St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Red table:

Jack enjoyed football with Miss White and scored a penalty!  Well done Jack!

Tvisha and Caiden both said the best part of their week was learning about the 4 Times Tables.  The children are improving at counting by 4s from memory and have especially enjoyed the song with the tune from ‘I’m Still Standing’ found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8QU_E0u-tP4

Hafsah has liked the start of our new ‘Conservation of Wildlife’ topic.  We learned that some animals are in danger of becoming extinct and that means they are ‘endangered’.  Through the WWF website, we discovered the top ten endangered animals.  This week we researched two, mountain gorillas and African forest elephants and wrote information reports about them.  Hafsah enjoyed the videos we watched were we took notes to inform our reports.   These can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rHhSCO5-3Pg and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk3VdpuFx0Q

Grace loved listening to a story called ‘The Singing Mermaid’ as we cooled down with our water bottle after PE.

Tadwia has continued to enjoy the heroes of Troy lessons during music with Mrs Morrison.

Deveena loves our new ‘Word of the Day’ resource.  We practise saying the word and discuss its meaning during our snack.  She loved Friday’s word,  ‘impeccable’.

Zion continues to enjoy lessons about Lent.  The children were reminded what their Lenten promise was and are working hard to sacrifice this as they remembered Jesus’ time in the desert.

Jiade loved benchball.  For the remainder of the term, P3A will be developing their bat and ball skills during PE.

My highlight was our visit to St Peter’s Church on Friday.  The children were very respectful and were amazing ambassadors for our school.  Mrs McLaughlin was very impressed that the children knew the words to the Our Father so well and could say the prayer reverently, conveying the meaning in their slow pace.

Congratulations to Laura, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

Lead Learners were Ollie and Caleb.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

Caleb: “I liked learning about mountain gorillas.”

Ollie: “Me too!

Regards

Mrs Brown

Dear Readers,

We hope you have had a great holiday and a good week back.

Although this was a shorter week, we still managed to do lots of interesting things and our highlights were the following:

• Celebrating World Social Justice week, which links to Rights number 26 and 27. We have learned what the United Nations are, their role in the world and the role of the Security Council. There are five countries permanently in the Security Council and ten which are elected for two year periods in an attempt to give all the countries the opportunity to experience taking part in its decisions. The class didn’t agree with the fact that there are five permanent countries which always get to be there and decided that it was unfair regarding the other countries. Also, after a big class discussion, we have concluded that unfortunately, given the fact that there are currently at least two big wars happening in the world, the Security Council is not being successful, since its role is to promote peace and social justice.
• Reading Comprehension about thunderstorms, what causes them and how we can prevent being in danger during one. This task was a bit tricky to the class and so we are going to continue working in our reading and understanding skills, as well as our predicting skills. Before reading the texts, or reading a chapter of our novel, we have been practising our prediction skills by trying to make educated guesses about what the text/chapter might be talking about. For example, if it is called Thunderstorms, what will it tell us about them? Why they appear? What are their consequences and so on. As this is not always easy, we are trying to get better at it every week.
• Our Writing lesson was about John Muir so, after having learned even more facts about him, we have written independently our Information Reports about his life. It was very enjoyable to see how well most of us knew how to structure an Information Report and how to organise our ideas.
• In Maths, we have continued working with decimal numbers and have practised putting them in the correct order from the smallest to the largest and identifying what each digit represents in a decimal number.
• We have also used our knowledge on decimal numbers to measure the diameter of our trees in the woodlands. This was linked to our Science work in the Climate Smarter Project.
• Learning about Lent and what it represents. We have thought about what we would give up for Lent, not only regarding food but also things we very much enjoy doing and that are not really needed. Praying more and Giving to Charity are also particularly important so we have thought about doing this as well.
• Going litter picking in the community – We all enjoyed the opportunity to once again help the environment but were very much shocked at the huge amount of rubbish collected in such a small area right beside the school! We have collected more than 30kg of rubbish in around 30 minutes! People do need to get better and stop littering!
• Free writing Friday – We were super enthusiastic and have asked Mrs Valente to share almost all our stories at the end! Super creativity!

We particularly congratulate Jemima, our Hot Chocolate of the Week, for her hard work and positive attitude throughout the week! Well done, Jemima!👏👏👏🥇

We would also like to congratulate the Cursed Child Table for always following our rules! Well done, Cursed Child Table!!!!👏👏👏👏👏👏🏆

That’s all for now, we say goodbye wishing you all a lovely weekend!

P5A and Mrs Valente😘😘

Hi families of P2

The children have all had a fabulous first week back. We have had lots of super learning experiences and lots of fun!

It literacy we wrote information reports and developed our comprehension skills, by showing our understanding of a poem. The poem is called ‘The Shore’. We created our very own beach within the classroom, making a beach and an ocean. We had lots of fun exploring a huge collection of shells.

In Maths we continued working on inverse operations and learned about tally marks in data handling .

We started our new topic this week, ‘under the sea’. The children learned all about the five oceans of the world.

We got some very good news today and an exciting reward! P2 were picked as the best class in the school for following all of the rules in the lunch hall! As a reward we got to have a disco in the MUGA at break time and chose all of our own music! The children absolutely loved this!

Weekly Highlights

Rose – I liked writing Information Reports

Aarav and Summer – I liked learning about sea horses.

Cameron – I liked learning about the Oceans of  the World.

Lillian, Rose, Vasilisa and Olga – We loved dancing in the MUGA.

Huge Congratulations to Samuel, our hot chocolate winner and Tiya our reading champion!

Have a lovely weekend!

Dear parents,

We took part in the stations of the cross with the P6’s and P7’s and then made crosses to show what we had learned about the Easter story.

In P.E we have been learning the rules and skills of basketball. We have been learning to dribble the ball close to us and change direction as others try to intercept it.

After researching and planning we have written our information reports and have enjoyed teaching each other lots of interesting facts. We were able to give each other feedback to help build confidence and also help each other to improve.

We have started learning about World War two, we researched key facts and events that happened during the war and created a timeline. We have been researching rationing and look forward to making cakes using rationed ingredients next week.

On Friday we took part in our online transition visit with St Margaret’s and enjoyed learning about social subjects.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Marcus, well done!

Our reading champion this week is Rabail, keep up the good work!

Have a fantastic weekend,

Mrs Roy and P7B

This week we have started learning about throwing and catching in PE. We practised rolling the ball to each other and we had to make sure that our partner was ready to catch the ball. Ask us how we know they are ready.

In Literacy, we have been learning about the ‘wh’ sound. We have been reading words with this sound and trying to spell the words too. In writing, we wrote a group information report all about flowers. All of the staff were very impressed with how confident we were in saying a sentence.

In Numeracy and Maths, we have been learning all about money. We have been identifying different coins and learned about how to put the coins in order from the lowest to the highest amount. We have had lots of fun playing in our class shop and using the coins to pay for items. We also learned about using a card to pay for things and we know that we need money in the bank for this.

In RE, we read the book Creation and talked about how God made the world. We also talked about how we need to look after the world.

Our new topic is all about Under the Sea. We found out about the different oceans of the world and then sorted animals into the correct habitat of land or ocean. We are going to make a big display in our classroom and we loved pretending to swim in the sea beside the blue board.

For Outdoor Learning, we went outside to look for signs of Spring. We were looking at the buds on the trees in the playground but unfortunately the rain started to get very heavy and we had to come in. We are going to go back out next week and see if we can see anything else growing in the playground and the woodland.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Dawid – I enjoyed playing outside.

Zuraib – I enjoyed reading the common words.

Daisy – I enjoyed writing the information reports.

Sophia – I enjoyed playing in the area.

Tyler T – I enjoyed playing with the shop.

Eliza – I enjoyed colouring.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed with everyone using the money to pay for items in the shop. I even got a chance to scan the items!

Congratulations to Zuraib who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week and to Peyton who is our Reading Champion.

Dear Readers,

Here is Term 3 Overview:

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All the best,

Mrs Valente

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Blue Table:

Caleb enjoyed our learning about the history of West Lothian.  We recapped some of the learning from P2 about James Young and his role in mining and the shale mountains we see throughout West Lothian.

Chahiti liked making Valentines Day cards.

Alicaj and Rory loved benchball.  The hall was free for 2 slots this week so the children had some extra PE time to play their favourite game.  As always,  I am impressed with the teamwork that takes place in this game and the strategies the children use to score.

Ethan liked eating ‘soft c’ foods and evaluating them.  The children tasted cereal (Ethan’s favourite), rice and celery and like last week, recorded how they felt about the foods.  The evaluation this week however, had an extra section about why they liked or did not like the food.

My highlight was our lesson, ‘Jesus was a Jew’.  We watched a short clip of a Jewish girl who showed us around her house.  The children were amazed to hear that Jewish people do not mix meat and milk and have 2 separate sinks, 2 sets of separate cutlery drawers and 2 sets of dishes so as to keep these foods separate!  We know that Jewish people pray in a synagogue.  We realised that we as Christians, have many similarities with the Jewish faith.  Some of those are special prayer books, a place of worship and we have holy water fonts whereas they have mezuzahs at their front door.  Mrs Brown shared with the children that when she was growing up, she had a holy water font next to her front door and each time she went in and out of the door, she blessed herself.  The children are excited to have a font in their classroom too in case they wish to do the same.

Congratulations to Rory, our hot chocolate award winner this week and Caiden, our Reading Champion!

Lead Learners were Twida and Tvisha.  They had the important role of looking out for people who were demonstrating our school rules of being Ready, Respectful and Safe.  They also get to say something extra for the blog:

Twida – “I liked music with Mrs Morrison.”

Tvisha – “I liked playing in the ‘Soft c’ café.”

I hope you all have a good February break and I will see you on Tuesday 20^th.

Regards

Mrs Brown