St John Ogilvie Primary School

Wow! What a memorable week we have had in P5! We had the most fun ever at our Enterprise event on Friday and we would like to thank everyone who came and bought some products. Some children described this event as the best day of their life in school so far so it’s fair to say it was a great success!

Another class highlight of the week was maths. We had a very exciting project of planning and pricing a winter holiday where we had a set budget to stick to. We priced out our transport and accommodation costs for 5 nights and even remembered to factor in our luggage costs; excellent work P5! We also worked out our enterprise product prices, created a price list and used our multiplication skills to work out an estimated total profit. We are all loving developing our skills for life and work!

We also really enjoyed literacy this week; we did a creative writing piece based on a Christmas village backdrop! Miss Ventisei loved reading all of the wonderful imaginative stories and also spotted some fantastic conjunctions, which is our grammar focus at the moment.

On Thursday, we had a very exciting afternoon! We had to decorate some gingerbread men for the Enterprise event! We absolutely loved decorating these and made sure to add lots of “Christmas cheer”to our biscuits!

Ayden was our Hot Chocolate winner of the week! He made sure to be ready, respectful and safe all week and this did not go unnoticed! Fantastic work Ayden; we are all so proud of you!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Dear Parents,

On Monday we took part in a debate about renewable and non-renewable energy sources to round of our topic work in that area and really enjoyed finding out about the structure of a debate and how to take part. We are looking forward to more experiences of debate this year.

We have been working on Fractions, Decimals and Percentages, links between them and how to find a fraction or percentage of an amount. Our NSAs (formally SNSA) Standardised Assessments are next week so F.D.P will continue in the New Year.

We have written our final Explanation Report, for this term, where we had free choice of the topics. Mr McGurn is looking forward to finding out about a very large and varied cross section of topics like: How Football was Invented or How to Win at Modern Warfare.

In health and wellbeing we have begun to learn about the Zones of Regulation, which is a tool to help us better understand our emotions and how to deal with them. We played Bingo…

and discovered the area in the classroom where we can take a little break from things if we find ourselves in the red or yellow zones…

Congratulations to Chiedochie and Tanvi who both placed in the Top 10 in our recent West Lothian Sumdog Competition!

Pardhu and Katie both mention their highlight of the week being ‘getting ready for the NSAs’ whilst Chiedochie said her highlight was, “Our class did a debate of renewable and non-renewable energy.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner was….

Monty! Great job Monty, you’ll be a great Lead Learner for next week!

Have a great weekend everyone,

Mr McGurn and P7a

What an exciting week it has been in Primary 2a!  The children very confidently put on a fantastic Christmas concert on Wednesday and we could not be prouder of them!  Thank you to all of the family members who came along to support the children and to help them to make the Christmas crafts and the gingerbread men.  There were certainly lots of happy faces and maybe even a few happy tears.

Here are a few pictures of some of the children on the day:

Children’s learning highlights for the week:

Diana – I enjoyed making Christmas decorations for the classroom.

Jiade – I liked learning about the water cycle.

Vivien – I enjoyed everything!

Grace – I liked free writing Friday.  I wrote about a magic pony.

Whole Class – We loved doing the Christmas Concert and making the gingerbread men!

We would all like to congratulate Alicja who is our hot chocolate winner this week.  Alicja has been working very hard in class and is always very kind and helpful towards others.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and the children have great fun at the disco tonight!

Well done Primary 4b, you’ve really impressed me with your learning this week!

In maths, we have been finishing off our addition and subtraction topic.  We have been using the inverse to check our answers and to find missing numbers.  We worked in pairs today to solve written problems and we coached our partner if they needed our help.

In topic, we researched some Scottish castles.  We learnt that Balmoral Castle was rebuilt in 1856.  Glamis Castle is considered by some to be the most beautiful castle in Scotland.  Edinburgh Castle was built on volcanic rock and it has also experienced the most attacks of any castle in the UK.  It had a record-breaking 1.7 million visitors recently.

In our literacy, we have learnt about conjunctions.  We learnt about co-ordinating conjunctions and we use FANBOYS and for subordinating conjunctions we use I SAW A WABUB.  We use conjunctions to add extra information and make our sentences more detailed and interesting.

In health and wellbeing, we were reflecting on how to be a good friend and why friendships are important.

Our highlights:

Millie and Jonah: We liked doing Christmas Corners in PE because it was fun and we got to dance.

Paige: This week, I drew two Winnie the Pooh pictures and I liked showing them to the class.

Aiden and Mariam: We loved doing maths this week because we did a lot of addition and subtraction and used the inverse to check our answers.

Jude: I liked doing Christmas dances for the Christmas party because they were all very fun.

Congratulations to Aiden for being our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a wonderful time at the disco if you’re going and have a lovely week.  See you on Monday.

Mrs Brown

This week we have been learning the sounds l, ll and r.  We can recall words that begin with these sounds and we have practised forming and writing the letters.

We started our new Topic this week Toys.  We drew a picture of our favourite toy, sorted toys into outdoor and indoor toys.  We also made a toy using paper and a penny.  We were so excited to take them home to show our family.

For writing this week we listened to a story about a Toy Shop and then drew a picture and wrote a sentence about a toy.  We tried to remember to use a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop.

We decorated our class Christmas tree.  Mrs Russell said it was the best decorated Christmas tree in Livingston.

Our Role Play Area has been changed into Santa’s Workshop.  We have been working on our motor skills wrapping objects and toys.  We have also been writing letters and cards and putting stamps on them and posting them in our class post box.

In Maths this week we have continued to work on measure comparing the weight of objects and using the terms, heavy, heavier, heaviest, light, lighter, lightest.

We have started to look at money and are learning to identify all coins up to £2.

This weeks highlights:

Mrs Russell I loved watching you practise for the nativity’.

Katie ‘I liked playing in Santa’s Workshop’

Connor ‘I liked playing with the small world’

Luca ‘I liked choosing my own learning, I liked drawing’

Khaleesi ‘I liked making things with the construction materials’

Rose ‘I liked playing in the Construction Area’

Cameron ‘I liked playing with my friends’

JJ ‘I liked doing maths’

Owen ‘I liked making friends’

Victoria ‘I liked playing in Santa’s Workshop’.

Congratulations to Cameron our Hot Chocolate Winner this week!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

This week we have been rehearsing for our Advent Service which we will be performing on Monday. Everyone has been doing a fantastic job learning their lines and learning the songs.

Pupil highlights of the week:

Urwa and Naman – we enjoyed re-visiting line graphs as part of our Data Analysis topic in Maths. We liked drawing, reading and interpreting line graphs and looking at the different ways we can try to understand what the information is telling us.

Niamh – I enjoyed trying to spot ‘fake news’ during critical literacy and remembering to ask the important questions when reading informati0n and making sure the sources are reliable.

Summer – I enjoyed drawing and painting the Nativity scene picture for our Advent Service.

Well done to Sophie-Leigh who was this weeks hot chocolate winner. She is continually trying her best and always following the class and school rules. Sophie-Leigh is growing in confidence each day, which shining through all her work! Well done Sophie-Leigh!

Pupil Highlights:

Kieran: We completed loads of numeracy on fractions and unit fractions. For the advent, we also created  our own nativity drama. ‘ The Bethlehem Act.’

Olly: For P.E, we did a Christmas Quiz.

Amelia: We decorated the classroom with greenery and decorated our Christmas Tree.

Anthony: We learnt how to find equivalent fractions, and, how to convert improper fractions into mixed numbers. We also practised our SNSA so we are ready to begin them on Monday.

Tim: We performed our Advent Service in the upper area.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Congratulations to Olly for winning hot chocolate this week. You are now so much more focused and on task in the classroom and you have been completing your HW every week. Well Done.