St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents,

This is a quick update for this week.

This week was full of activities like on Monday we did our Literacy. In Literacy we did Homophones and near homophones. After lunch we did topic which was “Into the Forest.” We looked in the book and every page was very interesting because we got to find hidden pictures with magnifying glasses. We went to the woodlands to read to our buddies for World Book Day.

On Tuesday we planned our book week competition writing. The class wrote amazing stories of them getting sucked into a book etc.  After break we did BODMAS for the first time. After lunch we did more of into the forest. We had a big paper and started drawing a page from the book.

On Wednesday we did our writing for the competition then we did music. In music we were practicing the songs for our show. Then we did more of the “Into the Forest”.

On Thursday the class did the last reciprocal reading on the A Monster Calls book. Then we did P.E with Miss Lafferty. After lunch we watched the A Monster Calls movie for the rest of the day and had popcorn and juice.

On Friday we attended mass with Father Simon and we got to have extra break because of St John Ogilvie Feast Day and we got to have cake and extra fun Friday.

Congratulations to…

For winning hot chocolate this week!

Here is a few thing P7 have to say for this week:

Tanvi- I enjoyed BODMAS and when the new boy came in.

Katie- I enjoyed reading with our buddies it was the best!

JJ- I enjoyed watching “A Monster Calls” but I liked the book more.

Lily – I enjoyed auditioning for the p7 show and the big drawing we coloured in!

Have a great week everyone!

From Lead Learners Riley and Zahra and P7A and Mr McGurn

This week we have taken part in our School Book Week and have completed lots of different learning tasks. Our main focus has been on a book study of The River by Tom Percival. We learned about the names of the parts of the river and labelled a diagram to show these. We then wrote super sentences about the parts of the river. In maths, we have been learning about tally marks and we used this to make a graph about our favourite season. We also learned about animals that live in and around rivers. We drew pictures of these animals to put on our display. We have been learning the ’ee’ sound this week and we wrote ‘ee’ words in a tree.

As part of our Book Week, we went up to the Woodland Library with our Buddies. It was great fun reading the books in the woodland. We also took part in a Book Champion activity and each day we read two books and voted for our favourite one.  Each day we watched the Masked Reader and tried hard to think about which member of staff it was. Some days it was very easy and some days it was more challenging!

On Wednesday, we went to visit Fr Simon at St Peter’s Church. He showed us all the different parts of the church. We were very respectful and all the staff were very proud of us. When we got back to school we drew pictures of the things we could remember seeing in the Church. We made sure we had lots of detail, even down to the drawing the glass of water Fr Simon had.

On Friday, we celebrated the Feast Day of St John Ogilvie. We listened well during Mass and we got some cake to celebrate, it was delicious!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Joshua – I enjoyed doing the masked reader.

Connor – I enjoyed doing the Book Challenge.

Filip – I enjoyed playing in the vets.

Olga – I enjoyed drawing the river animals.

Harald – I enjoyed doing the book challenge.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of everyone when we went on our visit to the Church and also during the Mass to celebrate our School Feast Day.

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

Hi P6B families,

Our highlight for this week was definitely our trip to West Lothian college for the sustainability learning event. We all got up to different and exciting activities.

Group 1 – Scottish Owl Centre and making tote bags out of old t-shirts.

Group 2 – Virtual reality and Romany cube art.

Group 3 – Romany cube art and virtual reality.

Group 4 – Foodbanks and t-shirt tote bags.

We have also been busy with a lot of reading activities to continue our Book Week. We started a book study where we have been exploring and deepening our understanding of Into the Forest by Anthony Browne, we took part in a book tasting in which we tried out different books to see what we enjoyed most and we had the lovely opportunity to join P2B in the woodlands for an outside library session where we read stories to the younger children.

Well done everyone for another successful, busy week!

This week’s hot chocolate winner was Sophia! Sophia has been continuing to try hard and is always looking for ways to help others.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and see you on Monday!

Miss MacGregor

We have had another great week in P1. All the children have been working hard and showing us their fantastic learning.

This week in Literacy we have been doing activities linked to the book ‘The River’ by Tom Percival.

Aaron – We learned about the lifecycle of a tree.

Luca – We looked at rivers. They can be angry and calm.

Enso – We did writing about a river.

Faye – We used tally marks to count our favourite season.

Martyna – We made a pictogram of our favourite season.

Rose – We learned about frogs.

Faye – We learned about the lifecycle of frogs.

This weeks focus sounds were ‘ee’ and ‘ai’.

Victoria – We made snails because the sound ‘ai’ in the middle.

We went to St Peters on Wednesday to visit Father Simon.

Enso – He showed us Jesus on the cross.

Faye – There were statues.

Aaron – We saw a statue of Mary.

Today, we attended virtual mass for St John Ogilvie Feast Day. We had a fun day playing games and eating cake.

This week begins Fair Trade fortnight.  We looked at the Fair Trade logo and learned what it means.  We were able to spot different products with this sign looking at groceries in an online supermarket.

Pablo the Banana informed us that lots of our foods comes from many different countries around the world.  We learned how farmers grow bananas and all about the journey of bananas from the farm to our shops.  We designed posters of Pabelo telling people to buy Fair Trade.

Thursday was World Book Day and this starts a week of activities related to reading.

We read a story ‘Happy Hatchday’ and then watched the author Rob Biddulph teach us how to draw the character.  We worked very hard and Mrs Meikle was very pleased with our amazing drawings.

We read Charlie Cooks Favourite Book, spoke about our favourite books and drew the cover.  We then wrote why we liked it.

We took part in ‘Drop everything and Read’ when the bell sounded we took our book and read it.  We also made our own book marks.

This week we have been looking at doubles and doubles +1 we are getting good at recalling the answers.  We have also been practising counting in 2’s and 10’s and practising writing our numbers to 20 making sure we have no reversals.

In Religion we listened to the story ‘The Good Samaritan’ and discussed how we could be a good Samaritan and a good friend to each other.

We changed our Role Play Area in to a supermarket shop.  We had great fun buying and selling food to each other and we made some Fair Trade stickers to add to the food.

This week’s highlights

Mrs Russell ‘I enjoyed meeting Pabelo and learning all about where bananas come from and how they get to our shops’

Martyna ‘I like choosing my own learning’

Azmeer ‘I like playing with the train set’

Faye ‘I liked World Book Day’

Connor ‘I liked doing gym’

Cameron ‘I like reading’

Well done to our Hot Chocolate winner this week Faye.

Have a great weekend everyone!

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Red Table:

Ciara said that the best part of her week, was learning that God said, “We are the greatest!”  The children were very excited to hear how special they were to God!

Amy got very excited when she saw that our carrots have started to grow already!  There is the smallest of sprouts but they are still there!

Georgia-Rose thought that our lesson on up-levelling sentences was her highlight.  The children wrote their own sentences in pairs and then swapped with another group to add adjectives.  As you know, the Literacy homework consolidated this learning.

Emily-Ann thought our World Book Day (which SJO are celebrating for a whole week) story ‘The River’ was the best part of her week.  She enjoyed listening to the story and then learning about our very own River Almond.  We saw it on Google Earth.  It is an extremely long river that flows through other towns and cities too.  We watched a video on Youtube that someone made using a drone.  We ducked down when the drone went under some bridges.  We also saw salmon swimming upstream, against the current!

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our introductory lesson for Fairtrade Fortnight.  We explored the meaning of the words ‘Fair’ and ‘Unfair’.  The children were horrified to discover that in other parts of the world, there are many inequalities.  They are eager to help the poor!  They know that one of the things they can do is to support poor farmers by helping them get a fair price for their crops so that they can feed, clothe and house their families.  Buying Fair Trade products mean that these farmers get a fair price for their crops.  They compared the taste of Fairtrade and non-Fairtrade chocolate.  They liked the taste of the Fairtrade best and hope to encourage their parents to buy more of these products, if possible.

Congratulations to Olivia, our Hot Chocolate award winner.

It has been a short yet exciting week this week.

As it was World Book Day yesterday, we introduced our new book focus:

We had a lovely discussion about the different pages as we read through it together.  We are really interested about understanding how the world works (plus it links brilliantly with our recycling topic) so we’ve done lots of geography based on the book.  We’ve looked at the planets in our Solar System, and then focused on Earth, learning about the oceans and continents and the different climate zones.  We all enjoyed singing along to the Continent Song on YouTube!

Here are some of our highlights from this week:

Layla: I liked finding the notes and rhythms with Mrs de Luen because I liked the challenge.

Amelia: I loved the Masked Reader because it was fun to guess who was behind the mask.

Alexa: I enjoyed doing PE because I enjoyed reading when the bell went.

Khael: I enjoyed doing our World Book Day Book, which is called Here We Are, Notes for living on Planet Earth.  I liked the activities.

Jude: I liked doing the climate zones because I didn’t know about them before.

Well done to Szymon, our hot chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend everyone!

Mrs Brown