St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week in we explored Article 35 which states that, Governments must protect children from being abducted, sold or moved illegally to a different place in or outside their country for the purpose of exploitation.

We discussed “How do you keep yourself safe at home, at school and in the community..”

In math, we continued learning how to find fractions of amounts by dividing by denominators and multiplying by numerators. This is very tricky but we are all becoming more confident. We also took part in the West Lothian Sumdog competition and we were 10th overall across all the schools and classes in West Lothian.

In literacy, we have been focussing on developing different reading strategies – clarifying, questioning, predicting and summarising what we read.

Some of us have finished our John Muir Powerpoints but some are still working on them, hopefully finishing them next week. Due to the heavy rain we decided to paint our wooden posts and mini seats. We managed to get a first coat on but will put a second coat next week before decorating with positive messages and pictures of nature. We also decorated small wooden discs to hang around the school to make people feel happy.

Next week we start a competition to wheel or walk to school. We are due to have a new bike shed erected during the Easter Holidays and we hope for more children to cycle to school.

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Green Table:

Maja thought that our Woodland Library event was the best!  P2B were lucky as we had 2 Woodland Library events!  One session was with P4 reading to us and one was with P6.

Eli always LOVES joined up handwriting!  This week it was joining ng together.  Next week we plan to revise the joins we have learned so far before moving on (un, ig, ed, an and ng).

Lilly said the best part of her week was learning about the importance of cleaning our teeth.  The children practised flossing on themselves.  We learned a song that Mrs Devlin made up for her own children.  Ask your child if they can sing it to you!

Sofia loved giving the dinner tickets out with Mrs Begley this week.  She was the successful candidate of the application form for Office Assistant in P2B.

TJ  really enjoyed making music this week.  We went out the MUGA with a range of musical instruments and in groups, tried to recreate river sounds (linked with our book study, ‘The River’ and our learning about the River Almond).

Karina said the best part of her week was learning about the history of Livingston and is excited to make ‘De’Leving’s Peel’ next week!

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was the learning about the different strategies we can use to ‘Get Back to Green’.  The children have been learning about the different Zones of Regulation.  We learned about all the different things the children can do to make their brain feel  happy and calm again: dancing, listening to music, spending time in nature, painting, reading, crafting, having a snack, having a drink of water, taking deep breathes, cuddling a teddy, receiving  a hug, talking to someone about their worries/problems…….

Congratulations to Theo, our Hot Chocolate award winner for this week!

Pupil Highlights:

Julia – On Tuesday we went to the woodlands with our buddies and read books to them.

Hannah – Today it’s St Jhn Ogilvie Feast Day and Father Simon came to school in the morning for mass and we got a cake after break time.

Tanya-On Thursday we continued our geodesic domes in our groups.

Hanna – We discussed our class novel and did some questioning on it, I really enjoyed it.

Riya- This week in maths we did our number talks and word problems.

Hot Chocolate Winner – Julek for high quality questions and answers for our world book day book Into The Forest by Anthony Browne.

A fantastic week in P6A!

Our highlight for this week was definitely our trip to West Lothian college for the sustainability learning event. We all got up to different and exciting activities.

Group 1 – Scottish Owl Centre and making tote bags out of old t-shirts.

Group 2 – Virtual reality and Romany cube art.

Group 3 – Romany cube art and virtual reality.

Group 4 – Foodbanks and t-shirt tote bags.

We loved this and learned a lot! Mr Pentland really got into the Global Goals! Thank you to West Lothian College!

Both P6 classes have been busy with a lot of reading activities to continue our Book Week. We started a book study where we have been exploring and deepening our understanding of Into the Forest by Anthony Browne, we took part in a book tasting in which we tried out different books to see what we enjoyed most and we had the lovely opportunity to join P2A in the woodlands for an outside library session where we read stories to the younger children.

We all enjoyed learning about St. John Ogilvie and participating in the Feast Day Mass.

Patrick loved numeracy this week, continuing our work on area and perimeter word problems.

Joshua liked our book study and showed great understanding.

Well done everyone for another successful, busy week!

This week’s over and above winner was Vanessa! You have shown amazing effort! Well done.

The sumdog competition is now live! We were second last time, lets get first. But of course, we will try our best and be happy with whatever place we get.

Some photo highlights

Have a great weekend and I will see you on Monday.

Mr Pentland.

We’ve really enjoyed celebrating World Book Day/Week this week.  We’ve continued exploring our book, Here We Are, Notes for living on Planet Earth.  We’ve learnt about the core, mantle and the crust, plate tectonics, mountain formation and the water cycle.  We enjoyed guessing who the teachers were in the Masked Reader activities and also reading to the primary 2s in the woodland.  We learnt about presenting data in maths, for example in tables, tally charts, block charts and bar charts.  We’ve also learnt about St John Ogilvie this week and today we had our Feast Day Mass.  We were very lucky to eat some yummy cake afterwards!

Our highlights:

Matteo: I enjoyed Feast Day Mass because it was all about St John Ogilvie.  We sang songs and I really enjoyed them.

Paige: I liked doing art because we made personality swirls and did some drawing in the style of Steven Brown.

Aiden and Amelia: We really enjoyed giving Mrs Lafferty a big (gentle!) squeezy hug because we found out she’s having a baby!  Ashley: I enjoyed having a class vote about whether it is a girl or a boy.

Daniel M and Jonah: We enjoyed trying to find out who the masked readers were.

All of us: we enjoyed eating cake today!

Have a lovely weekend everyone,

Mrs Brown

Dear Families,

It has been another fantastic week in Primary 2a!

We started the week continuing to celebrate World Book Week.  The children completed lots of different activities around a book called ‘The River’ by Tom Percival.

In literacy, we identified the beginning middle and end of the story and we also looked for similes and created some similes of our own.

In Science, we learned that there are different parts of a river e.g the mouth, channel, river bank etc.  The children took turns to pour water through a model river and talk about the journey the water took along the river, from the source to the sea.

We also went on a walk and followed the journey of the stream beside our school, all the way down to Eliburn reservoir. We listened to the sounds of the stream and discussed the fact that it would eventually meet the river almond and flow to the sea.

We painted pictures of rivers, based around the work of Claude Monet.  As we were painting, we talked about the movement and the texture of the river.

In groups, we composed our own pieces of music that represented the sounds that the river makes.  Showing that is gets quieter and louder, faster and slower, as it moves across the land.

Our new topic is Livingston, the children learned about some famous people who came from Livingston.  They learned about James Young Simpson and Patrick Murray.  Ask your child to tell you what they are famous for.   Here are a few pictures of us investigating plants and rocks.

In Maths, we looked at digital and analogue time.  We matched the times that were the same on the two different types of clocks.

Some of the children handed in paper plate book characters, they were fantastic!  Don’t worry, if you haven’t done one yet, you can always hand it in next week.

Have a great weekend!

Dear Parents,

This is a quick update for this week.

This week was full of activities like on Monday we did our Literacy. In Literacy we did Homophones and near homophones. After lunch we did topic which was “Into the Forest.” We looked in the book and every page was very interesting because we got to find hidden pictures with magnifying glasses. We went to the woodlands to read to our buddies for World Book Day.

On Tuesday we planned our book week competition writing. The class wrote amazing stories of them getting sucked into a book etc.  After break we did BODMAS for the first time. After lunch we did more of into the forest. We had a big paper and started drawing a page from the book.

On Wednesday we did our writing for the competition then we did music. In music we were practicing the songs for our show. Then we did more of the “Into the Forest”.

On Thursday the class did the last reciprocal reading on the A Monster Calls book. Then we did P.E with Miss Lafferty. After lunch we watched the A Monster Calls movie for the rest of the day and had popcorn and juice.

On Friday we attended mass with Father Simon and we got to have extra break because of St John Ogilvie Feast Day and we got to have cake and extra fun Friday.

Congratulations to…

For winning hot chocolate this week!

Here is a few thing P7 have to say for this week:

Tanvi- I enjoyed BODMAS and when the new boy came in.

Katie- I enjoyed reading with our buddies it was the best!

JJ- I enjoyed watching “A Monster Calls” but I liked the book more.

Lily – I enjoyed auditioning for the p7 show and the big drawing we coloured in!

Have a great week everyone!

From Lead Learners Riley and Zahra and P7A and Mr McGurn

This week we have taken part in our School Book Week and have completed lots of different learning tasks. Our main focus has been on a book study of The River by Tom Percival. We learned about the names of the parts of the river and labelled a diagram to show these. We then wrote super sentences about the parts of the river. In maths, we have been learning about tally marks and we used this to make a graph about our favourite season. We also learned about animals that live in and around rivers. We drew pictures of these animals to put on our display. We have been learning the ’ee’ sound this week and we wrote ‘ee’ words in a tree.

As part of our Book Week, we went up to the Woodland Library with our Buddies. It was great fun reading the books in the woodland. We also took part in a Book Champion activity and each day we read two books and voted for our favourite one.  Each day we watched the Masked Reader and tried hard to think about which member of staff it was. Some days it was very easy and some days it was more challenging!

On Wednesday, we went to visit Fr Simon at St Peter’s Church. He showed us all the different parts of the church. We were very respectful and all the staff were very proud of us. When we got back to school we drew pictures of the things we could remember seeing in the Church. We made sure we had lots of detail, even down to the drawing the glass of water Fr Simon had.

On Friday, we celebrated the Feast Day of St John Ogilvie. We listened well during Mass and we got some cake to celebrate, it was delicious!

Some of our personal highlights this week are:

Joshua – I enjoyed doing the masked reader.

Connor – I enjoyed doing the Book Challenge.

Filip – I enjoyed playing in the vets.

Olga – I enjoyed drawing the river animals.

Harald – I enjoyed doing the book challenge.

Miss Stebbing – I was very proud of everyone when we went on our visit to the Church and also during the Mass to celebrate our School Feast Day.

Congratulations to Alexander who is our hot chocolate winner this week.