St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Readers,

Here is Term 3 Overview:

2324P5-learning overview term 3

All the best,

Mrs Valente

Hello P3A families,

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

Caleb enjoyed our learning about the history of West Lothian.  We recapped some of the learning from P2 about James Young and his role in mining and the shale mountains we see throughout West Lothian.

Chahiti liked making Valentines Day cards.

Alicaj and Rory loved benchball.  The hall was free for 2 slots this week so the children had some extra PE time to play their favourite game.  As always,  I am impressed with the teamwork that takes place in this game and the strategies the children use to score.

Ethan liked eating ‘soft c’ foods and evaluating them.  The children tasted cereal (Ethan’s favourite), rice and celery and like last week, recorded how they felt about the foods.  The evaluation this week however, had an extra section about why they liked or did not like the food.

My highlight was our lesson, ‘Jesus was a Jew’.  We watched a short clip of a Jewish girl who showed us around her house.  The children were amazed to hear that Jewish people do not mix meat and milk and have 2 separate sinks, 2 sets of separate cutlery drawers and 2 sets of dishes so as to keep these foods separate!  We know that Jewish people pray in a synagogue.  We realised that we as Christians, have many similarities with the Jewish faith.  Some of those are special prayer books, a place of worship and we have holy water fonts whereas they have mezuzahs at their front door.  Mrs Brown shared with the children that when she was growing up, she had a holy water font next to her front door and each time she went in and out of the door, she blessed herself.  The children are excited to have a font in their classroom too in case they wish to do the same.

Congratulations to Rory, our hot chocolate award winner this week and Caiden, our Reading Champion!

Lead Learners were Twida and Tvisha.  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:

Twida – “I liked music with Mrs Morrison.”

Tvisha – “I liked playing in the ‘Soft c’ café.”

I hope you all have a good February break and I will see you on Tuesday 20^th.

Regards

Mrs Brown

Good Afternoon,

What a fabulous week we have had in Primary 2!

There has been lots of learning and lots of fun.

We had some visitors in our classroom on Tuesday and Wednesday and they were absolutely blown away by the behaviour and attitude of the children.

In literacy, we learned the sound oi/oy. The children were fantastic at knowing where in the word you find the different spellings of the sound.  We even learned a rap to help us to remember:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fFZw9dwASI4

In Maths, we started working on giving change from 10p/20p.  The children practised paying for different items with a 20p and then working out how much change they should get.  They also investigated the link between addition and subtraction.

After the February break we will be starting our new topic, Under the Sea.  We have discussed with the children what they already know and started to think about what they would like to learn.

We were delighted on Wednesday, when Mrs McKissack called us to the hall for a surprise assembly, to tell us that we are now a GOLD Rights Respecting School!  We are all so proud!

It was wonderful to see the children all dressed in red, pink or gold today.  They all looked fabulous and it was a lovely way to celebrate our Gold award and St Valentine’s Day.

Since we won’t be in school for the start of lent, we celebrated Shrove Tuesday with pancakes and discussed what the children might choose to give up for lent.

Highlights of the Week:

Cameron:  I liked learning about Shrove Tuesday and eating a pancake!

Faye:  I enjoyed learning how much change to give in Maths.

Harald:  I liked learning about Lent.  I am going to give up electronics.

Samuel:  I like building with the K’Nex and finding out how they work.

Lillian:  I liked doing free writing Friday.  I wrote about St. Valentine’s Day.

Huge congratulation to our hot chocolate Friday winner this week, Faye!  Faye is always extremely hard working and is a great friend to others.  We are very proud of you Faye!

Our Reading Champion is Vasilisa.  Vasilisa is doing very well with her reading and is a great reading role model to others.

We hope the children enjoy their break and we can’t wait to see them back in the classroom.

Mrs Craig and Mrs Brand

This week we have been learning all about Chinese New Year. We read a story about the Chinese Zodiac and we loved hearing about the animals that were the year we were born.  For our Wordboost work we learned words from the book Dragons in the City. We made our own red envelopes and completed different tasks during Choosing Our Own Learning.

In literacy, we have been learning the sounds ‘ch’ and ‘sh’. We have been very confident at reading words with these sounds and spelling words. On Friday, we had different pictures on pancakes and we had to write the word on our whiteboards. Then we flipped the pancakes to check we had written the word correctly.  In our writing area, lots of people have been writing about the story of the Chinese Zodiac.

In maths, we learned about ordinal numbers and we looked at the order the animals won the race in the Chinese Zodiac story.  We have also been learning about half and how the two pieces are equal. On Friday, we got to cut a pancake in half and then we got to eat it!

In PE, we have finished our block of gymnastics by using all our different skills on the equipment. We were very good at remembering how to land safely when we jump.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Tyler T – I enjoyed doing things for Chinese New Year.

Sophia – I enjoyed playing on the smartboard.

Daisy – I enjoyed writing in the writing area.

Vikashini – I enjoyed doing Spanish.

Zuraib – I enjoyed playing outside.

Congratulations to Daisy who is our Reading Champion this week and to Tyler T who is our Hot Chocolate Winner.

Hi P6A families,

We have had a busy and successful week, which I am incredibly proud of everyone for. Our meta skill focus of the week was ‘creativity’ and we all definitely managed to achieve that!

We have continued our pupil teaching and we are all enjoying the skills that are being taught. I have been very impressed with the effort and time that has being going in to prepare activities, tasks and PowerPoints.

Recent pupil highlights:

– gymnastics obstacle courses for PE

– creating Rights posters using our names (using the rights articles to make a poem using our names)

– making drama predictions for our Into The Forest book

– investigating and exploring different ways to create a racecourse for a marble. We have enjoyed using our STEM skills

Francesca received the hot chocolate this week for preparing a fantastic activity for her teaching time. We were all very impressed with the work that went into this and we all enjoyed taking part in the mystery challenge.

Have a lovely, well deserved February week! Looking forward to all the stuff that has been planned already.

Miss MacGregor 🙂

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well.

Here are the highlights of our week:

• Continuing learning about decimal numbers and how to turn them into fractions.
• Reading comprehension about the Life of a shepherd in Bethlehem, which most boys and girls found particularly tricky but also very interesting.
• The new Spelling Words and all the work to practise them during the week so that Friday’s score continues being really good, just like last week!
• Learning about the Global Goals for sustainability, being able to discuss them in groups and making beautiful posters to display in our class explaining them!
• For our Climate Smarter project, we have learned many important things about Forest Management, learned how the forest management cycle works, developed our understanding on the reasons why wood is considered the most sustainable building material and have followed closely what happens to it, from the moment it is cut out to the moment it comes to our houses as a beautiful piece of furniture, for example.
• We have also learned about something very sad that was remembered in the last few days, The Holocaust. All children felt very shocked while learning about the events related to it and, of course, while learning about the terrible atrocities of the time. Fortunately they all understood that the reason why it is so important to learn about terrible events from the past is to make sure we learn lessons from them in order not to repeat them in the future. Since in our everyday Prayers we always ask for God to stop the current wars and prevent any others from starting, it was very sad to have realised that the people who have started the current wars don’t seem to have learned any lessons from the past.
• Our weekly spelling assessment had great scores which will be shared with the class on Monday. Well done for the great spelling work!
• Super congratulations to our Hot Chocolate of the Week, Miss Sophia, who will be wearing our new and special class medal! 😘🏆👏🥇
• Super sweet congratulations also to our Kindness Champions, Mr. Aaron, Mr. John and Miss Pixie! Your kind gestures are very much appreciated by all of us and we are very proud of you!👏👏👏🥇🥇🥇❤❤❤
• Finally, congratulations to our House winners of the week, The Cursed Child! Well done and keep it up!👏👏👏👏🏆

We say goodbye for now wishing you all a great weekend!

P5A and Mrs Valente❤😘

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the yellow Table:

Viven enjoyed trying some ‘soft g’ foods as part of her phonics lesson.  The options to try were: vegetables, gingerbread men and oranges.  She enjoyed the vegetable sugar snap peas best.

Riley and Linda both reported that building Linlithgow Palace was the learning highlight of their week.  Linda built hers using a cardboard box and Riley built his with lego.  Linlithgow Palace is a landmark of West Lothian.

Aadya liked demonstrating her understanding of what the 4 times tables looked like.  She discovered that the answers were double to answers to the 2 times table.  Well spotted Aadya!

Olivia loved making a leaflet about restaurants in West Lothian.  Her team worked well together to research restaurants.  They included useful information such as the address, opening hours, pictures of the food and their website.  Good job!

Ollie said the best part of his week was the football after school club.

Diana loved making the word ‘gems’ with gems as part of soft g learning.  The words looked very sparkly!

My highlight was our RE lesson about The Good Samaritan as part of ‘God’s Loving Plan’.  The children could recall many Bible stories prior to the learning.  After listening to the story, they acted it out and then accompanied various words from the story to movement.  We call this ‘Story Massage’.  Ask your child to show you the different massage movements.  They included: Fan, Walk, Sprinkle, Circle, Wave and Calm.  The children enjoyed this relaxing exercise so much that we hope to build it in to a lesson in the near future!

Congratulations to Aadya, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

Lead Learners were Diana and Chahiti.  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:

Linda – “I liked going to the cloakroom and telling the teacher who was being sensible.”

Caiden – “I liked football with Miss White.”

Regards

Mrs Brown