St John Ogilvie Primary School

Pupil Highlights:

Laura – I liked attempting to make the rubber band car.

Aadya- I like attempting to make the catapult out of lollipop sticks, rubber bands , bottle lids and a pom pom. I

Chaiti – I liked doing our morning brain texts this week.

Deveena – I liked writing an information report on Victorian Schools.

Diana – I liked learning about the life of Thomas Bernardo.

Zion – I liked looking at primary seven information reports to mark using the WL writing targets.

Congratulations to Jack for winning hot chocolate this week. You have matured in your behaviour and you are working considerably harder at making your work neater in your jotter. Well done Jack. The class are so happy for you.

Here are some of the learning experiences your child will have this term in Primary Three:

Best wishes,

Mrs Brown

Hello P3 families!

The learning highlights this week come from ‘Broxburn’.

Maks has enjoyed demonstrating his understanding of subtraction.  P3 have moved on to subtracting 2 digit numbers from 2 digit numbers with exchanging.  Maks’ favourite subject is maths and he looks forward to it everyday and enjoys being challenged.

Both Maja and Danvith report how our class visit from the SSPCA was their favourite part of their week.  Last term when the children were exploring Scottish wild animals when the role of the SSPCA was risen.  The children expressed an interest in learning more about this important charity.  A volunteer came and spoke to us about the important job they do.

Sophia liked Spanish with Mrs Broadley.

Matteo and Daniel both loved our outdoor learning session in a local woodland.  For the next 2 Wednesdays (which we call Wellie Wednesdays), P3 will enjoy free play in the local woodland.  It was marvellous to see the creative play there and the resilience building while children climbed trees and balanced as they walked along felled trees and teamwork as they supported on another.  Unfortunately I forgot to bring my ipad but will be sure to pack it next week and capture some pictures for you to enjoy.

My highlight was when we learned about Judaism, the religion Jesus was born in to.  The children watched a video of a young boy talking about his faith.  We made comparisons with our faith.  As a follow up, the children made mezuzahs with a special prayer inside and Jewish symbols on the outside.  Ask your child about the different symbols and what they mean.

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner Nathan!

Below are photos from the last 2 weeks learning:

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘v’ and ‘x’. We wrote a sentence about a box in a van and had to listen carefully to the sounds. We also have been practising finding the middle sounds in words and used a game on the Smartboard to help us with this.

In maths, we have been learning about counting in 10s. We had to order the numbers correctly and then we had to take away one card from another group to see if they knew which number was missing. We also learned about fact families and made 2 addition and 2 subtraction sums with the three numbers.

Throughout this week we have been learning all about Burns Night. We have been learning lots of Scots words and enjoyed doing some songs and stories with these. Ask us what words we remember.

In PE, we have been learning to do different types of rolls. We learned a pencil roll, tuck or egg roll, dish roll, teddy bear roll and James Bond roll.

On Friday, we celebrated 100 days of Primary 1. We took part in a challenge to be creative to make things with 100 objects, made crowns, took part in a 100 hunt outdoors with our Buddies and got to make a 100 snack take home to share with our families. We all agreed that this was the highlight of our week!

Congratulations to Carson who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week. He has shown got skills in counting objects during our maths lessons. Well done to our Reading Champion who has been confidently reading in a small group.

Dear Parents,

A busy week in P7B with lots of learning across the curriculum and here are a few of the children’s highlights…

Shelby said, “It was really fun being in the Deans Wood with Rob and his dog. We got to play and had lots of fun. We put up hammocks and had goes on a Zipline!”

“Gymnastics was based on flight. We were using springboard to increase height. It was fun,” said Ishani M.

Daniel said, “When we went to Mass, everyone was very respectful and it just was very nice.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner for going above and beyond was….

Shelby!

She did lots of jobs for people and put herself forward to take on extra tasks and responsibilities. Great Job Shelby!!!

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn and P7B

Dear Parents and Carers,

Here’s what P7 have been learning this week.

Children taking part in the PFFA have begun writing up their Concluding Evidence in order to achieve the Award. We have 2 more weeks to get this finished before submission.

We have been working on Scottish Literature and that has involved researching a famous Scottish author who we will then present our work to each other and in writing, we have been looking at the works of Robert Burns.

PE this session is beginning with Gymnastics and we have so far completed work on rolls and jumps/leaps.

Work for our P7 show has begun with regular rehearsals which are progressing well. Your help with props and costumes over the coming weeks will be appreciated. The date of the show is now confirmed as Thursday 26th March with an afternoon and evening performance. Details on tickets will be sent out via the office closer to the time.

We have finished our two weeks block on God’ Loving Plan and the children all participated well in lessons showing a mature and respectful approach.

Our Hot Chocolate at Home Winner this week was…

Szymon – great job!

Have a Great Weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 7B

This week we read the story  The Curious Polar Bear. We then drew our own polar bears and created the Northern Lights using chalk pastels. We had great fun blending all the colours and we were so proud of the end result.

In Literacy, we have been learning all about the letters l and r. We have been using these sounds to read and write words. In writing, we wrote a sentence about a frog on a log. All the staff were very impressed at how well we sounded out the words we needed.

In Maths, we have continued our work on subtraction and learned the strategy of using a number line to help us. We enjoyed using our own mini pointers to jump back on the number line. We have also been learning to count in steps of 2.

In RE, we learned about the baptism of Jesus and as part of our work on God’s Loving Plan we spoke about how important our families are.

We have started our new topic all about Scotland. We learned where Scotland is on a world map and also plotted Livingston on a map of the UK. We used Google Earth to find our school.

In PE, we have been using the benches and mats to practise our balancing and jumping for gymnastics.

In Science, we learned about the main parts of the human body and completed a Seesaw task to label them correctly.

Here are some of our personal highlights:

Hanna – I enjoyed playing the shark game.

Mikayla – I enjoyed doing Science.

Aria – I enjoyed playing with the linking chains.

Eloran – I enjoyed playing games.

Alayha – I enjoyed colouring in.

Grace – I enjoyed doing writing.

Congratulations to Eloran, who is our Hot Chocolate Winner this week. He has shown confidence in writing this week and is always helpful in the classroom.