St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P1A families!

Another week has flown by!  Here are the learning highlights from the Yellow Table:

Danny loved it when he was blindfolded and had to guess what I put in to his hand.  This was part of our learning about the sense of sight.  The children were able to tell me that people who cannot see are known as being ‘blind’.  We experienced a little bit of what life is like for a blind person through this game and how blind people rely on their other senses to help them.  The children touched the item with their hands, listened to any noises it made when they shook it and smelled it too.  So many guessed correctly!  We thanked God for our sense of sight.  We hope to have a visit from a real guide dog next week and hear all about how they help people who cannot see!

Vinayak and Aidhel both enjoyed cutting out a picture of a snake.  This linked with our learning about the phonic sound ‘s’ and also, patterns.  We coloured the snake in using a pattern of 2 colours.  Some children then went on to make patterns during Choosing our own Learning time using items from around the classroom.

Ellie said the best lesson for her was playing a game (a little bit like ‘Corners’) where the children danced to music and when it stopped, they had to go to a sound that we have learned so far.  If that sound was called out, or a word that started with that sound, they were out.  Ellie won one of the games!

Luke liked learning about the different parts of the eye.  Ask your child if they can remember what happens to their pupil when the light comes on and when the light goes off!  The children looked at the parts of their eyes in a mirror and coloured a template of one with their own eye colour.  We will use these templates for learning about bar graphs next week.  We discovered that most of P1A have brown eyes!

Leah said the best part of her week was PE.  She enjoyed rolling and catching balls there.

My highlight was story writing.  I was so proud of the children as they followed along as I pointed to words on the screen of a story called The Train Ride and they joined in every time ‘I, can or see’ was written.  They then went on to write what they could see from an image of a farm that had things in it starting with sounds learned so far.  We had: ‘I can see mud (for m), I can see sky (for s) and I can see cows (for c).’  I was delighted with the efforts the children made to remember not only how to use these words but also to write on the line, use finger spaces and a full stop at the end.  What a clever bunch of young people!

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Luke!

I hope you all enjoy the long weekend and I hope to see you all on Tuesday.

Mrs Brown

Hello everyone,

We have had a lovely week in Primary 2! We have all been working very hard. 

This week in Primary 2

We have started working on addition and subtraction this week, as well as looking at 3D shapes. 

We celebrated international dot day, by reading the story ‘The Dot’ and created our own dot display. 

For our outdoor learning this week we went to the woodlands to make bug shelters. 

Our Weekly Highlights 

Irha- I liked playing games in PE. 

Alfie- I liked learning about 3D shapes. 

Nathania – I liked practicing how to add. 

Andy –I liked learning about numbers. 

Zarran – I liked going to the woodlands. 

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Alfie! Alfie always shows our school values and works very hard. Well done, Alfie! 

Have a great long weekend! 

Primary 2 

This week we have been learning all about our sense of sight. We had to find the differences between two pictures on the board, we were very good at finding them. Then Miss Stebbing had lots of different objects on the table, she took one away and we had to guess what one was missing. We were very confident with this. We also learned about eye tests and the role of an optometrist. We made our own glasses, which we loved. During Choosing Our Own Learning Time we were pretending to be Optometrists and asked if we could change the role play area to an Opticians which we did!

We have been learning all about the letter ‘s’ this week. We made the shape of the letter using stickers and they look fantastic! We wrote a sentence using our common words ‘I can see…’.

In maths, we have been learning about the numbers 8 and 9. We have been looking at different ways to represent these numbers and used a game to help us. We had to feed the shark different food and then answer a question about the ten frame. At the end the shark played the guitar and we all danced!

On Tuesday, we celebrated International Dot Day. This is all about being creative. We read a story and then made our own dots. We have put them up in the area along with ones from the other classes and it looks fantastic!

This week our Hot Chocolate Winner is someone who is always trying hard with their tasks and is a good friend to others. Well done!

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Thomas – I enjoyed doing numbers.

Alan – I enjoyed making glasses.

Moses – I enjoyed doing ‘s’.

Maya – I enjoyed playing opticians.

Rio – I enjoyed learning about number 9.

This week has been an exciting and hard-working week for primary 7a.

For our literacy this week, we looked at simple plurals in our spelling, we managed to read up to chapter 11 in our class novel ‘Millions’ and we wrote our mystery stories and some even got them typed up!

In numeracy this week, we had the pleasure of welcoming a maths teacher from St Margaret’s to teach us on Monday where we solved the mystery of who killed the shape. We have been simplifying and creating equivalent fractions this week. Today we revised circles and triangles. We have been interacting a lot with Sumdog this week, from diagnostics to competitions and revision for our times tables, we have had lots of fun!

Our RE has continued to be based around saving the animals and we are creating our campaign posters.

We drew Japanese pagoda’s on Wednesday and Thursday and are beginning to colour and decorate these. We have been looking at Da Vinci bridges and we were experimenting with lollipop sticks trying to build them. Everybody gave it their best shot.

On Thursday our outdoor learning unfortunately had to be cancelled due to the unpredictable weather.

Well  done to everyone who had a fantastic end to the week this week. I hope you all have a restful and fun long weekend.

Miss Duddy

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here are the highlights of P6B for this week:

Amy’s highlight was Maths ‘Because I felt like I did really good.’

Ollie’s was PE because he could burn energy.

Iha chose Outdoor Learning, Maths, French, Kensuke’s Kingdom, PE and Free Writing Friday as her highlights.

Blair chose ‘Natural Disasters because I like Earth and it was fun.

“My highlight was the Natural Disaster poster because our group was good,” said Sofia.

Diyon said, “My highlight was maths because I managed to do 6 pages on one day!”

“Kensuke’s Kingdom Chapter 6 because I really like the story,” said Elvin.

Amariah-Grace chose break because she liked playing outside with the P1s.

Lewis said, “Numeracy and Outdoor Learning. I really enjoyed maths and I’m sue I beat my score from last time. And this week I got to do the wheelbarrow and it was a lot of fun.”

Maja said, “My highlights were PE and Outdoor Learning because I enjoyed Piggy in the Middle and cleaning the stairs up to the woodlands.”

“The book Kensuke’s Kingdom because I am really interested in the story,” said Aaron.

Ciara agreed and thought it was fun to read Kensuke’s Kingdom.

Karina said, “Drama and PE because I think it’s really fun and funny. And PE I like dodgeball and duck, duck, goose.”

Georgia-Rose said, ” My highlight of the week was Natural Disasters because it was fun and I had a lot of creative ideas.”

T-J and Inaaya both said, “Outdoor Learning because it was fun.”

Caleb chose Kensuke’s Kingdom and Natural Disasters. “I enjoy reading and it is interesting. I like making posters with my friends.”

Olivia said, “Playtime because I made new friends like the P1s and Topic because I like my group and the people.”

Evana said, “Outdoor Learning because it is fun and Maths because I love maths.”

Mahathi chose Reading and Outdoor Learning. ” Reading is really interesting. We can now walk up the stairs to the woodlands.”

Chikamso said, “PE because we did different sports.”

Reesa said, “Break and Outdoor Learning. Because we played nicely with the P1s and it was fun cutting down trees/branches.”

Theo said, “Kensuke’s Kingdom because when we finish reading it we will go to the cinema to watch the film.”

This week’s Lead Learner was Ethan who took home the Hot Chocolate at Home and he is followed by Olivia next week.

Have a great long weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 6B

Hello Everyone

We have had a wonderful week in Primary 3. We have worked very hard and learned lots of new things.

We wrote super descriptions about our favourite toys and learned three new sounds in spelling, igh, y and i-e.

In maths we continued to work on numbers to 1000 and completed some tricky problem solving challenges to revise and practise adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing.

Weekly Highlights

Zac, Elsie and Alfie – We loved doing the tricky maths problem solving.

Zenith, Hallie, Elsie and Alfie – We loved building word walls in our Thursday Thinking Challenge.

Cerys, Freddie, Martha, Hallie and Vivaan, Lena and Joy – We loved when Mrs Brand brough Bubbles the dog to school to show us her favourite toy and then we got to write about our favourite toys.

Shourya and Dhawan – We liked the Spanish beanbag game.

Daniel – I like when we all write this blog together.

Eden – I like helping my friends to build Lego buildings because I am good at building.

Huge Congratulations to Lena, our hot chocolate winner. Well done Lena!

Have a lovely weekend!

From

Everyone in P3

We have had a very busy and exciting week in Primary 2!

This week in Primary 2

In numeracy, we have continued to practice our numbers to 30. We have worked hard figuring out the missing numbers that come before and after.

In our topic, we focused on technology from when our parents were young. We sorted technology into past and present and even invented our own technology!

In Literacy, we practiced the ‘ee’ and ‘oo’ sound and had lots of fun completing the different activities.

On Wednesday, we had our first house groups with the full school, it was lots of fun!

In RE we learnt about the creation story and created thank you cards to praise God.

Our Weekly Highlights

Conall – Numeracy stations and practicing my numbers.

Aria – Making thank you cards for God.

Hanna – The snakes and ladders game.

Tejasvi – Going to our house groups.

Marley – Practicing our sounds.

A huge well done to our hot chocolate winner Hanna!

Primary 2

Hello P1A families!

Here are our ‘best bits’ from the Red Table (again we have had a number of absences this week so only have 4 reporting this time):

Emily enjoyed our writing lesson this week where we put in to practise the 2 previous common words we have been learning, ‘I’ and ‘can’ and wrote a sentence that started this way.  Emily wrote, “I can play with Archie.”  Good job everyone!

Casey liked our outdoor learning in the woodland.  We have been learning about the sense of hearing this week and hoped to listen for sounds in nature.  Unfortunately, it was a windy day when we went up so could mostly just hear the wind blowing through the trees.  Casey did claim to hear some birds chirping though.

Archie said he has been enjoying our learning about the letter sound ‘c’.  In our Mystery Box, we had: a cat, a carrot and a candle, among a few other things.  Ask your child if they can remember what else was in there!

Luca liked meeting his buddy.  On Friday, the children met their buddies officially for the first time and enjoyed their time together where the P7 read a story to the P1.  There will be different opportunities throughout the year for the buddies to work together.  The children are very excited about this!

My highlight has been our new self-registration activity.  The children find their photo in a coloured bowl that matches their table name.  Once they have all done this, we count how many people are present.  We find it on the number line.  The children know that if the top ten frame is filled in, they just count on.  Super mathematicians in P1A!  (See it in the photos below)

I hope you have been enjoying your weekend!

Thank you to everyone who has sent in photos on Seesaw of any homework activities your child has chosen to complete.  We have enjoyed sharing this learning together!

Congratulations to Leah, our hot chocolate award winner for this week!

Mrs Brown

Dear all primary 7a parents and carers,

This week has been a busy one in primary 7a, here are some of our highlights:

We have been reading ‘millions’ and the children are enjoying it, this week we completed reading comprehension on chapters 6 and 7. We had a focus on writing a mystery story this week, the children will have the chance to finish these next week.

In numeracy we have been focussing on equivalent fractions and simplifying fractions. We have been looking at shape in our beyond number, after reminding ourselves of 3D shapes, we have moved on to circles, working out radius and diameter, and triangles, different types of triangles and their properties.

Our RE has been focussed on being stewards of the earth, the dangers facing wildlife and our earth and how we are responsible for looking after it. We started creating posters encouraging people to save the wildlife, everyone chose an endangered animal which they wished to campaign for and we will be creating these posters next week.

Unfortunately on Thursday, our outdoor learning was unable to happen due to the weather. We went outside and had time for a daily mile. Can I please ask that children are sent to school with a jacket on Thursdays so they can participate in outdoor learning even if it is raining.

Well done to everyone who competed in the cross country this week!

Well done on a great week primary 7! Have a lovely weekend everyone 🙂

Miss Duddy

Dear Parents and Carers,

Another busy week for Primary 7!  In writing, we used a picture as a stimulus for an imaginative story. We concentrated on our core targets and self- assessed our work using these.

Our class completed their diagnostic tests , to ensure everyone is working at the correct level to enter the Sumdog competition in September. We also learnt how to create equivalent fractions and the associated rules.

In Science, we investigated Da Vinci bridges and their structures . We worked in pairs to try and create our own using lollipop sticks. Everybody enjoyed this, but some of us found it very tricky!!

We continued to finish our Pagoda houses in art using bright traditional colours.

Primary 7 learned about the Creation story and how God asked us to take care of the animals and the planet. We had an interesting class discussion based on pollution and climate change. Working in pairs, we researched endangered animals, gathering information which will be used to create a poster.

During outdoor learning, we set up the zip line, hammocks and slack line, it was great fun!

Congratulations to our class members who competed in the West Lothian cross country event at Dechmont Law, everyone was amazing and participated with enthusiasm!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary 7B