St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s what P7 have been learning this week.

Children taking part in the PFFA have begun writing up their Concluding Evidence in order to achieve the Award. We have 2 more weeks to get this finished before submission.

We have been working on Scottish Literature and that has involved researching a famous Scottish author who we will then present our work to each other and in writing, we have been looking at the works of Robert Burns.

PE this session is beginning with Gymnastics and we have so far completed work on rolls and jumps/leaps.

Work for our P7 show has begun with regular rehearsals which are progressing well. Your help with props and costumes over the coming weeks will be appreciated. The date of the show is now confirmed as Thursday 26th March with an afternoon and evening performance. Details on tickets will be sent out via the office closer to the time.

We have finished our two weeks block on God’ Loving Plan and the children all participated well in lessons showing a mature and respectful approach.

Our Hot Chocolate at Home Winner this week was…

Szymon – great job!

Have a Great Weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 7B

This week we read the story  The Curious Polar Bear. We then drew our own polar bears and created the Northern Lights using chalk pastels. We had great fun blending all the colours and we were so proud of the end result.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about the letters l and r. We have been using these sounds to read and write words. In writing, we wrote a sentence about a frog on a log. All the staff were very impressed at how well we sounded out the words we needed.

In Maths, we have continued our work on subtraction and learned the strategy of using a number line to help us. We enjoyed using our own mini pointers to jump back on the number line. We have also been learning to count in steps of 2.

In RE, we learned about the baptism of Jesus and as part of our work on God’s Loving Plan we spoke about how important our families are.

We have started our new topic all about Scotland. We learned where Scotland is on a world map and also plotted Livingston on a map of the UK. We used Google Earth to find our school.

In PE, we have been using the benches and mats to practise our balancing and jumping for gymnastics.

In Science, we learned about the main parts of the human body and completed a Seesaw task to label them correctly.

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Hanna – I enjoyed playing the shark game.

Mikayla – I enjoyed doing Science.

Aria – I enjoyed playing with the linking chains.

Eloran – I enjoyed playing games.

Alayha – I enjoyed colouring in.

Grace – I enjoyed doing writing.

Congratulations to Eloran, who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. He has shown confidence in writing this week and is always helpful in the classroom.

Hello,

We’ve had a fantastic start to our new topic Scotland, and the children have already shown great enthusiasm and curiosity. We have been focusing on the different famous landmarks in Scotland and why they are important to this country.

In maths this week, we’ve been learning about multiplication (2-5 timestable) with moving around the classroom to help us challenge our classmates. Our literacy work this week has centred around -ing and -ed endings. We have been identifying these in words, practising spelling patterns, and using them in their own sentences.

This week we also spent some time learning knot tying, which we have all really enjoyed. We practised making simple knots and talked about why knots are useful in everyday life, from tying shoelaces to helping in outdoor activities.

Term 3 Overview

We have had a busy week this week in P1A.  In Literacy we have been learning the sounds l and r.  We have been learning how to form the letters correctly and say and read words with these sounds.  We have completed lots of cvc buliding and lookalike words for comprehension.

In Maths we have worked on subtraction using a number line and a tens frame.  We have been practising counting in 2s, 5s, and 10s.

We started working on our new topic Our Local Area, we looked at the world map and found where Scotland was, then we looked at the UK and spoke about the countries within and we identified Scotland and where Livingston is located.

We looked at article 28  the right to education and spoke about the importance of education and why school is important.  We discussed what we like about school and how school makes us feel.  We then made a class display to show this.

Our learning highlights:

‘I liked making things’ Marley

‘I liked writing’ Ini

‘I liked counting’ Monika

‘I liked playing outside’ Paulo

Mrs Russell – ‘I loved our writing lesson and watching how well you can write your sounds and remember to use finger spaces and full stops.’

Well done to St Francis our winning house this week and Congratulations to Zahra our Hot Chocolate winner.

Have a lovely weekend everyone.

Pupil Highlights:

Diana – ‘ I liked drawing the characters from street child’

Tiwa  – ‘ I liked drawing the characters from street child too’

Caiden – ‘ I liked identifying the decimal number for tenths and hundredths as a fraction’

Alicja – ‘ I liked doing the note taking about Victorian Schools’

Laura – ‘ I liked doing the riddles’

Zion – ‘ I liked learning about how the railways changed society in the Victorian time’

Linda – ‘ I liked doing the decimal fractions’.

Aadya- ‘ I liked doing the morning brain tasks like the comprehension questions and decimal fractions’

Congratulations to Alicja for making tremendous progress in her learning, especially in her reading and writing. We are all so proud of you.

What a great first week back after the holiday period. Everyone has settled back in brilliantly.

We focused on subtraction this week and had lots of fun counting a long to nursery rhymes such as 5 Little Ducks and 5 Little Monkeys, thinking about taking 1 away from a number.

We learned 2 new sounds this week, d and g. We practiced their formation, used them to build and read words, as well as to write a sentence using a capital letter, finger spacing and full stop all by ourselves.

In topic, we spoke about and drew our favourite toy now and when we were babies. We also learned about forces, talked about toys that use push and pull and then investigated other objects that use these forces too.

We enjoyed sharing with our friends our Christmas and a gift we received. We thought about something we want to achieve this new year and made a New Year’s resolution.

Hello P3 families!

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and new year!  I missed the children very much!  We have had a few changes in class for the start of the new year.  The children have now moved seats and have new table names.  We now have table names after towns in West Lothian.  We have: Bathgate, Broxburn and Livingston (the children picked them).

This week we will hear about the learning highlights in P3 from ‘Livingston’:

Joseph enjoyed the maths work we completed on the calendar.  The children worked in pairs to create a month for our new class calendar.  They researched important dates in their month, picked 3 and inserted them in, as well as class birthdays of course!  The calendar looks very special.  Good work everyone!

Izaan and Eliza both liked our lessons on alphabetical order and early dictionary skills.  We played different games to ensure we were confident with alphabetical order and this helped prepare us for when we looked at the dictionaries.  We raced to find different sections of the dictionary and have begun to look at definitions.  We will continue with this next week and look up vocabulary from one of our previous Word Boost books.

Oscar enjoyed bench ball during PE.  This half term the children will be developing their gymnastic skills begun in P2.

Ellie liked our phonics lesson on the ou/ow sounds.  We had a practise of some of the active spelling homework tasks using these sounds.  The children had to speak riddles to their friend who had to guess the correct word.

Rahim chose Spanish as his favourite lesson.  This was with Mrs Ogruno, who taught the children the months of the year in Spanish.   Here is a link to a song that will help the children to remember:

🎶 Learn the Months of the Year in Spanish Song – Kid’s Spanish songs

Ollie’s highlight was tracing an outline of a map of West Lothian.  I was so proud of everyone for their concentrated efforts completing this task.  They then completed a key to represent the different towns.  See the photo below of those who won a prize for the neatest map.

My highlight was our lessons on our new topic.  The children are excited to learn about life on the Isle of Coll (the island that the author of the Katie Morag stories grew up) compared with West Lothian.  They came up with very interesting questions such as: How many schools are there?  What are the names of the rivers?  What types of transport are there?  What is the population?  What places of worship are there? etc.  There were 16 questions in total and over the course of this half term, they will research these questions.  After we looked at the images of the Isle of Coll, I told the children that I wanted to move there when I retire as it is so beautiful but my husband thought it would be too cold!  Ellie’s advice was, “Tell him to just wear a coat!”  Thanks Ellie, I will pass that useful advice on! 😆

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Dawid and a big, warm welcome to our new pupil, Rahim!

Those parents who opted in for homework, will have found it in their school bag on Tuesday.  Everyone will continue to have daily reading homework.  Thank you for your continued support.

I hope you enjoy your weekend!

Mrs Brown