St John Ogilvie Primary School

Primary 5B learning this week was interesting and varied. On Monday we continued to develop our spelling skills as well as exploring a range of sentence openers and connectives to uplevel our writing skills. In our PE lessons we continue to explore our Gymnastic skills by working with our partners to demonstrate counter balances and include it in a short presentation.  Everyone had fun learning to code a programme which turned the lights on with a clap of their hands once they transferred the programme to their microbits. They hope to use these skills in their eco school models.

This week in math we continued to learn about recognising and matching equivalent fraction, decimals and percentages. We continued to learn how to measure accurately using rulers and measuring tapes. In RRSA we explored Articles 2, 13, 17 and discussed ways to reduce inequalities and respect the rights of others by treating everyone the way we wish to be treated.

As part of our John Muir Topic used our research to write information reports. Pupils chose parts of his life and legacy to share in their reports. They also created their own John Muir portraits with one of his inspirational quotes included. In  the woodlands we cleared some twigs and branches from the ground and set them aside to dry so that they can be used at a later date. We continued to explore different types of wood for building, insulation and cladding. On Friday morning we had an assembly with Mrs McKissack and she told us we have visitors coming to see how good we are at learning and find out about our Rights Respecting Journey. We are still waiting to find out if we have achieved the Gold Award but we are very hopeful.

We hope everyone has a great weekend.

Hi Families of P2

The children have had another busy and fun week. We learned all about Scottish animals this week and the children worked in teams to carry out research about their chosen animal. They then created beautiful posters.

We used our creative skills to create 3D kilts and paint our very own McCoo pieces of art. They are all displayed beautifully within our classroom.

The children have shown great skills and enthusiasm during our PE lessons, where we’re learning gymnastics. This week we got the spring board out and practised our pencil jumps. We have learned lots of balances that the children can all perform well.

Weekly Highlights

Azmeer – I loved making the McCoo’s in art.

Aarav – I enjoyed making the Scottish Animal posters. I worked with Aaron.

Alex- I really liked the assembly, especially the prayers.

Olga – I love gymnastics.

Have a lovely Weekend!

This week we have been reading ‘Who’s At The Door?’ as our Wordboost book. We have loved listening to the story and we think it is very funny. We have been knocking the classroom door and pretending to be the characters from the story. In phonics, we learned the ng sound and we had to read words with the sound and cross out the pictures on the sheet. We have started to learn about information reports in writing and we practised using the common words and, have and are.

In maths, we have been learning about odd and even numbers. We used numicon to help us identify the correct numbers. Ask us how we know if the number is odd or even using the numicon pieces. We also continued to practise counting in 2s and we are showing confidence with this.

In topic, we learned about where our food comes from and we had to match up the product to it’s source.

In RE, we have been completing our work for God’s Loving Plan by labelling the parts of the human body.

In PE, we used all our skills in jumping, balancing and rolling to complete activities using the equipment. We had to balance carefully on the benches and jump safely off the small platform.

During Health and Wellbeing with Mrs Broadley we sorted things that are safe or unsafe to touch.

During Choosing Our Own Learning Time some people were very interested in making necklaces by twisting the laces together. They also used some foam beads to create some necklaces too. Some people also had a game of snap, which was great fun!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Bella – I enjoyed the Wordboost book.

Zuraib – I enjoyed playing with the cups.

Alfie – I enjoyed drawing on the smartboard.

Eliza – I enjoyed drawing.

Maksymilian – I enjoyed playing with the marble run.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of everyone during PE. They all showed that they had listened to the safety rules and were able to show different skills on the equipment.

Dear Readers,

Once again, welcome to P5A’s blog.😃

This week, we will start by congratulating our Hot Chocolate of the Week for her amazing behaviour, readiness, kindness and for always going beyond what would be expected to set the best possible example for all her friends – Well done, Miss Ailsa!👏👏👏🏆🥇✨

We would also like to congratulate our sweet Sophia for becoming the Reading Champion of the Fortnight! Super! Always taking her extra bits of time to catch up on her reading instead of chatting away! Well done!🥇🏆✨👏

Now, here are the highlights of the week:

• Continuing learning about decimals, in more and more interesting ways!
• Starting our learning about the incredible and adventurous John Muir, who is also the object of our new Topic.
• Drawing our beautiful portraits of John Muir by following an art tutorial which taught us how to mix wax crayons and colouring pencils in different layers to give more complexity to our colouring. They look absolutely amazing!🖼
• Reading comprehension about John Muir and a brief biography of his life.🏔🗻
• Learning everything about the importance of the Water cycle, the quantity of water available in our planet and also the fact that the water we currently have is the same one our ancestors did, since there are no sources of water out with the Earth. We have also learned about the importance of water filtration, especially in poorer countries where the lack of it represents a big danger to public health. We were amazed by a Ted Talk that we watched about the Life Saver Bottle, designed to instantly filter the water inside it! It was just unbelievable!🌅
• Thinking about the talents God created us with and what we can do with them to make a better world.🌎
• Finally, our weekly spelling assessment was a success, with everyone getting very high scores! We were all very proud!👏👏👏✨✨✨🏆🏆🏆

That’s all for this week! We say goodbye wishing everyone a great weekend and week ahead.

P5A and Mrs Valente😘😘

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Red table:

Jack liked Number Talks.  As reported a previous week, the children estimate how many items they can see and use clues to work out the correct answer.  They then check to see if their estimate was correct.  This particular Number Talk is a class favourite!

Tvisha loved listening to the bagpipes on Burns Day.  Mrs Brown played her favourite song, ‘Highland Cathedral’.

Grace enjoyed learning about the Trinity; that God the Father, Jesus the Son and the Holy Spirit are one.  We used the analogy of an egg to help us understand this.  The shell, yoke and white are all part of the egg.  Of course, we also learned about St Patrick and the shamrock too!  The children sang a song called, ‘The Trinity is a Mystery’.  It can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=USRbkAx-AEE

Zion said his highlight was the football after school club.

Caiden’s was iron bru and shortbread.  A special Scottish treat!  Thank you to Mrs McKissack for providing the tasty shortbread.

Twida liked tracing the map of West Lothian for our wall display.  He and Zion worked as part of a team to prepare this.  Good job boys!

Deveena liked Scottish country dancing with Mrs Ross during PE.  Mrs Ross explained that the dance, called ‘The Flying Scotsman’ was named after famous train in Scotland.  She was very impressed with how fast the children picked this dance up!

My highlight was the performances of the Burns poems the children orally composed (some went on to write them for our Star Writer wall).  First, we listened to his poem, To a Mouse (found here: https://primary.scotshoose.com/toamouse.html) and used nature to inspire our own poems.  We went to the local river and wooded area.  We used our senses to record ideas for our poems.  Once back in class, we worked in  pairs to compose our own poem like Burns did.  We selected 2 words from our note taking outside and using the internet, researched the word in Scots.  The children had the choice if they wanted to perform their poem in front of the rest of the class and most did!  What confidence!

Congratulations to Zion, our hot chocolate award winner and Grace, our reading champion this week!

Lead Learners were Alicaj and Rory.  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:

Alicaj – “I liked going to the river.”

Rory – “I liked weaving to make our own tartan.”

Regards

Mrs Brown

Good Afternoon,

We’ve had another very busy week in Primary 2!

On Thursday, we had great fun celebrating Burns Day.  In the morning, we wrote amazing stories about finding the Loch Ness Monster.  We worked hard to use interesting sentence openers in our work.  Then, in the afternoon, we had a Burns Supper in the area.  We tried haggis, neeps and tatties, sang Scottish songs, and some of children stood up and recited their Scots poems, out loud, in front of everyone! Superstars that they are!

In Maths and Numeracy, we continued to learn about money.  This week we were finding the total value of different groups of coins and looking at different ways to make the same total.  We also continued working on our subtraction skills.

We are still having fantastic fun playing in our café and the children are always coming up with new creative ideas for it.

Highlights of the Week:

Enso: I liked writing a story about the Loch Ness monster. 

Summer:  I loved the Burns afternoon and I said my poem with my friends in front of a big audience!

Cameron:  I liked making the tartan kilts with the paper.

Dineli:  I enjoyed learning about money and coins.

Luca: I liked free writing Friday.

Huge congratulations to our hot chocolate Friday winner this week, Vedansh!  Vedansh has been working extremely hard to meet his learning targets and has been very helpful around the classroom!  We are very proud of you Vedansh!

Our Reading champion this week is Cameron, who has been trying really hard to improve his reading skills.  Well done Cameron!

Have a great weekend everyone!

This week we have been learning the sounds j and y. We have been writing words with these sounds and we are feeling confident about this. In writing, we wrote two sentences to tell people the food we liked and did not like to eat. In wordboost, we read ‘The Gruffalo’s Wean’ and we learned some scots words.

In Numeracy, we have been practising counting in 2s. We had to count the pairs of shoes and we know that if we count in 2s it is a quicker way. We also did some subtraction games and we are remembering all our strategies.

In RE, we have been completing our work for God’s Loving Plan. We spoke about how we are all unique and then drew a picture of ourselves. We also discussed different types of families and we said a special prayer to thank God for our families.

In topic, we learned all about different Scottish foods. We also learned about Steven Brown who is a Scottish artist and made our own version of a McCoo. On Thursday we celebrated Burns Night with P2/1 and P2 in the area and we ate some haggis, neeps and tatties, shortbread and some Irn Bru. We listened to some of the P2s reciting their Scots poems and we sand Heids, Shooders, Knaps and Taes. We had a great time!

On Friday, we celebrated 100 days of school with lots of different activities about the number 100. We managed to make a tower of 100 paper cups and we had fun knocking them all down. We spent time with our Buddies and made a picture with 100 sticky dots.

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Lewis – I enjoyed playing with my buddy.

Tyler T – I enjoyed playing with the marble run.

Alfie – I enjoyed playing with the 100 cups.

Joseph – I enjoyed making the McCoos.

Ollie – I enjoyed playing with the mini cubes.

Vikashini – I enjoyed playing with the 100 cups.

Davith – I enjoyed playing with the marbles.

Congratulations to Zuraib who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week and to Ollie who is our Reading Champion.