St John Ogilvie Primary School

This has been a very exciting week in P1!

On Monday, we received a letter from a Friendly Dragon asking us to help rebuild Fairyland. It has started to disappear because people are not reading enough fairy tales. We all agreed to help and wrote letters to the dragon to say we would help. We received another letter on Wednesday asking us to learn about castles and to make flags. The dragon had lost it’s castle home and wanted our help to rebuild it. We created some beautiful flags and put them up on our classroom wall. We also learned about the parts of a castle. We then drew a picture and labelled it correctly. Miss Stebbing was very impressed with our work. In Literacy, we learned about adjectives and made a word bank to describe different dragons. We then wrote a sentence about the dragon for writing. We are looking forward to reading lots of Fairy Tales and helping rebuild Fairyland.

On Friday, we had a fire in our Woodland Fire Pit. We toasted marshmallows and made s’mores. They were delicious. We sang some songs around the campfire and all agreed that this was our highlight of the week.

Congratulations to Amelia who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She is always a kind friend to others and showed confidence in reading during group time.

Pupil Highlights –

Bodhini : I liked going outdoors for Kids Gone Wild with Lee.

Tiwa: I liked learning how to multiply a 3 digit number by 1 using the short written method.

Aadya: I liked doing 2 by 2 digit multiplication sums.

Chahiti: I like creating my own multiplication word problems for my peers.

Abeeha: I liked going to Dechmont with Lee.

Deveena: I liked doing the 2 by 2 digit multiplication sums.

Alicja : I liked going with Kids Gone Wild with Lee, especially the zip line.

Congratulations to Vivien for winning hot chocolate this week. You have challenged yourself in your maths and you have worked hard at understanding arguments for and against in a discussion text.

Hello P3 families!

I hope you received your personal invitation to our assembly on Friday 1^st May.  If you are unable to come, then a P6 pupil will be paired up with your child to complete the activities.  I will take lots of photos to share on the Blog too for you to enjoy.

Here are our learning highlights for this week according to the ‘Livingston’ group:

Oscar loved our learning about the importance of not wasting food.  The children poured out how much of a given food (for example, pasta) they think they eat and then compared that weight to the correct advised portion.  We discovered that we are putting too much food on to our plate and therefore create food waste which in turn damages our ozone layer as it releases methane.  We also discussed the importance of not using single use plastics in our lunch box.

Navami and Gabriella both liked it when they had a run around outside after assembly practise and an opportunity to play with the hola hoops and skipping ropes.

Leighton has continued to enjoy our class novel, White Fang.  We hope to finish it this coming week.

Eiza and Jospeh both reported that learning the 4 Times Tables has been the best part of their week.  Eliza enjoyed writing a 4 Times Table on the table and then pressing a lego piece into playdoh that many times to show what it looks like (an array).  Jospeh liked the warm-up Beanbag game and managed to be one of the last ones standing!

Ollie loved Building Thinking Classrooms this week.  The children were tasked with having to place different children in different bedrooms as they began to annoy one another from their usual 1-10 sequence layout in their house.  The parents bought a new house with a different layout.  The children worked well together to find a solution.

Izhaan and Alex both said they enjoyed practising for the assembly.  Both Miss Stonehouse and I have been so impressed with how the rehearsals are going.  The children have come up with the choreography themselves for both songs.  You will be in for a treat!

My highlight was the zero waste lesson.  The children got very passionate about not using single use plastics in their lunchbox in the future and from now on are going to take any waste home so they can put their waste in the correct bins that West Lothian Council provide.  Two members of West Lothian Council came to visit P3 and P3/2 and set up some fabulous learning experiences for the children, all about their waste.  They have kindly agreed to let us use some of these activities for our assembly so that you too can take part with your child!

Congratulations to Vikashini our Reading Champion and to Izhaan, our Hot Chocolate winner this week!

I hope you enjoy the sun this weekend!

Mrs Brown

This week has been a very busy and exciting week!

We have been focussing on Earth Day this week and we have been thinking about the ways in which we can help the Earth. We sorted out pictures to show what is good or not good for the Earth and had some fantastic discussions. We then learned all about recycling and sorted items into the four different bins. We wrote a sentence about how we can help the Earth and the staff were so impressed with how independently we worked.

On Tuesday, we had our school trip to Almond Valley Heritage Centre. We had a fantastic day seeing all the animals and then playing in all the different parks. We especially enjoyed seeing all the baby animals. The staff were all very proud of us and how well we represented our school. A huge thank you to our family helpers who came along with us.

In Maths, we have been learning about capacity. We have been using the words full, empty, half full, nearly full and nearly empty.

We all agreed that our highlight of the week was going on our school trip.

Congratulations to Mikayla who is our Hot Chocolate winner. She ensured everyone had someone to play with during our trip. Well done to Ignacy who is our Reading Champion for this fortnight. He has shown confidence in reading in a group.

Pupil Highlights:

Grace – I enjoyed going on our school trip to Waggama’s because we got to make some food and some juice, and, try some new things.

Chaihiti – I liked making the juice at Waggama’s because it tasted delicious.

Abeeha- I liked playing the games at W’s because it was fun.

Tiwa – I also liked doing the games at W’s.

Caiden – I liked doing the subtraction with exchanging across the zeros.

Aadya – I liked multiplying the 2 digit  by 2 digits and 1 by three.

Jack – I liked subtracting the decimals with Diana.

Bodhini- I liked adding the 2 digit decimals.

Vivien – I liked learning how to do the grid method.

Alicja – I really liked music with Mrs Morrison.

Hot Chocolate Winner of the Week – Jack you have completed so much work this week and you have worked so well with Diana. We are all so proud of you.

Hello families!

It has been so lovely to have had the children return this week after our Easter break.  I have missed them so much and some have even sprouted up!  Here are some of the learning highlights this week according to ‘Bathgate’:

Tyler T enjoyed learning about the 4 Times Tables.  We looked at lego pieces with 4 spots, cars with 4 wheels and white boards with 4 corners to help us use this Times Table in a real life context (see photo below).

Viaan loved the Building Thinking Classroom session were the children worked in randomized groups to solve some problems.  Ask your child what the BTC rules are!  This week the children had to place numbers inside some hexagon shapes listening to instructions such as, ” The number 1s are not to touch the number 3s” etc.  The children all loved this and are looking forward to more BTC sessions next week.

Matteo continued to enjoy playing Rounders for PE.  This month the children are working on developing their run/jump/throwing skills.

Vikashini said that listening to our class novel White Fang has been something she has enjoyed this week.  We are so relieved to hear that White Fang is a fiction story as we are at a part where White Fang is being mistreated by his owner.  This led to a discussion about animal cruelty and the law today.

Daisy and Laaibah both enjoyed our ‘Thursday Outside of the Box’ activity were the children use their creativity to turn an image in to something.  This week they had ‘This is not an aeroplane’.  Daisy transformed her ‘not aeroplane’ in to a gingerbread man and Laaibah transformed hers in to a stingray!  Both were very impressive!

My highlight was our BTC session, like Viaan.  It was great to see the excitement as the children discovered who was in their randomised groups and to see the co-operation and ‘light bulb’ moments as they solved the problems.  I have also been very proud of the children as we have begun to prepare for our upcoming assembly.  The singing is beautiful, narrators and actors are are becoming increasingly confident  and some super dance moves have been suggested for our choreography!  Parents you are in for a treat!  Just a reminder that our assembly is on Friday, 1st May.  Look out for the personal invitation that your child will make and give to you next week.

We welcomed a new pupil to our St John Ogilvie family this week, Gabriella.  The children have helped her to feel welcome and I hope she has been enjoying her time with us so far.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Brown