St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear  Readers,

We hope you have had a good week and are getting ready for a sunny weekend!😀🌄

This week in Primary 6B we have done many different things but the highlights were the following:

• Our first spelling work with Word Boost words from our novel Nowhere Emporium.
• Our work on place value which  was very interesting since we had numbers up to the millions to find the value of.
• In RE, after having learned and worked on the Assumption of Mary, we have been developing our knowledge on the life of Moses, the Exodus and Jewish traditions which date back from the time of the Exodus. We will be continuing this work and will be locating and reading the Scriptures of the Book of Exodus directly from the Bible and discussing them.
• We have learned about the difference between literal and inferential questions and have had the chance to work in pairs to ask our own literal questions about the class novel. At the end, all groups have asked their questions to the class and all of them have been correctly answered, which was brilliant!🤩
• In Maths we have revised many 2d shapes and their properties and will continue working on them next week.
• Our week has finished with Free Writing Friday and most of the children enjoyed that time to express themselves. Many children have asked to share their pieces of writing with the class and all had fun listening!😉
• The adventures in the Nowhere Emporium continue and we are always wanting to know what happens next! It’s really addictive!📚🤔
• This week is the 3rd and last for our Jobs Monitors which means that we will be choosing new ones on Monday so we would like to thank to all our Monitors for their super competent work! Well done!👏👏👏
• We would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of the Week from last week, Miss Leah, for her excellent behaviour and focus on the learning. She was an absolute star✨ and, as a Line Leader, has tried to lead the class the best possible way! Well done, Leah!🥇
• Many congratulations as well to the Hot Chocolate of this week, Miss Ishani M, for being a true example of good listening, participation in class and kindness! Thank you very much for all the help you have given when one of our IT monitors wasn’t well and you have covered for them in the most competent way ever, by helping all to get on their laptops, have the correct passwords and usernames and even swapping laptops when they ran out of battery! Well done, Ishani M!🥇👏

That’s all for this week, we say goodbye for now wishing everyone a lovely weekend!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Hello families of P4A!😁

Welcome to our Glow Blog!.

Over the past three weeks we have been settling back into our routine and working super hard alongside our new teachers Miss Maxwell and Mr Pentland. We have completed some amazing work and we have begun displaying this on our walls.

We have generated our classroom expectations and designed our class charter which we have also displayed in our room to highlight what we believe makes a great, equitable and safe classroom for all.

Some of our highlights from the past three weeks;

Linda shared a great writing piece when we completed our ‘Letters to our future self’. Here she showed she has retained knowledge of what we should always include in our writing such as good grammar and punctuation.  Well done Linda!

Zion showcased his incredible maths skills as we played some interactive games on the board which help us revise our multiplication. Amazing work Zion!

Tiwa and Bodhini, both of our new starts have settled in well to our classroom and are great friends to all of the children in the class. We are delighted to have them join us as part of our family at St John Ogilvie.

Our hot chocolate winner of week 2- Diana- For always being so kind to everyone and for consistently focusing on her work.

Our hot chocolate winner of week 3 – Caiden- For being responsible and making good choices and also completing his work to an amazing standard!. Keep up the great work Caiden!.

P4A have spent some time in the nursery over the past two weeks, to which they really enjoyed and took great pride in being positive role models for their younger peers.

Miss Maxwell really enjoyed meeting some of the parents at meet the teacher  and is looking forward to working alongside them as the year goes on.

P4A have established a firm routine of which we will carry into next week as we progress to following on our curriculum and kick starting our P4 work for the year!

Well done P4A keep up the hard work!

Hello families of P5B!

The children have had a super 2^nd week back at school.  I cannot believe 2 weeks have passed already!  Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Red table:

Cohen has enjoying building pathways using the marble run and playing chess.

Kacper said the best part of his week has been dancing to Go Noodle.  The Line Leader each week gets to choose the daily GoNoodle dance.  This serves as a short brain break for the children as well as improving their fitness levels.

Matthias loved dodgeball at PE this week.

Rowan’s highlight has been playing checkers.  P5 have some strategic thinkers in the class!

Aaeryn-Leigh, along with the whole class, have been enjoying a chapter a day of our class novel ‘The Midnight Gang.’  This week it was our author, David Walliams’ birthday, so we learned about his life and answered some questions afterwards.  An interesting piece of information was that he was born David Williams but changed his surname as there was already a famous actor with his name.  He has also raised 3 million pounds for Sports Relief through swimming The Thames and The English Channel.  The children like Mrs Brown doing all the different voices!

Jayden has being enjoying our Daily Wake Up activities.  These activities have a mixture of Literacy and Numeracy tasks to get the children’s brains warmed up after the summer holidays.  Jayden has been particularly enjoying the ‘Number Corner’.  After going through the various calculations, we discuss the most effective strategies for finding the answer.

My highlight has been making a classroom charter with the children.  We had a revision session on their Rights and our school values of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  Collaboratively, we wrote a classroom statement and bullet pointed what actions we as a class were going to take to action this agreement, then everyone signed the contract.  If you were at the Meet the Teacher event, you may have noticed it on our window.

Meet the Teacher

At this event, I gave out a print out of the slides and a ‘Tell me about your child’ page for you to return filled in.  If you did not receive these, then please remind your child to take them home or phone to office to request them.  I look forward to reading what you have written about your child to get to know them a bit better.

Homework

Homework will begin week beginning 2^nd September.  Your child will bring login details home and a reminder guide about how to access Teams from different devices.

I hope you are enjoying your weekend!

Hello P7B families,

What another quick and fantastic week we’ve had. Everyone is now fully settled in and getting busy with all the fun activities.

Photo highlights:

1. Our reflections from the week.
2. Optical illusion art

3. Class Charter

Pupil highlights:

– “I enjoyed recapping our learning in numeracy and looking at place value and number sequences” – Halli

– “I enjoyed writing summer recounts” – Lisitha and Eoghan

– “I liked doing the optical illusion art” – Niylah

– “We loved meeting our buddies again and reading to them” – Veerica.

Well done to Saujas this week for winning the hot chocolate over and above. Saujas has been fantastic with his listening skills and being ready and respectful at all times.

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss MacGregor

A very big welcome to our first P6B blog!

We’re happy that all children have settled very well, including the new pupils who have recently arrived. The class have been very welcoming and it feels like they have already been part of the class for a long time!😀

As usual during the first couple of weeks of a new academic year, the children are getting used to being in school again after the holidays, having a new routine, new break and lunchtime hours and, of course, a new teacher.😉

According to the class, the Highlights of these weeks were the following:

• Working on their picture of what and who they like, which gave Mrs Valente, and whoever looks at them, a clear idea of their favourite people and things.🖼
• Designing their Fairtrade ‘Be the Change’ posters for the West Lothian Fairtrade Competition.
• Our Maths assessments.
• Our Literacy work on spotting and correcting the spelling, punctuation and grammar of sentences.
• Free writing Friday.
• The work on our SHANARRI Wellbeing indicators, during which we have discussed what it looks like to be Safe, Healthy, Achieving, Nurtured, Active, Respected, Responsible and Included in the classroom and in school.
• Getting back to PE lessons with Mrs Lafferty!😍

That’s all for this week, we hope you are having an amazing weekend and wish you a lovely week ahead!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Hello families of P5B!

We have had a great first week back after the holidays.  It has been so lovely getting to know your wonderful children and I hope they have enjoyed their first week back to school as much as I have!  Each week one of the tables (there are 3) will share their highlights of the week.  Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Yellow table:

Daniel said the best part of his week was playing ‘Clap, Snap’.  The children followed the instructions: ‘clap, snap, head, shoulders’ etc and then when the teacher said “cone”, they had to try and grab the cone that was in between them and their partner.  Whoever grabbed it first, won!

Alex  enjoyed ‘Choosing our own Learning Time’ and made an impressive 3D construct with construction straws.  Super teamwork guys!

Nathan’s highlight was playing Dodgeball with Mrs Lafferty.  Mrs Lafferty will have the children for PE on Fridays and I will have them on Wednesdays.

Ellie-May enjoyed the game were the children went into pairs and one person drew on their partner’s back, while the other person drew what they felt.  The pictures were then compared.   Afterwards, they moved on to writing words in the same way.  It was definitely a class favourite.

Vinayakarthik liked a game were the children had to give one another clues of a zoo animal they were thinking of and the class had to guess.  There were some very cryptic clues in this game!

Aayush loved playing with the marble run.  He and his friend made some complex runs!  Impressive guys!

Michael’s favourite activity was a game involving skittles.  Each child chose a skittle and then had to stand up when their colour was called and answer a question.  Michael’s colour was asked, “Would you rather be a tiny horse or an enormous chicken?”

Moeez  enjoyed a maths lesson this week were the children had to make as many number combinations as they could, first from 3 digit numbers and then 4 digit numbers.  They discovered that 6 combinations could be made each time using each digit at the start.  They also learned from Ksawery, the most effective strategy for recording these combinations.  Thank you Ksawery!

Ksawery loved music with Mrs Morrison, were the children were learning about bagpipes and found out that the world championship for bagpipes happens each year in Glasgow and some of SJO’s own past pupils are world champions!!!

My highlight has been hard to pick this week.  I think it has to be the RE lesson when we recapped on the Bible stories the children could recall from previous learning.  We talked about the importance of thinking of the meaning of the words of prayers we say.  The children examined the words of the Hail Mary prayer.  We had some interesting discussion about the meaning of, “…and blessed is the fruit of thy womb.”

Meet the Teacher

On Wednesday, it is Meet the Teacher day!  I look forward to welcoming you in to our classroom if you are free to attend.  Any information given out that afternoon will be sent home for those unable to attend.

Request

It would be super if the children could bring in recyclable materials from home now and again to keep our recyclables box topped up, as the children have enjoyed making things from these during ‘Choosing our own Learning Time’.  Also, we have a craft table that has bits and bobs on in for imaginative art creations.  Any donations throughout the year to keep this topped up would also be appreciated.  Some examples could be: feathers, pipe cleaners, sparkles, bubble wrap, ribbon etc.

Homework

Homework will not be given out for the first couple of weeks and will then be issued via Teams.  If you are having any difficulty logging on to Teams or accessing Teams, please let our office staff know.

Our blog will be updated over the weekend, so please keep an eye out for it and I hope you enjoy reading about some of the learning experiences your child had that week and enjoy looking at and discussing some of the photos!  Remember that a quick way to find P5B, is to use the filter on the right hand side of the screen.

I hope you have a great weekend!
Mrs Brown

A very warm welcome to all your families reading our school blog.

We had an amazing first week of school.  It was so lovely to welcome all our new P1s to our St John Ogilvie school family.  The children have been fantastic this week and everyone is settling in well and learning the routines of the class and getting to know each other.

This week we discussed what good listening is and we were able to show all the adults how well we can listen.  We made our Class Charter and spoke about how we can be Ready, Respectful and Safe.  We were introduced to Ready Rose, Respectful Raheem and Safe Sam.  We are going to work hard to follow their example.

We were very excited to have gym on Friday and meet Mrs Lafferty are gym teacher.  We also enjoyed listening to Mrs Broadley read us a story in Spanish and we learned some new words.

We loved choosing our own learning and our teachers were very impressed with how well we can tidy up when we hear the tidy song.

In RE we have been learning how to bless ourselves and listening to the daily prayers.  We are trying very hard to join in.

Today (Friday) we got to meet our P7 buddies we were very excited to met them and they were all very nice, we look forward to working with them throughout the year.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone and a well deserved rest.

We look forward to seeing you all again on Monday for lots of fun and learning.