{"id":23178,"date":"2026-01-09T14:40:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:40:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/?p=23178"},"modified":"2026-01-09T14:40:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T14:40:44","slug":"p3-week-beginning-5th-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/stjohnogilvieprimary\/2026\/01\/09\/p3-week-beginning-5th-january-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"P3 Week Beginning 5th January 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello P3 families!<\/p>\n

I hope you all had a lovely Christmas and new year!\u00a0 I missed the children very much!\u00a0 We have had a few changes in class for the start of the new year.\u00a0 The children have now moved seats and have new table names.\u00a0 We now have table names after towns in West Lothian.\u00a0 We have: Bathgate, Broxburn and Livingston (the children picked them).<\/p>\n

This week we will hear about the learning highlights in P3 from \u2018Livingston\u2019:<\/p>\n

Joseph enjoyed the maths work we completed on the calendar.\u00a0 The children worked in pairs to create a month for our new class calendar.\u00a0 They researched important dates in their month, picked 3 and inserted them in, as well as class birthdays of course!\u00a0 The calendar looks very special.\u00a0 Good work everyone!<\/p>\n

Izaan and Eliza both liked our lessons on alphabetical order and early dictionary skills.\u00a0 We played different games to ensure we were confident with alphabetical order and this helped prepare us for when we looked at the dictionaries.\u00a0 We raced to find different sections of the dictionary and have begun to look at definitions.\u00a0 We will continue with this next week and look up vocabulary from one of our previous Word Boost books.<\/p>\n

Oscar enjoyed bench ball during PE.\u00a0 This half term the children will be developing their gymnastic skills begun in P2.<\/p>\n

Ellie liked our phonics lesson on the ou\/ow sounds.\u00a0 We had a practise of some of the active spelling homework tasks using these sounds.\u00a0 The children had to speak riddles to their friend who had to guess the correct word.<\/p>\n

Rahim chose Spanish as his favourite lesson.\u00a0 This was with Mrs Ogruno, who taught the children the months of the year in Spanish.\u00a0\u00a0 Here is a link to a song that will help the children to remember:<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfb6 Learn the Months of the Year in Spanish Song – Kid’s Spanish songs<\/a><\/p>\n

Ollie\u2019s highlight was tracing an outline of a map of West Lothian.\u00a0 I was so proud of everyone for their concentrated efforts completing this task.\u00a0 They then completed a key to represent the different towns.\u00a0 See the photo below of those who won a prize for the neatest map.<\/p>\n

My highlight was our lessons on our new topic.\u00a0 The children are excited to learn about life on the Isle of Coll (the island that the author of the Katie Morag stories grew up) compared with West Lothian.\u00a0 They came up with very interesting questions such as: How many schools are there?\u00a0 What are the names of the rivers?\u00a0 What types of transport are there?\u00a0 What is the population?\u00a0 What places of worship are there? etc.\u00a0 There were 16 questions in total and over the course of this half term, they will research these questions.\u00a0 After we looked at the images of the Isle of Coll, I told the children that I wanted to move there when I retire as it is so beautiful but my husband thought it would be too cold!\u00a0 Ellie\u2019s advice was, \u201cTell him to just wear a coat!\u201d\u00a0 Thanks Ellie, I will pass that useful advice on! \ud83d\ude06<\/p>\n

Congratulations to our hot chocolate award winner, Dawid and a big, warm welcome to our new pupil, Rahim!<\/p>\n

Those parents who opted in for homework, will have found it in their school bag on Tuesday.\u00a0 Everyone will continue to have daily reading homework.\u00a0 Thank you for your continued support.<\/p>\n

I hope you enjoy your weekend!<\/p>\n

Mrs Brown<\/p>\n

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