St John Ogilvie Primary School

Pupil Highlights:

Rupert: We have been rehearsing our Advent Service and practising O Holy Night and Silent Night.

Liam: We have been practising our own nativity drama Bethlehem Act written and directed by Monique and Zak.

Hanna: We have been using the open number line to solve subtractions calculations.

Connor: We have been using the inverse operation to prove that the answer is correct in an addition or subtraction calculation.

Alex: In Maths, we have been using the bar model method to help us visualise par part whole in a calculation.

Kieran: We have secured the skill of subtracting 5 digit numbers with exchanging.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Congratulations to Anthony for  being awarded Hot Chocolate this week. You have worked so hard on completing your subtraction and inverse work in Maths. You have worked hard at listening better in class and your attitude to your learning has really improved. We are so proud of you .

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Yellow Table:

Reesa loved finding out that she was the winner of the Christmas Concert invite that was going to be emailed to parents.  Everyone did so well, it was challenging to pick a winner!

Emily-Ann enjoyed our handwriting lesson this week were we focused on r, n, m and h.  Ask your child what all these letters have in common.

Amy has loved practising our songs for the concert.  Her favourite is, “We Call His Name Jesus”.

Georgia Rose said the best part of her week was writing about rainbows.  Our new topic has been ‘Weather and the Water Cycle’.  As well as this, we have been learning about the Bible story, ‘Noah’s Ark’.  The children can confidently talk about why we have rainbows after rain.

Ciara has also loved the lessons on Weather and the Water Cycle.  This week we heard a story about a raindrop that went on a journey.  You can find it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIkRu9LL4sk

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was our lesson about Advent.  The children drew around their hand on green paper and together they will form a beautiful wreathe.  We learned that the leaves on a real wreathe are ever green leaves and the shape a circle, so like God’s love for us, it will never end.

Congratulations to Emily-Ann, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

We look forward to welcoming another new pupil next week, Isabelle.  We hope she will feel welcome and part of our St John Ogilive family.

Just a reminder that on Wednesday, St Andrew’s Day, the children are welcome to wear tartan.  It will also be the day of the flu vaccine (nasal spray) and Friday will be PJ day where the children are invited to bring a food item for the food bank to school that day.

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Dear Readers,

we hope you are all very well.

This week’s highlights were the following:

• Continuing the work on column addition, now carrying to the tens and hundreds for most of us. We have really been enjoying it!
•  Reading comprehension about an excert of George and the Marvellous Medicine. We are trying to get better at answering with full sentences since we used to doing it the easiest possible way!😄
• Our Art lesson when we have designed our own super creative bottles for George’s Marvellous Medicine with pastels. What a beautiful display we have created!🌈
• Reconciliation/RE lesson on how God has given us free will to choose between what is rights and wrong. Although He guides us and has taught us to make good choices, in the end it is up to us to do it or not. To ask for God’s help we have created our Class Prayer that we are going to start saying every day in the morning. Let’s hope it will inspire us all to always be respectful, kind and caring.
• The work on spelling is weekly and so is our famous Weekly Spelling Assessment every Friday. We absolutely love it!😍
• Many Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate of the Week, David, who has been trying really hard to improve his listening skills and to be respectful at all times! Well done, David!👏👍🥇😃
• We are also very proud of our new Kindness Champions! Every kindness note is evidence of how kind and thoughtful we are and of how much we enjoy and feel proud to be like that!❤ Well done Ollie, our 1st Kindness Champion, with 10 kindness notes! 👏🥇❤ Well done also to John who is our 2nd Kindness Champion with 6 kindness notes! 👍😃🥈Well done to Pola, our 3rd Kindness Champion with 4 kindness notes! Wow!😃👏🥉

We hope you have enjoyed reading our post and say goodbye for now wishing you all a lovely weekend!

P3A and Mrs Valente😘

And that’s the end of another busy week in Primary 4b!

In numeracy, we’ve been working on column addition and column subtraction.  We’ve done a great job at building our knowledge and understanding of how to exchange when we are crossing a boundary.  Any number bond practise at home would continue to help us build our calculation skills.

We’ve also learnt how to use dictionaries this week.  We understand their purpose and we know how to use our alphabet knowledge to find words, including checking the definition to see if it is the word we are looking for.

In topic, we’ve learnt about the features of inside and outside a castle, and we’ve also learnt about what knights were, their role during the Medieval Period and what they would wear to battle.  The best bit from our castles work was learning about the toilets.  We thought it was disgusting that people went to the toilet in a castle over a hole that hung over the moat.

In Health and Wellbeing, we learnt how to find our inner peace and why this is important.  We also learnt about being observant and talked a lot about self regulation.

Our highlights:

Jonah and Alexa: I enjoyed dodgeball this week in PE because we got hit by balls.

Aiden: I enjoyed learning about castles.  My favourite was learning about the toilets.

Ishani M: I enjoyed doing maths.  My favourite part was column subtraction.

Our hot chocolate winner this week was Alexa.  Well done Alexa.

Have a lovely weekend everybody!

Mrs Brown

Last week was Scottish Book week and we collected our thoughts about all the places we can find things to read.

We have continued to be very busy with our craft work. Finger knitting and crochet. If anyone has spare wool then we will gratefully receive it and put it to good use.

This week was a little different, we had Mr McGurn visiting while Mrs Ross was doing Number Talks with some other classes. We were adding numbers up to millions. (BS) We played some maths games too. (SF) It was a 2 player game when you have to race each other to find the right number. (JJ)

For spelling we have been practising long vowel patterns.  We have been learning about the rules of spelling them.  This week we learned about ‘ai’ and ‘ay’. (MM)

Did you know when using ‘ai’ in a word we have to check there are consonants on either side of the sound. If there is another vowel we need to use ‘ay’. But we can use ‘ay’ if the sound is at the end of the word. the y is an anchor to hold the vowel sound in the word.

We have done some Number Talks to get better at numbers. (LS) (To improve our number knowledge) We have spent time on laptops. (PF) We started painting panels for our Great Hall. (SF)

Dear Parents,

This week we have been continuing our numeracy work on multiplication and division and as we now have a date  for our SNSA assessments we will move onto Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. In maths we have finished symmetry for the moment and will move onto Angles and Co-ordinates. A West Lothian Sumdog Competition has started and runs until next Thursday, that will be our homework for next week and there will be prizes!!!

In Literacy we have been working on Explanation reports, taking notes and then turning them into reports in our own words. We wrote about The Common Cold this week and next week we will get to pick from a range of topics to write about.

On Wednesday we had some Hot Chocolate at the Firepit, as the cold weather makes it nice to sit round the fire with a mug of cocoa!

We have been preparing for P7a’s Advent Service for the Upper Area on Monday and getting our Christmas Door Display ready for next Friday.

Our Hot Chocolate at Home winner this week was….

Nellie! Great Job 🙂

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 7a

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘u’ and ‘d’. We have been trying hard to write the letters correctly. We have enjoyed using a game on the smartboard to listen for the first sound or the middle sound. We are getting more confident each time we play!

In maths, we have been learning about subtraction. We have been using our finger patterns to help us and we also used a number line to jump back.  We made rockets as part of our space topic and then we launched them and counted how many hand spans it took to reach them. It was great fun!

We learned about how astronauts live in space and watched some videos about them eating, cooking, running and even washing their hair! Our favourite video was the astronauts playing tennis with a ball of water.

Our personal highlights this week are:

Summer – I enjoyed playing with the space station.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed drawing a Christmas tree.

Kacper – I enjoyed painting.

Lillian – I enjoyed doing my elf.

Vedansh – I liked playing Funky Mummy on the smartboard.

Aarav – I liked playing outside with P1B.

Miss Stebbing – I am very proud of all the teamwork I have seen in Primary 1A this week.

Congratulations to Vasilisa who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Another busy week in P1B.  This week we have learned the sound u.  We also focused on revision and blending our learned sounds together to make words.  We matched pictures to the correct word and were able to write the word for pictures by sounding out the sounds and sliding them together.

We read a story about a fat cat on a mat.  In writing we wrote a sentence about the cat and continued to work on using a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop at the end of our sentence.

We have loved working on our Space Station and Space Rockets during ‘Choosing our Own Learning’.  We worked together and decorated them using foil and a variety of media.  We also made our own space helmets.  This week we learned about the planets.  We know there are eight planets in our Solar System.

We have loved using the craft and construction areas and creating amazing models and master pieces.

We have continued learning about subtraction.  We have used concrete materials to physically take away and we have also used a number line and jumped backwards.

We measured using our hands and cubes to see how long items were.

We have been working really hard on our Nativity Songs and we can’t wait for you all to hear them.

Learning Highlights:

Mrs Russell ‘I loved watching all the children working on the space rockets’

Luca ‘I liked playing with the Rockets’

Owen and Connor ‘I liked playing in the Space Station’

Katie ‘I liked playing with the Space Rockets’

Aaron ‘I liked playing with the I pads’

Elo ‘I liked playing with the Play-Doh’

Azmeer ‘I liked playing in the Rockets’’

Victoria ‘I loved playing with the I pads’

Rose ‘I liked playing in the Reading Tent’

Well done to Aaron our Hot Chocolate winner this week!