St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello families of P5B!

I hope you all had a restful October Holiday.  It was so lovely to see the children again after our break.  A few of them have sprouted up!  Here are our highlights this week as recorded by the Red table (due to a few absences at the red table, each child shared 2 learning highlights this week):

Rowan loved to hear about our new topic called Enterprise!  He also enjoyed PE outdoors where we practised our ball shooting skills (the children were amazed to see Mrs Brown score!) and played some co-operative games, as well as something called The Line Game (the children taught me this favourite of theirs that they play with Mrs Lafftery).

Kasper enjoyed recounting The Battle of Sterling Bridge through the medium of a comic.  Once the colouring is finished, P5 will now have created their own newspaper and comic book about The Scottish Wars of Independence!  The children were tasked to show the clever strategies used by William Wallace and Andrew Moray that led to Scotland’s victory.  He also liked researching some autumn art ideas for our next art lesson.

Cohen loved listening to ‘Home’, a song he sang in the talent show in the past (a memorable performance with some great dance moves if memory serves me correct) and handball during PE on Friday.  The children are preparing for an upcoming handball festival.

Jayden has been enjoying our mindfulness breathing exercises that we started this week.  We do them each morning, after break and after lunch to help us regulate and get us reading for our learning ahead.  He also liked to hear about our new topic.

My highlight was our lovely Autumn walk.  Both P5 classes enjoyed collecting leaves and seeds and then later used Google Lens to identify them.  We discovered that the tress on the way down to Eliburn Park from our school, consist of Maple, Oak, Beech and Pine trees.  Over the weekend and next week for an optional homework task, the children are invited to collect some leaves from trees near their home.  We hope to find some from Birch, Horse Chestnut, Larch, Rowan, Spruce and Sycamore trees.

Congratulations to Ella, our hot chocolate award winner!

I hope you enjoy the weekend.  The first 2 pic collage photos below are from the week before the holidays.

Mrs Brown

We had a great week back after our October holidays.

This week we looked at the sound ‘n’, we worked on formation of n and the sound it makes.  We recalled things that begin with n and also worked on sorting pictures that begin or end with the sound ‘n’.  We also completed some word building of cvc words with magnetic boards.

In maths we looked at dot patterns for 3,  4 and 5, what patterns the children could see and then they had to circle them to show facts of 3, 4 and 5.  We also looked at addition within 5.

We started our new topic Dinosaurs, we discussed what we already knew a

bout them and what we wanted to learn.   We looked at when dinosaurs were alive and where they lived.  We also looked at dinosaurs and their names.

In writing we built a simple sentence. We introduced the writing targets and we will try and remember to include these in our written.  Capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop at the end of our sentence.

We listened to the story ‘Christopher Pumpkin’ and then we drew our own pumpkin and wrote a sentence about it.  In Art we created our own Pumpkin Patch by using different coloured paper.  Our finished pumpkins looked amazing and are displayed proudly outside our classroom.

We read the story ‘Pumpkin Soup’ and we got to help carve real pumpkins and explore them. We completed an activity related to it in our Literacy jotter.

In Religion we listened to the ‘Hail Mary’ prayer and know that Mary was Jesus’ mother.

Today we had our Outdoor Learning session.  We gathered autumn leaves and created hedgehog and leaf pictures.  We also used cutters to create shapes and patterns on the leaves.

We also had the chance to play on the scooters and bicycles and enjoy the loose play equipment.

Have a lovely weekend everyone and enjoy the Halloween Disco if you are going.

Babafola and Nathan: We loved reading Anthony Brown’s Into the Forest  because it is easy for kids to read and there are lots of stories in this book.

John: I enjoyed finishing off our No Poverty Posters this week.

Ruari: I enjoyed picking leaves on our walk so that we could use google lense to identify which tree they belonged to.

Aiden: I enjoyed playing handball for P.E because we got to play against each other and against our friends.

Julia: I enjoyed creating my own questions about Into the Forest.

Ella: I enjoyed talking about what a successful learner is.

Everyone is excited to use team work for the enterprise project. – Aiden

Congratulations to Nathan who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week.  Your teacher is so proud of you for reading so much at home and it was fantastic to see you enjoy reading Into the Forest in class.  It has been one of the best moments of primary five so far for Miss Smith.

Dear Parents,

On Tuesday at drama the class plated a game called alibies where two students went out the room to think of an alibi while the rest of us were police officers and prepared questions to ask to see if they were lying. We really enjoyed it and want to play again.

On Wednesday we did a presentation of the mock court project. We were explaining what we had been doing in last couples of weeks. After the assembly our parents came to our class rooms to earn bonus points for our project.

On Thursday we visited  a farm about to learn about grain, bees, about cutting the trees and using it for sustainable fuel, and how bees make pizza! There was a contest for guessing the weight of a tractor with logs, which weighed 11540 and I(Vijval) was only 53 kilograms off!

On Friday we started the day by looking at Ted Hughes poems. Next we wrote a recount writing plan about the farm after that we learned history about Christmas Day 1914 in WW1 in an online history lesson from St. Margaret’s Academy. Finally we had fun Friday and then we went home.

Have a great weekend from Leo, Vijval, P7A and Mr McGurn

PS This week’s hot chocolate winner was Emily Drummond

Dear readers,

We hope you are all well.

This week our highlights were:

• Our spelling work on the new words from the Nowhere Emporium.
• Continuing reading the Nowhere Emporium everyday, which is, by the way, getting more and more interesting by the day!📚
• Revising the rules on how use direct speech correctly – most of us still find this particularly hard so we  are going to continue working on this to make sure everyone can confidently do it.
• Adding 3 and 4 numbers together using the vertical layout.
• Adding up to 4 and 5 digit numbers with missing numbers.
• Our work on the Greek temples, which is simply phenomenal! The display with the temples from both Primary 6A and 6B was welcoming all the parents and carers to our Parents Evenings and we had many great comments about how amazing they were!
• PE this week was taught by the coaches of the West Lothian Football Academy and most of our children absolutely loved it!
• On Thursday we celebrated International Mental Health Awareness Day and had a whole day focus on the various factors that can contribute to mental health problems. We have also discussed all the things that can be done to help people who are feeling they are suffering with mental health problems and highlighted the importance of speaking to someone when we are not feeling well. Sharing something that is worrying us can help us feel better and that is the whole point of this day! “Are you okay?” is the name of the short film made to celebrate this day and after watching it we had a very good discussion about how important it is to watch out for the ones around us and help them in case they need. After all, one of our goals for the year is to become kinder and kinder. 💕
• In Spanish we are becoming really good at saying how old we are and what we look like.
• On Friday we had a Philosophy lesson taught by Mrs McLaughlin during which we have been asked to imagine the events behind a picture shown to all and it was very interesting to see how different our ideas were. From really dark ones… to very innocent and lovely ones!😊
• Still regarding Health and Well being we had to draw in tiny circles the 12 things that make us happy. Really happy in our hearts. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Beautiful work!
• At the very end of the week we were sad to say goodbye to our lovely Ayat who will be moving house and school and so we have prepared some very special gifts for her to take and always remember about us.😥She also received the Saint John Ogilvie medal🥇 to remind her that, once part of the SJO Family, you will always be a part of the SJO Family! Of course we have wished her all the luck and best wishes for her new journey and said we hope to see her again soon!
• We have all nominated Ayat to be our Hot Chocolate of the Week and she seemed very happy about that, which was lovely!🏆😍🥰
• Once again, the best, tidiest table was Jude, Layla, Ishani M and Daniel A’s and we congratulate them once more for that! Well done!👏👏👏👏✨✨✨✨🏆🏆🏆🏆

That’s all for now, we say goodbye wishing everyone a healthy, peaceful and happy October break with lots of love and good things happening!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

Dear Parents,

Here’s what P7 have been up to this week in their learning journey…

On Monday we did Autumn art. We also learned the feast days of Mary.

On Tuesday we did a information report about sharks.

On Wednesday we grammar in literacy. And Mock Court in the afternoon.

On Thursday for literacy we did comprehension about the book we were reading for weeks – Kensuke’s Kingdom. Then next we watched the movie of Kensuke’s Kingdom to find if it is similar to the book we were reading about.

On Friday we did online transition for St Margaret’s. We met the English teacher in St Margaret’s called Mr Boyle and did a fun book quiz.

This is what we’ve been doing for the week.

Have a great holiday from Ashlyn, P7A and Mr McGurn

PS Carina won Hot Chocolate this week and we wish her the very best of luck for her new life in Australia!