St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we wrote imaginative, narrative stories based on a film clip. Pupils came up with their own ideas about his feelings and activities. In Science we dissected flowers to investigate petals, stems, leaves etc. They glued them into their John Muir Journal as it also linked with John Muirs wonder at nature and how it works all around us. Pupils have been researching lots of different information about John Muir and his work so that they can create a powerpoint or short film which they share with you. Yesterday we enjoyed an orienteering session and look forward to parents taking part at our Assembly in a few weeks.

In Math we are continuing to learn about equivalent fractions, decimals and percentages. In measurement we are finding the perimeter of shapes and knowing about decimals help us to add the measurements together. We hope everyone has a great weekend and are able to get out and explore the local area.

Pupil Highlights:

Amelia: today we are going to be having smores around the fire because it is a class reward we earned and we have had to wait till the weather been dry

Kieran: we created Anne Frank academic posters, we had to include information about on Anne Frank using subheadings.

Olly: this week in P.E  we did bench ball

Hannah: we were revising equivalent fractions and learning how to find them using a fractions wall. You can find an equivalent fraction by multiplying the numerator and denominator by the same number, or, divide them by the same number.

We also made a power point about Mrs Dwane because we wanted to thank her for all her hard work she has done for our class.

Kieran: we made a card for Tim and Olly . Some of us went around the class in secret to find out what Olly and Tim were good at.

Hot Chocolate Winner : congratulations to Susanna for her consistent effort in her work, the support she gives to her peers and her concentration and focus when working on her Anne Frank Poster.

Table Winners this week: congratulations to the table We Love Poland for improving their behaviour and their contributions in class to win this week.

Term Overview

A great week in P6.

Pupil Voice
Josh liked our work on up levelling sentences from a ‘telling sentence’ to a ‘showing paragraph’

Natalia enjoyed our HWB drama this week!

Inaya liked starting our Scots language dictionaries. They’re looking great!

David liked collaborating on the Robert Burns infographics!

Sam enjoyed RE this week, reading ‘The Tale of The Three Trees’ and creating inspiring art.

Adam enjoyed making a Robert Burns PowerPoint.

I had a great week with you all. Thank you P6.

Well done Aoife for getting the hot chocolate at home award this week! Fanatic job!

some photo highlights:

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Yellow Table:

Isabella reported that the highlight of her week, were the lessons on a new Narrative story that we have been studying, called, ‘Big Cat, Little Cat’.  A Narrative begins with addressing, who, when and where and then goes on to present a problem and a solution.  Isabella is looking forward to writing her own Narrative story next week!

Ollie enjoyed looking at the baby pictures that came in early.  The children hardly ever guessed right!  This helped us to learn that we develop and grow as we get older and that our needs and wants change.  We are looking forward to the remaining photos coming in and continuing this fun game!  Thank you parents for taking the time and effort to send them in.

Musa said that he enjoyed PE with Mrs Lafferty where the children continued to practise their ball control skills.

Tharun enjoyed our final handwriting lessons of letters in isolation.  He (and the class) are so excited to begin joined up writing now!

Lewis recounted that the best part of his week was the learning about the emergency services that can be accessed when phoning 999.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was when we learned about Chinese New Year.  The children had good fun using chopsticks, making Chinese lanterns and of course, receiving a chocolate coin in a red envelope.  Silly Mrs Devlin forgot to bring in the fortune cookies!  We have that to look forward to next week.

Congratulations to Karina, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week and to Isabella, our Reading Champion!

It looks like the weather will be much improved next week, so fingers crossed that we can go on our walk around the local area on Tuesday.

Dear Parents,

P7 have settled back in to our routine and have been learning through a wide range of interesting lessons.

In Literacy we have been enjoying our new class novel, ‘A Monster Calls’ by Patrick Ness. At the moment we have been completing comprehension task on the book but we will be moving to Reciprocal Reading tasks soon.

We have also been looking at the works of Robert Burns and have poems to recite next Wednesday for Burns’ Day and we have even written replies To A Mouse, trying to use Scots and follow the structure of a Burns Stanza.

In Science we have been learning about dissolving and making a saturated solution. We then let the solution evaporate to create salt crystals.

In RE/HWB we have begun the P7 God’s Loving Plan lessons and have shown ourselves to be mature and respectful.

On Friday we celebrated Chinese New Year by making Hong Bow wallets that are shared with people at this time of tear. It also turns out most of us were born in the year of the Rabbit.

Finally here is this term’s Forward Plan Overview

Have a great weekend,

Mr McGurn

Please follow this link for P3′ s termly Overview😀:

Forward Plan overview Term 3 P3A 20.01

Dear Readers,

We hope you have all been well during this cold Winter week.🌨🌧☃❄

In Primary 3A we have been continuing to work hard to improve both our learning and our behaviour!

The highlights of our week were:

• Spelling work with our new spelling words.
• Religious Education by starting God’s Loving plan and understanding better the two most important commandments of loving God and loving our neighbours. After discussing this last one and learning the story of ‘The Good Samaritan’ we understood that by neighbours God meant all of us, all our ‘neighbours’ from planet Earth, His creation. We all loved this!
• Learning Where is West Lothian? – we were very interested to find out that West Lothian is one of the many councils in Scotland, which is one of the four nations of the United Kingdom, which is one of the countries in the European continent, which is one of the seven continents on Earth, which is a lovely planet, especially when seen from space, as we did. We have seen maps of all these places and were truly amazed at the end when we had the opportunity to see from space, through Google Earth, the way to our lovely school in just some seconds!🌍😃
• Our own Narrative : we have started by planning it and then moved on to writing it according to our plan and to what we had learned about the different parts of the Narrative. Some of us wrote absolutely amazing pieces!🏆🎉👍😀
• In Maths we have been continuing our work on Subtraction and found it really enjoyable to learn and exercise how to use the split strategy to subtract, by splitting tens from units/ones and making it much easier mentally. We also very much enjoyed using ‘show me boards’ to demonstrate our knowledge on subtraction families!👏👏👏
• The week has ended with our spelling assessment and Spanish.😊

We would like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate of the week, Lucas!🥇🏆😃Super well done for being so polite and working so hard! Super proud!🥰

We would also like to congratulate our Kindness Champions, Ollie – 1st place🥇👏, Aiden G and Kayla – 2nd place🥈👏  and John, 3rd place🥉👏 for their continued kindness towards all and challenge everyone else to follow their example!

Our winning table of the week was Ollie, Julia and Isabel’s and they got the usual treats for having been the tidiest throughout the week! Very proud indeed!

As we all know, our classroom is a bit our second home🏠 so we need to keep it nice and tidy!😀❤

That is all for now so we say goodbye wishing you all a lovely weekend with your loved ones!

Mrs Valente and P3A😘😘😘😘

Dear Families,

The children have had a very busy week learning lots of new things!

Our new topic this term is ‘Jobs in the Local Community’.  On Wednesday, we went on a walk around our local area to see if we could find any local places of work and discussed who might work there.  Below are a few pictures of the places we found, maybe you could ask your child what these places are and who might work there, to see if they can remember!

In Maths we have been concentrating on subtraction from 20 and finding the difference between 2 numbers.  The children enjoyed playing a game of connect four using their subtraction skills.

In Literacy, the children were learning new sounds ‘ai’ and ‘ay’ and practising spelling words with these sounds in them.  We have also been learning about narrative writing and the different parts of a narrative text.  Next week the children will be writing their very own piece of narrative text.

On Sunday, it is the start of Chinese New Year.  The children should have arrived home with a red envelope with chocolate coins inside, this is because in China children receive a red envelope with money and sweets inside as part of the Chinese New Year celebrations.  They also made Chinese lanterns and practised using chopsticks.

Our hot chocolate winner this week was Caleb!  Caleb has been working very hard in class and her been trying really hard to be kind and helpful to others.  Big congratulations Caleb!

Here are our learning highlights this week:

Chahiti – I loved learning Spanish with Miss Roscilli. I learned how to ask others how they are.

Caleb – I liked drawing during activity time.

Tediwa – I liked meeting new friends in my new school.

Vivien – I liked going out for reading groups.

Linda – I enjoyed learning about the emergency services.

Riley – I loved going on the walk to learn about local places of work.

Rory – I loved learning about Chinese New year.

Angel – I liked building a jigsaw with Jiade.  We were a great team.

Have a great weekend!

Well done P4 for all of your hard work this week.  We’ve enjoyed the frosty weather and lots of us have liked making ice mountains and snowmen during our breaks.

This week, we’ve been working really hard to plan our narratives.  We analysed examples of narratives and worked hard to identify the structure and features of a successful narrative.  We worked in small groups to think of possible story plots, based on some creative picture prompts, creating an orientation, a complication and a resolution.  We completed a plan and a storyboard for our own narratives and some of us have started writing our orientation.  We have to include lots of descriptive vocabulary and sequence our ideas.  Next week, we will be writing up our full narratives.

In maths, we learnt our 9 times tables and we also learnt how to multiply numbers by 10.  We have to move our digits one place to the left and add a ‘superhero zero’ place holder into the ones column.

Our highlights:

Daniel M, Szymon and Jonah: We enjoyed playing basketball in PE and improving our hand to eye coordination.

Ishani M: I enjoyed writing the blog because it is fun.

Ashley: I enjoyed building a snowman at break and lunch times.

Mariam: I loved doing the narrative because I wrote about a crayon going into a clock and then going back in time.

Well done to Ashley who is our hot chocolate winner this week.

Here is our termly plan, showing what we are learning about this term: Forward Plan overview T3 23

Have a lovely weekend,

Mrs Brown