St John Ogilvie Primary School

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.

Hello P3 families!

Apologies for delay in posting the blog.  I hope all the mums had a very special Mother’s Day and enjoyed your card and gift.  The children worked extra hard on these to make them special.

Here are the highlights from ‘Livingston’:

Izhaan liked our outdoor learning where the children had the task of working as part of a team to create the Highway Rat (our Word Boost story) using natural materials.  They had to meet a success criteria.

Navami loved when we celebrated the life of our school patron saint, St John Ogilvie.  Mrs McKissack kindly bought the whole school some crisps and juice!  The children attended a lovely service led by Fr Kevin.  The infant classes joined virtually and the singing was so beautiful!

Ollie and Joseph both report that they enjoyed Rounders during PE.  The children also have been continuing to practise their balance control by bouncing a ball and moving along a bench with a beanbag on their head.

Alex said the highlight of his week was Spanish on Friday.  I wonder why that was Alex?  Might it be because mummy was your teacher for that lesson? 🙂

Oscar, Eliza and Mrs Brown’s highlight was making the Mother’s Day gifts.  Each child wrote very personal things about their mum.  It was so lovely to read what made them laugh, their favourite colour etc.

Congratulations to Joseph, our Hot Chocolate champ!

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘ng’ and ‘ee’. We can recall lots of words that have these sounds.  We have been practising writing these sounds.

In Topic, we have been learning all about Fireflies and Bee. We learned about the life cycle of a Firefly and listened to lots of interesting facts about them.  We made our own Bee which we have displayed on our topic wall.

In Maths we have continued learning about o’clock using digital and analogue clocks.

In PE, we have been practising our catching and throwing skills.  We are getting very good at this.

On Tuesday, we celebrated the Feast Day of St John Ogilvie.  We learned about he life of St John Ogilvie and we practised the chorus of the hymn ‘St John Ogilvie’.  We got a special treat as well.

On Wednesday, we had a session with the school nursing team all about handwashing. We got to put special ‘germs’ on our hands and look at them under a special light. We then had to wash our hands and look under the light again to see if we had done it properly.

Our Weekly Highlights

Ini ‘I loved learning about Fireflies’

Mashal ‘I enjoyed playing at the craft table’

Marcel ‘I liked making the bee’

Amelia ‘I liked playing’

Willow ‘I liked learning about handwashing’

Congratulations to Monika our Hot Chocolate winner this week. Well done to Ini, who is our Reading Champion this week. She has been trying hard to read her reading book.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.