St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we began creating our first Enterprise Products. With good planning last week we were ready to start cutting, sawing and sewing. We celebrated the Feast of All Saints at mass on Wednesday Morning. It was a lovely service which we all enjoyed. We made a very good start on Monday and continued working on our products on Wednesday after morning break.

This week we have continued our learning through rights with more research into Black History Month. We created information files about well known black women. These women are famous sports women, politicians, tv presenters, scientists. We found out that they overcame discrimination, language barriers  and learning difficulties to become succesful in the work they are doing now as adults.  We discussed our own identity – Who a person is or feels they are. Some felt Scot/Irish, some felt Scots/English some felt Scots/Cornish. We recognised that everyone has ancestors – A person who was in someone’s family in the past that has helped shape their identity and culture.

Article 2 -The Convention applies to every child without discrimination, whatever their ethnicity, gender, religion, language, abilities or any other status, whatever they think or say, whatever their family background. Article 30 – Every child has the right to learn and use the language, customs and religion of their family, whether or not these are shared by the majority of the people in the country where they live.

Tuesday was very exciting, not just because it was Halloween and most of us came to school dressed up, but Mrs Morrison brought our recorders and we had our first practise. We are really keen to learn a Christmas tune for our Christmas Enterprise Show on the 15th of December.

We created lovely Halloween spooky house art using pastels and black paper.

On Thursday and Friday we explored Solar Power through a range of experiments.

This morning Primary 7 House Captains and Vice House Captains led our House Groups to review our School Values. They wanted to know which values our pupils thought were the most important for our school community. We love the things we value and we value the things we love. All the results will be collated and we will all be informed as soon as possible.

Hope everyone has a lovely weekend.

Dear parents,

This week we have been very busy learning and having fun in P7B.

Here are some highlights:

This week we started our auditions for our Christmas show. We have enjoyed getting into character and for some of us, pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones! We look forward to finding what roles we will get next week.

Literacy: We are working on our writing skills within poetry and this week we created Halloween poems. We have started our new class novel ‘Millions’ which we are really enjoying so far.

Numeracy: We have been revising fractions. This week we focused on how to add, subtract and make fractions equal.

R.E: We researched and learned more about different Saints. Some of us also got to visit the Church on Wednesday.

P.E: We have been learning the rules of Handball and have started our team games together.

Over and above: This week our over and above winner goes to Sophia, keep up the great work!

Have a great weekend from Mrs Roy and P7B

Hi Families of P2

We have had a super week, filled with lots of hard work and fun. On Tuesday we had West Lothian Football Academy working with the children. They all loved this and participated with great enthusiasm and excellent behaviour throughout the session.

In Literacy we have been leaning the suffixes ‘ed’, ‘er’ and ‘ing’. In writing, the children wrote super Haunted House stories. In Maths and Numeracy we started work on time, looking at o’clock times and we are working on addition within 20.

Weekly Highlights

Faye – I like adding.

Aaron – I loved when we had Steven in for Football.

Lillian – I liked looking at the primary 1’s drawings in the area because they’re really good. I also like playing with the babies.

Rose and Owen – We really liked block play.

Huge Congratulation to Harald, our Hot Chocolate winner!

Dear Readers,

We hope you have had a good week.

In Primary 5, we always have very busy and interesting weeks and these were the highlights of this last week:

• Our poetry writing, which was  very creative and funny!
• Using the protractors and learning how to measure different angles. This has been so much fun that some of us just wanted to do it more and more! We have started by using chalk to measure the angles on our tables and then, when we felt more confident, we started measuring them on paper. 😀

• Our Climate Smarter project has taken us to the very exciting field of electricity and we have had the opportunity to do a classroom audit of the energy we spent during a normal day and also worked out the electricity spent in our classroom during a whole year and how much is costs. It was very good because it made us all even more aware of all the things we can do to save energy. For example, now we always try to remember to turn off the smartboard during break and lunch time.📉😊 Our other lesson on electricity was absolutely amazing because we got our own kits to make an electric circuit and make a little light bulb or buzzer work! We were all successful and managed to do it without any help, just by thinking of what we have learned about conductors and energy sources! It was great!💡

• Learning about the history of the Angelus prayer, saying it with our prayer partners and understanding its meaning.⛪
• The hockey tournament at Deans High School, where both P5 classes got to do their best! We have also been told that there are many available spaces for us in the Hockey after school club at Deans, in case we wished to join.🏑🏑🏑🏑🏑🏑🏑

• We have all enjoyed our football taster session with coach Steve who said we had been really good! ⚽🏆🎉
• The beginning of our Rights Respecting Schools poster competition to advertise our anti littering campaign, not only in the school but also in important places of our community.♥
• That is all for now, we say goodbye wishing everyone a lovely weekend!

Mrs Valente and P5A😘

Hello P3A families,

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

Grace enjoyed singing along to a song we heard for a warm up in Maths.  It was about number bonds to ten.  The children learned that if they know their number bonds to ten off by heart, that this can help them with larger sums.  Look out for how we use our number bonds this way in next week’s maths homework.

Caiden loved making Halloween cakes with Miss White.

Hafsah said the best part of her week was playing number bingo in Spanish with Mrs Broadley.  The children learn numbers to 50 in Primary Three.

Jiade absolutely loved football this week.  We had some football coaches come in and deliver football skills to the children.  They all had so much fun!

Tadwia liked when we examined some pumpkins for Halloween.  He was surprised at how heavy they were and remembered that they were called as sphere.

Tvisha enjoyed listening to our new Wood Boost story, ‘Wolf’.  Her favourite vocabulary was ‘racket’.

Jack said the highlight of his week was drawing characters from the Number Bonds song for our maths display.  He drew 3 and 7.

Deveena liked our RE lesson about belonging.  We learned that we belong to our family, school and the church.  We explored what it means to belong to each.

My highlight was our lesson on how cars have changed over the years and compared the features.  We talked about what we think cars in the future might have.  Mrs Brown hoped that they have a built in coffee machine!  The children had some super ideas!  This was part of our learning about inventions.

Congratulations to Chahiti, our hot chocolate award winner this week!

Regards

Mrs Brown

Hello families!

We have had a fang-tastic week!

The children have told me they LOVED:

Doing ‘draw a rhyme’ – creating a monster from a poem!

Creating our own very scary monsters and naming it using alliteration! These are great!

The children enjoyed adding this week! We have been using ten frames and number lines to help us with this!

Many of the children have been choosing to create their own spaces during our choice your learning sessions. These are great! Some even have cup holders and shelves! Very innovative!

We learned this week about the history of cars and compared the first car with a modern car! We discussed luxury and safety features! We will be learning this term about such inventions and then looking at how things work. The children have been helping plan this learning.

Well done Evana for the hot chocolate at home! You have had a great week!  You were a successful learner, confident individual and effective contributor when we were working on acrostic poems!

Have a lovely weekend.

Mr Pentland

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