St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we explored Article 14 (freedom of thought, belief and religion) We discussed why it is important for every child to havethe right to think and believe what they choose and also to practise their religion. We also discussed why Governments must respect the rights and responsibilities of parents to guide their child as they grow up. We created interesting artwork to show our understanding.

In math we have been practising our numeracy strategies and working on our times tables knowledge. We have also been measuring different size angles using a protractor and compass.

This week we wrote an imaginative story about walking through a Magic Door.

In Science we have been learning about Electricity and building Electrical Circuits.  We investigated conductors and insulators, static electricity, drawing and building electrical circuits to light bulbs, create sound and movement. In art lessons we had good fun creating some winter sketches of snowmen and penguins. We practised some different Christmas songs this week.

Have a great weekend. Primary 5 will have their Christmas Party on Monday Afternoon.

This week we performed our Nativity for our families.  Everyone was very impressed with our singing and acting.  Mrs Meikle, Mrs Russell and Miss Stebbing were so proud of us.  We got a special treat of a movie and popcorn because we were all superstars!

Pupil Highlights:

Alex: We got to start and finish our SNSAS.

Kieran: We have started rehearsing our very own Christmas Drama which we are going to perform to the Upper Area next week.

Lucia: We have chosen our two songs we are going to sing for our Upper Area get to together on the last day.

Tanya: I have enjoyed being part of the craft team because in this team, we are making the set and props for the drama.

Liam: We have secured the skill of converting improper fractions to mixed numbers.

Olly: We were invited to watch a dress rehearsal of our buddies perform their nativity.

Hannah: We had a big class discussion where we unpicked the Curriculum for Excellence, specifically ‘ The Refreshed Narrative’. We talked about why we go to school. We discussed  the importance of socialisation and the skills we gain at school not only for work but for life.

Miss Smith: We are going to start reflecting on how we have met the four capacities at the end of our day, and, next year, we are going to play more of a role in planning our week within the four contexts.

Hot Chocolate Winner: Congratulations to Debbie for winning hot chocolate this week. Your teacher is so proud of you for your consistent hard work and contributions in the classroom. Debbie you are also an excellent manager of the craft team for the Drama, not too bossy or annoying!

Josh – Helping the P2s.

Olivier – Watching the advent service.

Amelia – Playing word tennis

Aoife – PE, Dancing

Emily – 4 contexts display

Caleb – Tinkercad

Daisy – notetaking

Natalia – climate change poster

Elizabete – I liked going outside in the snow.

Well done Daisy for going over and above this week and getting the hot chocolate at home reward!

Hello P2B families!

Here are our highlights from the Green Table:

Lewis loved our Christmas concert on Wednesday.  He was so happy that his parents were able to make it and enjoyed decorating the gingerbread men together and making the bauble.

Amariah-Grace liked writing about a raindrop’s adventure as it moved through the different stages of the water cycle.  We had some creative ideas involving a raindrop falling onto roof tops, puddles, children’s hair, dog’s noses….

Evana said the best part of her week was when Mrs McLaughlin put a Christmas movie on for the children to enjoy on Thursday afternoon.

Olivia  liked our Word Boost story ‘Owen and the Mountain’.  We will not have any new Word Boost stories now until the new year.

Theo said learning about words that have ‘ff’ at the end was what he remembered enjoying this week.

Mrs Devlin’s favourite part of the week was of course, like Lewis, our Christmas Concert.  The children did so well remembering all the words and actions.  I was so proud of everyone!

Congratulations to Ciara, our Hot Chocolate award winner this week!

I hope you enjoy the rest of your weekend.  I know we have a cold week ahead.  If you are sending in any hats, scarves and gloves, can you please label them with your child’s name to ensure they can be returned to them if they get misplaced.  Thank you.

We have been practising very hard for our Nativity show next week. We have been singing very loud! We even got to sing one of our songs at the Blessing of the Crib with Fr Simon.

In Science, we have been learning about Robots and we got to use the Beebots. We had to code them to get them to work. It was great fun watching the Beebots move across the floor.

Our new topic is all about Toys. We had to sort the toys into Indoor Toys and Outdoor Toys.

We learned the sounds ‘r’ and ‘v’ this week. In writing, we wrote about what we would do if we were stuck in a snowglobe.  We read the story ‘Snowmen at Night’ and we made our own snowmen pictures using paper. They were looking up into the sky to try to catch the snowflakes.  On Thursday when it started to snow, we went out into the playground to try to catch the snowflakes!

Some of our personal highlights this week are

Lillian – I enjoyed throwing the snowballs when it was the right sound. We even got to throw them at Miss Stebbing!

Summer Rose – I liked catching the snowflakes on my tongue.

Olga – I enjoyed throwing the snowballs at Literacy time.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed making the snowman.

Alexander – I enjoyed playing.

Connor – I liked throwing the snowball when I heard the sound ‘v’.

Miss Stebbing -I was very impressed with the snowman art that everyone made this week. Everyone listened well to the instructions and produced some great pictures.

Congratulations to this week’s Hot Chocolate Winner who is Eve!

Wow! What a memorable week we have had in P5! We had the most fun ever at our Enterprise event on Friday and we would like to thank everyone who came and bought some products. Some children described this event as the best day of their life in school so far so it’s fair to say it was a great success!

Another class highlight of the week was maths. We had a very exciting project of planning and pricing a winter holiday where we had a set budget to stick to. We priced out our transport and accommodation costs for 5 nights and even remembered to factor in our luggage costs; excellent work P5! We also worked out our enterprise product prices, created a price list and used our multiplication skills to work out an estimated total profit. We are all loving developing our skills for life and work!

We also really enjoyed literacy this week; we did a creative writing piece based on a Christmas village backdrop! Miss Ventisei loved reading all of the wonderful imaginative stories and also spotted some fantastic conjunctions, which is our grammar focus at the moment.

On Thursday, we had a very exciting afternoon! We had to decorate some gingerbread men for the Enterprise event! We absolutely loved decorating these and made sure to add lots of “Christmas cheer”to our biscuits!

Ayden was our Hot Chocolate winner of the week! He made sure to be ready, respectful and safe all week and this did not go unnoticed! Fantastic work Ayden; we are all so proud of you!

Have a wonderful weekend everyone!

Dear Parents,

On Monday we took part in a debate about renewable and non-renewable energy sources to round of our topic work in that area and really enjoyed finding out about the structure of a debate and how to take part. We are looking forward to more experiences of debate this year.

We have been working on Fractions, Decimals and Percentages, links between them and how to find a fraction or percentage of an amount. Our NSAs (formally SNSA) Standardised Assessments are next week so F.D.P will continue in the New Year.

We have written our final Explanation Report, for this term, where we had free choice of the topics. Mr McGurn is looking forward to finding out about a very large and varied cross section of topics like: How Football was Invented or How to Win at Modern Warfare.

In health and wellbeing we have begun to learn about the Zones of Regulation, which is a tool to help us better understand our emotions and how to deal with them. We played Bingo…

and discovered the area in the classroom where we can take a little break from things if we find ourselves in the red or yellow zones…

Congratulations to Chiedochie and Tanvi who both placed in the Top 10 in our recent West Lothian Sumdog Competition!

Pardhu and Katie both mention their highlight of the week being ‘getting ready for the NSAs’ whilst Chiedochie said her highlight was, “Our class did a debate of renewable and non-renewable energy.”

This week’s Hot Chocolate at Home winner was….

Monty! Great job Monty, you’ll be a great Lead Learner for next week!

Have a great weekend everyone,

Mr McGurn and P7a

What an exciting week it has been in Primary 2a!  The children very confidently put on a fantastic Christmas concert on Wednesday and we could not be prouder of them!  Thank you to all of the family members who came along to support the children and to help them to make the Christmas crafts and the gingerbread men.  There were certainly lots of happy faces and maybe even a few happy tears.

Here are a few pictures of some of the children on the day:

Children’s learning highlights for the week:

Diana – I enjoyed making Christmas decorations for the classroom.

Jiade – I liked learning about the water cycle.

Vivien – I enjoyed everything!

Grace – I liked free writing Friday.  I wrote about a magic pony.

Whole Class – We loved doing the Christmas Concert and making the gingerbread men!

We would all like to congratulate Alicja who is our hot chocolate winner this week.  Alicja has been working very hard in class and is always very kind and helpful towards others.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend and the children have great fun at the disco tonight!

Well done Primary 4b, you’ve really impressed me with your learning this week!

In maths, we have been finishing off our addition and subtraction topic.  We have been using the inverse to check our answers and to find missing numbers.  We worked in pairs today to solve written problems and we coached our partner if they needed our help.

In topic, we researched some Scottish castles.  We learnt that Balmoral Castle was rebuilt in 1856.  Glamis Castle is considered by some to be the most beautiful castle in Scotland.  Edinburgh Castle was built on volcanic rock and it has also experienced the most attacks of any castle in the UK.  It had a record-breaking 1.7 million visitors recently.

In our literacy, we have learnt about conjunctions.  We learnt about co-ordinating conjunctions and we use FANBOYS and for subordinating conjunctions we use I SAW A WABUB.  We use conjunctions to add extra information and make our sentences more detailed and interesting.

In health and wellbeing, we were reflecting on how to be a good friend and why friendships are important.

Our highlights:

Millie and Jonah: We liked doing Christmas Corners in PE because it was fun and we got to dance.

Paige: This week, I drew two Winnie the Pooh pictures and I liked showing them to the class.

Aiden and Mariam: We loved doing maths this week because we did a lot of addition and subtraction and used the inverse to check our answers.

Jude: I liked doing Christmas dances for the Christmas party because they were all very fun.

Congratulations to Aiden for being our hot chocolate winner this week.

Have a wonderful time at the disco if you’re going and have a lovely week.  See you on Monday.

Mrs Brown