St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3A families,

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

Tvisha enjoyed handwriting this week were the children were joining h and a together.  They came up with lots of words when they may need to use these letters.  Well done P3A!  I hope to see them joined from now on in your writing.

Hafsah said the best part of her week was listening to the Word Boost story, ‘The Highway Rat’.  Her favourite word to learn about was ‘freedom’.  We discussed how the children have freedom each afternoon during ‘Choosing our own Learning’ time.

Deveena liked learning how the apostrophe can also be used to shorten two words such as can’t instead of can not.  Previously we had learned about it being used to show possession.

Zion was delighted to learn about the life cycle of a frog as his was the creature chosen to learn about life cycles in our class vote, after learning about the life cycle of a seed.  Please remember that you can post any photographs to Seesaw or the school office showing us how the plant your child took home is growing.

Jiade and Jack loved football outside with coach Steven.  Great ball skills everyone!

Twida and Caiden both said they enjoyed learning how to use the multiplication square to help them find answers during Maths.

My highlight was watching the children as they played football.  Even though the weather was miserable, everyone gave 100% and listened to the instructions well.

Congratulations to Tadiwa, our hot chocolate award winner this week.

Lead Learners were McPaul and Tadiwa.  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:

McPaul – “I liked planning for our writing called ‘The Surprise’.  I had a surprise before and it was my little brother being born.” As part of our learning about recounts (writing in the past tense), the children heard a story about a boy who received a toy box as a surprise.  They then planned to write about a surprise they once had.  We will write about this next week and use our planning sheet to support us.

Tadiwa – “I liked making the feelings poster with Mrs Brand.”

Regards

Mrs Brown

Hello families,

The children had a packed short week.

Reesa “I liked measuring things in the classroom in cm and m”

Evana “I liked learning about turtles”

Lewis “I liked doing football in the rain”

Blair “I liked building a penguin habitat on Minecraft”

Photo Highlights

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well.

In this post you will be shown the highlights of both weeks, since there have been some issues with last week’s post and it ended up not being published.

So, here are our highlights:

• Spelling – We have learned many interesting and even challenging words related to our Topic War and Conflict, including the most common causes of war and words needed to explain those same causes. The spelling assessment had very good results, especially having in mind how hard the words were, both to understand and spell.
• Writing – We have continued and concluded our Narratives on the next chapter of the Spiderwick Chronicles and some of us loved it so much they wouldn’t want to stop writing! This week we have started learning about the Recount, its different parts and what it is used for. We will continue working on it at least for another couple of weeks.
• Literacy – In order to make our Writing even better and more interesting, we have been having a big focus on Similes, Metaphors and the difference between them. We had to write our own Similes and Metaphors and identify both within texts which was quite interesting.
• Maths and Numeracy – Learning about the Perimeter and the Area of squares and rectangles was one of the favourites of the weeks and we even learned how to find out the area and perimeters of shapes with more than one rectangle or square. We have finished the week with word problems and have also continued our work on multiplication and division.
• RE – Last week we have celebrated Pentecost and have remembered that it had happened 50 days after Easter, when the Holy Spirit descended on Our Lady and the Apostles. We have also been following the Pray in May Calendar from Mary’s Meals and every single day we learn about a country which is being helped by this charity, its political and economic situation, the contents of the meals in each country and how many school meals are being provided every school day. The children have been very engaged but also very shocked by the enormous need for help and by how so many children like themselves live in such poor conditions. They all want to help Mary’s Meals and we would like to ask parents and carers to donate what they can and bring it to school on the 31st of May, since we will have a special collection for this charity.
• Science – Continuing our super learning in Science we have been doing some really interesting STEM challenges, some in the classroom and some outside, since a group of us went to the Climate Smarter Celebration of STEM Event last Wednesday with their Eco-School Model.
• Outdoor Learning – As our gardens were needing urgent attention, we have spent a good amount of time weeding them and if you come to the school you will hopefully see the difference. We were going to continue our job this week but the rain has made it impossible so hopefully we will have the opportunity to finish our task next week. It’s hard but rewarding work and we got new tools which are good for the job!🌻
• Football – We have had 2 super fun sessions with Steven, the West Lothian Football Academy coach and got a taster of what it would be like to join one of WLFA classes, which was great!
• Many Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate from last week, Miss Samanvi, who has been a true role model of good behaviour and readiness to learn to all! Well done, Miss Samanvi!👏👏👏🥇🏆
• Well done also to The Philosopher’s Stone Table who have been amazing throughout the week, not only about their behaviour but also about their attitude towards learning!🏆🥇✨
• This week, Congratulations to the Chamber of Secrets Table for being super duper good! Well done! 👏🏆

We say goodbye for now, wishing all our Readers a very pleasant and, if possible, dry and sunny weekend!😀🌞🏔

P5A and Mrs Valente 😘😘

This week we have been reading The Enormous Turnip, we learned all about the words ‘heaved’ and ‘budge’. We have been practising writing words and sentences on the whiteboards and we were so proud of our sentences.

In Maths, we have been practising our subtraction strategies. We also played a game about fact families where we had to made 2 addition and 2 subtraction sums. It was great fun!

During Outdoor Learning we spent some time in the Woodland to practise our fire pit safety. We know what to do to roast a marshmallow and in a few weeks we are going to have a real fire.

For PE, we enjoyed a football session with a coach. We had fun scoring goals and dribbling the ball around the pitch. The grass stuck to our feet so we had to pretend to be penguins and move our feet across the playground to get the grass off.

On Friday, we all went to Mass at St Peter’s. The staff were all very proud of how respectful we were.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Zuraib – I enjoyed playing outside.

Rudhvick – I enjoyed playing with the Jenga

Tyler F – I enjoyed playing in the construction area.

Ollie – I enjoyed playing with the plus plus.

Matteo – I enjoyed playing in the big playground with the buddies.

Good afternoon

We have had a brilliant week in P2!

The children returned from the holiday weekend full of energy and enthusiasm to learn.

The children are doing great with multiplication and division, focussing on the ten times tables this week. We also began learning about weight this week and the children particularly enjoyed weighing objects on the balance scales.

We used our planning sheets from last week to write excellent recounts about our trip to the Five Sisters Zoo.

Our class vets is still very popular and the children are loving playing in here. They are showing a lot of care to our sick pets.

Weekly Highlights

Vasilisa – I liked playing in the vets with Lillian.

Faye – I loved free writing, I wrote about hugs.

Cameron – I liked learning about weight. I enjoyed using the balance scales especially weighing Enso’s Shoe!

Aaron – I liked playing in the vets.

Eve – I liked Maths.

Harald – I liked learning the five times tables.

Oliver – I liked free writing, I wrote about Astronauts.

Azmeer – I liked multiplying and dividing by 10.

Huge Congratulations to Oliver, our hot chocolate winner!

Have a lovely weekend!

Good Afternoon,

We’ve had another fantastic week in Primary 2!

The children are doing really well with their times tables and have started to look at the link between multiplication and division.  We have also continued to work on fractions and have been learning that a quarter, is a half of a half.

In Literacy, we have been learning how to write a recount.  The children have planned a piece of writing about their recent visit to the Zoo and will complete their writing next week.

On Thursday, the children worked hard on their entry for an Art competition.  They have designed their very own mythical creature.  Keep your fingers crossed that someone from P2 might win!

Over the past few weeks, the children have been having great fun exploring the woodlands. Here are a few photographs of them in action:

Highlights of the Week:

Lillian:  I loved creating a vets in our classroom and looking after the animals.

Faye:  I liked learning the 5 times table.

Alex:  I loved creating my own mythical creature.  Mines is very cool.  I hope it wins the competition.

Tudor:  I liked colouring Concorde picture that Mrs Craig printed for me.

Olga:  I loved going to the woodlands.  I moved the furniture with Owen and made a house.

Huge congratulation to our hot chocolate Friday winner this week, Olga!  Olga is always working very hard in school, her work is always presented beautifully and she is extremely kind and caring towards other.  We are very proud of you Olga!

Our Reading Champion is Aarav.  Well done Aarav!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Mrs Craig and Mrs Brand

Hello P3A families,

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

Alicja liked changing the clothes on her avatar from the Pixton app.

Grace and Chahiti said the highlight of their week was our writing of a recount about the healthy blueberry and banana warm pudding we made last week.  The children worked hard to include an orientation, sequence of events and conclude with a personal statement.

Rory loved music with Mrs Morrison were the children finished the music story of ‘A Midsummer’s Night Dream’.

McPaul, our new pupil, who we welcomed in to our St John Ogilive family this week, enjoyed listening to the story of Pentecost during religion lessons.  This Sunday, we will celebrate Pentecost.  The children recounted this story within a flame template.

My highlight was maths.  The children have been working hard to multiply 2 digit numbers this week by 2.  We challenged ourselves by multiplying 3 digits and then 4!

Congratulations to Jack, our hot chocolate award winner this week and to Chahiti, our Reading Champion!

Lead Learners were Jiade and Angel.  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:

Jiade – “I liked Word Boost.”   The Word Boost story this week was called, ‘Eliot, Midnight Superhero’.  This will be up on Seesaw after school today for a further opportunity for the children to enjoy and listen out for the key vocabulary.

Angel – “I really liked drawing a dove.”  The children completed an instructional drawing of a dove.  This not only a symbol of the Holy Spirit (Pentecost links) but also of peace.  Our new mini topic is called, ‘Conflict Resolution in the Classroom.’  We will be further exploring the topic of peace for the remainder of May.

Just a reminder that we are off school on Monday and I will see you all back on Tuesday.  Enjoy the long weekend!

Regards

Mrs Brown