St John Ogilvie Primary School

Our highlights In P5B  this week have been developing our shooting and dribbling skills in PE. We continued to learn more about our emotions to build our resilience and confidence. Mrs Broadley has been teaching us more about Talking and Listening in Spanish. In Science we are researching information to create a powerpoint about the solar system, famous astronauts and technology in space. It’s fun but tricky as well.

We discussed Children’s Rights which exist to protect all children up to 18 years old. We discussed how two rights may sometimes conflict with one another eg article 12 having the right to ideas and opinions but having to follow rules they might not agree with (the right to be safe) eg not being on phones or devices except for specific tasks.

This week we have begun our Consecration Journey with daily prayers sessions. The Consecration journey will consist of 33 consecutive days of readings and prayers followed on the 34th day with a Mass of celebration in church. The links for Saturday and Sunday readings will be posted on Teams as well as this blog to enable access for families who wish to participate at home. 

Consecration to Jesus through Mary: Day 6, Bishop Keenan

Consecration to Jesus through Mary: Day 7, Bishop Keenan

Primary 5 A & B were very busy during our Outdoor Learning by planting bulbs around the school grounds which (fingers crossed) will be seen by everyone next Spring.

Hello P3A families,

Here are this week’s highlights from the Red table:

Linda said that the best part of her week was the letter we wrote to the SSPCA.  In our class novel, The Twits, Mr and Mrs Twit treat animals cruelly!  We decided something had to be done about this!  So we wrote to the SSPCA in the hope that they would get arrested.  The children know that this is a fiction book and the letters are not actually being posted.  Examining letter writing is something we have looked at since we stared P3.

Grace loved looking up Egyptian keywords on the ipads.  This term, we are going to be studying The Ancient Egyptians, The Vikings and The Romans for 2 weeks each.  We started off by looking up The River Nile, the pyramids, hieroglyphics and desert on the ipads.  Grace enjoyed viewing the pyramids the best.

Tvisha enjoyed her music lesson with Mrs Morrison where the children sung a song about a treasure island.

Hafsah loved handwriting.  We joined i and g this week.

Jack, who eats and breaths football, has chosen playing a football game, similar to Subbuteo, as the best part of his week.  The children love this game so much, that we have had to introduce a timetable of when they can play it, to give those who want to, a turn.

Tadiwa absolutely loves being challenged in maths.  We have started a ‘Challenge of the Day’ maths sum.  He enjoys trying this.

Deveena loves our crafts table and this week made a dolls house.  She said this was the highlight of her week.

Jiade liked PE with me this week.  For out warm up, 4 children wore a coloured vest and had to catch the other children and put them in their corner which was marked with the same coloured cone.  The team with the most children won.  Jiade really enjoyed this game.

My highlight was our House Group activity on Friday.  The children went to different classes around the school where their House was.  Each House completed an activity of designing a super hero and giving it a super power that would help them to receive their rights.

Congratulations to Grace, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

Thank you to all parents who returned the reading book on Friday.  If you ever need more time with it, please let me know.  Just a reminder that new books will be issued on a Monday, to be returned on the Friday.   Keeping them in the homework pack provided, will keep them protected against spilled water bottles.  Literacy and Maths homework, issued through Seesaw, will go out on a Monday and due in for the following Monday (but can be submitted any time before then).

Regards

Mrs Brown

Hello P3B families!

We have had a Fantastic first few weeks of P3! We are all getting on so well and are loving getting to know one another!

We have done so much in the short time of working with one another!

During our reflections, the children have said:

“I loved making structures and working as a team in PE” – this was so much fun!

“I liked doing number lines!” – we are all doing so well!

“I liked writing about why people should come to SJO” – these are so good! The children have made some lovely points! Can’t wait to continue with this next week!

“I love our classroom!” “I loved meeting Mr Pentland” – how sweet! I have loved getting to know you all and I am so excited to continue to work together this year!

Our Hot Chocolate at Home has gone to Lilly and Ciara! You have both demonstrated exemplary behaviour; always ready, respectful and safe!

Homework:

every Monday: literacy and number – including a reading book.

Note: next week’s book will be the same as last due to ongoing assessments. Thank you for your understanding.

If you have any questions or queries, please just get in contact with me via the school office or seesaw.

some photo highlights:

Good Afternoon Families,

We have had a very busy week in Primary 2!

In Literacy, we focused on the ‘i’, ‘0’ and ‘u’ vowel sound in the middle of the word.  We also learned the ‘ig’ join in our joined up handwriting!

In Maths and Numeracy, we continued to work on 2D shape.  The children really enjoyed going on a shape hunt and were excellent at identifying shapes throughout the school. We learned to sequence numbers to 30 and worked on recognising numbers before, after and in-between.

We had our first House Group session on Friday. In these sessions the children learned all about their Rights and created their own ‘Rights’ Super Heroes.

We started our new topic this week. It’s called ‘Where in the World is Ogilvie Bear’. The children were very excited when Ogilvie Bear flew off on his first adventure to the USA.

Highlights of the Week:

Vedansh – I liked learning about 2D shapes.

Faye and Lillian – We liked it when Ogilvie Bear sent us messages and pictures of him at the airport and on the plane.

Connor – I liked free writing. I wrote about my Kuk Sool.

Vasilisa – I loved drawing.

Summer – Rose – I loved finding out that we have a prize box for the table with the most jewels.

Huge Congratulation to Rose, our hot chocolate winner!

Have a lovely weekend!

This week we have been learning how to write the numbers 2 and 3. We even made the numbers with play dough which was great fun. We have been doing lots of counting and we have been taking turns with Miss Stebbing to say the number sequences. We like it when we get to zero first!

In writing, we wrote about what we can do if someone is sad and we had lots of great ideas. We have continued our work on same and not the same by listening to sounds.

In topic, Ogilvie Bear has been visiting travel agents in Livingston Centre to plan his adventures around the world. We made him a special passport so he can go to visit different countries.  We also did our first Seesaw task to help him pack his suitcase for hot and cold weather. We even saw photos of Ogilvie Bear at the Airport and we had a great discussion about where he could go and what he had to do to keep himself safe at the airport. We are very excited to see which country he visits first!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Joseph – I liked playing with the blocks.

Alfie – I liked making the fire engine.

Dawid – I liked playing with the trains.

Sophia – I liked making a wand.

Leah – I liked playing with Sadness Spot and Happy Spot.

Miss Stebbing – I was very impressed when some of the children made their own fire engine and hoses. They put out lots of fires in our classroom!

Well done to Alfie who is our hot chocolate winner this week!

Dear Parents,

P7A had an excellent day with Mrs Ross on Monday and she reported how confidently they worked together and how capable they were.

This week we have been taking some Maths and English assessments and these will help identify targets to work on as next steps in our learning journey.

On Tuesday and Thursday we have been working on researching decades, looking at many aspects of the past from a Scottish perspective and we look forward to showcasing our work with you at an assembly at the end of October.

Wednesday we used apples donated from Mrs Meikle’s apple tree, to make apple crumbles. David and Cordelia were the biggest fans!

We also completed a practical science lesson, dissolving salt, in order to then grow salt crystals.

Mr McGurn wishes he had remembered to get the iPad out to take pictures!

On Friday we took part in house group activities and enjoyed working with pupils from P1-P7.

We also continued our ‘Frank Miller’ drama, where this week Frank was ‘…back in town!’

Well done to Josh on winning Hot Chocolate at home this week, he went Over and Above in his approach to his learning and Mrs Brown commented on how helpful he was during the House Group activities.

Great Job Josh!

Amelia says, “I was a successful learner while cooking.”

Emily says, “When we were in our house groups I helped the P1s and 2s. By doing this I was a responsible citizen.”

Elizabete says, “I liked cooking apple crumble.”

Have a great weekend and we’ll hopefully have some pictures next week.

P7A and Mr McGurn

Our highlights this week we were developing our Basketball skills in PE. We learned more about our emotions through Zones of Regulation and SHANARRI activities. This week we looked at how we can use our super powers to help others achieve/learn about their rights in the first House Group Meeting of this year.

Primary 5 A & B made apple crumble and we are writing the procedure of how to make a delicious apple crumble. In P5B some of us ate our apple crumble in class with ice cream but some of us decided to take it home. Hopefully they will enjoy it

Next week we are really looking forward to Monday when we will get our homework and earn points by completing it by Friday. We are also looking forward to our Outdoor Learning when we will be planting bulbs around the school grounds to increase biodiversity.

Hello P6A families,

It is this weeks lead learners, Inaayah and Akshaj with our class highlights of the week.

For Literacy, we created a describing bubble after exploring different ways to add description into our writing and up level our work. We will be using this for our Narrative writing going forward. For Numeracy, we have been looking at place value and working with numbers up to a million. We looked at different ways to represent numbers through the bar model, part-whole model, counters and the number line.

This week, we started our research for our topic, Ancient Civilisations. We are in groups and creating information posters from our own research on different civilisations.

In PE, we have been training for the cross country but we also got the opportunity to work on our teamwork skills by building castles out of hula-hoops. Lots of resilience and communication needed! It was a lot of fun.

The hot chocolate winner for this week was Nikola, who has always been showing our class rules.

Have a lovely weekend,

P6A 🙂