St John Ogilvie Primary School

It was so lovely all being back together again after the Easter Holidays.  We had a great chat to find out how everyone was and what they had been up to.  It was a shorter but still busy week.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘oo’ and ‘igh’ sounds.  We also practised reading our common words.  We unscrambled a sentence using igh words and play a game of find the right common word.

In Maths we have continued to practise counting in 2s, 5s and 10s and also quick recall of number bonds.  We have also been using a counting on strategy to complete addition sums.

In Religion we made our own tomb to show Jesus has Risen.  Mrs Russell put them up on display and said they all look amazing.

Health and Well Being we have looked at how to save water and how we can all play our part at home and at school.  We all contributed to a class display which is up in the hall.  It looks great.

In Gym we have started our new lessons of run, throw, jump.  We are learning different ways to move and also throw different items and see how far they go.  Today we completed Go Noodle and dance songs and moves in our classroom.  It was lots of fun.

Weekly Learning Highlights:

‘I liked making the tomb’ Conall

‘I liked playing ‘Go Noodle’ Ini

‘I liked counting’ Zaraan

‘I liked dancing’ Zahra

‘I liked unscrambling the sentence’  Arire

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

We have had a great first week back in P1B!

This week we have been learning all about plants and flowers. We talked about what plants need to grow, the lifecycle of a plant and how to plant a seed. We got to plant our own sunflower seeds and we wrote instructions about how to plant a seed and we used our new common word ‘put’.  We are very excited to see how quickly our plants grow.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘oo’ and ‘igh’ sounds. We got to play some games to read and spell words with these sounds.

In Maths, we have been practising using a counting on or counting back strategy to complete addition and subtraction sums. We also did our first Building Thinking Classrooms task. We had to connect coloured dots without crossing the lines. We got random partners and we were very good at writing our partners ideas when we had the pen.

For Outdoor Learning, we read the book ‘Not a Stick’ and then found sticks in the wood and used our imaginations to change them into something else. We also did some bug hunting and played on some obstacle courses that some upper area classes had made.

We all agreed the highlight of our week was planting the seeds.

Dear Parents/Carers,

Here’s a quick update on what P7 were doing this week.

“This week we started reading a book called ‘Skellig’ by David Almond. It’s about a boy called Michael who finds a strnage person/creature in his garage,” said Daniel.

Layla said, “We start our new topic on the Scottish Election and created our own political parties. It was really fun creating our own group names. We gave people jobs such as speech writers and campaign manager and one person has to be the politician.”

“In PE, the Bleep Test was fine. It was super hard to do. Some people quit quite early but some lasted for lots of levels, I drank all my water from my water bottle,” said Ishani M.

Srihaun said, ” We’ve been learning Algebra in maths and we are making great progress. It seems that most of the people in our class are enjoying it.”

“On Thursday morning we went to Sky Academy, made posters about the Scottish Election using Adobe Express and made a news report about the election too,” said Benita.

Matteo said, “We had Outdoor Learning on Thursday afternoon and it was very fun. We used blindfolds for games like follow the leader, where the leader is not blindfolded but everyone else is. And ‘find the tree’ where you need to touch the tree blindfolded and memorise it and then try to find it.”

A very busy first week back!!!

Have a great weekend,

P7B and Mr McGurn

Pupil Highlights –

Aadya: I liked going behind Dechmont Hill on Tuesday morning with Dog Man and using the ropes to climb the steep hill.

Alicja: I liked going to Kids Gone Wild with Jacks and Rob. I was very brave to face my fears about dogs.

Linda: I liked doing negative numbers in maths.

Angel: I liked practising my times tables 8 and 9.

Riley: I liked going with Rob and Jacks on Tuesday.

Vivien: I liked adding and subtracting money with decimals.

Chaihiti: I liked adding decimals when working with money.

Hot Chocolate Winner this week: Congratulations to Bodhini for winning hot chocolate this week. She has been supportive to her peers in maths, helping others with their work and becoming more and more confident.

Wishing everyone a happy and holy Easter from Primary Three! 🐣

We had a very special final week of term learning all about Holy Week.  I hope you enjoy the photos below that capture some of these learning experiences as well as some other highlights such as a visit from Baby Sophie as part of our learning about how to take care of a baby.  Alex proudly helped mum talk about what baby Sophie needs.  What a very good big brother!  We enjoyed listening to the class talks of when the children were babies.  Everyone spoke with confidence and answered questions from their peers.  👶🍼. Well done to those who took part in this activity.

I hope you all continue to enjoy the holiday and hope to see you all on our return on Tuesday, 14th.

Best wishes

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning about all the events in Holy Week. We drew pictures on a cross to illustrate these events and we added lots of detail. We also created some beautiful paintings, linked to our work on Good Friday, to display in the area.

We have been revising our sounds and addition/subtraction skills. We had a special egg hunt in the area where we had to work together to solve the calculations and then to find pictures to match the words on our sheets. It was great fun! We also used eggs with picture magnets in them to practise writing words. We worked well with our partners to do these activities.

Mrs Ross brought in her rabbit Poppy to see us. This was very exciting, especially when she was running around the classroom.

On Wednesday, we were invited to see the P7 show Edith’s Wartime Scrapbook. We were so proud of our buddies and the fantastic performance they gave. Mrs Morrison also complimented us on our excellent behaviour.

The highlight of this week was making our own hopping bunnies!

Have a lovely holiday everyone!

A super busy week this week in P1A.  We have been revising all sound and common words taught.

We learned about Holy Week and what happened each day.  We made palm leaves and acted out the story of the crowd waving palms at Jesus.

We have completed lots of Easter Activities and we met up with our Buddies and exchanged Easter cards and gifts.

Today we completed an Easter Egg hunt, looking for eggs in the Area.

Mrs Ross brought her rabbit Poppy in to visit us. We were very excited, she told us how she looks after Poppy and what she needs to stay healthy.

Weekly Highlights:

Zahra ‘I liked drawing the Easter things’

Elina ‘I liked the Easter Hunt’

Marcel ‘I liked doing the crafts’

Conall ‘I liked learning about Holy Week’

Nathania ‘I liked designing an Easter egg’

Have a wonderful Easter everyone, you have worked very hard this term, now enjoy your time off.

Hello P3 families!

I hope you are enjoying the lovely sunshine this weekend!  I cannot believe it will be the last day of term next week!  How this school year is passing so quickly!  I like to go back and look at blog posts from earlier in the year at times.  It is lovely to reminisce and also to see how much the children have grown in more ways than one! ☺️

This week’s highlights come from ‘Broxburn’:

Maks has enjoyed making recycled paper as part of our Sustainability topic.  The children loved the steps of ripping up paper from the blue bins in to tiny pieces, steeping it overnight, blending it in to pulp and removing the water using a pressing technique.  They were very proud of the outcome and we hope the paper will be dry come Monday! 🤞

Danvith enjoyed finishing his narrative story that he called ‘The Lost Watch’.  Ask your child how they concluded their narrative stories.  I know you will be impressed!

Maja and Daniel both thoroughly enjoyed our St Patrick’s Day celebrations!  I hope you liked their collage shamrocks they took home.  Maja liked the Irish dancing demonstration.  (A big thank you to Mrs Carlyle, Martha, Faye and Reesa for the fantastic performances.  No doubt you will have inspired some of the pupils watching to want to join up and learn Irish dancing in the future!). Daniel loved the green mint chocolate chip ice cream. ☘️

Tyler F said his highlight was playing relay races during PE.

Vihaan enjoyed Easter themed Spanish with Miss Stonehouse.

Amelia said the best part of her week was the mini beast hunt the children went on.  Our school is hoping to achieve the Platinum Award with the Woodland Trust, already having achieved Bronze, Silver and Gold in the past in recognition of the outdoor learning experiences the children in SJO have had over the years.  This activity was linked to this award.  The children had to hunt for specific mini beasts, count and then record their number in tally marks.  We will repeat this activity next week again in a different location for comparison purposes.  The children will decided where this local location will be so watch this space!

My highlight was of course, our St Patrick’s Day celebrations; commemorating St Patrick’s role in bringing Christianity to Ireland.

I also want to thank Mrs Robson for bringing her new baby to our school and teaching us about how to take care of a baby.  We look forward to P3 delivering their ‘When I was a Baby’ personal talk next week! 👶🍼

Just a reminder that P3 will be attending a sport’s festival at Deans High on Thursday (see message from the office for further information).

Best wishes

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning all about snails. We made our very own snails using coloured card and they even move. We wrote information reports and all the staff agreed that we put a lot of effort into these. We also learned about spiders. We made a web on a paper plate and then used magnets and lolly sticks to make our spiders move. It was very exciting!

In Maths, we have been learning all about half past on digital clocks. We know to look for the number 30. We also made block graphs to show our favourite minibeasts.

In Literacy, we have been learning the sounds ‘ai’ and ‘oa’. We were able to come up with lots of words with these sounds.

On Tuesday, we celebrated St Patrick’s Day. We read the book ‘How to Catch a Leprechaun’. We made our own leprechaun traps and left them out over lunch. When we got back the Leprechaun had left us a note and some gold coins.

This week we also learned about Eid and we made cards, a lantern and drew our own henna designs.

On Friday, we went to Church with P1A and we had several comments on how respectful we were.

Here are some of our personal highlights this week:

Ignacy – I enjoyed making spiders.

Hanna – I enjoyed doing Topic.

Amelia – I enjoyed learning about bugs.

Sebastian – I enjoyed doing maths.

Mikayla – I enjoyed learning about snails.