St John Ogilvie Primary School

Hello P2A families!

This has been our first full week back.  The children have settled back in well.  I believe they all grew over the holidays!

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

Ben has enjoyed our lessons on capacity this week.  We learned that liquids are measured using millilitres (mls for short).  We predicted the capacity of 3 different sized containers, then filled them using a 1litre measuring jug and then compared our answers.  Thank you to my 3 water helpers today: Izaan, Ruari and Chijiakwu.  The children are looking forward to their maths homework next week were they will get a chance to consolidate this learning at home.

Isabel loved hearing that after we finish our new topic, Livingston, that the following topic will be pupil choice!  All the children in P2 presented their ideas and then voted.  The winning choice was ‘Space’.  In 2^nd place was ‘Under the Sea’ and the children were happy to hear that this learning will take place during Science.

Nathan said his favourite part of this week was playing ‘Trucks and Trailers’ at PE with Mrs Lafferty.

Kayla liked music with Mrs Morrison who taught the children this week about Scottish traditional instruments.  They were excited to hear that soon they will listen to Scottish pop artists, one that grew up in West Lothian, Lewis Capaldi!  I believe he already has a big fan base in P2A!

Emily liked story writing, were we wrote about our house.  We tried to use adjectives to describe: colour, size, texture, shape  and the number of different things inside and outside of our house.  Emily wrote about the number on her door and the colour of her house.

Babafola said his favourite part of the week was using rekenreks during maths lessons that supported us to find answers to subtraction calculations.  He is looking forward to next week when we will learn to use the correct layout in squared jotters and use a ruler for excellent presentation.

My highlight was our lesson about the Holy Family (Mary, Jesus and Joseph) and through discussion, we learned that their lives were very similar to ours!  The children were amazed to hear that the Holy Family did not have electricity, running water or wifi!

Well done to Rebekah for received the Hot Chocolate Friday Award.

Hope you all have a great weekend!

Primary One have been very busy this week.  We have been learning the sounds ‘x’ and ‘v’ and we are able to say words that have these sounds.

For writing this week we wrote about a snowman.  Mrs Russell and Mrs Meikle are very proud of how well we are doing remembering to use finger spaces between our words and full stops at the end of our sentences.

We looked at addition within 1o and also number families.  We also practised writing our numbers to 20 to make sure we form the numerals correctly.

We started our new topic this week ‘Our Local Area’, we used Google Earth to locate Scotland and we found it on the world map.  We also looked for Livingston.

We discussed Teeth Hygiene and the importance of brushing our teeth to keep them clean and healthy.  We practised brushing teeth on the model teeth using the big toothbrushes.

We really enjoyed exploring the Ice Cream Shop in our role play area.

“I liked playing with playdoh’   Siya

“I liked Listening Time”  Aaron

“I liked learning new numbers”  Amy

“I liked adding numbers”  Reesa

“We liked learning letters and sounds”  Georgia Rose and Evana

Well done Reesa for receiving the Hot Chocolate Friday Award.

Have a great weekend everyone

Good afternoon,

We have had an excellent week in Primary 6! Here are some of our learning highlights:

In literacy we have been learning about mnemonics to help us to remember the correct spelling of our words. We also learned about homophones and thought of different ways to help us choose the correct word for the sentence.

In numeracy we have been working hard on fractions, decimals and percentages and have been able to show the connection between them.

The rights of the child: We have been learning about article 7 and 8 and have a great understanding of the importance of our identity and what makes us who we are.

We have enjoyed the beginning of our new topic which is Scotland and have been inspired by a Scottish artist called Steven Brown. Therefore, we created some work in the same style by using lots of colour. Here are some examples:

We have also been learning about Scottish cities and could place them on the map:

Our hot chocolate winner this week was Josh!

Have a great weekend,

Mrs Roy

We have had a great time this week.  For numeracy we are working on multiplication and practicing some of our times tables.  We enjoyed exploring patterns that the times tables make and playing board games using our times tables.  We have also been doing lots of counting in groups.

In January, we are focusing on scots language and this week we explored the poem ‘A Dug, A Dug’ by Bill Keys.  We really liked looking at the scots words and seeing if we could work out what the word would be in English.  We made a picture dictionary to help us with the new words and some of our favourites have been hoose, breeks and mingin.

As part of our topic this term we are learning about some Scottish landmarks and started this week by looking at Edinburgh Castle.  We are using our learning about this to create a PowerPoint presentation, learning how to use PowerPoint for images and texts and are looking forward to learning how to add animations to our PowerPoint.   We also used chalk pastels to create castles, thinking about the main features that castles have.

For music we have been looking at different Scottish instruments with Mrs Morrison.  This week we looked at different types of Accordion.

In our Spanish learning, we have been learning the names of the different parts of our bodies and had good fun acting along with the song Cabeza, Hombros, Rodillas y Pies (Head, Shoulders, Knees and Toes!)

Looking forward to lots of new learning next week!

This week in Primary 1 we have been having lots of fun learning about how to take away using a number line.

Laura – I liked playing with my friends

Jiade – I liked making the wheels

Aadya – I have enjoyed reading books in class

Linda and Zion – I liked getting to go outside

Mrs McKissack and Mrs McLaughlin like working with P1 to learn all about the Creation Story and making some super wheels that help us remember what happened.

Pupil Highlights

Nilaya: I liked listening to our new class novel Adam 2.

Joshua D: I liked learning how to round to the nearest 10, 100 and 1000.

Marriyah: I liked completing comprehension questions on our other class novel  The Suitcase Kid.

Olivier: I like learning about the triangles – Isosceles, Scalene, Equilateral and Right Angled Triangle.

Elizabete: I liked learning how to round to the nearest 10, 100, 1000.

Daisy: I enjoyed doing the daily mile.

Ronan: I liked doing volley ball in P.E.

Josh Nelson: I liked completing our rounding assignment on Prodigy,

Anastasia: I liked listening to Adam 2.

Teacher Highlights:

I am really impressed with how well we finished our hanging sentences for our word boost activity.

Our word boost words this week were:    version      to curse    to scowl     prototype    temporary

Hot Chocolate Winner:  Amelia

Amelia has been chosen this week for outstanding work in her numeracy and in her literacy.