St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been learning all about where our food comes from. We learned about how eggs are sorted and sent to the supermarkets. It was funny to see all the different shapes of eggs. We also learned about the lifecycle of a hen and wrote some sentences about chicks. We have been trying to use the word ‘and’ in our sentences.

In maths, we have been revising our strategies for subtraction by playing lots of games. Our favourite was Ghost Blasters. We also played Eggs to Order to help us put the numbers in order and we had to check carefully as there were some numbers missing.

We now have a Garden Centre Role Play area in the classroom and we have been working together to grow different flowers. Some people also chose to make signs and prices for the different items.

For phonics we looked at words with the ‘ou’ and ‘igh’ sounds. We can use vowel house to help us if we are not sure what sound we need. We played a spinner game and had to write the words for the pictures it landed on.

We are counting down the days until our trip to Mill Farm and we are very excited!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Vasilisa – I enjoyed playing in the Garden Centre.

Darragh – I enjoyed playing with the blocks.

Joshua – I enjoyed playing with the letter beads.

Connor – I enjoyed doing the take away sums.

Filip – I enjoyed drawing on the whiteboards.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed with everyone writing the words with ‘igh’. They tried very hard to make sure they were using the correct sounds.

Congratulations to Olga who is our hot chocolate winner this week.

We’ve had a very productive week!

We have learned more about fractions this week.  We can now identify, compare and order fractions up to tenths and we have started learning about equivalent fractions, which are equal, but have different numbers of parts. We can also find fraction on a number line.

We have written an information report about recycling to share with you at home.  We have used our core and genre targets to help us with our reports so we could make our information reports even better.  We were aiming to inform you what recycling is, how to do it and why it is important.

Highlights:

Paige: I liked drawing the tree in art with Mrs Lea.

Szymon: I enjoyed doing fractions with Mrs Brown.

Matteo: I was astonished that we could make our own information report about recycling because information reports are one of my favourite types of writing.

Layla: I liked doing music with Mrs de Luen but I didn’t like that it was her last day.

Ashley: I enjoyed writing because I could write about recycling.

Well done to Feranmi, our hot chocolate winner.

Thanks,

Mrs Brown

P2 had a super (if windswept) day at the farm!  We saw lots of different farm animals and crops. I think everyone will sleep well tonight as we did a lot of walking!  We also sang one of our assembly songs, ‘The Seed Song’ to the sheep who joined in!  I hope you enjoy the photos below:

Hello P6B families,

Our highlights:

– In Maths we started investigating volume and understanding how to accurately use the formula to calculate the volume of 3D shapes.

– We have been learning about the place that an organism has in each ecosystem through exploring food chains and consumers and producers.

– We enjoyed our class visit to the library on Wednesday afternoon. Gracie, Amelia and Urwa loved finding topic related books and were very happy when we got to bring back some books to school.

– Everyone loved going to the nursery on Thursday afternoon to see and play with the younger children.

Well done to Akash who was this weeks hot chocolate winner – Akash has been incredibly helpful in his ‘reader leader’ role and ensured that all tasks for Book Week went smoothly across the school. Excellent leadership!

Have a lovely weekend,

Miss MacGregor

Dear families,

Another action-packed week has passed us by!

Our writing focus for this month is narrative. We explored some examples of narratives and thought about various techniques we would like to take into our own writing. We also highlighted some parts that we would improve and uplevel in our writing going forward. We particularly enjoyed creating our own character and detailing their appearance and personality. We are also very close to finishing our class novel, Wonder, and this week we enjoyed participating in some reciprocal reading stations to consolidate our understanding and analysis.

We have also been super busy throughout maths this week! We started our week with a scavenger hunt around the classroom and area to practice and consolidate our understanding of fractions of quantities. We are getting really confident with this concept which is fantastic. We also made some wonderful working posters to showcase our knowledge – some of us even managed to complete over 50 questions in less than 10 minutes! On Thursday we recapped and revised our understanding of equivalent fractions, it was lovely to see so many light-bulb moments and lots of learning being taken even further! We made some beautiful equivalent fraction flowers to display on our working wall, well done P5A! Alongside all of our learning around fractions, we also entered into the West Lothian Schools Sumdog competition! All pupils worked really hard both in and out of school time to improve our score and we did really well as a class.

Our Health and Wellbeing focus this week was developing our confidence. We thought about times when we might have lost our confidence and what we did to overcome this. We also reflected on someone that we admire and realised that no matter how successful they are, there have always been times when they have made mistakes and continued to carry on. As a class we have also enjoyed developing our skills in skipping throughout P.E. lessons. It has been lovely to do P.E. outside in the fresh air too!

Throughout IDL this week we have had lots of fun! On Monday we were learning all about food chains and made our very own whole-class food chain with string. We all took turns to grab a piece of string and then pass the ball to the next ‘animal’ in the food chain. As we finished, we noticed that all of us were connected in some way. This showed us that all animals and plants in the food chain are also connected. We particularly enjoyed each picking a different animal to be either a producer, predator or prey. On Thursday it was sadly too wet to go outside for outdoor learning but that didn’t stop us! Instead, we went on our very own bug hunt in the classroom, using keys to classify and find out interesting information about some bugs and insects. This was a particular class highlight.

Since it is Lent, we have been looking at different charities in R.E. Many of us have very kindly contributed towards our ‘Wee Box’ which is an appeal run by a charity called SCIAF. This week we did some research about this special charity and considered different ways of being charitable during Lent.

Our Hot Chocolate winner this week was Madeleine. She always tries her very best and shows kindness to everyone in the class. Congratulations!

Have a lovely week everyone and see you all on Monday!

Another busy week this week in P1B.

This week we have been learning the ‘ai’ and ‘oi’ sounds.  We are working very hard at blending our sounds and making words.

In topic we looked at the life cycle of a butterfly.  We linked this to our Maths and looked at symmetry and made a symmetrical butterfly using paint.  We also looked at halves of numbers and we are getting good at recalling what half of an even number is.

We drew our own butterflies and coloured them to add to our Living Things display.  We also painted trees to show the different seasons.  We discussed which was our favourite season.

Following on from learning about the life cycle of a tree we wrote sentences about trees remembering to use capital letters and full stops.

As it is Mother’s Day on Sunday for Writing this week we wrote sentences about our mum.  We worked really hard and wrote fantastic sentences about our mums.  Mrs Meikle was very impressed with our work.

We decided to change our Role Play area in to a florist.  We are making our own flowers using craft materials and starting to learn about how plants and flowers grow.

We enjoyed dressing up in the role play area and pretending we were zoo keepers, pirates and the police.

Today we helped Mrs Russell celebrate St Patrick’s Day.  We made leprechaun masks, shamrock badges and learned about the life of St Patrick.  We listened to Irish music and had a dance and Mrs Carlyle performed an Irish dance for us.

Highlights from this week:

Mrs Russell ‘I loved celebrating St Patrick’s Day with you all.  You made it very special for me’

Victoria ‘I like when it is Friday and we play the ‘Friday Song’

Martyna ‘I like doing my own learning’

Faye ‘I liked making my leprechaun’

Luca ‘I liked drawing’

Rose ‘I liked writing’

Enso ‘I liked making my shamrock badge’

Well done to Aaron our hot chocolate winner!

Thank you everyone for all your hard work this week.  Have a fantastic weekend everyone and see you on Monday.

Hello Families of Primary 2A,

We have had another wonderful week!

In Numeracy we have been learning about money, the children have enjoyed lots of fun activities identifying coins, ordering coins and adding coins to make an amount.

In Literacy we have been learning new sounds, our favourite spelling activity was writing our spelling words in shaving foam.

We have been reading the story book ‘Class Two at the Zoo’ by Julia Jarman, the children loved acting out different characters in the book. We designed enclosures to keep the anaconda safe and stop him from escaping, Primary 2A thought of such amazing ideas –  you can ask your child about their design!

In Spanish we have been learning how to say farm animals. We played lots of fun games to practise – you can ask your child if they can remember any animals (vaca, cerdo, gallina, caballo, oveja, perro).

Primary 2A made beautiful mother’s day cards using tissue paper – the children enjoyed writing special messages in their cards, they are so excited to share them with you!

Here are some highlights from pupils in Primary 2A:

“I loved decorating my mother’s day card and writing words to mummy” – Deveena, Chahiti and Diana.

“The shaving foam was so fun” – Linda

“I like learning about money, my favourite was the coin game” – Vivien

“I enjoyed playing with the zoo animals” – Ollie

“I liked going to the woodlands for outdoor learning, I found a centipede and slugs” – Riley, Rory and Caiden.

I hope you have a lovely weekend and a happy mother’s day!

Miss Roscilli

Our role play area has been changed into a Vet Surgery. We would like to say a big thank you to Ezara and Eleanor at Riverside Veterinary  Practice for giving us things for our role play area. We have loved giving the animals their injections and treating their wounds with the bandages and tape. We have been reading the posters to learn about what different animals need.

This week we have been learning about half of a quantity. We had to share the frogs between two lily pads so they both had the same amount. We also learned about estimating. Miss Stebbing had gold coins in her hand and we had to estimate how many were there. We then counted them to check.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘ai’ and ‘oi’ sounds. For the ‘ai’ sound we used spinners and we had to write the word for the picture it landed on. For the ‘oi’ sound we had gold coins with words on them in a pot of gold and we played pass the pot! It was great fun but some of us were too busy singing and forgot to pass it on.

We have been learning about the lifecycle of a frog and the lifecycle of a butterfly. We are very good at remembering the order of each one.

On Thursday, a Leprechaun had left gold coins in our classroom. We decided to make a trap to try to catch it. We worked together and we were very creative. We had a big surprise on Friday morning for St Patrick’s Day when we found a letter and some treats that the Leprechaun had left us.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Vedansh – I enjoyed making the flower bookmarks for Mother’s Day.

Olga – I enjoyed playing in the vet’s.

Connor – I enjoyed playing guess the numbers.

Lillian – I enjoyed making the trap.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed with everyone trying to spell words with ‘oi’. Everyone worked well with their partner to think of the sounds they needed.

Congratulations to Kacper who is our hot chocolate winner this week.