St John Ogilvie Primary School

This week in Primary 5 we have been working with P4-7 to write some super collaborative stories, it was great to read what classes before us had written and how we could move the stories forward.

We have also been making mind maps to show which parts of our super personalities will help us get our dream jobs when we are older.

On Thursday it was the Feast of Saint John Ogilvie, we learned all about his life working as a Jesuit and then we were lucky to join the whole school for a virtual celebratory mass led by Father Simon.

Aoife – I liked making postcards for people in my class.

Grant – I liked getting to watch a movie on our Fun Day

Olivier – I liked making the compliment cards.

Vanessa – I liked getting to make a bookmark for somebody in Primary 3

Natalia – I liked doing the posters, the peace signs and the bookmarks.

Mrs McLaughlin felt very lucky to spend 2 days in Primary 5 and her highlight is how hard the class have worked, and what great ideas they came up with when talking about our skills. During mass they were extremely respectful listening to the Word of God and joining n with mass responses.

This week our hot chocolate winner is Daisy for her super contribution to our class discussions.

All of the pupils have had fantastic learning experiences this week linked to our Book Week. Thank you to Mrs Callaghan and Miss Stebbing for creating these wonderful experiences.

Each day this week our class has contributed to four different collaborative stories with P4A, P5A and P7A. These stories are very imaginative and entertaining. We also took part in reading sessions voting everyday for our favourite book.

We also reaad ‘Bloom’ by Anne Booth which has inspired our artwork this week. We created a city brought to Bloom by the kindness of the people living there. We dissected different types of flowers (Roses, Crocus, Lilies and Tulips) and labelled the various parts of each flower for Science. We also conducted an experiment with coloured food dye to see how long it takes for water to spread through a plant. We will update you next week with the results.

This week we have been working on multiplication and division in class.

We celebrated the feast of St John Ogilvie mass with Father Simon. Followed by cakes and juice today. We contributed to the mile of pennies laid in the Muga, all money collected will be sent to SCIAF. We were excited and proud to lead whole school assembly (with P6B) – praying The Stations of the Cross.

We are looking forward to another exciting week, next week as we look to develop our Persuasive Language as we start preparing for our House Captain Speeches in May.

This week we have been celebrating SJO Book week.  As part of a whole school reading project we read the book ‘Bloom’ by Anne Booth.  We drew our own flowers using oil pastels, sorted flowers in a Venn diagram, made compliment flowers and ordered flowers from the smallest to the tallest.  We also wrote our own books with P2A and P3A.  Each day we wrote a different part of the story.  On Thursday we got to read the whole book that we had started.  These will be published soon.

On Thursday we celebrated the feast day of St John Ogilvie.  We learned a bit about his life and we joined in with Mass over Teams with Fr Simon.  Miss Stebbing was very proud of how well we listened and how respectful we all were.

During outdoor learning we had all of the loose parts out.  There were tyres, wooden planks, wooden bricks and tarpaulins.  We built a house.  Some of us enjoyed playing at the pirate ship.  We also had a visit to the nursery garden to look at the buds on the trees.

On Friday we brought lots of pennies into school.  We managed to fill 9 maps of Malawi!  We also had a special treat for our school feast day.

Some of our personal highlights are:

Diana – I enjoyed creative zone.

Vivien – I enjoyed learning about colouring inside the lines.

Chimamanda – I enjoyed colouring in the super hero glasses.

Aadya – I enjoyed making stuff in creative zone.

Ollie – I enjoyed playing schools.

Laura – I enjoyed learning everything.

Caleb – I enjoyed creative zone.

Linda – I enjoyed building the house at outdoor learning.

A really fun week this week in P7B!

Numeracy

we had a packed week this week during numeracy. We looked at measurement and fractions this week and revisited multiplying decimals. We had fun working together during problem solving and looking at the wording of questions; exploring the difference between the terms of and off in numeracy.

Literacy

this week we continued researching and working on our digital skills to support our literacy learning. The children have been using and actioning peer feedback and the standard of work is improving greatly. We reviewed this week representations in film and media and discussed what it means to be represented. We learned a lot about Lent this week; exploring shrove Tuesday, Ash Wednesday and what lent means.

IDL

we continued our work on the rainforest this week. We have produced amazing reports and fact files on different rainforests, Columbia and Brazil.

Pupil voice

Alex and Szymon “I enjoyed STEM this week. Working as a team to create structures to save cars with wool and string from falling off the table”

Kuba “I liked working with Ms Bett to look at cooking Brazilian fudge balls”

Sara “I liked making colour parrots for topic art”

Mark “I liked writing prayers for the people of Ukrain”

Xander “I liked researching and writing for the information reports”

Charlotte “I like health and wellbeing  this week, making origami butterflies to symbolise love and hope”

Shining Star 

well done Alex for going over and above this week!

Dear families,

Here are some of our highlights from our busy week of learning in primary 6!

Literacy: We continued to work on information reports for our writing. In order to do this we successfully created our own notes on the human heart. We are becoming more confident with the structure of an information report and we were able to independently write titles, general statements, descriptions and evaluations. Mrs Roy was very impressed! We also took part in some world book day activities such as drop everything and read each time the bell rang. We created character selfies for some of our favourite characters in books, we wrote book reviews on our favourite books and made corner book marks. We have also brought home our spoons to decorate and can upload them to teams when we are finished.

Here are some of our corner book marks:

Numeracy and maths: We had a lot of fun working with a partner to solve our maths mystery. We had to complete a range of maths questions to solve each clue and this gave us an idea of who the culprit (pancake pincher) was in the maths mystery. We were very engaged and although it was maths it was like a fun game of Cluedo!

R.E: On Tuesday we learned about Shrove Tuesday and the meaning behind this special day and on Wednesday we celebrated Ash Wednesday. Father Simon came in and some of us received our ashes as part of a mini service in our class. We also got to see the ashes being created in a video from last years palms burning.

Well done to Rebecca who has went over and above and is our hot chocolate winner this week!

Have a great weekend!

Mrs Roy

Dear readers,

We hope you are all doing very well.

As this has been a week with very upsetting news related to what has been happening around the world, we have decided to say special prayers for peace. All the children reminded me daily about these extra prayers and asked many questions about the whole situation. They shared that they have been listening to the news and seemed to have a relatively good knowledge of what has been going on.

On a much more positive note, here are the highlights from this week:

Literacy and English

New spelling words, lots of spelling practice and the usual weekly spelling assessment with great scores;

Reading of our new books for the week/fortnight using increasing expression and awareness of punctuation;

Planning and writing an information report about puppies, following the structure we had learned;

Learning more word boost words to help us both with our understanding of what we read/hear and with the use of new words in our writing.

Numeracy and Maths 

We have continued working on the multiplication and division facts by 3 with lots of exercises and word problems and have also continued our work with money and giving change from a given amount, using increasingly higher amounts.

Learning Across the Curriculum

We learned all about Pancake day and even had the chance to have some tasty pancakes with chocolate! Yummy!

Ash Wednesday marked the beginning of Lent, a very important time for Catholics and we learned about its meaning, duration and things we should do during it. Many of us have chosen to have the ashes on Ash Wednesday, after having watched a clip on where they came from.

We have finished our first water colour art work with the West Lothian’s crest and are now ready to put it up on the Topic display. The work looks amazing and the children have put a lot of effort into it.

Today, we finished the week with an Aseembly to promote SCIAF’s Wee Box, Big Change appeal and have asked children to bring, if at all possible, coins to help with the campaign.

This week we have also learned a lot about Fairtrade and the importance of buying products with its logo when shopping with our families/carers.

These are just some of the highlights of our busy week and we hope you have enjoyed reading about them!

Wishing you all a good weekend!😃

Mrs Valente and P3A

Another great week in P1B.

One of our favourite tasks this week was learning about Shrove Tuesday. We carried out a survey to find out the most popular topping in the class and then Mrs Russell gave us a pancake with our favourite topping on it. They were delicious!

We also learned about the meaning of Ash Wednesday and enjoyed a visit from Father Simon, when some of us received ashes. We learned about Lent and discussed something we could give up or take up for 40 days and 40 nights.

We enjoyed taking part in World Book Day activities, such as ‘Drop Everything and Read’ and a mystery reader to the classroom. We enjoyed listening to her read to us beside the fire.

This week in topic we read the story ‘The Cautious Caterpillar’ and learned all about the life cycle of a butterfly. We enjoyed making a life cycle craft using pasta and rice.

Teacher Highlights:

We have been being putting in a lot of work and effort into how to take notes, how to identify  important information, and how to summarise a text, all in preparation for for writing an information report.

Once we will have finished our Victorian information report, we will be writing several more, once we have mastered how to write the general statement, the description , and the evaluation independently. We will be posting our fantastic work as a sway on our glow .

Hot Chocolate Winner this week : Congratulations to Patrick for winning the hot chocolate. We are all so proud of him for writing an excellent general statement and evaluation this week.

Pupil Highlights:

Natalia: I liked doing the different balances in P.E.

Aoife: I liked writing my notes and putting my notes into sentences for my information report.

Olivier: I liked writing my notes on the laptop.

Daisy: I liked  doing the pyramids in P.E.

Amelia: I liked using the Ipads in music when we had to make all these different sounds into one.

Emily: I liked dancing it out at the end of the day too.

Josh N: I liked learning about our SCIAF box.

Myles: I liked playing chess in brain break.

Sam: I liked dancing it out at the end of the day to unstoppable.

Vanessa: I liked making notes on the Victorian School life.

Marriyah: I liked getting my photo taken yesterday.