St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Readers,

This has been a very busy week for us, since we have started the week by performing  our Twelfth Night show to the Upper Area classes and finished performing the 1st part of the Christmas Story during our Advent Service!

The highlights for us were the following:

• Preparing, practising and performing the Twelfth Night, by William Shakespeare, to our friends from P6 and P7.
• Preparing, practising our parts and hymns and presenting the 1st Advent Service to the other Upper Area classes and teachers.
• Working hard to answer correctly to all of Sumdog’s questions in order to be the 1st ones from our school in the West Lothian Challenge. Unfortunately, although lots of us have done an amazing job, we ended up in 2nd place in our school and would therefore like to congratulate Mr. McGurn’s P7B for finishing in 5th position overall. We have finished in 7th position overall which was quite good, but hope to put even more effort into the next Sumdog Challenge, if at all possible.
• Basketball with David was super fun and on Thursday we have tried girls v girls and boys v boys, since we have always played with mixed teams and lots of us had been complaining a lot about not touching the ball, especially the girls…
• Our spelling words this week were really challenging and, exceptionally, we didn’t have time for our Weekly Spelling Assessment, which was unfortunate.

Mrs Valente’s highlights were:

• Watching us perform the Twelfth Night in the Hall.
• Watching us presenting the 1st Advent Service.
• Our Enrolment on Pope Francis Faith Award – Father Kevin kindly came to our Area where he has explained many things about this journey and at the end he gave us the opportunity to ask him all kinds of questions, some related to his vocation and others completely personal. We got to know him much better, he was nice and calm and seemed to be having a good time being with us!

We congratulate Cohen for being the Reading Champion of the Fortnight!📚🏆🥇

We also congratulate Cohen, Georgia, Aaeryn-Leigh and Amelia for having the best table!🏆

The Hot Chocolate of the Week will be awarded on Monday because some of us were not in class at the end of the day, since Mrs Brown had asked for our help with her class!

That’s all for today, we wish everyone a super duper weekend with lots of fun and cuddles!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

We have had a busy few weeks preparing for our Enterprise Event.

We were at Hopetoun House 2 weeks ago and got to see what it was like to be a servant in Victorian Times. We got to dress up and even our grownups had costumes. We also played some Victorian games in the old stables.

Last week was Book Week and we had some plays to work on. We put on a show for the area and shared all our acting skills.

We have begun practising our Scottish dancing in preparation for our Christmas parties. We are working with P3 and doing the flying Scotsman, Canadian barn dance and the Military two-step.

Today we led the area in the first Advent Service.

We are really looking forward to sharing our crafts and decorations with our families next week.

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s an update on some of the things P7 have been doing this week:

“We played a lot of Sumdog because it was the West Lothian Sumdog Contest. Mr McGurn said we’d get a special prize if we made it into the Top Ten Pupils list or if we do all 1000 questions! I was so pumped that I did all the questions in 2 days. Unfortunately, I wasn’t in the top ten at the end of the week. I was 1st for a day though and got a prize for finishing all 1000 questions,” reports Benita.

Paige said, “Some of us performed The Tempest for the Upper Area and we watched their performances of other Shakespeare plays too. We all loved it because it was so much fun.”

“I enjoyed doing the practice SNSA on Maths and English. I think it will help me a lot with the real SNSAs which we will do next week,” said Daniel.

Mariam said, ” PE was Scottish Country Dancing- it was OK, the other P7 class joined us on the Thursday (not my fav) but it was fun and we did progressive dancing. Only 3 pairs of boys and girls were brave enough to dance together but they received a prize for giving it a go so maybe more will join in next time.”

The Over and Above winner this week was Daniel but we ran out of time at the end of the day so he will receive his Hot Chocolate on Monday.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7B.

Hello P2 families,

We have had a lovely week starting ceilidh dancing.

Practising the Canadian barn dance.

We continued practicing time and counting in tens.

We practised our phonics outside!

We have loved celebrating St Andrews day!

Our reading champion is Emilio this week

Our hot choc winner is Arush

Great job this week P2!

Weekly highlights

I enjoyed free writing – Martha

Doing greater than and less than – Alfie

Doing ceilidh dancing – Zenith

Learning about Advent at assembly- Hallie and Joseph
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We have had a very exciting week in P1A finding out our roles for the Nativity. We have started putting our performance together and can’t wait for our families to come and see it.

In literacy this week we learned two new sounds, f and b. We worked really hard to form the letters and to use them to build words. We tried really hard to write a simple sentence using a capital and a full stop.

In maths we have been doing lots of addition work, using concrete materials and part-part-whole strategy. We have also been learning some more about coins and worked hard to count how many 1p coins were in the jar.

This week we learned all about trains, comparing trains today to those in the past. We also started to learn about boats and worked hard to design our own boat.

With St Andrews Day coming up on Sunday, we learned who St Andrew is and enjoyed making our own saltire flags. We were all very excited to celebrate St Andrews together trying some Irn Bru and shortbread.

This week we have been celebrating Book Week Scotland. We all got a special Book Bug Bag and we have been doing lots of different activities linked to each book.

For Holey Moley, we had to match the rhyming words and we designed our own Mole Hotels. We also made pictures of trees using green triangles that matched the pictures in the book.

For One Goose Two Moose, we measured how tall we were with ice creams and even designed our own dream ice cream. We had the Ice Cream Olympics during PE and we had great fun. On Thursday we went for a walk to Morrisons with P1A and we bought ice cream.

For My Pet Star, we drew our own pet and wrote a sentence. We had some very creative ideas, including a pet rainbow and a piranha. We talked about the importance of sleep and designed our own pyjamas. We also talked about day and night and sorted different routines.

Throughout the week we have been reading in lots of different places. We went to the staffroom, our buddies’ classroom and Mrs McKissack’s office. We also got to spend some time reading with our P5 Reading Buddies.

On Friday, it was lovely to have our families in for our Book Week Assembly. We had lots of fun decorating a star, making moose antlers and going on a rhyming word hunt.

The highlight of Book Week was getting to eat our ice cream!

Congratulations to Oliver, who is our Hot Chocolate Winner. He has been listening and following instructions well and did a fantastic piece of writing.

What a fantastic week he have had.  This week we celebrated Book Week Scotland we were so excited to find two boxes covered in shiny silver paper on Monday morning.  We opened them to find our P1 Book Bags.  This week we have completed lots of activities related to the books.

‘Holey Moley’ we looked at rhyming words and we completed rhyming activities.  We drew triangle trees to represent the forest.

‘My Pet Star’ – we discussed how the star felt, we looked at our bedtime routines and also the difference between day and night.

‘One Goose Two Moose’ – we mearured our height using ice cream cones, we went to Morrisons to buy ice cream and we practised the Green Cross Code.  We sorted safe and unsafe places to cross the road.  We started to look at coins and had to choose the right coins to pay for ice creams.  We also tried to make our own ice cream.

On Tuesday we had our outdoor session in Deans Woods with Kids Go Wild.  We have a great morning were we went on a zip line, slack line and also got to use hammocks.  We played in dens and also had free play time.  It was cold but we had a great time.

Today our families came to our P1 Book Week Scotland Assembly and helped us complete tasks related to our Book Bug books.  We had lots of fun and after playtime we got to eat the delicious ice cream we bought in the shop.

Our Weekly Highlights:

Flo ‘I enjoyed going to Morrisons’

Conall ‘I loved eating the ice cream’

Ini ‘I loved getting my Book Bag’

Marley ‘ I loved the hammocks’

Marcel ‘I liked playing in the dens’

Mrs Russell – ‘I loved watching you all grow in confidence and try new things in our Outdoor Session this week.  I was so proud of you all’.

Well done to St Francis House group our winners this week and congratulations to Ini our Hot Chocolate winner!

Hello P2 families

We have had a great book week with our two books Barbara Throws a Wobbler and The Ballard of cactus Joe which we have really enjoyed.

With our first book we discussed how we may feel when we have a wobble. We created our own squishy toys.

We discussed how we feel when we have a wobble and created a survey as a class.

We then created our own wobblers.

With our second book we read it with our reading buddies.

We made hats for ourselves just like Cactus Joe.

We created our own cactus which we went on a hunt for!

We have had a lovely week with all the activities using our new books.

Our hot choc champion this week is Guhan Kamar, well done for working so hard and always helping friends.