St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello families!

I don’t know about home, but this week for us has passed so fast!

We have had a packed week full of fun learning! We started looking at multiplication strategies which the children loved! Reesa and Georgia-Rose went on a school tour to showcase their fantastic new learning! We have been developing our strategies (repeated addition and skip counting) using the four times table.

For STEM the children have loved our ‘Tuff Challenge’ using screws and bolts and putting their innovation and critical thinking in action! Ishaan liked creating a helicopter and Lilly created a cutting device!

The children have been working together during our collaborative working time! They choose their learning and have been creating their own Kahoots – all independently! I was very impressed! TJ loved helping his classmates with Minecraft education! Fantastic!

Mahathi, Elvin and Aaron enjoyed making habitats for small animals using Lego! They are doing so well on our global goals journey!

The class loved discussing their rights, they even love shouting “we have rights” out loud! They want the world to hear! They sorted the A-Z of rights and created a poster with the rights associated with their name! “We have the right to a name” – Ciara!

They have been creating their pupil heroes, using cut outs and different materials for literacy and technology! They made an huge mess! But we’re VERY quick to clean it up! So much so the cleaning staff commented on how sparkling the classroom was!

In literacy, we are looking at developing sentences! This week we focused on joining sentences together with “and, but, so or because”. We linked this to our first level targets!

well done P3! Keep up the great work!

Hello P3A families,

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

Ollie said the learning highlight of his week was tracing around the outline of a map of West Lothian.  Ollie did a super job and concentrated very hard to record the town names and the 2 motorways and train line that runs across West Lothian.

Ethan loved music with Mrs Morrison when the class learned some songs and stories about heroes of Troy.

Rory LOVED a game we played to learn how many days were in each month of the year.  The children got in to a circle and each child had to say one word that collectively made up the memorable rhyme, “30 days has September, April, June and November”….etc.  If the child got their word wrong, they were out.  Rory was part of the group of winners!  Well remembered Rory!  Next week’s maths homework will involve going over this memorable rhyme.

Alicaj enjoyed gymnastics and reported that her favourite movement was the ‘bridge’.

Chahiti has been enjoying our new starter activities in the morning that keep the children productively busy while dinners and daily emotion check-ins take place.  The starter activities this week included a choice of 3.  1. An activity about our new daily common word, 2. An activity that reinforced learning from our Number Talks, or 3. The daily number challenge.

Caleb liked this week’s Word Boost story, Black Dog and his favourite word was ‘demand’.

My highlight was the discussion P3A had about what our new role-play area could be.  We had some super ideas but decided to go with Angel’s idea of creating a West Lothian visitors centre!  The children traced maps and are currently working on gathering research that will then feed into leaflets that we will make next week about: transport, hotels, restaurants, famous people, landmarks and the history of West Lothian.  The children are very enthusiastic about the visitor’s centre!  Their enthusiastic is infectious!  Thank you Angel for this great idea!

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

Lead Learners were Diana and Chahiti.  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:

Diana – “I enjoyed checking everyone was behaving in the cloakroom.”

Chahiti – “I liked the story, ‘Going on a Train’ and answering the questions.”

Regards

Mrs Brown

Good afternoon dear Readers,

Welcome to P5A’s first blog of 2024.

We hope you are all well and wish you all a very good year.

This week, the highlights were:

• Our Big Spelling Assessment.
• Going to Deans Community High School for our swimming lesson.
• Continue practising our Human Football game.
• Beginning to work on God’s loving plan with the story of Creation, that we have read, discussed and illustrated in groups.
• The visit of the RRS team from Unicef to see how well we know the Rights of the Child in our school.
• Starting to learn about decimal numbers, their value in a number and how to order them in a number line. We have also started to learn how to turn decimal numbers into fractions.
• Also regarding the Rights of the child, we have listened to the beautiful and moving speech ‘I have a dream’ from Martin Luther King. All the children were very interested to learn more so we have studied his biography and became big admirers of his achievements. The children were so moved by what they have learned that they have written their own ‘I have a dream’ speeches, which some of them have asked to say to the class. They were beautiful!🥰
• We have also learned many things about the Scots language, its origins, where it is spoken and why is it not spoken everywhere in Scotland. At the end we have finished by writing our own sentences including the Scots words that we have learned and it was very funny reading them!

Finally, we would like to congratulate our 1st Hot Chocolate of 2024, Miss Baibua and our Hot Chocolate of this week, Miss Hannah! Super well done for both! Keep working hard!🥇🥇🏆🏆👏👏

That is all for now, we say goodbye wishing all of you a lovely weekend and a good week ahead.

P5A and Mrs Valente😊😘

Hello Families of P2

This week the boys and girls had a great idea to create a class Cafe. They did all of the planning, creating and setting up – showing off all of their amazing skills! Our Cafe is called Flower Cafe and it serves delicious drinks, cakes and snacks. We even made our own cooker!

In numeracy this week, we continued work on subtraction and began working with money. We learned all of the coins and notes up to £20. In literacy we learned new sounds ‘oe’ and o-e’ and wrote some super predictions about our new reading books.

Weekly Highlights

Faye – I liked learning about money.

Summer – I liked learning the ‘oe’ sound.

Cameron – I liked writing about our school,

Samuel – I loved making and playing in the Flower Cafe. I made a menu for it.

Olga – I liked doing the cafe and learning coins.

Joshua – I liked doing take away in maths.

Luca – I liked the Burns poems.

Have a lovely weekend!

Term 3 Overview

On Monday, we brought in the cups of water we had left outside and they had frozen. We loved touching the ice and we put it in the water tray so we could play with it. We were very good at using the words solid and liquid.

This week we have been continuing our work on subtraction. We are able to say different words for take away and we have shown confidence in using different strategies to solve the sums. We got special workbooks to show our learning and we used the ten pin bowling to learn to subtract from 10.

In Literacy, we have been learning the z and w sounds. We also started our Reading Books and Miss Stebbing was very impressed by how well we listened and tried to read the sentences. We wrote a sentence about what people were doing in a Winter Scene and we were able to check our work with the Writing Targets.

In RE, we learned about the Bible being a special book and we learned to be respectful of it. We remembered to bow our heads before we picked up the Bible from our altar.

As part of our Topic work, we read the story ‘Hamish McHaggis and The Clan Gathering’. We learned about what a Clan is and we made our own tartan. We put all the tartan designs together to make our own Clan Banner.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Leah – I liked playing in the vets.

Posy – I like doing the take away sums.

Rudhvick – I liked playing with the ten pin bowling.

Maksymilian – I liked playing in the area at the block play.

Vikashini – I liked drawing.

Dawid – I liked tidying up.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of everyone when they were using their strategies to complete the subtraction calculations.

Well done to Rudhvick who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.

Dear Parents,

This week was a fun one, and it starts on Monday when we made our homework for the week (hopefully everyone did it!) for spelling. Then we had Religious Education, opening up with a service prayer then some bible work on Jesus and women. Then we did some Numeracy by doing number talks and Algebra in textbooks. Then a little bit of ERIC reading, nothing special. After that we all did our topic, the activity was to research famous Scottish Authors. Finally we did Gymnastics for PE.

On Tuesday we did some work on speech marks for grammar. After that we all wrote a plan for a poem using the Burns Stanza we learnt last week for writing. After snack time we did some Algebra textbooks for Numeracy. We did ERIC reading after lunch. Then we did Music with Mrs Morrison as our teacher. To finish off we continued food and drink for French.

On Wednesday we did our poem: Address to a Burns Supper for writing. After snack we did RLPS (Real Life Problem Solving) for Numeracy. Then we did some light ERIC reading after lunch. Then we all practiced our Burns Recital for Topic. Finally we gave up our PE time to the P6’s so we went outside and ran about a bit.

On Thursday we did some Comprehension on our book ‘The Last Wolf’. Then we did Health and Wellbeing with Mrs Morrison. After snack we worked on the volume of a shape for numeracy. Then we did some more ERIC reading. After that we did some Spanish with Mrs Broadly as our teacher. Finally we did Charles Rennie Macintosh art.

On Friday we did some work on our Rights for HWB. We all had a Teams meeting with the St. Margaret’s art teacher for transition.

Then some people did Pope Francis Faith Award. We started some new Profiling using World of Work through Glow.

Then after it we hade fun Friday.

Signing off,

Myles, P7a Lead Learner.

P.S. This week’s Over and Above Hot Chocolate at Home winner was Joshua, who made a great job of sorting out the Netbook cabinet and helped lots over the week.

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 7A.

Hello all, this week primary 4b have had great fun! In our literacy we have begun looking at information reports and had a shot at writing an information report in groups of 4 all about SJO! Our spelling this week focussed on the ‘lk’ pattern and the children did some great activities to learn their words.

In our maths this week, we have been  focussing on multiplication and using the written method to work out two-digit by one-digit multiplication sums. We had 4 stations of activities to practice multiplication, a teacher station where I would work with each group on a small scale, an iPad station where children played games relating to multiplication, an active station with an active maths multiplication game, and a work station where children did sums in their jotters. The children, in groups of seven, moved around the four stations over two days, spending twenty minutes at each station. We did a survey at the end where the pupils gave their opinion on what we did and gave suggestions on how we could change it to improve next time, and what they liked/enjoyed. the feedback was mainly positive with some suggestions on changing things for next time!

Our topic we are beginning this term is recycling, today we watched a video clip all about recycling and discussed what recycling is and what it means. The children did a cut and stick activity of recyclable and non-recyclable items and sorted them into what is recycling and what is rubbish. Those who finished then got some time to do a bit of research and write down some facts about recycling.

In PE, we have been doing gymnastics and putting the skills we have learned into a routine. We have done cartwheels, forward rolls, tuck jumps and balances. We did a 3 step routine incorporating forward roll, cartwheel and balance. Then we did a routine where we walked along a bench, did a balance at the end, then went onto the floor and did a forward roll, tuck jump and a balance. The children were great and had fun coming up with the routine themselves.

We started our new class novel ‘the boy at the back of the class’ by Onjali Q. Raúf, about a boy who comes to a new school and is a refugee. The children made some predictions and so far have been enjoying it.

Our RE has been fun and we have had a look at ST Vincent De Paul, and highlighted facts about him on an information sheet that we like and we would like to aspire to be like.

Next week, the sacramental children will be starting to prepare for their first communion, whilst we do this, the non-sacramental children will be going to Mrs Lea’s class to look at other world religions.

Cohens highlight of the week this week was maths. He enjoyed doing his times tables and using the iPads to practice tables while playing games.

Kacpers highlight of the week was Spanish with Mrs Broadley, he loved the bingo game that we played.

Alex’s highlight of the week was PE, he liked practising cartwheels and forward rolls.

Amelias highlight oft he week this week was the same as Alex’s. She had lots of fun in PE!

Well done to our hot chocolate winner David!

Well done to our secret student winner Sean!

Have a great weekend everyone,

Miss Duddy