Category: Eco Schools

Over the last few weeks primary 7 have been doing cycling proficiency with Mr Gairns the janitor and our teacher Mrs Clark. It has been every Tuesday at the end of the day for the last two or three weeks. It takes place out in the playground. What happens is there is a big roll of rope and we put it round the playground like a road. Then we take out a couple of cones to be road works and parked cars that we have to indicate in and out of. As i said its only in the playground at the moment but we will soon be moving out onto the road. I hope we all pass our test!

On Monday the 9th September P4/5 got a visit from the navy.  They came to help redo the pond.  They arrived in at Port Ellen pier that morning so they had sailed over on a navy ship.  The pond was NOT! in good shape at the time but, after the Navy came, the pond is looking in ship shape!  They chopped down some trees to get wood.  They dug it into layers.

The Navy were doing all the digging but p4/5 were helping to take the stones out.  They were very excited to help, and had fun.  Class pupil Joe Hamilton said that his favourite part was when they took photos with the navy.

By Cameron and Elizabeth.

On Monday 10th June we had our sports day.  There was lots of different races, first it was the P6/7 boys race and then it was the girls. Then there was the P1/2 doing some races like, egg and spoon, 100m run and other races that they did. We all took turns in our classes doing all the different races, there was the nursery doing races and lots more people from other classes. There was also the P3/4’s doing the three legged race and then it was the mixed relay races.  In the end we found out our sports champions who were Emily from Orsay house and Connor from Orsay, and Orsay won the house cup.

Through in P3/4 they have been learning different topics which are crofting and fishing. For their fishing topic they have been drawing fish, looking at crabs and lobsters and they have also been looking at books on fishing. During the start of their fishing topic, Mr Onions, Mrs Grant and Mr Brown came in. Then Mrs Grant gave the P3/4’s some fish for Mr Onions to show them how to scale fillet and gut the fish, there was also Mr Brown who showed them crabs and lobsters which were alive!
By Mirren and Jasmine

In p3/4 they have been learning about crofting. In there topic they have learnt how to plant and grow potatoes, barley, wheat, beans and more. They had also people in to talk to them about crofting and 1 fact that they found out was that in the winter that the farmers took there animals into there houses and keep them on 1 half of the room while the farmers lived on the other half of the room they also found out that there is 12o crofts on Islay. they learnt where barley came from and how it gets harvested and they learnt that it is best to pick strawberries every 5 months. the p3/4’s have enjoyed learning about crofting and hope to do another topic like crofting again.