St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been learning all about Bonfire Safety. We read the story ‘Firefighter Fred’s Bonfire Night Safety Show’ and then completed a quiz about what we had learned. We got all the answers correct! We then learned about stop, drop and roll and we all demonstrated this perfectly. We talked about phoning 999 in an emergency. We produced some beautiful digital art on Seesaw and make our own fireworks by cutting tissue paper.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘k’ and ‘ck’ sounds. We know that ‘ck’ comes at the end or the middle of a word and we practised spelling words with this sound on Seesaw. We made Bonfire Safety Posters in writing and produced some detailed drawings.

In Maths, we have been learning about addition. We have been focusing on number bonds of five and we are becoming more confident with this.

In RE, we learned about All Soul’s Day and made some beautiful candles for a display.

For Outdoor Learning we went into the playground with P1A. We learned how to make sparks with the flints. We all showed confidence and perseverance with this task.

Hello P2 families!

We have had a lovely week.

Practicing our new sounds.

We have been practicing our adding.

Highlights

I enjoyed the big maths beat that – Alfie

I liked doing writing – Zenith

I enjoyed our new topic in PE – Dhawan

Our reading champion is Franek

Our hot chocolate winner is Cerys

Well done!

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s an update on some of what P7B have been doing this week:

We have been learning about the Robert Taylor Incident which happened on 9th November 1979 – Ashley said, “We went to the UFO site, it was disappointing because we didn’t see anything at all. But we got a Mars bar to eat for energy when we got there. Mr McGurn kept telling us myths and he also said the mushrooms we found could be aliens!”

Some of our P7 children had qualified for a Cross-Country race held in Bathgate. Here’s what Khael said, “Even though we didn’t win we did not give up and we kept cheering for S1s and other schools.”

The boys football team had a tournament on Friday, Zac said, “In the football tournament we won every game we played.”

This week’s Over and Above  winner was Alexa! Congratulations, enjoy the Hot Chocolate!

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7B

Dear Parents and Carers,

A short week last week but lots going on.

Aiden said about our STEM maths project, “This week it was rather interesting. We made ‘Mudmaps’, it was annoying but I enjoyed it very much.”

Paige reported, “Some of us did dooking for apples – we put our head into the water and Mr McGurn splashed us! We could eat the apples if we wanted to after catching them.”

“This week we went to the fire pit and we got to learn how to use the flint and steel to make a fire. I had lots of fun doing that, I even made a fire, well, Mr McGurn helped me but still I had lots of fun!” said Benita.

“I really enjoyed playing tennis this week in PE. I wasn’t very good though.” said Daniel.

No Hot Chocolate winner this short week.

Hello P3 Families,

With all the Halloween excitement on Friday, we forgot to talk about the highlights of our week!  I hope you enjoy the photos below of our Halloween fun-packed day and our walk for Road Safety Week:

Our new, revised, monthly homework will begin on Monday 10th November.  Please look out for this in your child’s homework bag.  Reading books will continue to be issued weekly.

Best wishes,

Mrs Brown

This week we have had a pumpkin themed week! We learned about the parts of a pumpkin and completed a Seesaw task to label the pumpkin correctly. We did a Science experiment to see if the small, medium and large pumpkins float or sink. We had to make a prediction and record the results. We were very excited to take part in this experiment. We also read the story Pumpkin Soup and talked about the characters. We loved cutting open the pumpkins and using our hands, spoons and forks to see what was inside. Lots of people thought the outside of the pumpkin was lovely but the inside was disgusting! We wrote a sentence to describe the pumpkins and used our new common word ‘is’.  We also used the whiteboard pens to decorate the pumpkins.

In Literacy, we have been learning the sound ‘i’. We had a reading task where we used torches to find the word behind the pumpkin picture and then we put a spider on the correct picture on our sheet. It was great fun!

In Maths, we have been learning about estimating and we had to make a sensible estimate on the number of pumpkin seeds on the board.

We all agreed the highlight of our week was our Halloween morning. We made necklaces and ghost puppets, took part in apple dooking and had fun dancing and playing the Halloween Corners Game in the hall with P1A and P2.

Congratulations to Tejasvi who is our Reading Champion for this fortnight. He has shown confidence in reading common words.

Dear Readers,

We hope you are all very well.

Here are this week’s highlights:

• Our new spelling ‘animal; words for the week, finding out where those animals come from, what they look like and practice the spelling of their names throughout the week. We also absolutely love the weekly spelling assessment and get all excited by it!
• The story of Our Lady of Fatima and her six apparitions in Portugal to Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta, three little shepherds, in 1917. Since the last apparition was exactly on the 13th of October, we celebrated its 108th anniversary by learning all about it. We were particularly amazed by the Miracle of the Sun and even got to draw it! They looked beautiful! 💕
• The Outdoor Session with Kids gone Wild where we have had the chance to try lots of new things in the woodlands, including a zip line and hammocks! It was really cool and we were there for the whole morning, having fun and being active!
• Football with Steve and his helpers where everyone has had the chance to play!
• Gardening in our school grounds, making them much nicer and organised!
• Learning all about angles, how to name them, how to use the protractor to measure them and how to classify them according to the different types of angles. We have also enjoyed our work on full turns, half turns, quarter turns and three quarter turns.
• Learning about Personification and how it is a tool to make our writing more interesting and fun.
• Praying a Decade of the Rosary every day, while thanking Our Lady for all the good things She gives us and asks Her Son Jesus to give us.
• Big Maths, Beat That was super exciting as well, especially because this week three of us went up another level! Well done Adya, Ksawery and Vinayakarthik!😊🥇
• Congratulations again to Adya for being a super duper sweet and caring Hot Chocolate of the week! Keep it up and continue being amazing!🥇😍
• Because today was the final day of the 1st Term, it was time to count our Harry Potter Houses Points and…………… Slytherin won with 90 points! Absolutely amazing! Congratulations to all Slytherins and keep up the fantastic work! But give other houses a chance to win as well, please!🤣All Slytherins won an exclusive Harry Potter foldable ruler to reward them for their great achievement and the Slytherin House flag was put over our classroom’s door for everyone to see!
• Finally, we really enjoyed dress down day and having the opportunity to wear our favourite clothes while we were at school!

Mrs Valente’s highlight of the week:

• Looking at Slytherin’s boys and girls happy faces while celebrating their victory!😍🏆
• Watching the way we all had fun playing together in the Woodlands and also how brave we were when trying to do new things we didn’t feel comfortable doing before! 😊

That’s all for now, we hope you have enjoyed reading our post and wish everyone a great holiday week!

P6B and Mrs Valente😘😘

What a busy week we have had in P1B!

We have been learning all about numbers to 20. There was a spider covering up the number and when we said the right answer the spider ran away! It was very funny.

In Literacy, we have been learning the ‘n’ sound. We have been using a spinner game to practice reading words and our letter formation.

In Science, we used all our senses and made popcorn. We then tasted different flavours and made a bar graph to show our favourite.

In PE, we had a football session. We played Hungry Hippos Football Style and we even got to steal footballs from the other goals.

In Art, we followed instructions to draw a pumpkin.

We have also been learning about Self Assessment. We had to choose our favourite piece of Literacy work from this term and put a photo on Seesaw. We then recorded a sentence about why we thought this was our best piece of work.

Here are some of our personal highlights from this week:

Grace – I enjoyed reading.

Niall – I enjoyed tasting popcorn.

Aayat – I enjoyed making the pumpkins.

Amelia- I enjoyed doing Literacy.

Hanna – I enjoyed reading a book.

Aria – I enjoyed doing the football at PE.

Congratulations to Alayha who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. She has been trying hard to write her numbers the correct way and showed confidence in saying the sounds.