April 4, 2025
by Miss Maxwell
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P4a W/E 4/4/2025

Hello families of P4a, this week we have lots of exciting things to share with you.

On Monday we enjoyed our NYCOS music lesson. We are really enjoying this time and learning new rhythms and sounds.

Aadya said: “ NYCOS is really fun because it is a fun way to learn about music by playing games”

Throughout this week P4a have completed their SNSA assessments and have worked very hard to do so. Pupils completed a numeracy, writing and reading assessment.

On Wednesday this week we went a walk through the community and to our local Morrison’s. Here, pupils were recognising the energy and power that surrounds us in our society as we have been learning all about this throughout our new IDL topic. We even bought some ice lollies as it was a lovely hot day!

Caiden said: “I liked going to the shop with my friends and enjoyed the ice lollies too”

On Thursday we went a walk to Dechmont Law. Here, the pupils learned a lot about the UFO sighting at Dechmont in 1979 and were able to investigate this further when we came back to class. Pupils enjoyed walking up the hill at Dechmont and exploring the woodland area.

Grace said: “I had so much fun when we had our picnic and spending time with everyone in my class outside of school”

Jack said: “I liked learning about the UFO sighting and reading about it at the park on the plaque, it is very spooky”

Laura said “I liked doing the research about it in class when we came back and learning about the facts behind it”

On Friday pupils enjoyed an Easter egg hunt in our class and had great fun!

Mrs Ross from P4B brought her very own Easter bunny into school on Friday and lots of us got to see him and hold him, it was so cute!

Diana said “I really liked petting the bunny and it was super cute! Its name was Domino”

P4A pupils that are making their First Communion have their books home to complete over the holidays.

Our hot chocolate winner this week is Jack! – Well done Jack

I hope that you all have a wonderful break P4! I am so proud of all of your hard work this term. I will see you all in 2 weeks for our final term!! Can you believe it?!

Miss Maxwell 🙂

March 31, 2025
by Miss Duddy
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Primary 3 Learning Highlights 28th March

Happy Friday to all the P3 families! What a fun-filled two weeks we have had.

Over the last 2 weeks we have been learning lots of spelling sounds and patterns and been practicing all of our common words! We have been writing narrative writing stories and they have all been awesome! This week we planned our new stories which we all came up with ourselves, we will be writing these after the holidays! We had some great ideas and everyone was very creative.

We have had lots of fun with our numeracy, going outside and learning in the sun last week as well as playing multiplication board games and working in groups and independently doing sums.

Our topic ‘conservation of wildlife’ has been so much fun so far. We have been learning about different wildlife and their habitats, what it means if an animal is ‘endangered’ and which animals fall into the ‘endangered’ list. We have been thinking about the threats to wildlife and what we can do to help protect the wildlife in our local area. As a part of this, we decided to go litter picking around our school grounds to help create a clean and tidy environment for wildlife to live in. We took a lovely walk around the local area and even ventured down to the river to take a look and spot some wildlife, we seen beautiful flowers blooming and lots of creatures including bugs, birds, ducks bees and more! We have also spent some time crafting our own wildlife habitats and these were made out of anything we wanted! This included lego, cardboard, paper and craft materials and meant we had a large range of 2D and 3D creations!

In our RE we have been learning about lent and the story of Jesus on Holy Thursday, Good Friday and Easter Sunday. We have been learning how to make the sign of the cross properly and what this means.

We had an awesome joke competition two weeks ago in our school and classroom. There were lots of funny jokes and myself and Mrs Garvin had a tough time choosing the winner! We ended up having 2 winners and one of them represented our class in front of the whole school! They did awesome and I thought our joke was definitely the funniest (although I may be biased)!

Well done to everyone last week who created an Easter bonnet and brought it in, we had lots of awesome bonnets in our classroom and everyone did an amazing job!

Well done to all of our winners over the last 2 weeks!

I hope you all have a lovely weekend,

Miss Duddy.

March 30, 2025
by Mrs McKissack
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Happy Mother’s Day!

A very happy Mother’s Day to all our SJO mums. A very special message from our P7 Campers who are away from their Mums today.

March 29, 2025
by Maria Brown
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P5B Week Beginning 24th March 2025

Hi P5B families!

We have reached the last week of term already! I cannot believe we are heading towards our Easter holidays and then one more term to go! Time is flying indeed.

P5 will soon be starting to build their sustainable school model for their Climate Smart Award (if you recall, information was given about this fantastic learning opportunity during ‘Meet the Teacher’ at the start of the year). Can I request that you speak to your child over the holidays about what recyclable materials (preferably but not exclusively) they would like to use for their model and for them to bring them in upon our return. That would be a really big help. The school model will be on a board with the dimensions of 60cm by 60cm. They need materials to represent the walls, roof, grass, soil, woodland, wind turbines, playground benches etc.

Here are a few photos of some of the learning that took place this week in class (apologies but I forgot to take the notes home of what the children enjoyed this week).

My highlight was the lesson on fire lighting. It was great to see the perseverance of the children and the end result of this resilience! Well done Primary 5!

I hope you all enjoy Mother’s Day this Sunday. P5 may have something special waiting for you.

Mrs Brown

March 28, 2025
by Mrs Craig
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Primary 2 Weekly Update 28.3.25

What a fantastic week we have had in Primary 2!

A lot of the week has been spent getting ready for our assembly next Wednesday. The children are doing an amazing job and we really hope to see as many people there are possible.

The theme for our assembly is Spring and we have been learing all about the changes that take place during this season. The children have written fantastic acrostic poems about Spring, they made some beautiful Spring pictures and designed their very own Easter eggs. Here are a few examples:

Our Hot Choc winner this week was Lewis! This was extremely well deserved as Lewis has been working extremely hard in class and is always ready, respectful and safe. Well done Lewis!

We wish you all a fantastic weekend and we hope all the Mum’s have a lovely Mother’s Day on Sunday!

March 28, 2025
by wlsofia.valente@glow
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P6B – WB 24.03.25

Dear Readers,

As always, we hope you are all doing very well.😃

The highlights of this week were:

Our spelling words and weekly spelling assessment, let’s see how well we’ve done with that and if we will be able to start using those words in our writing.
Our reading comprehension on what Biomes are and the main types of Biomes.
The Information Report that we have written about Biomes and the five major types of Biomes.
Adding and subtracting decimal numbers.
Our Sumdog Spring Challenge. Unfortunately we didn’t have enough time to put into it but the good news is that we have still managed to come first in our school!🏆🥇👏 Since this was a challenge for the whole of the United Kingdom and 2243 classes have participated, finishing in 181 th place was okay and we thank a lot to the boys and girls who helped us reach this position, especially the ones who went home to play everyday! 😃
Our door stoppers that we have decorated and placed in the Altar to show that ‘We are opening our doors to God’.✨
The Lenten walk keeps going and we have already walked some hundreds of kilometres as a whole class by now!🏃‍♂️🏃‍♀️
Many congratulations to Zac, our Hot Chocolate of the Week for his very much improved attitude towards learning across the curriculum!🥇🏆 Well done, Mr. Zac, soooo proud!🥰
Congratulations also to the Scary Seas table, who won the prize for the best, most organised and tidiest table of the week! Well done again to Zac, Renna, Mariam, Ishani S, Ishani M, Layla, Lyon, Aiden and Amelia!🏆👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Well done to Amelia who has been trying really hard to get better at her behaviour and who has been showing great improvement!😊

That’s all for now, we say goodbye wishing everyone a great weekend with their loved ones!

P6B and Mrs Valente 😘😘

March 28, 2025
by Mrs Meikle
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This week in P1

What a great week we have had in P1.

We have been learning the ‘ou’ and ‘oi’ sound. All our children worked really hard to sound out and write words with these sounds. We have also been working on skimming and scanning a piece of writing to find specific topic words.

This week we have been learning all about babies, what they need and how we can care for them. We wrote fantastic sentences about this working on adding a connecting word. We loved having one of our P1 friends baby siblings come in to visit us. We all thought he was super cute and confidently asked questions and shared facts we have been learning. We have also been learning about the human lifecycle and can explain how we change as we get older.

In math our focus this week was on data handling. We learned how to conduct a survey and how to use tally marks. We made a bar graph for our favourite mini beast and for colours of eyes.

Outdoor learning this week we used viewfinders to look at the different views bugs and other creatures see and then we drew fabulous pictures.

March 28, 2025
by Miss Stebbing
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Primary 2/1 Learning Highlights 28th March 2025

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘oi’ and ‘ou’. We completed a scavenger hunt to find the different words with oi and we were very good at sounding out the words. We also worked as a class to write an acrostic poem all about Spring.

In maths, we have been learning about block graphs. As a class we collected information about our favourite minibeast and then coloured in the block graph. The next day we collected information about our friends’ favourite fruit and used tally marks to show this. We then had to colour in the correct amount on the graph. We then answered questions about the graph.

For Health and Wellbeing, we have been learning all about how to take care of a baby. We sorted things a baby does and does not need and we also wrote a sentence about what a baby needs. We had a guess the baby quiz and it was very funny! We had a visit from one of our Mum’s who brought along her baby and talked to use about looking after a baby. We loved making him smile and when we sang to him he was laughing.

In Art, we made some special cards and crafts for Mother’s Day.

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Harrison – I enjoyed making the cards.

Danvith – I enjoyed doing the plants.

Miles – I enjoyed learning the ‘oi’ sound.

Amariah – I enjoyed playing with the marble runs.

Freddie – I enjoyed seeing the baby.

Martha – I enjoyed writing about babies.

Well done to our Hot Chocolate winner, who helped keep his baby brother entertained when he visited our class.

March 28, 2025
by Mrs Lea
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Primary 6A Learning Highlights 28/3/25

Dear Parents and Carers,

We hope you have had a super week! Once again we have all been very busy in Primary 6A.

In Maths, we continued to learn more about duration of time with Mrs Morrison, We continued to learn more about information reports, then we wrote our own one based on biomes and habitats. Most of us have finished them and we are using the netbooks to make a best copy, so that we can display them in our classroom. Our reading comprehension was also based on biomes and we had to find the correct information in the passage. During our P.E time we played netball on the muga, where we all worked extremely hard !! We are still working on our biome PowerPoints and some of us even added extra information at home! We aim to present them to another class when they are complete. In art, we are creating and designing our own underwater aquarium using perspective. They will look amazing when they are finished!!

Congratulations to Ishaan who was our Hot Chocolate winner this week for amazing work!!

Congratulations to Liam who was our upper area winner for the Easter bonnet competition.

Have a super weekend!

Mrs Lea and Primary 6A

March 21, 2025
by Maria Brown
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P5B Week Beginning 17th March 2025

Hello P5B Families!

Here are the learning highlights from your lovely children. This week we have the Yellow table reporting:

Daniel loved the outdoor learning session with the therapy dog, Jax and his owner, Rob. Rob did an informative lesson about how long it takes for rubbish to decompose. The children had to guess first and stand behind the number of years they thought. The purpose of this was for the children to realise how their decisions to recycle, positively affect the future of our planet.

Anthony enjoyed our St Patrick’s Day celebrations! These included: drama, Irish dancing, Irish Corners and the best part……green mint choc-chip ice-cream!

Moeez and Ksawery have said they especially liked our Climate Smart learning this week when we made floating wind turbines and our very own batteries! Ask you child how batteries link with frog legs?!?!?!??

Michael said the highlight of his week was telling a joke in the hall in front of the whole school. Michael was our overall class winner and did a marvellous job of competing against fellow students. We were so proud of him making it to the Finals.

Vinayakarthik liked PE with Mrs Lafferty where they played ‘Capture the Flag’.

Alex has loved maths this week. We continued dividing 4 digit numbers with remainders and making links with quarters.

Nathan continues to enjoy the Big Lent Walk.

Rowan was interested in the learning about Word Down Syndrome Day which was today, 21st March. The children had questions about how someone is born this way and listened to how they can care for our Down Syndrome friends and how we are all unique. I also shared about how my little sister has special needs and the help and support she needs. This lead to the children sharing what they need help with themselves. It was a beautiful, inclusive lesson.

My highlight was this Down Syndrome lesson also.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Rowan and our Reading Champ, Amelia! Also, a big thank you to Nicolas who put together the photos below.

I hope you have a lovely weekend. I believe we are going to have some bright, warmer days.