On Wednesday Cameron and I took a trip to Bowmore to talk about Endeavour in front of the public and other head teachers and councillors. We were asked to go and speak about this because one of the focuses in our inspection was independent learning and part of this was endeavour. Cameron spoke about planning our endeavour session and his progress in his log. Also his connection with Beech Grove garden and how he has kept in touch. He then spoke about his Endeavour learning log then handed it over to Me. I talked about what my Endeavour was on and why I chose it. Then I talked about plan do review because it helps us plan our next steps. We showed the councillors our work and what we had achieved within the amount of time given.
By Cameron and Danni
P6/7 are learning about averages. An Average is when you find the middle amount of something.
Mean is a type of Average; to do a mean average, you need to add all the numbers together and divide it by how many numbers you have. For example, 4,3,9,2,13,3,3,3,3,4=44 devided by 10 =4.4
Mode is a type of average, to do mode, you need to find the number that there is the most of. For example, 4,4,9,13,3,3,3,3,3,2=3
Median is the number in the middle. For example, 2,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,9,13=3
By Elizabeth and Annie
On the 9th of June, Miss Macrae, Anwen Baker, Maisie Logan and Katie Middelton went on a trip to Glasgow for the night for the Scottish Education awards, we were nominated in the Enterprise category. We got to Glasgow at 7 and went to the world buffet king for dinner at 8. It was lovely and everything we tried was really tasty, we got back to the hotel and had showers ready for the morning. We woke up and went down to breakfast in our jammies! We went back up to the room, got all glammed up and set off to the Thistle Hotel where it was held. Everyone was really nice and the smoothie we got was delicious. The tables were all set out like a circus with tiny horses hanging from lights! At the beginning of the awards these drummers came out dressed as tin foil men. It sounded great and was really enjoyable. When the awards started it was really nerve racking, it finally came to our catagory and there is 3 finalists, we were one of them. Unfortunately we didn’t win but it was great to even get into the top three. At the very end we got given an envelope with £250 in it! There were people on stilts walking around the tables, and magicians and balloon makers. The lunch they served was really nice, it was nachos with chilli mince and for dessert, it was a mini cone with ice cream, sorbet and a mini pastry scone type thing with popping candy! It was a great trip and I enjoyed it lots!:)
On Wednesday 26th June there will be a leavers assembly. All last week we have been preparing. Also this week we will be too. We have been making movie trailers with help of p6. Also the p7s had to choose a program and make it with themselves in it. The songs that we are doing are best day of my life. We are also doing a other song called don’t stop me now but in lip dub using teachers in it and actions. We all hope this will be a good success.
Everyone have been enjoying preparing for it.
By Jodie & Ciara 🙂
Over the last six months pupils from Primary 6/7 have been working on, planning and creating an Endeavour project. Everyone has worked really hard and have managed to achieve a lot. Just some of the Endeavour projects are keeping chickens which we hatched in the class room, cooking from around the world and story writing. There are a variety of different projects and they are all very unique. Our old school head teacher, Mrs Cusworth, has been taking a look at all the Endeavour projects in our class and asking us questions. She will pick the person that stands out as having put in lots of effort and has come the farthest on their Endeavour journey and has thought positively about their Endeavour. On Friday it is the Endeavour learning festival where they will show what they have achieved.
By Emily and Abbie xx
On Tuesday 3rd June P6/7 went to Edinburgh to talk about science. They went on the Tuesday and came back on the Thursday night. On Wednesday some of the P4/5’s went to Social Enterprise awards they were doing Scent-Citizens soap business. They enjoyed being at the presentation and receiving an award. On the Thursday some of P6/7 went to Murrayfield to show off their science knowledge. At Murrayfield P6/7 were getting tested their knowledge about science, they’re was 3 judges that came round every stall and listened to all the schools talk about science and what they have created. P6/7 were against a lot of primary schools all over the UK. They took part in a number of STEM challenges run by different company’s one challenge was you had to build a tower of cups but you coulden’t touch they cups all you had was string and a rubber band and there was 5 all together. They also did a PINGPONGPENTATHALON were they had to create a number of things to carry a ping pong across the obstacles. At their stall they had science gadgets like (robotic arm) (Lego Mine storms) and a presentation that they performed in front of the judges they all really enjoyed it, sadly they didn’t win anything but they participated that’s all that counts.
By Alicia & Asher
It was the turn of Donald, Braeden and Scott to organise their expedition over the Ard. They learned to think about possible dangers and had to do a risk assessment. Before we set off, Donald spoke to the class to remind everyone how to stay safe. While we were on the Ard we learned about what to do in an emergency – getting help, calling the coastguard if you are near the sea, and trying out an emergency shelter.
P1/2 went on the first of their planned expeditions to the beach. It was a lovely afternoon and the children worked in groups to create sand sculptures.
Over the past few weeks P1/2 have been learning about explorers. They have found out about lots of famous explorers – from Captain Cook, Scott & Amundsen, Charles Darwin and Shackleton to Neil Armstrong, Edmund Hillary and Jacques Cousteau. They have tried to think about why these people explored where they did and how they went about it. They re-enacted Scott’s expedition to the South Pole in the school grounds and pretended to climb Mount Everest like Edmund Hillary. They have also been working in groups to plan their own expeditions.
On Saturday 17th May Port Ellen Primary School had an eco grounds day.
Pupils brought their mums and dads granny and grampas. And some adults came that didn’t even have children that go to the school. Two women that couldn’t make gave us a donation. but it was a hard working in the rain. Then at 12 o’clock we had lunch. Then we got back to work then at 2o’clock we finished up and then we went home.
By Ciara and William 🙂
