Category: Port Ellen Primary

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P7’s Rock Topic

P7 have recently done a rock topic. They have made there own rocks and experimented with them. The types of rock you can get are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. To make our candy rocks we got 4 Starburst and cut then in to quarters to show erosion and weathering.  Then we kept cutting them until they were quite small and then put them in your hand and squeeze them together just so they stick which is sediment being compressed into sedimentary rock.  Then we got a square of grease proof paper and squished it all together really hard so it looks smooth like a metamorphic rock. Then we put it in a cupcake case and then put it in the oven, when it comes out it is liquid like lava and then hardens to make igneous rock which you can eat!  That is how you make a rock made of Starbursts.

By Beth and Annie:)

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10 Pieces Of Music

For the past couple of weeks we have been doing a project from the BBC called Ten Pieces. We have been learning about it with P3/4 as well. It is all about classical music and their composers, plus we have to make our own body percussion to the songs and our own art. The three main songs are: Night on Bare Mountain, In The Hall Of The Mountain King and Mars, The Destroyer. When you do music you have to think about all the different techniques which are; Ostinato, Crescendo, Diminuendo, Surprises, solos, when they play altogether, call and answer, layers, gaps of silence and change of tempo and speed. We also were in groups of four to create our own piece of music using our voices and body percussion which we recorded and built up using Garageband. Our group had to make a piece that sounded happy and we used lots of different techniques. In pairs we all researched a song and their composer. We researched Firebird by Igor Stravinsky. Lots of other people researched famous composers too like Mozart and Beethoven. We really enjoy doing 10 Pieces because it lets us find out about classical music, composers and get the feel from different music.

By Emily and Eleanor 🙂

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Trip to Islay High to learn About Art

Jasmine and I went Islay High too learn about art because we are doing art for there Endeavor. It was really fun and we learned a lot of new techniques such as drawing and printing with Mr Galligan.  We hope to hold an art exhibition of our pictures in June when we are finished.

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Visit from Janet Watersworth

On Thursday Janet Watersworth came in to our school to tell us about dog training and she gave me a booklet on how to train your dog and she brought in her dog to show us some tricks. I learned how to train your dog what age you have to be and what skills you need.
By Ellie

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ECO Green Flag Assesment

Today Paula from Eco schools Scotland came to see if our we could keep all four of our green flags.  She said our school is very tidy and she would like to come again. The committee gave Paula a tour of our school grounds. In the hall we had stuff set up for Paula we showed Paula our Eco power point, some of our old endeavour files and some of our new endeavour files, we also showed her primary one and two homemade paper that they made all by their selves. During play time we had healthy soup and we also had a book swap. We have now found out we have our 5th green flag!  Well done Port Ellen!

By Annie and Ciara 🙂

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Eco Update

1. Oliver welcomed us all.

2. Mirren was off.

3. our progress- w have made our signs. We have done our spot checks in the classes. We have got our litter police set up an will be changing them every week. we thought about fair trade and we might set up a sample week to see who like what the best.

4. Action plan- litter police problem- sign on the pitch almost one- Start a new action point which is reduce the amount of water waste in water bottles.

5. Go out side and plan what we are going to say.

6. next meeting to be discussed.

7. itinerary for lady coming on monday

meet her

action plan

tour round school

go in to classes

break

book swap

soup

display

By Annie May Farrell- Secretary

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P1/2 Bird Feeders

Primary 1/2 from Port Ellen Primary school made bird food and feeders for the birds as a Christmas present. To make the bird food that they used Lard, seeds, dried pineapple, raisins, mix, the then used pine cone hanging with string to put the bird food mix on it. They then made bird feeders for their food using bottles that were found on their litter pick one day. They made them by putting a hole in the top where they threaded through some string to hang it up. They then decorated it by wrapping a piece of paper around the bottle which let them draw christmas picture using felt tip.  It was GREAT FUN! 🙂

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Gardening and making soup

On Wednesday 19th November our class, (p7) went down to the front of the school where they cleared and tidied the raised beds ready for Winter. During the digging we pulled up lots of lovely parsnips which Emma will make into soup.  Yum Yum!

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ECO Update

1. Oliver welcomed us all.

2. Scott and jasmine were off

3. Our progress- We have done our pitch posters, chosen our litter police for the week then we will change it every week and we have also started doing spot checks in the class to see if the classes are putting their rubbish in the right bins.

4. At our next meeting we will discuss what we have done and say what we did.

5. We have written our ideas down for the green flag assessment and all the classes have a job to do.

6.We are thinking of doing some fund raising to make money.  We are thinking of buying bags to sell and do some fair trade tuck.

7. All of the classes are taking part in getting the school ready for the assessment.

8. The date of our next meeting is Thursday 20th November.

9. At our next meeting we are going to get ready for the assessment.

By Annie- secretary

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