Last Thursday the school asked us to take in shoe boxes filled with Christmas goodies to go to people on the other side of the world. They could go for old people , young people and babies and they are for those people who don’t have anything like us. This year our school put in 24 shoe boxes for those people around the world. Why do we put shoe boxes in? So that other people around the world can have new Clothes, Shoes, Toothbrush, Toothpaste, Hats, Scarves, Gloves, Shampoo, Body Wash and sweets. You aren’t allowed to put Chocolate and water into the box. The project is run by the Blytheswood Trust.
Children In Need
Every Year On Friday 17th November it’s Children in Need or Pudsey day, children in need help families that need a bit more help than we do. Children in Need is a really big deal to the families that need them, everyone that helps all the kids and even adults change their life completely. We decided to raise money and everyone came to school wearing something spotty to raise money for Children In Need and baked cakes. Our school raised £137!!! that’s a lot of Money from just a tiny school on a tiny island. Everyone can make a donation for children in need even if its as little as £2.00 or as big as £200!! so maybe next year everyone can make a difference and help the children!!
By Sophie Macdonald
Our Rainbow Beam Bridge
We built a bridge using cardboard, lego, string, lolly sticks and tape. We tested it to see if it was sturdy by putting a toy car on and it didn’t fall down. We had to make the legs shorter because it was not stable. We added lolly sticks like a triangle for extra support. The lego was used as pillars to hold up the glass roof which is to shelter the vehicles or pedestrians from the weather.
Bridges
Today we made bridges and we are only allowed to use scissors, sellotape, string, lego, cardboard, lolly sticks and plastic. Myself and dylan made a suspension bridge we used lots of lego – Dylan was my lego helper he went to get me lego. We used string for the suspension part of the bridge, lego for the legs and suspension part and cardboard for the actual bit of the bridge. We used selotape to tape the legs on and the suspension part of the bridge and to tape the string on to the lego and now it is done. We are very proud of your bridge!
Tomorrows Engineers
In school this week the whole of the school is doing a topic called Tomorrows Engineers. In p1/2/3 they have been getting their parents in to help them make their models which were chairs. In p4/5 they have been making fabulous bridges some are small and some big. In p6/7 we have been making grabbers to pick up something.
Here is one of p6/7’s grabbers:
Here is one of p4/5’s bridges:
Here is one of p1/2/3’s chairs:
By Abi Logan
Brilliant Bridges
We created a sturdy bridge with 2 coffee can as supports as well as 1 tower of lego in the middle, on top there is a strand of card , a welcome sign on top of the card and some triangles made out of sticks. it is a very sturdy bridge because of all of the supports. we can also fit some boats underneath. so overall it is a very good bridge design.
The National Mòd in Fort William
This year the National Mòd is going to be in Fort William. Port Ellen Choir will be singing 3 songs and the joint choir will be singing two. In the joint choir is some members from both Port Ellen and Bowmore choir, this choir was started when Mrs MacDonald became the head teacher in both schools. We hope that we will win all of our songs and we also hope that all the people doing solos, poems and duets will be fantastic and win their competition as well!
by Sophie and Rowan
New Captains means new plans.
In Port Ellen Primary there was new captains chosen for the different houses. Most houses have one captain and two vice captains but this year Nave one of the houses had three vice and one captain. All the houses are based on an Island around Islay. Orsay’s captin is Rowan Morris and their vice-captins are Matthew Campbell and Sophie Macdonald. Texas captian is Rebecca Morris and their vice csptains are Jack Shaw and Abi Logan. Naves captain is Lauren Macdonald and their vice captain are Sarah Maclenan Taylor Swanson and Mara Magilvery.All of the houses have chosen a foundraiser and a sport for each tearm.
by Matthew and Jack
Farmers Feast
On Tuesday 3rd October 2017 primary 6/7 made a delicious buffet for elders in the local community. Some of the delicious food that were available: Bramble muffins, pancakes, tomato soup, egg sandwiches, oat and apple cookies, bramble and apple cakes and jam sandwiches. After everyone got welcomed and took a seat the P6/7s told everyone about the feast. While everyone ate some people from the class were on a table with each other and we had to talk to the people on our table. Soon after everyone had had a wee bit to eat the Gaelic choir sang some beautiful songs and some of the choir did poems and solos. After the Gaelic choir sang the Primary School band played some songs. The instruments that were played were the flute and the clarinet. The final thing that happened was primary 1,2 and 3 did some poems and they sounded lovely. Everyone had a great time, enjoyed the entertainment and very much appreciated our lovely foods.
Author Visit
On Friday 30th September an author came in to p6/7 called Barbra Henderson and she talked to us about her books and one of them was called Fir For Luck. She also talked to us about her newest book called Punch and it is not out in the real world yet but we are the first to hear it. We have heard the first chapter of it. She also choose some of us to act out some of the parts of the story. At the end she gave us all a bookmark and the choices were Punch or Fir For Luck. I loved acting out one of the parts in Fir For Luck. I learned that one of her books had 37,000 words. We also learned she has writen more that ten book but not all of them are published. We enjoied the author coming in and we hope that another author comes in soon.
By Abi and Freya
