St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P5B families!

We did not get a chance to do a blog post on Friday so I will briefly write about some of the experiences your child had this week and the photos should hopefully give you an insight too into what we got up to:

Literacy – The children have been working hard on completing the final draft of the poem they wrote inspired by Robert Burns.  The final versions are impressive!  They include some old Scots vocabulary and are decorated with a Scottish themed border.  We will compile them in to our very own ‘P5B Book of Scottish Poems’ that we hope you get a chance to browse on Parent’s Evening next week.

Maths – The children had an introduction to division this week and its links with multiplication.  We started off with sums with no remainders and next week will move on to dividing 4 digit numbers by 1 digit.

Topic – The children had been working on independent research projects this term about a Scottish town or city and those that wanted to, presented theirs to the class (we are not finished our presentations yet).  We spoke of the importance of how to deliver a presentation and the need for eye-contact, projection of voice and not just reading from the screen.  After each presentation, the children received feedback from the class and then from myself.  Even though we have technically moved on to a new topic, our learning about Scotland’s towns and cities will continue during Literacy as we learn about and subsequently write an information report on Edinburgh-Old and New.

Science – Our Climate Smart lessons continued this week with physically demonstrating how wind turbines generate electricity!  The class worked in groups to build and then light up an LED light using wind generated from a hair dryer.

Story writing – Recently, the class had researched an animal of their choice and after examining the features of an information report, proceeded to plan and write their own information report.  We discussed the importance of layout and images to support the text.

Congratulations to our reading champion this week, Aaeryn-Leigh and our hot chocolate winner, Olek!

I look forward to seeing you next Tuesday or Thursday for your  consultation appointment.  I hope you enjoy your weekend!

What a fantastic week in primary 3!

This week we have been revisiting subtraction from the week before the holiday. We have moved on and started learning about multiplication. We used different multiplication strategies like arrays, repeated addition, number lines and groups of, to figure out answers to multiplication questions.

We have all been working on our common words this week and will be nearing the end of our word lists in the next few weeks. For writing, we wrote a plan for an information report all about a famous celebrity from West Lothian and next week we will be writing it.

We learned all about celebrities from West Lothian for our topic this week, we learned who Elise Christie, David Tennant, Mary Queen of Scots and Lewis Capaldi are.

During RE this week, we had a look at the shamrock, and how St Patrick used this to explain to the Irish people the three parts of God, and that the three parts of God is called the Holy Trinity. The children made their own shamrocks showing this.

Well done to all of this weeks winners including the hot chocolate, secret student,  table points, house winners and reading champion!

There has been no homework this week however homework will resume as normal on Seesaw next week.

I hope you all have a wonderful weekend!

Miss Duddy.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well.

It was great getting back to school after the February break and seeing everyone again, so we were all a bit too much excited on Tuesday!😁

The highlights of the week were many, but these are the ones wrote by our new Blog Monitors, Matteo and Mariam:

• Power Point and Reading comprehension about Internet Safety after which almost everyone wanted to share their experiences about scams and issues they or their parents/families/friends had which were connected to the Internet. We heard lots of stories so that would can pass on the message and be alert against those same things in case they ever happen to us!
• Also regarding Internet Safety week, we have looked into the most well known social media apps( Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Snapchat, X and TikTok) and most of us were very surprised to see the age restrictions for them! Ask your child how they felt about that, please!😉
• In Numeracy, we have worked hard on whole numbers divided by 10, 100 and 1000 and with that have started our decimals work for this year which, by the way, the children absolutely loved! The whole week was about introducing and reinforcing this.
• The information report is the next type of text we will be writing so, this week we have read an Information Report about Venomous Snakes and explored/revised its format and features. We have also worked on grammar related to the text by revising different types of nouns and our adjectives.
• On Wednesday there was a whole school Assembly to introduce the theme of the Jubilee 2025 – Pilgrims of Hope and the new challenge of making our own door holder to ‘Open our doors to Jesus.’♥ Also during the Assembly, we found out about the Joke Competition and got all excited about it!
• Since our new Topic is Biodiversity, we have watched a clip and are in the middle of taking our notes on it so that we can then choose what we would like to learn about first. It all seems very interesting and there were many questions about the meaning of herbivores, omnivores and carnivores, some of the many important words we will need to know the meanings of really well!
• The Friday started with Mass and Father Clement spoke to us about the important role of language, having explained how God wanted to punish people in the Bible ( Old Testament) by making them speak in different languages and therefore not being able to communicate. If we can understand each other, then we should be able to reach agreements and live in peace. This is one of the most important things we Pray for in our class everyday.
• Finally, we got to watch the end of ‘Brave’ from Disney, which we have started because Mrs Valente wanted to show how Scotland was organised in clans, in the old days, and how the tartans existed even by then. Everyone loved it!😃
• Many congratulations, in fact, triple congratulations to Miss Layla for being the Hot Chocolate of the week 🏆👏🥇, the Reader Leader of the fortnight 🏆👏🥇 and also for being in the winning table. The Scary Seas🏆👏🥇😃✨!!!!
• Congratulations to all the boys and girls from the Scary Seas as well, of course, Mariam, Ishani M, Ishani S, Renna, Zac, Aiden and Lyon! Super tidy, organised and well behaved!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

It’s all for now, we hope you have enjoyed reading about our week and wish you all a great weekend!

P6B and Mrs Valente

Dear Parents and Carers,

It has been a short but busy week!  We have started our new topic and we are all very interested to find out more facts about sustainability, conservation and biodiversity. In writing we started to learn about the layout of information reports and identified the verbs and adverbs in the text.  During numeracy, we continued to learn about to division. We completed some examples which involved decimals and we really enjoyed this! Our class attended mass this week and Father Clement reminded us that we should  try and stay close to God all the time , not just when things are going wrong . We also studied the beatitudes  and created our own character to go with each blessing. Here are some of our learning highlights:

Sam- ” I enjoyed learning about decimals in maths.”

Ailsa ” Learning about the layout in information reports was interesting.”

Emily- ” I enjoyed learning about social media and online safety.”

Ishaan- ” I liked learning about biodiversity and creating our own mind maps.”

Pixie- ” Learning about the beatitudes and creating our own characters was good fun!.”

Congratulations to Ailsa, who was nominated as our hot chocolate winner this week!

Congratulations to Pixie, who is our reading champion for the next two weeks!

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A

We have had a busy week of learning this week in P1.

It is internet safety week so we read a story about how to use our devices safely and for writing we made fantastic posters telling people to be safe online.

This week in math we have been learning about odd and even numbers. We enjoyed a story about Even Steven and Odd Todd and sorted numbers into whether they were odd or even.

We have been revising our initial sounds this week and worked on using our sounds to build CVC words. We practiced holding sounds together to help us better blend words.

Our new topic is Living Things. We worked in small groups to sort pictures into whether they were living or non living. There was lots of good discussion. For outdoor learning this week we went into the playground with tablets and did a living thing hunt. We were excited when we found some worms underneath a tyre.

We hope you all have a fantastic weekend.

Hello families of P5B!  I cannot believe we have reached mid term already!  Here are our highlights for this week as recorded by the Yellow Table:

Ksawery and Alex have both loved having Fr Clement come to visit our class.  Fr Clement knew that we had been learning about The Beatitudes so he read them from the Bible and spoke of each one in depth.

Anthony liked music with Mrs Callaghan.

Ronan and Vinayakarthik both report that PE with Mrs Lafferty was the best part of their week.  Both boys amazed me with their endurance during the Bleep Test.

Moeez enjoyed Word Boost Corners.

Daniel has been enjoying his independent work on researching a Scottish town or city of his choice.  The children will be presenting their findings via Powerpoint upon our return to school (pupil choice).

Michael said his time in P2/3 as a helper was a favourite experience of his week.  Michael won ‘Best Teamwork’ award, along with his partner Aeryn-Leigh and got to choose his own reward.  He picked this.  Miss Mushet reports how well Michael helped out and both are looking forward to the experience again in the future.

Nathan reported that learning The Grid Method, one method to solve longer Times Tables sums, was the learning highlight of this week.  Nathan proudly and confidently demonstrated to the class, under the visualiser, the different steps involved in this strategy.

My highlight was Fr Clement’s visit.  The children listened very attentively and as always, it is a pleasure to have our school chaplain visit.

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

A big thank you to Vinayakarthik who made the Pic Collage’s below to help you get a glimpse of some of the learning experiences your child had in school.

P5B said farewell to our classmate Ava this week.  We will miss her and wish her well in her new school.  We know she will be made very welcome there and it won’t be long before she makes lots of new friends.

I hope you all enjoy the mid-term break and I will see everyone on Tuesday 18th (Monday will be an In Service).  There will be no homework issued for this first week.

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers!

We hope you are all well and super proud of P6B!

We won the West Lothian Sumdog Challenge and managed to end 1st Overall! 🏆👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🥇😀So,so proud! Team work did make the dream work! Thank you very much to all the ones who have put all your effort into this! It’s really special! ♥✨

Here you can see our beautiful certificate:

OVERALL WINNER FEB 25

We were also the daily winners every single day but as each class can only get that prize once, here is our certificate for one of the 6 days that we won!

DAILY WINNER CERTIFICATE 31 JAN 25

This was obviously the most important thing from our week but here are the other highlights:

• Our Spelling work and spelling assessment on Friday with the words from the Elsewhere Emporium, which is almost finishing and super exciting, as always!
• Our division sums of 3 and 4 digits that we have spent the whole week practising and have been enjoying more and more!
• Adding more verses with words in Scots to the traditional song Katie Bairdie. We have enjoyed so much this activity that some of us have decided to do more than the double of what they had been asked to do! And they are really funny!
• This week we have had our first session of the Pope Francis Faith Award and some of the children are already gathering evidence, it’s simply amazing!
• We have looked up and read the Scripture about the Beatitudes according to Matthew and the discussion around them was extremely positive and took us to problems in different countries, including Syria and North Korea.
• Our posters for the Rights Respecting wall of the school have been finished and some of the best ones have been displayed. Although we would have liked many more to be displayed we had to share the display with P6A so only a few of each class could fit in.😀
• We would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of the week, Maeve, for being an excellent example of good behaviour, listening and respectfulness! Well done, Maeve!🥇👏👏
• Congratulations also to the Cheese table, who have had an amazing week being independent, quick to follow instructions and always neat and tidy! Well done to Szymon, Mariam and Ishani M!🏆🏆🏆😃😃😃

We say goodbye for now wishing all a very good February break with lots of happy moments spent together!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘