P4,5 activities
Allan Burnett was at Port Ellen primary school and he was talking to us about his history books. These are some of his books Columba, Wiliam Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Rob Roy, Robert Burns, Robert the Bruce and Invented in Scotland. Oliver dressed up as Columba and looked like Darth Vada. It was great fun!
Maisie
We have been learning about the vikings. We found out our viking names, my one was Robstaf the Wise. The vikings were great sailors. The Vikings came from Denmark, Sweden and Norway and they made their clothes from wool and leather fron animals. They also washed their clothes in cow pee!
Robbie
This term we are learning creation stories and doing puppet shows and shadow puppets. One of the creation stories is about how the world came from an egg, a dog breaks out of the egg and he holds up the sky, his tears fill the streams and rivers and seas. Another creation story is how the turtle carried the world, we are using shadow puppets to act the scenes out, well there was a sky city up in the clouds and there was a hole in the sky and sky women fell down and nearly drowns but then 2 swans flew up and caught her, then some animals went under the water but couldn’t bring any mud up, then the grandmother toad went under and brought up mud and place it on the turtles back. Now the puppet show, there is 5 puppets one is called Bob that is very crazy because he makes weird noises, there is Jim who is the clever one and does all the research, there is Killer who wants to eat the humans so him and his gang can RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!, Fred talks very slow because he is the thickest out the lot and finally Zob is the one that has a deep voice and always says dude after every word he says. They want to find out about all the different creation stories.
Ruby (P5)
How to make a shadow puppet.
First you draw any animal or any sea creature then you cut it out. Then you can get a bit of clay or any soft object to pot under your thing.
After that you get a pencil then you pop the holes out of your object.
Finally you put your object in front of a Projector or a screen.
by Alicia
P1/2 had a circus on Tuesday 22nd March for their end of topic.
Darren was a snake charmer and the hula hoopers were Katie, Sturan and Bronagh. There was lots of gymnastics and a lion tamer. The clowns were extremely funny. It was very entertaining and at the the end they started spraying water at us and other stuff. It was fantastic!!!
By Eilidh
China’s creation story is about a dog called Pangu. Pangu was in a egg and like all normal animals in eggs he broke out with an axe, the gooey stuff spilled out and became the earth. Pangu created the world. Pangu’s hair was the stars, his eyes were the moon and sun, the plants were made of his skin and the rain, the sweet rain was made of spit.
By Scott
At the swimming gala we had a lot of races including front crawl, backstroke, obstacle course and the relay. Orsay got in the lead early by winning races and stayed there and won the gala in points, but came second in the relay with Texa coming in 1st in the relay and Nave came 3rd in the relay. In the points Orsay came 1st Texa in 2nd and Nave in 3rd.
By Calum
On Tuesday 8th march 2011 p4\5 held a museum exhibition. It started at 1:30 to 3:00. We held it because our topic was on history. In the morning Bowmore P5\6 came over to look at our museum. We all had had a different table to work at. I was at the information desk with Eilidh. We were selling bookmarks,delft tiles and leaflets. There was a desk that you could go to try old food like Dundee cake,oatcakes with goats cheese and venison and there was viking bread. I had a bit of Dundee cake and it was very nice. We had interactive displays and timelines, toys, bedrooms and kitchens from the past. P6/7 did a World War 2 display as well. A lot of adults came to see our museum. I had a great time.
by Reece Bowman.
On the 1st of March 2011 it was World Maths Day. Everyone at Port Ellen Primary took part , we challenged children from all over the World on the World Maths Day website. At the end the best pupil and with the highest score was Reece Bowman with a grand total of 558. You could get anyone from any part of the world you could get someone from China , Japan , Hong Kong or even Hungary and maybe if you were lucky you could get one of your friends. I once got My friend Helen and Emily and Maisie and Reece. My total was 273 but I could of done better.
By Ruby Miller(P5)
On Thursday 3rd of March we had world book day. Everyone dressed up as their favourite character out of a book and also brought books in to school. Some people came dressed in their character but some got dressed in school. Every one had a great day. Primary 4/5 did a quiz sheet with a partner, there were lots of different questions on different books, one of them was what flattened Stanly out of the book Flat Stanly. At the end of the day we all got our pictures taken with the whole school dressed up including the staff who were also dressed up the photo was taken and we went home. It was a FANTASTIC day !!!!!!
By Emily P5
