Category: Port Ellen Primary

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The Fantastic, Fabulous Fair-trade Coffee Morning!

CdLrhXIWIAAQloDA 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.

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Swimming Gala

image9On 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!

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Beat the Flood

IMG_2701For 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.

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The Generation Science Visit

Cc8IaVZW8AA7YsuOn 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.

 

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P567 Rock Trip

IMG_0509On 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

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Wild Weather

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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.

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P1/2 Update

This week P1/2 walked a whole mile! When they got back they drew a map from memory of where they walked. All of their maps were stunning.

 

Also this week P1/2 and Pre 5 spent the whole morning listening to The Owl Who was Afraid of the Dark. After they listened to it they researched the owl cycle and looked at clips on the BBC website. They also went into groups and drew the characters and settings from the book then they made chocolate nests with mini eggs and then ate them! Yum!  They all had a fab morning!

 

Mirren and Ciaran

 

This is what Katie from P1 did for her map!IMG_0301

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Geology With P5/6/7

p567 050P5/6/7 have been doing geology as their topic. They have been learning about renewable and non-renewable energy. Renewable sources are sources that will not run out and non-renewable sources are sources that will run out. They also have been learning how the energy is converted into electricity. They made posters on renewable and non-renewable sources. Some non-renewable sources are coal, gas, oil and nuclear power. Renewable sources are wind power, solar power, geothermal, tidal power and biomass. Wind power is using a wind-mill and when the wind comes it spins the wind-mill and creates electricity. They will be going on a field trip to smash up rocks next Friday.

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Weather

weatherPrimary 34 topic this term is weather.  They have been finding out which clouds are which, facts about storm Henry and they have been making graphs on excel about how high wind speeds are. We have made rain gauges and anonometers to measure the wind speed.  We have also made an animation of the water cycle.  It was very interesting to learn about.

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Bird Facts with the Nursery by the Eco Group

DSCN2116The nursery are doing a topic on birds and they have a bag of bird seed that will last a whole year.

Also they made bird food balls and this is how you make them you get: bird seed, bread crumbs, bread crusts and water. The crows try to steal the food but they can’t because the birdhouse that they made it too small for the crows to fit in.  They have also bought new bird feeders.

At Joint Sessions with P1/2 David Wood from the RSPB has been working with the children and he came into the school to tell them about birds and went bird watching around the school grounds with the children.

Since the weather  has been horrible they weren’t as many as they had hoped. They saw lots of geese in the field and lots of Black Hoods Crows.

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