Bun-sgoil Bhogha Mor/ Bowmore Primary School
School Website for Bowmore Primary on the Isle of Islay
News from Primary 3,4&5
Today, P5/6 pupils took part in a Sports Leadership lesson where they worked in groups to design an exciting new game for younger pupils in Primary 1 to 3. They thought carefully about making the game fun, fair, and safe for everyone. They planned the rules, choose equipment, and made sure the instructions were clear. This experience is helping pupils build confidence, teamwork, and leadership skills. Next steps 
pupils will play their games with P1-3 at break time next week
A series of lessons the children underwent about budgeting and Greek culture specifically food. To begin we worked through researching Greek dishes and snacks, we wrote a recipe for Spanakopita. Then the class visited the co-op in groups and worked out change and cost to stay within a budget to purchase the food. We then talked about food preparation, hygiene and they importance of trying new foods. What a fantastic lot of chefs in the class. The class were investigators, researchers, accountants, chefs and kids learning whilst having fun! It not only linked into out topic but also the UNCRC the rights to research article 13, article 17, article 24 and article 31.
These three pupils have shown that they are excellent eco warriors by taking part in their own beach clean over the weekend. Well done for helping our environment girls!
We are learning to describe key features of religious celebrations. Today we experienced how people celebrate Hanukkah. We made latkes, cards and created menorahs using lose parts
Primary 4 and 5 have been learning about the Titanic and they worked as a team to recreate the Titanic, the children went inside it, got into character and had lots of fun!
Primary 4&5 have been very engaged with their reading. Each day, we have some quiet time dedicated to personal reading and the children show great focus on reading their books.
Every classroom in Bowmore Primary School has a reading area where children can enjoy reading in a comfortable and quiet environment.
As part of The Year of the Coast P3/4 and G1-3 have teamed up to learn all about Islay’s Coast. We visited 4 different coastlines on Islay where we had lots of fun rock-pooling, den building, making loose parts art and making smores on the Kelly Kettles.
P3/4 have been learning about estimating and measuring in metres and centimetres. We have had lots of fun in class and in our grounds doing lots of measuring.
Primary 3,4,5 have enjoyed the new Robotics topic and we have been having lots of fun. We have got to experience lots of new things, everyone in Primary 3,4,5 loves robotics, its great. Every class in the school have been using the new technology, so far we have used Spheros and Code-a-pillars. we have got to use Kodu and scratch, we have learnt all about algorithms and determination wile using Kodu and scratch. We made our own algorithms on scratch and also got to make a game.
Burn’s Day went brilliantly P,3,4 and 5 had started their Burn’s poem one week before to make sure that they performed brilliantly. P,3,4 and 5 were great at learning it and even added in some actions! The poem was called the Ballard of Janitor McKay. The whole class loved it because it was extremely funny we liked speaking in Scott’s. When the Burn’s Day finally came everyone couldn’t wait, all classes performed very well and everyone had fun! We enjoyed watching James cut the Haggis during the P6/7 performance, we danced the afternoon away and watched some very talented pupils dance and play instruments. 
Primary 3/4/5 class have been very busy with Harry potter, but that topic has come to an end. Our new topic is Space and even getting to learn a bit about Robotics. Everyone in P/3/4/5 is very excited to start our new topic. We have written down what we know and what we would like to find out. Watch this space…..
