I know this happened last year, but it was so much fun I thought I would include the blog written by the children who took part.
On 9th June six of us from Port Ellen Primary School; Scott, Ewan, Jason, Emily, Ellen and Eilidh, went to Glasgow Science Centre for the Celebration of Science and Engineering. On the journey there we got to travel on the new MV Finlaggen ferry and had a tour round the bridge to see all the shiny gadgets and gizmos. The next day we got up early and set up our presentation at the Glasgow Science Centre along with 53 other primary and high schools from around Scotland. We went to see a science show, where they made things turn invisible, and got to play with the amazing science exhibits, finding out loads of information in a very fun way.
Next we had to present our science project to 4 judges from science industries around Scotland. Our teacher was told “Bye, Bye!” by the judges as she wasn’t allowed to see what we were doing. Our presentation was Mission SOS! Save our seas, and talked about biodiversity, the marine tank we set up in class, oil spills, beach cleans and tidal turbines. We had made a tidal turbine and wired our own electronic quiz on rock pool biodiversity. I think the judges really liked the puppet we made to help present, called Jim the Scientist. We also had videos of the lobster and crab we had in our tank.
Afterwards we had to compete in 5 STEM challenges put on by companies around Scotland. This included a Shell oil change task, a Lloyds Register ship’s ballast test, working with lasers and operating a mini ROV. The challenges were fun and we did 
quite well.
Finally we went to the IMAX for the presentation of awards to schools. Heather (the Weather) Reid was presenting the awards, along with Fergus Ewing, Minister for Energy. There were nine awards altogether, and we hadn’t entered most of them. Then she announced “And the award for the best presentation of a showcase, sponsored by BT, goes to Port Ellen Primary School.” We were extremely amazed, and our faces showed it! We had to go down and get a cheque for £250 and had our picture taken. At last we got home, having enjoyed the best trip ever!
QUAD BLOGGING
At Port Ellen Primary we have enjoyed using blogging technology to keep track of our learning, recording exciting and interesting events and expressing ourselves online. However we would like to improve our blogging skills and can best do this by looking at blogs from other schools around the world.
To do this we are going to take part in Quad Blogging, where we join with 4 other schools to follow and leave comments on their school blogs. The 4 schools that we will follow are; Burravoe Primary on the Isle of Yell in Orkney, Mrs Dechaine’s 3D class who are in Alberta Canada and Y5PM from Waterloo Primary School in England. So get blogging and leaving comments!
How To Comment
- You go onto Glow.
- Next you pick the one you comment on.
- Then you click on the title.
- After you get to write it.
How to make a bullet point
- First go on to word .
- Next click on format on the tool bar at the top of the page.
- Then click on bullet point chose a type of bullet point.
- Finally write a list.
By OLIVER
How To Put A picture On A Power Point
- First you need to click on p for power point.
- Next you go on to the internet and find a picture that you want.
- Then once you have found a picture you like press the ctrl button and
right click. - Finally you copy the picture and click on the bottom of the internet page and drag it away and paste it on to power point.
How To Set Up Your own Blog
- First you go on Firefox.
- Next go to glow and log in.
- Then go on my stuff my glow.
- After that go to modify share page and browse.
- Then go to virtual server gallery.
- Next turn to next page.
- After that click on glow blog.
- Then add the place where you want the blog.
- Next type your blog name and if you want it personal or not.
- After that find your blog on the page and go to dashboard.
- Then decorate your blog.
- Next view site.
- Finally the blog is yours to personalize.
How To Write A Blog
- First you must log onto glow and by doing that you must click on Fire Fox.
- Second you must click on glow, and then you must click on go to glow .
- Next you must type in your user name and password.
- Then you must click on p4/5.
- After that you must scroll down the page you type in your little and type blog underneath.
- Finally you copy and publish.
By Abbie
How To Set Up Your Own Personal Blog
- First you go on Firefox.
- Next you log in to glow.
- Then once you’ve logged into glow you go on my stuff my glow.
- After that you go to modify shared page and then click on browse.
- Then click on virtual server gallery.
- Next turn to next page.
- After that click glow blog.
- Then add place where you want your blog to be.
- After that find your blog on the dashboard.
- then decorate the blog .
- Next press view site.
- Finally the blog is all yours to persona lies.
By Alicia
How to Change your Desktop Picture
- Set up a desktop background .
- First go on fire fox ( images )
- Second pick a image.
- Then right click, go on save image as.
- After that save the image as anything you want.
- Then go on pictures, find your image.
- Finally right click, save as desk top back ground.
How to Download Stuff onto a Key
- First you’ll need to find your self a key.
- Next there is a a sockit on the side of the computer with a picture of a cactice.That is only on a mac .
- Then ,there are 2 squares on each side on 1 side has hollow squares and ton the other side has a ones with white in the midle it’s the hollow side yo put facing up.
- After you find what you want ptu it onto a key.
- While you do that, drag the thing you want to put onto a key wate a wee minute on want what our key is called to see if it is on it.
- Then if you look closely there’s an arrow beside your key name and click on it.
- Finaly if your key name disapeers pull thekey out.
