St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week we have been doing activities about Hansel and Gretel. The dragon asked us to read this book to help Fairyland. We used our imaginations to act out visiting the Gingerbread House and used our senses to describe our adventure. In writing, we wrote 5 sentences about the Gingerbread House! We even made our own Gingerbread House in the classroom and we made sweets to decorate it in Creative Zone.

In maths, we have been learning about odd and even numbers. We used sweets from the Gingerbread House and sorted them out into the even and odd jars. We used Numicon to help us and we know that if the Numicon piece has a sticky up bit then it is an odd number.

In RE we listened to the story of the Ascension and we had a visit from Fr Simon on Thursday.

During Health and Wellbeing, we have been discussing healthy and unhealthy foods. We did a brilliant job of sorting them into the correct boxes. We also got to talk about foods that we liked and disliked.

Our personal highlights this week are:

Chimamanda – I enjoyed playing in the Gingerbread House.

Vivien – I enjoyed playing with everything.

Angel – I liked playing in block play and I made a stage.

Jiade – I liked playing in the shop at block play.

Hasika – I enjoyed playing in Creative Zone.

Caiden – I liked building at Lego.

Zion – I liked singing in the band at Block Play.

Hello P2A families!

Here are the learning highlights of the week from the Green and Red Table:

Nathan enjoyed using the ipads to program a Beebot.  We made it travel forwards, backwards, left and right.

Kayla loved using sticks and twigs from the woodlands to build a skeleton as part of our learning about the body.

Isabel liked it when we enjoyed ice pops in the nice sunshine as part of our learning about freezing and melting.

Ben said the best part of his week was completing instructional drawings of farm animals.  The children could choose to take part in 2 out of 4 drawings.  Choices were: a cow, a horse, a pig or a chicken.

Babafola loved our narrative writing lessons.  He made up a story about a lion and a lizard.  It was super!

Joe enjoyed listening to the story ‘Supertatoe’ wearing the superhero masks the class decorated.  If your child wishes to hear this story again, it can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIMb5oa370o

Aiden S enjoyed learning the numbers 11-20 in Spanish.  If your child wishes to practise these again, the following link might be helpful: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2Z_1voFJJo

John thought continuing to pray a decade of the Rosary during the month of May was something special we did this week.

Chiji loved learning about left and right.  He wore a blindfold while Mrs Devlin called out instructions.  Next week’s math’s homework will be a practical one where all the children will get a turn to play this popular game.

David S liked problem solving with Mrs Brand.

David K liked the game where each child had to make as many sums as they could using only the digits displayed on the Smartboard.  Congratulations to Isabel who made the most sums!  She found 13!  We now know that 4 sums can be made using the same digits i.e. 6+4=10, 4+6=10, 10-6=4, 10-4=6.

Julia loved PE this week where she improved her balancing skills using an egg and spoon.

Zosia really enjoyed our lesson about freezing and melting.  We conducted an experiment were 6 ice cubes started to melt at the same time, only they had 6 different ingredients added to them.  We had to predict which ice cube would melt the fastest.  Check out the photos below to see what each of these 6 things were and what our predictions were.  Well done to those who guessed that salt would melt the ice fastest!

My highlight has to have been the fantastic teamwork that created our skeletons from twigs.  Well done P2A!

Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate award winner, Rebekah and to our Reading Champion, Aiden G!

We have had a great week together in P6B. Working together as a team we gained lots of points in the West Lothian Sumdog competition and came 1st! We are also proud of P6A who were 2nd and P7A who were 4th. Three classes in the top 10, well done SJO!

In maths we developed our knowledge of circles by learning about the radius, diameter and circumference. We will continue working on this next week too.

We have been very enthusiastic about starting to video our house and vice captain speeches. We hope to finish videoing these soon and allow other classes to see how hard we have been working. Over the week we have become more confident and overcome any nerves by giving each other positive feedback.

We have also started to write poems about our skills and talents that we are excited to share with our teachers for next year.

In P.E we enjoyed taking part in races and working cooperatively.

We ended the week with a movie together as a reward for great work and a treat from Mrs Roy for her last day in P6.

Thank you to all of the children and parents for their kindness and generosity. It is very much appreciated. Have a fantastic long weekend.

Mrs Roy

A fantastic week at Ford Castle! The children had a lot of fun taking part in many activities and really pushed themselves! They should be so proud, I know I am! I’m sure they’re loving telling you about all the amazing memories they’ve made!

Here are some photos of our week:

We are all very tired and I hope you have a relaxing long weekend! I’ll see you all on Tuesday!

Mr Pentland

Welcome back to another P3B weekly update.

It has been a very busy week in Primary 3!

Maths:  In Maths we have been continuing to learn about Fractions and shading fractions of a shape.  We also started some work on how to measure weight using grams and kilograms.  We will continue with this next week.

Literacy:  We finished the story ‘The Man Who Wore All His Clothes’.  In groups we carried out some role play activities, acting out the main parts of the story.  Here are some photographs of us in action, there were some excellent acting skills on show.

We then started a new book called ‘The Whole Truth’.  We looked at the front cover and made predictions about what we think might happen.  We also investigated the two main characters and wrote down their main features and qualities.

Outdoor Learning:  We went outside on Wednesday and completed a measure treasure hunt.  It was a lot of fun and the children managed to find all of the items on the list.

Learning Highlights:

Amelia:  I liked playing the games in PE.

Matteo:  I enjoyed being outside in the woodlands doing our measure scavenger hunt.

Mariam:  I enjoyed free writing Friday, I finished my chapter book.

Layla:  I liked doing the stained glass window picture for the month of Mary.

Jonah:  I liked talking about what makes a good team.

Jude: I enjoyed learning how the trundle wheel works in Maths.

Aiden: I loved recording sounds on Sound Lab.

Remember that Monday is a holiday and we are back at school on Tuesday.

Have a great long weekend!

Primary 3B

This week Primary 6 explored articles 9, 20 and 25 all linked to family life. We learned that not all children live in the same kinds of families, there are families of many different types. We learned that some children need support from carers that are not family members.

During Outdoor Learning we planted sunflowers in a circle in the we dug next week. We also planted wildflowers inside the circle. We are hoping to see some growth before we finish up at the end of June. Fingers crossed for sunny, dry weather to help the plants grow. We will be continuing to weed and plant bedding plants over the next few weeks.

In literacy we began writing poems about individual talents, skills and personal qualities.

We began filming House Captain Speeches (although some technical difficulties). Next week we will continue filming and anyone who has not had an opportunity this week will get their chance next week.

Maths we have been revising our knowledge of radius, diameter and circumference of circles.

We took part in the West Lothian Sumdog competition. St. John Ogilvie first, second and fourth place over47 other  – 6B came first and P6A came second.

In PE we continued to develop our Athletics Skills.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the holiday on Monday.

Pupil Highlights:

Inaya:  I liked making notes with Vanessa for our presentation which will be ‘ How did the First World War Start?’

Olivier: I liked helping with their weaving because if people are stuck I could help them.

Joshua D: I like playing Kahoot Marvel edition with Adam

Daisy: I enjoyed going over time and playing kahoot.

Adam: I liked watching the ted talks to help us with our presentations.

Josh N: I liked doing relay races in P.E and I also liked doing the Topic HW, it helped me learn what a primary source and what a secondary source is

Emily: I liked making notes with Amelia about WW1 instead of writing long sentences so that we can use them for our presentation.

Aoife: I enjoyed doing our fractions assessment so Miss Smith could find out where we are in our learning in this.

Ronan: I liked watching the Martin Luther speech ‘ I have a Dream’ because it was motivational and inspirational.

Congratulations to the hot chocolate winner this week who is Olivier who has been trying tremendously hard in all areas of his learning. We are all so proud of him. Well done Olivier

Ishaan – We learned about the time.

Amariah-Grace – I liked using the clock.

 

Safaa- We have been learning about The Three Little Pigs.

Amy – I liked drawing Fairyland.

Ciara – I liked looking after the baby dragon.

Reesa – I have liked writing sentences about The 3 Little Pigs.

Maja – I liked building the pigs houses.

Aaron – I liked learning about animals.

Evana – I like doing the huff and puff experiment.

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Evana – I liked making and playing in the castle.

Amy – I liked playing kings and queens in the castle.

 

Ishaan – We were learning about fractions.

Olivia – I liked making pizzas.

Sofia – We learned half and quarter.

Siya – We used skittles to make fractions.

Theo – I liked eating skittles.