St John Ogilvie Primary School

Dear Readers,

we hope you are all very well.

This week’s highlights were the following:

• Continuing the work on column addition, now carrying to the tens and hundreds for most of us. We have really been enjoying it!
•  Reading comprehension about an excert of George and the Marvellous Medicine. We are trying to get better at answering with full sentences since we used to doing it the easiest possible way!😄
• Our Art lesson when we have designed our own super creative bottles for George’s Marvellous Medicine with pastels. What a beautiful display we have created!🌈
• Reconciliation/RE lesson on how God has given us free will to choose between what is rights and wrong. Although He guides us and has taught us to make good choices, in the end it is up to us to do it or not. To ask for God’s help we have created our Class Prayer that we are going to start saying every day in the morning. Let’s hope it will inspire us all to always be respectful, kind and caring.
• The work on spelling is weekly and so is our famous Weekly Spelling Assessment every Friday. We absolutely love it!😍
• Many Congratulations to our Hot Chocolate of the Week, David, who has been trying really hard to improve his listening skills and to be respectful at all times! Well done, David!👏👍🥇😃
• We are also very proud of our new Kindness Champions! Every kindness note is evidence of how kind and thoughtful we are and of how much we enjoy and feel proud to be like that!❤ Well done Ollie, our 1st Kindness Champion, with 10 kindness notes! 👏🥇❤ Well done also to John who is our 2nd Kindness Champion with 6 kindness notes! 👍😃🥈Well done to Pola, our 3rd Kindness Champion with 4 kindness notes! Wow!😃👏🥉

We hope you have enjoyed reading our post and say goodbye for now wishing you all a lovely weekend!

P3A and Mrs Valente😘

And that’s the end of another busy week in Primary 4b!

In numeracy, we’ve been working on column addition and column subtraction.  We’ve done a great job at building our knowledge and understanding of how to exchange when we are crossing a boundary.  Any number bond practise at home would continue to help us build our calculation skills.

We’ve also learnt how to use dictionaries this week.  We understand their purpose and we know how to use our alphabet knowledge to find words, including checking the definition to see if it is the word we are looking for.

In topic, we’ve learnt about the features of inside and outside a castle, and we’ve also learnt about what knights were, their role during the Medieval Period and what they would wear to battle.  The best bit from our castles work was learning about the toilets.  We thought it was disgusting that people went to the toilet in a castle over a hole that hung over the moat.

In Health and Wellbeing, we learnt how to find our inner peace and why this is important.  We also learnt about being observant and talked a lot about self regulation.

Our highlights:

Jonah and Alexa: I enjoyed dodgeball this week in PE because we got hit by balls.

Aiden: I enjoyed learning about castles.  My favourite was learning about the toilets.

Ishani M: I enjoyed doing maths.  My favourite part was column subtraction.

Our hot chocolate winner this week was Alexa.  Well done Alexa.

Have a lovely weekend everybody!

Mrs Brown

Last week was Scottish Book week and we collected our thoughts about all the places we can find things to read.

We have continued to be very busy with our craft work. Finger knitting and crochet. If anyone has spare wool then we will gratefully receive it and put it to good use.

This week was a little different, we had Mr McGurn visiting while Mrs Ross was doing Number Talks with some other classes. We were adding numbers up to millions. (BS) We played some maths games too. (SF) It was a 2 player game when you have to race each other to find the right number. (JJ)

For spelling we have been practising long vowel patterns.  We have been learning about the rules of spelling them.  This week we learned about ‘ai’ and ‘ay’. (MM)

Did you know when using ‘ai’ in a word we have to check there are consonants on either side of the sound. If there is another vowel we need to use ‘ay’. But we can use ‘ay’ if the sound is at the end of the word. the y is an anchor to hold the vowel sound in the word.

We have done some Number Talks to get better at numbers. (LS) (To improve our number knowledge) We have spent time on laptops. (PF) We started painting panels for our Great Hall. (SF)

Dear Parents,

This week we have been continuing our numeracy work on multiplication and division and as we now have a date  for our SNSA assessments we will move onto Fractions, Decimals and Percentages. In maths we have finished symmetry for the moment and will move onto Angles and Co-ordinates. A West Lothian Sumdog Competition has started and runs until next Thursday, that will be our homework for next week and there will be prizes!!!

In Literacy we have been working on Explanation reports, taking notes and then turning them into reports in our own words. We wrote about The Common Cold this week and next week we will get to pick from a range of topics to write about.

On Wednesday we had some Hot Chocolate at the Firepit, as the cold weather makes it nice to sit round the fire with a mug of cocoa!

We have been preparing for P7a’s Advent Service for the Upper Area on Monday and getting our Christmas Door Display ready for next Friday.

Our Hot Chocolate at Home winner this week was….

Nellie! Great Job 🙂

Have a wonderful weekend,

Mr McGurn and Primary 7a

This week we have been learning the sounds ‘u’ and ‘d’. We have been trying hard to write the letters correctly. We have enjoyed using a game on the smartboard to listen for the first sound or the middle sound. We are getting more confident each time we play!

In maths, we have been learning about subtraction. We have been using our finger patterns to help us and we also used a number line to jump back.  We made rockets as part of our space topic and then we launched them and counted how many hand spans it took to reach them. It was great fun!

We learned about how astronauts live in space and watched some videos about them eating, cooking, running and even washing their hair! Our favourite video was the astronauts playing tennis with a ball of water.

Our personal highlights this week are:

Summer – I enjoyed playing with the space station.

Vasilisa – I enjoyed drawing a Christmas tree.

Kacper – I enjoyed painting.

Lillian – I enjoyed doing my elf.

Vedansh – I liked playing Funky Mummy on the smartboard.

Aarav – I liked playing outside with P1B.

Miss Stebbing – I am very proud of all the teamwork I have seen in Primary 1A this week.

Congratulations to Vasilisa who is our Hot Chocolate winner this week.

Another busy week in P1B.  This week we have learned the sound u.  We also focused on revision and blending our learned sounds together to make words.  We matched pictures to the correct word and were able to write the word for pictures by sounding out the sounds and sliding them together.

We read a story about a fat cat on a mat.  In writing we wrote a sentence about the cat and continued to work on using a capital letter, finger spaces and a full stop at the end of our sentence.

We have loved working on our Space Station and Space Rockets during ‘Choosing our Own Learning’.  We worked together and decorated them using foil and a variety of media.  We also made our own space helmets.  This week we learned about the planets.  We know there are eight planets in our Solar System.

We have loved using the craft and construction areas and creating amazing models and master pieces.

We have continued learning about subtraction.  We have used concrete materials to physically take away and we have also used a number line and jumped backwards.

We measured using our hands and cubes to see how long items were.

We have been working really hard on our Nativity Songs and we can’t wait for you all to hear them.

Learning Highlights:

Mrs Russell ‘I loved watching all the children working on the space rockets’

Luca ‘I liked playing with the Rockets’

Owen and Connor ‘I liked playing in the Space Station’

Katie ‘I liked playing with the Space Rockets’

Aaron ‘I liked playing with the I pads’

Elo ‘I liked playing with the Play-Doh’

Azmeer ‘I liked playing in the Rockets’’

Victoria ‘I loved playing with the I pads’

Rose ‘I liked playing in the Reading Tent’

Well done to Aaron our Hot Chocolate winner this week!

Pupil Highlights:

Liam: We started doing our sum dog competition and we really want to beat P6A.

Rupert: We were using the inverse operation in addition and subtraction calculations to ascertain whether the answer provided was in fact correct.

Susanna: We had a class discussion about how we would like to receive feedback for our writing units. We decided that having a little feedback jotter where we would note down our one to one feedback for every piece of written work.

Debbie: We had to work with a partner to make Da Vinci bridges but after trial and error, we are going to do this activity again but use thinner and longer sticks, and, source better instructions.

Hot Chocolate Winner:

A huge congratulations to Tim this week for winning Hot Chocolate. Your teacher is so proud of you for your high level of engagement and more consistent contributions in class. Your whole class are extremely proud of you too.

Dear parents,

Another week has flown by in P5A!

This week we have been working really hard in literacy! We started our week off with a mystery picture quiz and a game of spelling charades to help us understand the meaning of our WordBoost words- this was so much fun. On Tuesday, we used the internet to research and plan our writing discussion which was focused on the question ‘Should we all grow our own fruit and vegetables?’. We explored various arguments and points of view and used these really well in our writing. We also explored sensing verbs and complex conjunctions and made a huge effort to include some of these in our writing- super work P5A! Our literacy class highlight of the week was definitely on Thursday! We recapped and furthered our knowledge of summarising and created our very own story summary cube based on the new John Lewis Christmas advert.

Throughout numeracy we have continued to work on counting and giving change. We have loved engaging in lots of practical role-play activities and plenty of fun games to practice this! We even designed our own ice creams, totalled the cost to make them and worked out the change we were left with! We also played a game of ‘giving change Kahoot!’ on the iPad’s which we all absolutely loved! In addition to money, we have been learning about coordinates and this week we challenged our partner to a game of battleships!

Similar to the past couple of weeks, we have been working our socks off to get ready for our Enterprise in December! We have been working so well within our groups to make our creations and even managed to squeeze in a few Christmas Carol practice sessions this week too!

Lots of pupils in the class said that their favourite moment of the week was outdoor learning! Alongside some other classes, we had a very special tree delivery with a big job to plant all of the trees before the weather turned for the worst. Luckily, we managed to escape the worst of the weather and partnered up with a P7 to plant our trees! Well done everyone!

This week was #Anti-bullyingweek2022 and this year’s campaign had a theme of ‘Reach Out’. We tuned into a live BBC lesson with lots of other schools around the country to learn about what this means and explore different bullying scenarios. One way of raising awareness for Anti-bullying Week is through Odd Sock Day so we decided to design our own odd socks with some powerful messages about bullying. We plan on placing these around the school to raise awareness about bullying!

This week our Hot Chocolate winner is Eilidh! Congratulations! Eilidh was incredibly kind and caring towards her friends in the class and showed all of our school values.

Thank you for another fantastic week everyone, have a lovely weekend!

Dear readers,

We hope you are all very well!😃

This has been another great week in Primary 3A  and its highlights were the following:

• Learning 2 digit column addition, for many of us with carrying! We have absolutely aced it! We’ve done it every single day and kept asking for more! 😃 We wouldn’t even want to stop!
• Continuing our super interesting topic/novel, George’s Marvellous Medicine.We are now on chapter 6, ready to find out what is actually going to happen to George’s grandma! Mrs Valente has decided to stop there for the week just to tease us but we were a bit annoyed because we just wanted to find out more😄!
• Our writing session, predicting what the effects of the incredible medicine George has prepared will be on grandma! There were lots of amazing creative ideas and Mrs Valente liked them very much!
• Our RE lesson about the story of Zaccheaus, during which we discussed all the different aspects of the events, particularly the miraculous effect that Jesus had in a man who was so mean and would make so many bad choices before! We also learned that we all make bad choices at times but as long as we understand why they were wrong and try to change them to make things right, then other people and God will forgive us, as he has forgiven Zaccheaus.
• Our rights of the week were Articles numbers 2, 12, 13 and 19 and we have worked hard on illustrating them so that they can be displayed in our Rights Respecting Wall! They look amazing!

We would, as always, like to congratulate our Hot Chocolate, not only from this week but also from last week!

Our Hot Chocolate last week was Izaan, who has tried hard to be a role model to all! Well done, Izaan! Keep up with your good behaviour!😃👍👏🥇

This week, we congratulated Olly for trying so hard not to chat with his friends and for being on task and answering all the questions asked! Well done, Olly and keep working hard!🥳🥇👏👍

That is all for this week! We hope you have enjoyed reading our post and say goodbye for now!😘

P3A and Mrs Valente

With all the excitement of our Book Week parent event preparations today, we forgot to talk about our favourite parts of this week for the Blog!  Here are some photos however that show some of our learning experiences.  We had a super busy week as it was, ‘Anti Bullying Week’, ‘Road Safety Week’ and ‘Book Week Scotland’!  Ask your child to tell you about the photo of the apples in particular as you look at the photos together.

We really enjoyed having you visit us today!  I hope you did too.  For those parents who were unable to attend, your child had a P6 buddy who joined them for the various activities.  They equally had a great time. 😃

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

I hope you enjoy your weekend.