We have been making things for the Christmas fair. We have made tiles with a map of Islay on it, we have made rainbow coloured Christmas baubles with sparkles and we have made snow globes. We have made a book on an app called book creator on the ipads with the Christmas fair notes on it. We also designed a cupcake for the cupcake competition. We made crunchie flavoured red cupcakes with a Santa hat on them. We have been learning how to make a balance sheet and how to make a chart on excel and we also did market research for the project. I hope everything sells really well.
Snappy Snowmen
For the Christmas fair Snappy Snowmen are making penguin light bulbs to hang on your Christmas tree and we have made 9 of them.We have also made scented candles.The pink candles are rose scented and the orange candles are orange scented and we have made 13 of the candles all together. The last thing we have made is Christmas bugs with pine cones as the body and green Pom Poms for the neck and 2 red Pom Poms with Googly eyes stuck on top.We have all made balance sheets; Rebecca and Holly made the balance sheets for the Christmas bugs, Sarah made the balance sheet for the penguin light bulbs and Ruaraidh made the balance sheet for the candles and Kaya made the tags for our items. I hope people buy our products.
Decorating the Christmas Tree
Primary 7 have been busy decorating the Christmas Tree ready for the Christmas fair this Saturday at 2pm. Â The tree was kindly donated to us by Laphroaig distillery, and we think it looks lovely.
Beach Clean
On Friday 25th November, Port Ellen Primary School went down to the Co-op beach and did a beach clean with Re-Jig. They collected 32 bags of litter and made an astonishing £300 pounds that will help the school. They found litter that was covered in ice, which they found very interesting and made it difficult to dig up. As you probably know Port Ellen Primary has citizenship groups. Doing the beach clean was helping our community which is part of being a good citizen.
By Eva Munro
Volcano Poetry
P4/5 are learning about poetry and figures of speech. Here is Drew’s volcano poem using metaphor for the first time.
Testing viscosity….pretend lava
P4/5 have just started their new topic – all about Dynamic Earth. They have built model volcanoes using paper mache and have been learning about different types of lava. Here they are investigating different viscosities and rate of flow. Our pretend lavas were water, oil and golden syrup…..the syrup was so slow flowing that the bell went at the end of the day and everyone had to go home!!
Sumdog
Sumdog is an online maths platform where you have lots of games to play and when you play them you get asked questions. Your teacher can see how many questions you have done and what ones you got right. Sumdog is good because it helps lots of children with their maths. It also helps them to try harder to make a difference with their maths. P5/6/7 have been doing the Argyll and Bute Sumdog competition. You have to answer 1000 questions to complete the test. Lots of schools all over Argyll & Bute entered the competition. The amount of questions that you get right decides if you will make it onto the leader board, and 3 children from P567 were in the top 50. If you get 1000 out of 1000 it is almost definitely that you will make it to first. Our school came 8th on the leader board in the whole of The Argyll and Bute.
Mindfulness Minions
We are the Mindfulness Minions. In our group are Ellie, Lauren, Caitidh, Freya, Dearbhla, Ellen and me, Millie. Our aim is to to keep everyone in Port Ellen happy, fit and healthy. We want everyone to treat each other as they would like to be treated.
We would like to do a health day and we could make music.We organised to have everyone wear PJs to school, baked cakes and had a teddy competition for Children in Need.
Shinty
On Thursday 17th of November P5\6\7 was doing Shinty with Euan McMurdo the shinty development officer. He taught us different skills you need when playing shinty, like stopping the ball with your feet. We also got to play shinty which was very fun and everyone enjoyed playing shinty and look forward to playing it again soon.
Children In Need
Every year Port Ellen Primary School does a fundraiser for children in need. They raise the money to give to children who are less fortunate than us and who are very ill , that’s why this year all the children came into school waring a onesie and brought in their teddies. They also had the Mindfullness Minions (one of the citizen ship groups) do a bake sale in the school, we also got some other cake donations from parents. They raised £200.36 for Children in Need!
