Author: Mrs Clark

We are currently learning all about how to run an election with Primary 5-7.  We have learned about democracy and how elections work and the different sorts of government.  We are now organising our own political parties for an in school election next week, debating, writing speeches, making party political broadcasts and a manifesto.  Who would you vote for and why?

Hello, we are the FUN party and if you vote for us we will make breaks 5 minutes longer, write a letter to the council to fix the swings at the playing fields, and we will make it a rule that everyone must smile at least once a day.  So vote for us, All for FUN and FUN for all!

We are the Peace Party and we are going to stop bulling in schools, build a peace garden, stop war in scotland and if any country is at war we will give them a reward if they stop.

Please vote for the Peace Party its the right thing to do.

Make Peace, have a Break

Vote 4 The Peace Party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Please)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are the WOF party which stands for World of Fitness and we want everyone to do more exercise and get fit.  We are a party standing in the Port Ellen mock elections.  We want to encourage not just Port Ellen and Islay but Scotland and the whole of the UK to get fit.  Here is our logo. Vote for us!

Hello I am a member of T.A.P, The Animal Party. P5/6 and P7 have been working on a mini topic on elections and we have divided our self’s into six groups each group created their own party we are presented all the stuff we did in our party groups on Monday afternoon. The Animal Party helps the animals. our slogan is We Stand For The Animals

Please vote for the green team, WE ARE GREEN AND WE ARE KEEN. If you vote for us we will stop the poloution in the world, to use less electricity we will get solar panels in our school, we want to have clean beaches so we will encourage people to have more beach cleans and we will use the car less and then walk instead.

We are fruitastic vote for us because we are trying to make the world a better place by getting people to eat fruit more. We have a fruit shop in school, we will get a fruit van for islay and lower the price of fruit and higher the price of fatty food. We will also support the farmers that work hard and dont get much money. Vote for us !!

On Saturday 14th Beach Rugby took place in Port Ellen.  There were lots of stalls, walls, bins and posters. There were female teams and male teams. Lots of interesting stuff happened at the beach and the playing fields both of them had fun things going on. Up at the fields there was a Beach Rugby dance.  There were 32 teams altogether 22 male teams and 10 female teams.

By Nicholas

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

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.

My topic is on horses and I’m enjoying learning about them. I have found out about their teeth, and they have more teeth than humans. I did something very exciting, I sent a letter to Beth to find out more about horses and I got a letter back. I’m really enjoying doing my topic.

By Millie Clark P1

Explorers is our new topic and we drew pictures of explorers. We also got giving a map and we had to colour in the country they were going to, it was good fun. We got a explorer diary and we had coloured in the front cover and decorate it. We all learned that explorers go all around the world on a boat. I’m really enjoying this topic so far.
By Millie

On Wednesday 14th May, p6/7 went on a trip to Port Charlotte school, to discuss our Endeavour projects and do some orienteering. We got to go down to Port Mor and do our orienteering down there. My team got all of our marks first so we won.

Last Wednesday p2/3 and p4/5 went to play golf at the Machire golf coarse. At the golf coarse we did putting, chipping, shooting.  We took the school mini bus to the Machire. MR. Gaudie, Mrs Ramsey, Mr Gairns thought us how to play golf. The Machire grass was really wet and boggy so it was harder to play golf at the golf course. we also saw a smashed golf buggy behind the fence. There were a lot of animals by the golf coarse.

By Mathew and Sarah

Robbert Burns is famous  for his poems.  Ally Mccoist  is famous for being a manager of Rangers. Andy Murray is famous for tennis. GreyFriar Bobby is a dog that was thoughtful and lived in the country. He lived with jock a shepherd of nearly a hundred years ago. Foods that Scotland are famous for are Haggis neeps and tatties. Animals you find when you are in scotland are : highland cows ,birds of prey ,puff adders ,sheep and of course wild haggis. by jack and Aaron.

In class we are learning about money in maths. We have been learning the different types of money. We have also been learning about money from different countries and what they are called. Here are some examples.

Money in America is called Dollars. Lots of European countries use Euros.

You can pay for lots of different things with money. Money makes The world go round.

by Mara and Charlie.

On Friday 2nd May p2/3 made a Beetle Drive with a raffle. In the game we had to make small sheets to draw the beetles on. Number 1 was the body, and number  2 was the head, number 3 was the antennae, number 4 was the eyes  number 5 was the mouth and number 6 was the legs. To get the numbers you had to roll a dice and who ever won got a prize. We played three games. It was so much fun. We won one raffle prize it was a fantastic raffle.

By Rebecca,Rowan and Eleanor 🙂

P 2/3 have been learning about money all around the world.  We learned you got a $500 notes.In Botswana the money is called Pula.  In Malawee the money is called Kuacka. Lots of places in America use Dollers. Most places in Europe like France use Euro’s and scence. People in Britten use Pounds and Pennies. There are different faces on pound notes, like; the Queen, Robert Burns, Robert the Bruce and in Cameroon you can even get Diggers on the money. ( COOL!!!)  In China you get Yen. You can’t get can get £1 notes here anymore but you can in other places. You can even get £1000 notes in some places and you get £5000!

By Aidan, Taylor, Torin and Izzy

How to make a Commonwealth piggy bank.

What you will need:

balloon

newspaper

paste

egg box

coloured   tissue  paper

card

googly eyes

Instructions:

First get a  balloon  and  blow it up.

Next dip newspaper in to paste.

Then stick the newspaper onto the balloons.

After that put coloured paper on it.

Finally  wait for it to dry.

By Freya and Rhys