Whole school activities
P1/2 held their first book swap of the year. One of their customers was so keen to get some new reading material that she brought 5 books to swap! Swapping books is great fun. It lets you get new books, which don’t cost anything and you can get rid of books that are too young for you. It is also good for the environment – reducing paper being used, and reusing books. The book swap will run every two weeks but remember to fill in a swapping form first!
Mrs Clark brought 5 chicks to the school and a mum called Kracken.
The chicks are all yellow orange and are so cute. The mum’s feathers are crazy and are everywhere but don’t tell her that she is ugly because that will upset her, (she thinks that she is beautiful!) Sadly the little black chick, Smudge, has died due to bad weather and is no longer with us.
The chicks have water food and little crumb things around the outside of their chicken coop that Alicia made for her Endeavor last year and looks beautiful.
The chicks have to go home for the holiday to Mrs Clark’s house in case their food runs low and in case of bad weather.
Hope the chicks have a lovely holiday.
By Izzy
On the 3rd and the 4th of October it was the Islay Book Festival. WE got the chance to meet different authors such as Janis McKay, Barry Huchison, Mavis Gulliver, Dannielle Sacrodotti and Badger the Mystical Mutt. It was really good and we learned top tips on how to start your own novel. We then had a chance to buy these authors books so we could read them.(we also learned that a set of three book is called a trilogy!!!) 🙂
On Wednesday 8th October Port Ellen Primary Gaelic Choir, had a Pre Mod Concert with lots of sing and poetry recitals plus lots of Gaelic and music. That evening we had fiddlers whistlers and accordionists, and best of all lovely home baking and tea, along side a big raffle with lots of Islay whiskey and prizes.
At the end we sang Fama Clamosa with a big last song sorry life, and that night =The Best Concert Ever!!!!! 🙂
A teacher from Switzerland came to Port Ellen Primary School. She has been here for 3 weeks, but sadly she is leaving on Sunday 
Mrs Regli has been so much fun and she is great when it comes to music. She helps us with everything. She came with us to the Islay Life Museum and to Port Charlotte. Mrs Regli makes sure that everyone is working hard and not chatting. For her leaving, the class has given her presents and cards made by us. When she is teaching us music, she teaches us Swiss-German songs, a french song and an English song and we play a game called Peter called Paul and an animal version of it.
The whole class is sad that she is leaving but are very happy and grateful that she came and will hopefully come back.
Bye-Bye Mrs Regli :’(
By Abbie and Izzy 
On Tuesday P7 of port Ellen primary school went to an opening of the the commonwealth war graves information board at Kilnaughton. We went there because there are doing a topic on WWI and we were asked to put crosses on the graves. They put up a plaque to tell you about the people that served on the Tuscania and died in 1918. I think everyone really enjoyed themselves. Heres a little fact: the Tuscania was 175 meters long, nearly the size of the Titanic.
I have been researching on my great grate grandpa because he was involed in world war one. In world war one he had sent post cards talking about how life in the trench was and what it was like training. All the post cards were sent to his wife Jenny and her children. The day that he comes home his wife and family are waiting at the door for him to come in. when he does come in hes boucing around happy that he is not dead at least that what my granny said. A few years later whilst playing golf he contracted phmonia and died. he was born in 1893 and died 1930.
By Emma and Nicholas
On Thursday 2nd October we went to the Islay museum to learn about WW1 for our topic. I found out about what life was like living on Islay, there were lots of amazing artefacts to look at. While I was there I learnt about all the people from Islay who went to war, I also found out about a nurse who was sent to the Somme, it was very generous of the people at the museum to let us come I had a great day.
By Torin
On Wedensday 8th October p3/4 held a harvest assembly for parents and the rest of the school to watch. A week before the harvest assembly we collected lots of harvest gifts for the old. We do this every year and everyone puts in a tin of food and lots of other things in. When all the food was collected they started their Harvest Assembly which was called the little black cloud. Ellen was the little black cloud. It was about a little black cloud who was trying to help by watering everything but everyone was unhappy but at the end the farmers needed the water for the plants and then the cloud was happy again. The moral of this story is that everyone has different points of view. It linked to harvest because when they watered the plants they could use the food as harvest food! We interviewed Abi and Jack they were very kind to let us do this. They both said that they were very nervous at first but they really enjoyed it in the end. Abi was a narrator which she was very good at and Jack was a builder and he was good as well.
By Emily and Jodie 🙂
Yesterday we went to Port Charlotte Primary School to do some team games and bond with some of the P6/7s there. When we got there we had a chance to get to know the P6/7s better. After our long break we had lunch inside the school and went back out to have lunch break. Then at last we finally started team games, I was in a team with Annie, Jodie, Seumas and Mohit. We worked great as a group and won the game with 44 points. I had great fun and can’t wait to do something like that again.
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