St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 6 have been working hard to prepare for their Burns Performance which takes place on January 23rd.  They have been enthusiastically auditioning for parts and learning poetry and songs. The children have supported  and encouraged each other to develop confidence during rehearsals. We are all looking forward to the night and can’t wait to perform in front of an audience!

Our literacy  has been based around  Learning Scots language and understanding some of Burns most famous poems, Address T The Haggis and To A Mouse. We have created our own Scots glossary to help us translate the vocabulary.

In topic we have been researching about the life of Robert Burns and also understanding why it is important to remember and celebrate his work.

During music Mrs Morrison has been teaching us Scottish songs that we will perform on the night!

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

Have a super weekend.

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A.

Happy New Year to all our Families!

It has been fantastic to have the children back in the classroom this week!  They have been particularly excited about the snow and they have been very lucky to get out to play every day.

Over the next few weeks we will be learning about Robots.  This week in writing, we designed our own Robot and wrote about them.  The children had some fantastic ideas about what their robots could do and where they might live.  Next week, we plan to make Robot models.  We would really appreciate it if you could send in any junk materials that you have at home to support this.

In Maths, we have been working on subtraction from 20 and we have also been working out change from 20p.

Today we carried out a science experiment with the snow.  The children collected samples of snow from outside and then we added, salt, sugar, warm water and cold water to the different samples.  We also had a control sample where nothing had been added.  Ask your child to tell you the results, it was very interesting!

Pupil Highlights:

Garvit – I enjoyed doing the science experiment with the snow.

Leighton – I loved making Polar Bear pictures in Art.

Alexander – I enjoyed reading the book ‘The Wild Robot’.

Maja – I liked learning how to takeaway from 20.

Ellie – I enjoyed starting to learn the poem in Scots.

Huge congratulations to our hot chocolate winner thi week, Oscar.  Oscar is always very enthusiastic about his learning and has been working very hard in class.  Keep up the great work Oscar!

This week has been great in Primary 3. We have been having lots of fun as well as getting back into our learning and working really hard.

In literacy this week, we have read our new Word boost book and explored our new words. We have been focussing on adjectives this week and have been using a thesaurus to find alternative words to replace boring adjectives in our writing. We learned that a word which means the same thing as another word is called a synonym!

In numeracy and maths this week, we have been doing addition using the column method. The children were awesome at this and lots of us tried doing sums with carrying in them. Everyone was wonderful and did a great job. We are beginning to round off money by looking at getting change when buying an item, and will finish this off next week.

We made some beautiful firework pictures for the new year using paint and straws, and we explored mixing together primary colours to create secondary colours. We started our new topic yesterday which is ‘West Lothian’. We discussed what a local council is and looked at a map of all the places in West Lothian.  In RE, we read the book of Genesis where God creates humans in his own image and we talked about all the ways in which we are unique.

Bradley had a lot of fun doing his chimney sums and getting all his answers correct. He was super proud of himself and so was Miss Duddy!

Rose enjoyed doing her ‘God Created Me’ worksheet where she wrote all about herself, her features and things she likes.

Martyna had fun learning about our new topic West Lothian, and enjoyed doing her map which we added some places to and coloured in.

Luca enjoyed playing on the iPads and had fun playing Top marks maths games!

Victoria enjoyed numeracy this week and learned how to carry tens when using the column method. She was awesome at it and thought it was very fun!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend and get lots of rest after a fun week full of learning,

Miss Duddy.

Pupil Highlights:

Ruari: I liked doing the cloze sentences task for our Literacy Starters.

Julia: I enjoyed doing the Angelis Prayer with Mrs Brown.

Lucas Smith: I liked doing multiplication and division by 10 100 1000.

Babafola: I liked being supported by my teacher for my maths work.

Olivier: I liked doing the code breakers in the morning.

Pola: I really enjoyed the map reading for our morning starters.

Ella: I also enjoyed doing the map reading for our morning starters.

Zosia: I enjoyed doing the maths word problems.

Asim: I enjoyed making our Wars of Independence PowerPoints.

Congratulations to Joe for winning Hot Chocolate this week. You have delighted us since August with your general knowledge and hilarious stories. You work so hard in class and we are lucky to have you as part of our family. You are hired!

Hello families of P2

We have had a fantastic final week of term, with lots of Christmas fun!

Weekly Highlights

Willow – I loved making the Christmas trees and Christmas baubles.

Matteo – I liked making my elf.

Daniel – I liked making the Manger for Mary, Joseph and Jesus, using the little sticks.

Alfie – I loved dancing at the Christmas party.

Ellie – I liked reading at our Advent Service.

Leighton – I loved playing party games. My favourite game was musical corners.

Have a lovely Christmas break everyone. We look forward to seeing you all back in January!

Mrs Brand & Mrs Craig