mrs Morrison.  Over the next 2 weeks, in celebration of the upcoming Burns Day, the children will be exploring some of their Scottish heritage through poetry and will be creating some of their own with some Scots language too!  I am really looking forward to these learning experiences!

My highlight was our lesson on New Year Resolutions.  The children looked through their literacy and maths jotters and identified what they would like to improve upon this year as well as setting a personal goal.  We had some that ranged from learning to tie shoelaces, joining in on Fruit Friday, to making their own beds.  Fingers crossed!  Mrs Brown’s was to drink more water.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend.

Mrs Brown

Happy New Year to all our families, we hope you had a wonderful Christmas.  We were so excited to welcome the children back to school on Monday, even though it was very cold and snowy we had a week of great learning.

In Literacy we focused on r reading cvc words, finding and writing r.  We made a rabbit craft.  We read a story about a robin and then completed a step by step drawing of a robin.  The drawings turned out amazing and lots of people have commented how wonderful they look.

We also learned the sound ‘v’ we designed a vase and made a volcano craft.  We learned to form v and to sound out cvc words.  We aslo had to cut and stick a vehicle into the right order, colour it and write a sentence.

Our new topic is ‘Robots’, we read the story Robot Rumpus and spoke about robots.  We designed our own and then wrote about it.  We also played a game to roll a robot.

We were very excited to use iPads to learn about Beebot controls and then in groups we used the Beebots.  We were able to show how to code a Beebot to get from one place to another using single steps.

As it is a new year we looked at the months of the year and practised singing the months of the year rhyme.  We designed our own calendar for 2025 to take home.

We also looked at subtraction, talking about how the biggest number comes first, names for the subtraction sign and we used blocks to count how many to take away to find an answer.

 In Religion we learned about the Epiphany and the kings visiting Jesus bringing him gifts.  We drew our own gift for Jesus on a gift tag and made our own class present for Jesus.  We also discussed new year resolutions and came up with our own resolutions for the new year.

Our weekly Highlights

Lena ‘I liked learning the new sounds’

Emilio ‘I liked making my robin’

Dawid ‘I liked the Beebot’

Daniel ‘I liked trying new things like the Beebot’

Felix ‘I liked making things with Lego’

Well done to Kaya our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.  Well done to St Francis House our winners this week.  Have a wonderful weekend everyone and stay safe and warm

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 6 have been working hard to prepare for their Burns Performance which takes place on January 23rd.  They have been enthusiastically auditioning for parts and learning poetry and songs. The children have supported  and encouraged each other to develop confidence during rehearsals. We are all looking forward to the night and can’t wait to perform in front of an audience!

Our literacy  has been based around  Learning Scots language and understanding some of Burns most famous poems, Address T The Haggis and To A Mouse. We have created our own Scots glossary to help us translate the vocabulary.

In topic we have been researching about the life of Robert Burns and also understanding why it is important to remember and celebrate his work.

During music Mrs Morrison has been teaching us Scottish songs that we will perform on the night!

Congratulations to Ena, who was nominated as our hot chocolate winner this week!

Have a super weekend.

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A.

Happy New Year to all our Families!

It has been fantastic to have the children back in the classroom this week!  They have been particularly excited about the snow and they have been very lucky to get out to play every day.

Over the next few weeks we will be learning about Robots.  This week in writing, we designed our own Robot and wrote about them.  The children had some fantastic ideas about what their robots could do and where they might live.  Next week, we plan to make Robot models.  We would really appreciate it if you could send in any junk materials that you have at home to support this.

In Maths, we have been working on subtraction from 20 and we have also been working out change from 20p.

Today we carried out a science experiment with the snow.  The children collected samples of snow from outside and then we added, salt, sugar, warm water and cold water to the different samples.  We also had a control sample where nothing had been added.  Ask your child to tell you the results, it was very interesting!

Pupil Highlights:

Garvit – I enjoyed doing the science experiment with the snow.

Leighton – I loved making Polar Bear pictures in Art.

Alexander – I enjoyed reading the book ‘The Wild Robot’.

Maja – I liked learning how to takeaway from 20.

Ellie – I enjoyed starting to learn the poem in Scots.

Huge congratulations to our hot chocolate winner thi week, Oscar.  Oscar is always very enthusiastic about his learning and has been working very hard in class.  Keep up the great work Oscar!

This week has been great in Primary 3. We have been having lots of fun as well as getting back into our learning and working really hard.

In literacy this week, we have read our new Word boost book and explored our new words. We have been focussing on adjectives this week and have been using a thesaurus to find alternative words to replace boring adjectives in our writing. We learned that a word which means the same thing as another word is called a synonym!

In numeracy and maths this week, we have been doing addition using the column method. The children were awesome at this and lots of us tried doing sums with carrying in them. Everyone was wonderful and did a great job. We are beginning to round off money by looking at getting change when buying an item, and will finish this off next week.

We made some beautiful firework pictures for the new year using paint and straws, and we explored mixing together primary colours to create secondary colours. We started our new topic yesterday which is ‘West Lothian’. We discussed what a local council is and looked at a map of all the places in West Lothian.  In RE, we read the book of Genesis where God creates humans in his own image and we talked about all the ways in which we are unique.

Bradley had a lot of fun doing his chimney sums and getting all his answers correct. He was super proud of himself and so was Miss Duddy!

Rose enjoyed doing her ‘God Created Me’ worksheet where she wrote all about herself, her features and things she likes.

Martyna had fun learning about our new topic West Lothian, and enjoyed doing her map which we added some places to and coloured in.

Luca enjoyed playing on the iPads and had fun playing Top marks maths games!

Victoria enjoyed numeracy this week and learned how to carry tens when using the column method. She was awesome at it and thought it was very fun!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and get lots of rest after a fun week full of learning,

Miss Duddy.

Pupil Highlights:

Ruari: I liked doing the cloze sentences task for our Literacy Starters.

Julia: I enjoyed doing the Angelis Prayer with Mrs Brown.

Lucas Smith: I liked doing multiplication and division by 10 100 1000.

Babafola: I liked being supported by my teacher for my maths work.

Olivier: I liked doing the code breakers in the morning.

Pola: I really enjoyed the map reading for our morning starters.

Ella: I also enjoyed doing the map reading for our morning starters.

Zosia: I enjoyed doing the maths word problems.

Asim: I enjoyed making our Wars of Independence PowerPoints.

Congratulations to Joe for winning Hot Chocolate this week. You have delighted us since August with your general knowledge and hilarious stories. You work so hard in class and we are lucky to have you as part of our family. You are hired!