The book group, which is one of our citizenship groups, is starting again. We are planning to run a library club, decorate the library, do some book swaps, buy new books, and do something very exciting for world book day which is on the Thursday 3rd March. We are going to dress up as our favourite book character, we are also going to organise a lending library. We are going to make a suggestion box for the library as well.
Media Group Is Back With A Bang !!!!!!
The new and improved media group has new and improved ideas about how to improve our community and school. We have some great new ideas – News letters for parent, different sorts of blogs like internet safety and Port Ellen school movie.
The new media group will continue until the end of term and by the end of term we want t be successful by showing what we have achieved. We do this every Friday afternoon.
This media group is trying to get the community to know whats going in the school. We hope you enjoy seeing what the media group have achieved.
Crofting Group
One of our Citizenship Groups is Crofting. As crofters we are planning to grow trees, flowers and vegetables like potatoes, carrots, pumpkins and a few other things. We have five raised beds that we are going to use. We will need to prepare the beds before we start to plant our seeds. We are going to dig up the croft and plant lots of veggies. It is going to take a lot of work.
ENTERPRISE GROUP
The enterprise group are going to be making soaps this term to sell to places on Islay. In our group is Murray, Jack, Darren, Freya, Ruaraidh, Alexander and Charlie. Our slogan is we are soaptastic. We have a logo with a world on it. We want to experiment making different kinds of soaps. We will have our notice board completed. We will research and type up 5 key facts for our notice board. We will have a group photo.
Global Citizens
This is the Global Citizens. We are trying to make the world better to live in and trying to support Fair-trade and other charities. We will be trying to make money to donate to special charities that really need our help.We will be also be having a tea and coffee morning with Fair-trade food.
Fair-trade means trade between companies in developed countries and fair prices are paid to the producers.
By The Great Global Citizens:)
The Fantastic Eco Group
On Friday afternoons Port Ellen primary all do citizenships and one of the groups are called the Eco Group and the people that are in the Eco group are Holly, Abi, Kaya, Katie, Matthew, Rowan, Sophie and Harmony. What the Eco group do is we try and do litter picking to keep Port Ellen playground tidy. On some of the afternoons we do beach cleans to keep the beach clean and we are hoping to clean the pond, have an Eco day, plant flowers, tidy the round house, clean up the weeds and plant trees. Also our slogan is SAVE THE PLANET!
By The Fantastic Eco Group.
Swimming School Nationals
On Saturday 30th January I went to the swimming nationals in Tollcross. It was double the size of the local pool because Tollcross is 50 meters long and Bowmore is 25. Tollcross was built for the commonwealth games. There was about 1,500 people including spectators and swimmers. There was 10 lanes in the pool so it was 10 people in a race. I was swimming backstroke and the person in my race broke the Scottish record. I came 30th out of the whole of Scotland. We also got a swimming cap, a t shirt and a jumper as souvenirs.
by Ross Thompson
Writing Competition
P567 entered a writing competition around Argyll And Bute. We had to write a story based on a piece of art. The people who came 1st, 2nd and 3rd got books for a prize. After we wrote our essay, the people in our class voted to see whose essay was the best in our class. The people who had the most votes in our class got entered to the competition. I got entered to the competition and when the results for the competition got announced, I came joint second! I had so much fun writing it and I look forward to other writing competitions throughout the year! Read my story here https://blogs.glowscotland.org.uk/ab/SAL/files/2016/01/JASMINE-MIDDLETON.pdf
The Fabulous Burns Day
On Monday 25th January 2016 all of Port Ellen Primary School had a wonderful ceilidh and Burns dinner. At 12 O’clock everybody in the school had a lovely Burns dinner and on the menu was mince and tatties or haggis, turnip and mashed potatoes. After the lovely lunch at 1.30 we had a Burns day ceilidh. At the ceilidh they had poem competitions, highland dancing, chanters, accordions, bagpipes and lots of Scottish dancing. For primary 1 the winner was Mya, for primary 2 the winner was Ciara, for primary 3 was Dearbhla, for primary 4 it was Ellen, primary 5 it was Rowan, for primary 6 it was Kaya and for primary 7 it was Bronagh. Everybody had a brilliant day and wished it had never ended.
5/6/7 TOPIC POETRY AND ABSTRACT ART
P567 have been doing a topic on Poetry and Abstract art. First, we looked at some abstract art online by famous artists. We said how we felt about them. Then, our teacher said that we could make our own abstract print and a poem to go with it. We all planned our poems and our print. I did Nightmares as my poem and I made a print with it. Afterwards, we planned a poem with at least 3 verses. We also learned about Kennings, Hakius and a few other poem sorts. We all made our own Kennings. We really enjoyed our topic very much. 
