St John Ogilvie Primary School

We have had a super busy week.  We have started rehearsing for the Nativity on the stage.  We know where we sit and we have been practising our lines and singing all the songs.  Our teachers are very proud of us.

In literacy we have been learning the sounds ‘e’ and ‘f’ we are practising writing these letters and sounding them out to make words.  We are continuing to work on our blending skills.  We made elephants to help teach our families about ‘e’ and we looked for the sounds in our library books.  We played Kim’s Game with ‘f’ objects.  We read a story and completed some prediction discussions.

In writing this week we wrote a sentence using some cvc words that included the ‘e’ sound.  We are remembering to try and use finger spaces and a full stop.

On Wednesday we had our Bookbug bag event.  We made a paper plate octopus, designed pyjamas and read our bookbug books with a family member or school helper.

In Maths we worked on making amounts to 10p and we played bowling to make the facts for 10. It was lots of fun.

On Thursday it was a cold and frosty day so we had discussions about Jack Frost.

This week was Road Safety Week.  We recalled the green cross code and discussed how to cross the road safely.  We went outside to the crossing and learned to cross the road properly, thinking about Stop, Look, Listen and think.

We started our new topic ‘Toys’ we read the story ‘The Old Toy Room’ and discussed the different toys in the story and discussed old and new toys.

Today we got to wear something Scottish or Tartan to school to help celebrate St Andrew’s Day which is on Saturday.  We learned all about St Andrew and made a Scottish Flag and designed a tartan for a teddy.  We also got a special treat from Mrs McKissack.  Thank you the Irn Bru and shortbread biscuit was delicious.

Congratulations to Daniel our Hot Chocolate winner this week and well done to Felix our Reading Champion.

Weekly Highlights:

Alfie ‘I liked playing with the Dinosaur eggs’.

Daniel ‘I liked learning about St Andrew’.

Lena ‘I liked Gym, we played Tig’.

Tiara ‘I liked learning about St Andrew’.

Ava ‘I liked learning about money’.

Cerys ‘I liked learning about the Scottish Flag’.

Emilio ‘I liked learning about road safety and how to cross the road’.

Guhan Kumar ‘I liked playing with my friends’.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and don’t forget our School Christmas Fair is on Sunday.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all well and cosy.❄🥰

This week’s highlights were:

• Continuing our work on the spelling of really interesting words from our new and amazing book, The Elsewhere Emporium.
• Working a lot on Maths word problems and on developing the skills to identify which operations to use in order to solve them as well as to understand exactly what they are asking us for. We will still need to continue working on this because most of us can still get very confused at times.😊
• Revising 3 to 6 digits addition and subtraction sums and multiplication by 10, 100 and 1000.
• Art work related to Book week’s The Lorax – Finishing our design of an alternative cover for the book, creating our frames for our own Truffula Trees. Drawing and painting the enormous Truffula Trees for the Area display which looks absolutely fantastic!🌳🌳🌳🌳
• For topic, we have learned many things about tsunamis, why they are formed, the size of the waves they can make, the consequences of the most terrible tsunamis in the world and the warning signs that show a tsunami is about to come. We have had a very special focus on the Tsunami of 2004 and have watched the incredible story of the ‘Angel of the beach’, about a British girl who, at the age of 10, had identified that a tsunami was going to happen and warned her parents who then warned everyone at the beach to run to security. All that happened because she had been paying attention to a Science lesson about tsunamis in school where her teacher had also taught her all the warning signs that people should be aware of. She saved many lives that day and we were all very emotional when we watched her talking about it. ♥
• Learning about St. Andrew, who he was, why he became the patron saint of Scotland and why the saltire cross is at the centre of the Scottish flag. We also spoke about how people celebrate this day and about the old Scottish clans and their different tartans.
• We have revised, once again, the main different types of words we know: nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and connectives and agreed that we will need to continue working on it, since many of us can still find it hard to recognise them in sentences.
• We have learned about a new type of text, the Discussion and its different parts and have identified those by ourselves. Next week will be time for us to start writing our own discussions.😃
• Finally, it was Sumdog West Lothian challenge week and we are very proud to announce that we ended up in 9th place overall!👏👏👏Out of 233 classes!
• We are also very proud about the fact that we won a daily prize for the 27th of November!!!!You can see the certificate attached🏆🥇SUMDOG CERTIFICATE
• And of course we felt super happy as well because our Jude ended the challenge in 26th position, out of more than 2000 pupils participating! Super well done, Jude!!!!😃👏👏👏👏🏆✨🎉
• Because of all his hard work and his usual amazing participation in class Jude was also the Hot Chocolate of the Week!!!!!😁🥇🏆👏🎉✨

We hope you have enjoyed reading about our week and say goodbye for now wishing you all a great weekend!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

We have had another great week in Primary 2!

It was Road Safety week this week.  The children learned about how to keep safe when crossing a road and made brilliant posters to show our Primary 1 pupils. They were super impressed!

It was a beautiful, crisp, cold day when we went out for outdoor learning on Thursday.  The children had a lot of fun playing with the ice and we had a lot of discussion around how ice is formed.  We then took some ice into the classroom and predicted how long we thought it would take for the ice to melt.  Some people said 20 minutes and others thought up to 2 weeks.  In the end, it took around 3 and a half hours.  Well done to Daniel, Umaez and Garvit, who predicted the closest with 3 hours.

Tomorrow is St. Andrew’s Day, so we had a little early celebration.  We learned about the life of St Andrew and the children made their own Scotland flags.  As a special treat, the children even got to taste a little Irn Bru and shortbread.  Most of them liked it, but a few weren’t so sure.

Huge congratulations to our hot chocolate winner Laaibah!  Laaibah always works very hard in class and is kind and helpful towards others.  Keep up the great work Laaibah!

Our new reading champion is Joseph.  Joseph is a great example towards others during ERIC time and has been doing fantastic with his reading!

Have a great weekend everyone!

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well.

What a fantastic week it has been! Book week is always lots of fun and this one was simply brilliant!😃

The whole school worked on the book The Lorax by Dr. Seuss and learned, according to their age and level, great things about the book and its author.

Our highlights were:

• Spelling words from The Lorax.
• Art activities about The Lorax : draw along the Lorax and Frame your own Truffula trees.
• Dramatisation of the story of The Lorax.
• Baking Truffulas.
•  One, two and three steps word problems.
• Daily collaborative stories, where every class had to write a chapter for a different book every day as a whole class. We can’t wait to read those books!😂📚
• Reading to our new Reading Buddies from P2 who visited our classroom and were delighted to have us reading for and with them.
• Watching the brilliant Axel Scheffler, the Gruffalo’s creator, explaining how he works  with Julia Donaldson in the illustration of her books and helping us to understand the whole process of publishing a book.🐗 He also explained why he prefers to draw fictional  creatures and said that he has been an illustrator since he was in his twenties. The children considered this Author’s live edition extremely interesting and said that they had learned a lot with it!
• Creating our own alternative covers for The Lorax, having in mind what we have learned the book is about : Deforestation, the environment and protection of Nature.🏔🌳
• Learning again about St. Margaret, the Patroness Saint of Scotland, her life and how she became so much loved by people here.
• We also had parents and carers visiting for Share the Learning and it’s always enjoyable to show them a sample of our work.😀
• To add to the fun and make it different, each afternoon the children got to go to one of the other Upper Area’s classroom to have a lesson with Mrs Lea, Miss McGregor and Mr McGurn about The Lorax as well.

Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to choose the Hot Chocolate of this week but will let you know next week about both!🥰

That’s all for now! We wish you all a great weekend and hope you’ll all be safe in this cold and maybe snowy weather!🌨❄

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

Good afternoon friends and families! 😁

P5B has had a fantastic book week.📖 This has been very fun and we have got a lot done! We completed lots of activities based on the Lorax!

Pupil Highlights:

Ksuwery: “I loved dragonistics”

Nathan: “I liked making my own data cards”

We used the game dragonistics this week to learn about statistical data! We sorted these into data groups and bar graphs. Then we used the data to battle! It was very fun!

Daniel: “I liked making videos with different animations”

Olek: “I loved everything especially making videos and posters”

We used adobe express this week and loved it! We made posters, videos, infographics and even used the power of AI to create weird and wonderful images!

Matthias: “I liked helping Mr Pentland in the classroom”

Rowan: “I liked showing Mr Pentland where things are in our room”

We all helped Mr Pentland this week and it was very appreciated! Thank you for a lively and lovely week.

Scott: “I liked Kahoot and getting on the leaderboard!”

Ava: “I liked kahoots”

During the share the learning event Mr Pentland hosted multiple kahoots! We were  in teams! Everyone got very excited and some people got very ahead of themselves – naming their team “the winners” before the game even began! It’s fair to say everyone wanted to prove them wrong however they did extremely well! Well done 👏. You earned your title! As did many others. We had a lot of fun, although my head still hurts!

Over and Above:

A huge well done to Anthony! You had a brilliant week, you were very kind, helpful, respectful and demonstrated our school values consistently!

Pupil Highlights:

Joe: I liked making the Truffla Trees out of cotton for book week.

John: I liked teaming up with the primary threes to read with them.

Ella: I liked  going to different classes for book week activities.

Julia: I liked using a protractor to measure different angles.

Lucas O: I liked reading The Lorax, because it is a very good book.

Kayla: I enjoyed doing the Who am I literacy task in the morning.

Kailin: I liked reading with the primary threes that came to our class.

P5A have LOVED the Lorax this Week.  We wrote fantastic summaries of the stories and created our own literal and inferential questions.

Hot Chocolate Winner this week: Congratulations to Ruari who is not only a kind, gentle and caring boy, but a hard working and responsible pupil. Miss Smith is so proud of you for making such progress in your reading at home and in the class. Well done Ruari !