Month: March 2016

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The Fantastic, Fabulous Fair-trade Coffee Morning!

CdLrhXIWIAAQloDA couple of weeks ago, Global citizens group at Port Ellen Primary had a fair-trade coffee morning. We baked tiffin, scones, tray bake and banana muffins using fair-trade products only.

The Port Ellen co-op gave us a kind donation of £30 to put towards fair-trade products. We bought fair-trade sugar, bananas, chocolate, coffee, tea etc.

At the coffee morning, we also had a donation box and the money collected was donated to Save the Children. When the coffee morning was over, we counted the money and found out we raised £86.54! We think it was a really successful morning.

We thank everyone at Port Ellen co-op and the Mums, Dads, grandparents and babies for making this possible.

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Swimming Gala

image9On Friday 11th March it was the school swimming gala in Bowmore pool. The senior boy champion was Ross Thompson winning the front crawl and backstroke. The senior girl champion Katie Middleton who also won the front crawl and back stroke. This was the second year Katie and Ross were senior champions. Well done Katie and Ross!

The relay winner was Nave House. To be the house with the most points Nave had to win the relay and they did!

Nave made an amazing comeback in this exciting finale. Orsay had half a length to go when Nave just started the length but they caught up and won it.

Nave were the CHAMPIONS!

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Beat the Flood

IMG_2701For National Science and Engineering Week P3/4 were trying to Beat the Flood.  This was a challenge set by Practical Action to try and design and build a floodproof house that could stand up to flooding and monsoon rains.  The design also had to be sustainable, use materials available on a small Pacific Island and be cheap to build.  This innovative design has a water catcher and grows food on the roof so that people can still eat if the land around has been flooded.

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The Generation Science Visit

Cc8IaVZW8AA7YsuOn Monday the 7th of March Generation Science came for a visit. We got to do all sorts of things like building a model of a drill to collect oil and we looked at the world when there was no continents which was called Pangaea.  We talked about all the layers and some types of rocks but the visit was mostly about oil and how it was formed. Oil was formed by dead plankton under the sea then it was pushed into a source rock then heat and pressure pushed it up into a reservoir rock with holes like a sponge. It got through the holes then the cap rock, which is like a lid of a bottle, stopped the oil getting to the surface.  It can then be found using a thumper truck and sound and then core samples are drilled.  We had to match the samples to the rock formations.

Finally we got to build an oil rig in teams which was really interesting, and I know oil rigs have a bridge, a derrick and a platform.  We learned lots from the visit, including how oil is running out and we need to find a more sustainable energy source.

 

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P567 Rock Trip

IMG_0509On Friday  P567 went on a rock trip and we went to Port Askaig, Bunnahabhain beach and Caol Ila beach. First we went to Port Askaig to see all the different types rocks that are on the big hill just up from the car park, made when a glacier covered Islay. We had to look for different rocks in with  the other rocks that had been picked up and dumped by the glacier.  Then we went to Caol Ila Beach and we looked at the rocks and we even got to Smash up some rocks in half and see what was inside of them.  We saw rocks formed under the sea because they had wave patterns on them like you see on the beach.  Then we went to Bunnahabhain Beach and we went down the big hill to see trenches left by volcanic lava in the rock made from basalt. We even got to take some loose rocks back to school with us.

 

By Abi Logan

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