On Thursday 24th of October we went to Cairnmore woods to have a Mesolithic day. We did lots of challenges like hunt for food and we also had to make a journey stick. That’s when we wrap a stick in twine and take wee bits and bobs from the day and put it in the bits of twine so our group took a leaf and some bracken. We also built shelters, mini camps and told our Mesolithic stories.
Burns Ceilidh
On the 25th January it was Robert Burns day so Port Ellen Primary School had their annual Burns Ceilidh. Robert Burns was a famous Scottish poet. Every child learnt a poem six children got through to the final were two judges would judge them . This is all the people who got !st .
Liam Campbell-p7 Maisie Logan-p6 Abbie Morris- p5 Ross Thompson-p4 Natalie Logan-p3 Rebbecca Morris-p2 Ciaran Middleton-p1.
Every one who won had to say their poem at the ceilidh. At the ceilidh everyone done some Scottish Country Dancing while Neil played the accordion. Some children in the school played Scottish musical instruments. Eilidh was on the accordion;Abbie on the fiddle;Maisie and Ruby on the tin whistle. We didn’t only have people doing musical solos we also had highland dancers. You can listen to p7s poem (A mans a man for a that) at the bottom.
Music on Islay
On Islay, people play many traditional Scottish instruments such as accordion, bagpipes, tin whistle, chanter, fiddle and voice. On Islay there is a 3 days of workshops called the Feis, where children all ages can go and learn an instrument or expand on what they can already do on their own instrument. The accordion is an instrument that has a keyboard on one side, on the other is buttons, to make a sound you need to pull in and out. Bagpipes is a bag with big pipes coming out the top, a pipe with a blow piece to make the sound and there is 8 holes to put your fingers on. A chanter is the instrument that people learn before going onto the pipes. A tin whistle is a instrument that has 6 holes and mouth piece, most people get it mixed up with a recorder. A fiddle is a mini guitar that you hold under your chin and play it with a bow. What music means to us, its fun to play, good to learn and many people enjoy listening to the music.
accordion
P6/7 Book Festival Author Joan Lennon
In the P6/7 class room the famous author Joan Lennon came in to talk to us about her exiting new books: The Case of the London Dragonfish, The Case of the Glasgow Ghoul and the Case of the Cambridge Mummy! In class we have been reading The Case of the London Dragonfish. We were asking her lots of questions like: What inspired you to write?; What was your first book you wrote? And-What age were you you started writing? We found out lots of information! Next year I wish we will have another author as good as Joan Lennon.
by Ellen Johnston
ISLAY BOOK FESTIVAL 2012
On the 8th and 9th September 2012 the book festival is coming to Port Ellen Primary School. 
The book festival will have many authors including Liz Lochhead, Joan Lennon, Keith Brumpton,Vivian French and Linda Strachan. To book go to www.islaybookfestival.com. The doors open at 10:00am on Saturday and 10:30am on Sunday.
By Eilidh
What We Did On Holiday
On my holiday I went to England, Bracknell and I had a great time. We stayed at my Auntie Ann and I went to Lego land on the first day of our holiday and it was very fun, we got soaked because went on lots of wet rides plus it was raining at the end of the day. We went to see Matilda on the Theater and it was so good, we also went in to a place called Windsor to do some shopping and it was the best shopping experience ever and I really want to go again.
By Emily
Elections
At Port Ellen Primary School we had the captain and vice captain elections. There new captains and vice captains for each of the houses. For Orsay boys captain, Robbie Middleton and for boys vice captain Reece Boman, for girls captain, Maisie Logan and girls vice captain is Ruby Miller. Nave boys captain is James Adams and vice captain is Ewan macKinnon, girls captain is Ellen Johnstan and vice is Danni Barker. Texa boys captain is Jason Baker and vice captain is Liam Campbell girls captain is Eilidh Mcmillan and vice captain is Elinor Baker. And that is who the captains and vice captains are.
Leaning using DSi :)
We have been using DSi. We’ve been playing Professor Layton and the Curious Village, to help us with our reading. We do it with the people that we sit beside, I play it with Scott we’re on chapter 4 and have ruffly 800 picerats.
Newtons 3rd Law
This week was National Science and Engineering Week and we were learning about Newtons 3 laws, on the Scrap heap challenge every group did a small presentation on what we have learned this week. My group did a presentation on Newtons 3rd law, it goes like this ‘ Every action have a equal and opposite reaction. We used Newtons Cradle to prove it.
Rockets
We did a presentation on rockets on Friday 15th March. I enjoyed making rockets.
