Struan and Ronan are starting up a new club on a Wednesday and will be taking p 3,4,5. It will be running in the hall and out side when it is nice. Thy are going to be taking them for runs around the school and doing circuit courses in the hall. They are doing it as part of Struan’s Endevour which is fitness. It will be running at lunch time.
The Euroquiz With Port Ellen Primary
The Euroquiz is a quiz about Europe. There are four rounds, Geography, Languages, History and sports. The group of four became a pair because two people were absent on the day which didn’t help our chances. We had one back-up who had been practicing hard with the others but they still needed another person so Kaitlyn volunteered to do it.
The first round was Geography of Europe. Some questions were about flags, landmarks and capital cities. To do this round they had to watch a powerpoint on the big board then they had to write the answer on an answer sheet.
The second round was languages. In the languages round they listened to Spanish, Italian and French. To do this round the teacher would ask a question then they would listen to it in Spanish, then Italian and finally French after that they would translate what the people said in the languages, then they would listen to it again to make sure they got the right answer, finally they would write their answer down on the answer sheet and hand it in to the teacher.
The third round was history. For the history round it asked questions about the History of Europe and some questions were about dates some countries joined the EU and what countries were the first to join the EU.
The last round was about sports. It had questions about sport and where some sports clubs are. To do the round it was the same as the first and the third round just with sports questions instead of geography and history.
The four pupils from Port Ellen Primary School who competed in the Argyll And Bute Euroquiz came 5th out of 5 schools-last! But everyone enjoyed themselves and had good fun.
Science week at the High School
On Wednesday 16th March all of the p7 in Argyll and Bute went over to the Islay High School to learn about science, because it was science week.
At the High School we made our own crystals and we also had to try and make a light go on by connecting wires. We all really enjoyed the science and we learnt a lot of new things to do with science. The next day in Port Ellen Primary School p3/4 and p5/6/7 invited our parents in to come and see some of the science we had done working with partners.
We set up lots of tables with lots of different activities such as a Islay map where you had to label lots of different rocks, cakes, the rock cycle, volcano, and much more.
It was great fun.
The Beach Clean
On Friday 4th March our school had a beach clean. The beach clean was for a very special reason, it was because it was the Queen’s 90th Birthday.
The Queen asked everyone to help clean Scotland instead of sending her birthday cards because that would have meant a lot of stamps! So our school went down to the Co-op beach. The Primary 1s were very excited was because it was their first beach clean.
I think we made a big difference.
The Fantastic, Fabulous Fair-trade Coffee Morning!
A 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.
Swimming Gala
On 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!
Beat the Flood
For 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.
The Generation Science Visit
On 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.
P567 Rock Trip
On 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
Wild Weather
P3/4 investigated extreme weather events as part of their weather topic. Charlet Rose found out about the flash flooding in Boscastle in 2004. She discovered the cause of the flooding and used weather data to show the rainfall pattern over this event. She found out how the flash flooding affected the people and the disruption it caused. This was a great piece of work that pulled together learning in literacy, numeracy and social studies. Well done Charlet Rose.
