St John Ogilvie Primary School

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.

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! 🙂