St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been very busy preparing for our Nativity. We had to practise being on the stage and moving round the hall. It was very exciting. We had our dress rehearsal for our siblings, buddies and nursery friends and we did so well. On Thursday, we had two performances for our families and we did an amazing job!

On Friday, we went to mass at St Peter’s. We then got to sing our Nativity songs for the parishioners and help to set up the Nativity Scene in the church. We got a special treat of juice and shortbread and it was delicious.

This week we read the book ‘Rudey’s Windy Christmas’. We thought it was very funny! Ask us all about the story. We had to listen and follow the instructions to draw our own reindeer and we got to colour the pictures in. We did a fantastic job of creating these.

We all agreed that our highlight of the week was taking part in the Nativity.

Congratulations to Victoria who is our Reading Champion this fortnight. She has shown confidence in trying to read cvc words.

Hello P2 families

We have been enjoying to start of Christmas celebrations this week by watching the fabulous P2 assembly, creating Christmas crafts and having our advent assembly which P2 did an amazing job reading and singing.

We were also very lucky to have Kids Gone Wild this week which we played with zip lips and slack lines!

We have been very busy this week!

P2 weekly highlights

I liked the advent service – Freddie

I liked Kids Gone Wild – Zac, Vivaan, Emilio, Dhawan, Lena, Zoe

I liked doing Big Maths Beat That – Hallie

I liked doing free writing – Alfie

I liked making our snow globes – Zenith

I liked handwriting – Felix

I liked outdoor learning – Guhan Kamar

Have a great weekend!

Hello P3 families!  I cannot believe we only have 2 weeks left of school before the Christmas holidays!  Here are this week’s learning highlights from The Red Pandas:

Maja enjoyed examining a descriptive piece of writing called ‘My Grandma’.  This is our last piece of writing from the genre.  We have planned a special piece of descriptive writing ourselves.  Be sure to read next week’s post when we reveal what it was about!

Viaan has continued to like our maths lesson on addition within 100 using the upstairs, downstair chimney method.  Next week we will progress to learning what to do if the answer to a column is greater than 9.

Laaibah said the learning highlight of her week was making information posters.  She chose to make hers about the beaver.  The instructional drawing made a super focal point in the middle of her poster.  Her layout serviced as an example of one that met the success criteria: name of animal included, picture of animal included, large font, spaced out facts (taken from last week’s note taking exercise), a Scottish flag (to show it is a Scottish wild animal) and colourful to make it eye catching.  Laaibah chose to do hers as part of a group.  Super teamwork ladies!

Nathan enjoyed watching Elf on Tuesday as part of a Christmas treat after the delicious Christmas lunch.  A big thank you to all the kitchen staff for this tasty lunch!

Amelia and Tyler T both report that Scottish country dancing was the best part of their week.  The children have grown so much in confidence since we started our lessons a couple of weeks ago.  We will be ready for when it is our party on Monday 15^th.

Alex and Dawid both agree that the outdoor learning session this week with Kids Gone Wild was thee best part of their week.  Thankfully the weather was on our side!  The children went to a local woodland and for a few hours, enjoyed playing!  I witnessed a lot of creative, imaginative play.  There was also den building with sticks, the zipline, slackline and chill time in the hammocks.  It was a FAB experience for all!

Danvith loved being the Kids Gone Wild teacher’s helper!  He helped her carry the equipment we needed and assisted her putting it up and taking it down.  Thank you Danvith!

My highlight was seeing the children work together on the zipline, supporting one another, encouraging one another, working co-operatively holding the ladder while their friend participated and then bringing the handle back up the zipline ready for the next person.  Wonderful!

Congratulations to Ollie, our hot chocolate winner this week.

I hope you all have a lovely weekend!

Mrs Brown

This week has been a very exciting week. We had our first Christmas lunch on Tuesday and it was delicious. We also got to try on our costumes for the Nativity and we were very excited. We also decorated baubles for our class Christmas Tree.

We have been taking it in turns to open the Advent Calendar. We have a picture one and a book one. We are very keen to get our turn to open it.

We have been practising our party dances and games in the hall with P1A.

We have been learning all about the sounds ‘h’ and ‘u’. We have been reading and writing words.

In Maths, we have been learning to add up different amounts of money. We are using lots of different strategies to get the answer. We have been trying to remember to write ‘p’ for pence and attempted to write the pound sign.

We enjoyed a visit from Mrs Roy with her new baby girl this week. We think she is so cute and tiny.

On Friday, we enjoyed getting together with the P2s and 3s for our Area Advent Service which was led by P3/2.

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Victoria – I enjoyed doing the Nativity songs.

Tejasvi – I enjoyed having Christmas Lunch.

Aria – I enjoyed wearing the costumes.

Aayat – I enjoyed decorating the Christmas Tree.

Alfie – I enjoyed doing handwriting.

Ignacy – I enjoyed drawing.

Congratulations to Lincoln who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. He has been trying hard to read and spell CVC words.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well!

In Primary 6B our highlights for this week were:

• Spelling work and weekly spelling assessment, which we love!
• Big Maths, beat that! – we always get excited with the idea of doing it and also like dancing to its music!
• Scottish Dance – although some of us were being a bit funny about this at the beginning, most of us can now admit that we absolutely enjoy doing Scottish Dancing! It’s a lot of fun and David always comes to help when we’re not sure! The whole class have been having a great time and have already learned 3 different dances! Amazing!
• We have also been enjoying our Rotational Symmetry lessons and feel that it makes more sense to us and has become much easier as we continue learning about it!
• Watching P5s rehearsal for their big Enterprise Assembly and thinking back about how we felt last year when it was our turn to do it ourselves!
• Learning (again) about St Andrew’s life and understanding why he became one of the Patron Saints of Scotland! Although most of us have been learning about this from Primary 1, nobody seemed to remember so we did spend a generous amount of time working on it and double checking that all of us really understood who St. Andrew was and why he has been chosen to be our Saint. We also enjoyed the Irn-Bru and cookies that were given to us by the school!
• The 2 Hot Chocolates awarded today were from last week and this week, since last week we had a big group of children ‘borrowed’ by another teacher at the end of the day and couldn’t do it.        So, many, many congratulations to Anthony, for being kind and cleaning up after other children, even from different tables!🥇 Many congratulations as well to Aaeryn-Leigh for setting a great example of how to be in class and also for her patience as the End of line leader! It is not easy and sometimes she says exactly that!🥇
• Congratulations as well to David, Rowan and Kacper for having the Best Table of the week! they have been trying really hard to behave, listen and tidy up properly!🏆

Mrs Valente’s highlights of the week were:

• Watching us having fun while dancing! It’s very enjoyable to see!
• P6A’s Advent Service in the Area.
• All the times that we know how to listen and then create amazing work across the curriculum!

That’s all for now, we say goodbye wishing everyone a super weekend with love and peace!❤️❤️

Primary 6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

We have been practising very hard for our Nativity and had a practise wearing our costumes.  We were all very excited and can’t wait to perform for you all next week.

On Tuesday we decorated our class Christmas tree.  We love how it turned out.  The same day we had our very first Christmas Lunch at St. John Ogilvie, we were very exctied and it tasted delicious.

This week we introduced the sounds h and u.  We did some word building and also dictation of simple sentences.

In Maths we worked on addition – we are all trying very hard and our teachers are proud of us.  We are working on quick mental recall

We recapped recognition of coins, worked on ordering them by value and then made amounts using 1p coins. Some of us even managed to make amounts using different coins.

Topic we learned about emergency vehicles and looked at what is inside each vehicle to help look after people in an emergency.

In Gym we practised dancing for our Christmas Party.

Today we had our area advent service, P3/2 led us in hymns and prayers and we lit the second purple candle on our advent wreath.

Learning Highlights:

Andy ‘I liked learning about emergency vehicles’

Marcel ‘I liked putting my costume on’

Monika ‘I liked wearing my costume’

Willow ‘I liked singing the Christmas song’

Zara ‘I liked practising the dancing for the Christmas party’

Mrs Russell ‘I loved watching you practise for the Nativity and grow in confidence’

Well done to St Teresa our winning house this week and congratulations to Aarya our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Good Morning to the Primary 4A families,

We have had an amazing week, with our school trip to Stirling Castle with primary 4B! We learned all about the different Kings and Queens who lived in the castle, we got to explore the kitchen, great hall and lots more… even looking down to the dungeon!

Our class has started practising our dance moves with  Military two step dance in PE, we are very close to finishing the BFG as we get to the last few chapters of our class book.

Martyna- I enjoyed going to visit Stirling Castle as we got to explore different places in the Castle

I liked finishing off my Northern light picture that we created!

Ruth- I liked the Scottish dancing we done on Monday and today!

Dear Parents and Carers,

Primary 7 started their week performing “A Midsummer Nights Dream” by William Shakespeare to the other classes in the upper area. We all enjoyed performing and practising our lines. It was great to see everyone organising costumes and performing with confidence and enthusiasm! It will be good practice for our Primary 7 show, which takes place in February!!

Our class have been revising for SNSA assessments during literacy and numeracy and hopefully it will help us next week when we sit them for real!

We all enjoyed our online transition lesson this week, hosted by the English department at St Margarets Academy. The teacher described how it was important to read a wide variety of material, to help us develop our vocabulary. She had also prepared a book quiz which was great fun!

We joined up with Primary 7B to practise our dancing for our Christmas party. It was very enjoyable! Primary 7 has been creating and designing PowerPoints based on rainforest animals. We will present them to our class when they are completed.

We took part in the West Lothian Sumdog competition this week and managed to climb to a respectable 9th place! Some of us worked really hard at home, answering lots of questions to earn as many points as we could.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary7A

This week has been very exciting as we found out what parts we are playing in the Nativity. We have been practising in the hall and we have been trying really hard with our singing.

For Literacy, we have been learning about the sounds ‘f’ and ‘b’. We wrote a sentence about a bat in a bin which was very funny!

In Maths, we have been looking at different coins. We used 1p coins to pay for items and then tried to use different coins to make the amount which was a challenge.

In Topic, we learned about coding. We had a go at coding our friends by giving them lots of instructions to follow. The best part was when we got the Beebots in and we were able to code them to move around the classroom.

In RE, we have been learning all about St Andrew and we enjoyed making flags and having some shortbread and Irn Bru on Friday. We also drew around our hands and then coloured them in green to make our Advent Wreath. We also joined up with P1A, P2/3 and P3 for our first Advent Service. The P3 pupils did an amazing job reading and singing.

On Tuesday, we had a very exciting morning out in the Woodland with Caitlin from Kids Gone Wild. We got to try out the hammocks, the zip line and the slack line.

We all agreed the highlight of our week was playing with the Beebots.

Congratulations to Hanna who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week. She always tries hard with her tasks and is helpful.

Well done to Amelia, who is our Reading Champion for this fortnight. She has been trying hard to read cvc words and common words.

Hello P3 families!  Here are this week’s learning highlights from The Ferrets (you will find our Book Week photos below).

Vihaan has loved our Scottish Country dancing lessons for PE this week.  The P5s have been dancing with us and the children have picked up the dances very well.  They have been learning:  The Flying Scotsman, Military Two Step and Canadian Barn Dance.  We will dance these at our Christmas party.

Joseph said he liked maths the best.  We have been learning addition within 100, using an upstairs, downstairs chimney method to help us find answer.

Izhaan liked the lesson with Miss Hunter about the Scottish Outdoor Access Code as part of our learning about wild animals in Scotland.

Matteo loved completing an instructional drawing of a red squirrel.  The children had a choice of drawing a red squirrel, red deer or beaver (Scottish wild animals).  They then researched it and will use their note taking to create an information poster next week.

Eliza said her learning highlight was listening to the story of The Paralysed Man in RE this week as part of our learning about God’s healing and forgiveness.  We saw in this story how Jesus healed the man by forgiving his sin, “Your sins are forgiven, my friend.”  Eliza played the role of the paralysed man when we then acted the story out.

Tyler enjoyed our revision of the oi/oy sound.  He won the oi bingo game!

Navami loved singing the hymns, ‘Little Donkey’ and ‘Away in a Manager’ as part of this week’s Advent Service.  What beautiful singing Navami!

My highlight was the Advent Service today.  The children worked hard to learn their readings and songs that helped the Infant Area prepare for the important season of Advent.

Look out for December’s homework in your child’s homework pack on Tuesday (those who have opted in).

Congratulations to this week’s hot chocolate award winner, Amelia and Reading Champion, Dawid!

I hope you have a great weekend.

Mrs Brown