On Monday the 27th and Tuesday 28th of May P7 from Islay went on their induction days to Islay High. When we arrived we went in to the hall but when every one else left we stayed with Mr Weatherhogg. He gave us our temporary lunch card and our timetables. On the first day I felt scared I would get lost but I never did, lunch was my favourite part of the day it was really good.
Car wash
At the weekend we had a car wash. The event was to raise money for school trips. We were all asked to bring in home baking. Mrs Clark organised tea and coffee for people whilst we washed their car. It turned out a great success on the end we raised £243. We also went down the street selling cakes. We sold just cakes and the cake was the whole attraction. At the start people were washing one bit of the car and then someone else would wash it so we split our seIves into sections someone would do the side someone else would do the windscreen and bonnet then someone else would be on the back window and down wards then someone else’s job would be the roof. It was really fun at the end there was a massive water fight it was all the kids vs the teachers. We all soaked the teachers with the hose. We are all looking forward to our next school trip.
Multi Sports Day
On the 24th May, it was our annual multi sports day when all primary 5’s to 7’s all got together to do some sports. There was shinty, netball, golf, rounders, football and rugby. I enjoyed it because I got an idea of the different choices of sport you get, and who you will be going into high school with. Brandon and Milly from the high school came down to help us with the different sports! You got half an hour at each sport and you got just under an hour to eat your lunch!
We all got put into groups of 15-20, my group was Lindsey, David, Eilidh, Elinor, Elizabeth, Isla, Rauridh, William, Torin, Chloe and David. I thought that netball was the best because it is a sport I have never tried before!
The day was good fun and I think everyone enjoyed it!
By Maisie
Euan The Shinty Developer
On Monday 20th May, a group of 5-7s went to a Shinty developer to see if we were good enough to go to the tournament in Fort William and I think we got through. I really enjoyed it. We did different types of drills; passing drill, shooting and speed it was fun. We had a tiny break then we started to play a game at the very end and we had a massive game and it was 8 minutes a half. The developer said I was really good at dribbling with both sides of the stick. The best thing was the different drills i feel so much confident than I was before about Shinty. I have learned how you hold your stick in the ready position. In one of the drills we hold the stick on the ready position and the hit the ball on one of the sides. It was awesome but it was wooden sticks so if you hit someone in the shins it would really hurt badly.
Blar
On Wednesdays,Saturdays and Sundays we do Blar which is about a battle that happened many years ago. There is going to be a big display that lots of people are taking part in to show the battle that happened on Traigh Ghruinnart. We all have to practice all our songs, some of us sing and if we are in the band we have to learn when to come in and play. The battle is about two groups of people having a battle who are the McLeans and the McDonalds and in the battle they have to ready up, there is a spay wife that gives the McLeans 3 warnings, 1st one is don’t arrive on a Thursday, 2nd one was don’t drink from the well Tobair Neil and the 3rd was go 3 times round the hill before going into battle. But the only day that they could come was Thursday on a stormy day, the McLeans were very thirsty so their leader said go and drink out of that well and that was Tobair Neil well so they went into battle and they didn’t go round the hill, so the Dubh Shith which stands for Black Fairy came and shot McLean.
P6/7 Trip To Stirling
On Tuesday the 4th of May the primary 6/7s from Islay and Jura went to Stirling for 4 days. We left on the ferry and then got the bus at Kennacraig, we only stopped once on the way in Inverarey. When we arrived we went straight to the hostel before going bowling then we went back to the hostel for dinner. The next day we went to the Wallace Monument in the morning we then went to the university to do dissect some fish, we then went to the cinema to watch All Stars. On the Thursday we went to the Falkirk Wheel and got a boat ride from the bottom of the wheel up it then through the Rough Castle tunnel we then turned around and went back down. We went to Stirling castle after we had been to the wheel we walked around the castle speaking to actor/tour guides as we went we then went to the gift shop before going to Jimmy Chungs Chinese restaurant for dinner. On the last day we went shopping in the Thistles shopping centre before going to Stirling bridge before getting back on the bus we stopped at Duck Bay Marina to play about and eat lunch we then stopped again in Inverarey to go to the jail, finally we arrived in Kennacraig ready to go home.
