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April 1, 2015April 24, 2016

The Junior Saltire Awards

Over the last week, we have been trying to create our own wave power devices and see if we can light an LED light by generating electricity from waves. 3 groups in P7 are entering the Junior Saltire awards with their devices. All the groups have different designs for the wave power to make the LED light work.

The first group is called the Electricity Generators and the device is called The Electric Cradle. The second group is called The ABAE and the device is called The Wave-Inator 360. The last group is called TLWN and their device is called The Donut.

We are going to enter all 3 devices and hopefully our school will have some success with 1 of our devices.

By Abbie and Eleanor 🙂

March 31, 2015April 24, 2016

High School Science

2 weeks ago we went to the High School for Science week because we were doing food science with all the schools around Islay and Jura. We went to Mr Kitching’s room first and we were testing foods for energy. We had Peanuts, Pringles and Bread and we burnt the food with a Bunsen Burner and then put it under a test tube that had water in it. We also had a thermometer in it and we had to check how much the temperature went up. The peanuts had the most energy then it was Pringuls and then it was bread.

The next class was Mrs Moran and we made a really gooey thing out of cornflour and water and mixed it all together then we put it on a big music speaker and it looked like it was dancing and then we tided up and went to the next class room.

The next class room was Mrs McNaughton’s class and we were testing foods for starch, fat and protein. We had busen burners and we put different foods into test tubes and added Benedict’s to test for sugar. You had to put the test tube in and out the bunsen burner and also used iodine to check for starch. If it has sugar when you put the Benedict’s and add the heat it should go orange and if you do the same with the iodine it will go blackish.

I had a great time.

BY William Monaghan

March 31, 2015April 24, 2016

Day of Dance

Day of Dance this year started with us missing the first half of it because the bus man forgot us. Apart from that it was great. The first dance was the for the Reel for Jeanie and the last was the Dashing White Sergeant, the class favourite dance. Half way through the day they repeated the Flying Scotsman. In all the day was great and thanks to Mrs Shaw and Mrs Campbell for teaching us so well:

A Reel For Jeanie.

First you dance in a circle for four back for four.

Next the top couple walk down the middle then cast of with the rest of the people following.

Make an arch and the rest of you walk though.

Then you clap 8 times and spin with right hand.

By Anwen Baker

March 31, 2015April 24, 2016

Learning About Rivers

At school we learned about rivers for our water topic and near the end we decided to work in our groups to make something to show our learning so we went into our groups and made things to show our learning.

One group made an animation and a small poster while another made a dance to show stages of the river and the the third did experiments to see if water can clear away sand, soil and gravel and the last made a clay mountain model to show how a river would flood and knock over small houses.

By Torin

March 31, 2015April 24, 2016

Swimming Gala

Last Monday Port Ellen Primary School had their swimming gala. A swimming gala is a competition where each and every class takes part in swimming races. Each person races other people in their class. The boys swimming champion was Ross Thomson and the girls swimming champion was Katie Middleton. Orsay came in 3rd, Nave came in 2nd, Texa 1st. Everyone had a great time and had lots of fun.

By Beth

March 31, 2015March 31, 2015

Child Line

Yesterday afternoon Keills P67 came to our school. They came because we were getting a visit from Child Line. Child Line is for children to support you if you are worried, sad or anxious about anything. They are open 24-7 and are confidential. They won’t tell anyone about the conversation You don’t need to tell your name and you can tell them a fake name. We got put in to groups to talk about pictures and vote what we thought of the pictures. The child line mascot is a speech mark called Buddy. We all enjoyed it and listened well.

Child line number: 0800 1111

By Annie Farrell

March 31, 2015April 24, 2016

P7 Endeavour trip to Bowmore

Port Ellen’s Primary 7’s went on an Endeavour trip to Bowmore to share their Endeavour with Bowmore’s Primary P5-7 to inspire them and help new ways to improve their Endeavour. They came around different tables talking about what they wanted to do for their Endeavours and how Port Ellen can help and give them some good tips. They also asked questions about their Endeavours and what good skills and strategies they could use to help them. In the end we ended up playing bonding games and making new friends.

By Nicholas

March 10, 2015March 10, 2015

Country Dancing.

Over the last few weeks we have been doing Scottish Country Dancing , with Mrs Shaw and Mrs Cameron. We have learn lots of different dances such as, Strip the Willow, The Circle Waltz, The Dashing White Sergeant The Canadian Barn Dance and the Bamkin. Everyone had partners, and it had to be boys with girls. My partner was Oliver however, Abbie was with Annie because there wasn’t enough boys, and Emma had Ciara. One of the dances that we found very difficult was The Dashing White Sergeant because near the end of the dance we have to do a figure of eight and many people found this very hard. We are looking forward to the Day Of Dance.

March 10, 2015March 10, 2015

Bronagh’s Trip to Westminster

We asked Bronagh questions about what she did in Westminster in London. We firstly asked her a question on why she was there. She went to Parliament because she was an young Scottish winner of an art competition for I love Amazon schools. In Parliament they were taking photos and talking about the rain forest. She had to go through lots of security when she was entering Parliament. She was in there for 2-3 hours just listening about the rain forest and getting photos taken. They also asked her questions like “How did you think of your slogan?”which was ‘Hands off our trees, Leaf them alone.’ She also learned that every minute a football pitch worth of trees is cut down and the situation is so critical.

But in conclusion she had a lovely time in Westminster and learned a lot about the Amazon rainforest.

By Nicholas and Torin with help from Bronagh

March 10, 2015March 10, 2015

The Last Week of Swimming

This week is going to be our last week of swimming. We have been learning all about different techniques to keep our heads above the water. For example we used a techniques called treading water, the mixer and the recovery passion. We also practised doing a safe entry. A safe entry is when you sit on the side of the pool and then you put both of your hands to one side of you and then twist your body round and slowly release your self into the pool and then swim as carefully as you can over to your casualty. Last week we were starting to swim lengths. This week we are going to be doing a comic relief day swimming on Friday 13th March.

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