Primary School of the Year 2022
Allan Burnett was at Port Ellen primary school and he was talking to us about his history books. These are some of his books Columba, Wiliam Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Rob Roy, Robert Burns, Robert the Bruce and Invented in Scotland. Oliver dressed up as Columba and looked like Darth Vada. It was great fun!
Maisie
We have been learning about the vikings. We found out our viking names, my one was Robstaf the Wise. The vikings were great sailors. The Vikings came from Denmark, Sweden and Norway and they made their clothes from wool and leather fron animals. They also washed their clothes in cow pee!
Robbie
Hope everyone has had a great holiday and is settling down to the new term in school. We have already hosted the Islay book festival, where we were visited by author Ruth Rendell! We also enjoyed some interesting talks by children’s authors Allan Burnett, John Fardell and Cathy Macphail. Thanks to the book festival organisers for providing us with such great events.
Coming up this term is a visit from Kilmartin Museum to discover all things Viking, and a Gaelic awareness day on the 30th September. Keep in touch to find out what the pupils think.
On the 21st of June p4/5 and p1/2 from Port Ellen primary went to the local beach for a beach clean in the afternoon. They picked up lots of rubbish and lots of plastic bags. They had a play after and made sand castles and then made a boat out of sand.
On Thursday 16th June 2011 primary 4/5 had a glow meet with the great author Andy Stanton, he writes Mr Gum books,they are really funny. He talked to us about his first book which was called You’re a Bad Man Mr Gum, he wrote it for his cousin 9 years ago. Then he warned us about him drinking water then going aaahhhhhh! It looked really weird, so he did that almost every 10 minutes but it was really funny and I think all of Primary 45 loved it.
by Emily P5
On Monday 20th June the first quail egg hatched it was Reece’s egg.It hatched two days early. It took the chick a long time to hatch from the egg. James’s egg was the second to hatch. James was holding the egg when it hatched Mrs McDonald also saw the egg hatch. We took the incubator which the chicks were in downstairs for school grounds open day. Alica’s egg hatched downstairs. Now some of the chicks are in a brooder which is a box with a heat lamp. Another few chicks have hatched over night. One of the chicks died, which is sad.
Elinor.
On 20th July 2011 was Port Ellen primary schools open day. It was a very exciting and busy day! We had the giant monopoly, the lovely baking, a book swap and even real live chicks! While the open day was running, Lord Robinson came to our school and he was talking to us about our school and he just wasn’t here to talk to us he was also here to judge a photo competition. All the photos were amazing but he had to choose a 1st a 2nd and 3rd. Mrs Cusworth came to plant her lovely tree in the front of our school, it was a weeping cherry tree and it was a very nice moment. Lord Robinson said the 3rd is Beth 2nd is Ellen and 1st is Elinor! So that was a good time for everybody. Everybody would of been tired but it wasn’t over there was a yummy barbecue on at night! There were mums and dads selling burgers, there was nail painting, football and a big photo exhibition for people to look at. There was also a disco on on while the barbecue was going. and there was kids dancing for a long time but then sadly it was time to go home and everybody enjoyed their day at Port Ellen primary school.
By Ellen
On Monday 20th June 3 0f p4/5’s quail eggs hatched. My egg was the first egg to hatch. When we came in it had a wee crack in it then we had to go for a business meeting and when we came back up it was hatched. A while after another egg was hatching. It was james’s egg it was 2nd to hatch. James’s hatched on his hand. Then Alicia’s egg hatched. Over night Eilidh’s egg hatched but it’s not well. When the quails came out at first they were all slimy but two hours after they get all fluffy.
BY REECE P5
On Monday 20th June it was the photography competition. It was also school grounds open day. All the children in the school took photos to enter the competition.Lord Robertson judged the competition. Some of the pictures were of plants others were of animals there were also some landscapes. It looked like a very difficult decision Lord Robertson had to make. Beth came in 3rd, Ellen in second and I came first. We all got a prize and had our photo taken. Ellen and Beth got sweets and I got a book token.
Elinor.
On Wednesday 15th June 2011 all the children and parents came to the school to join Mrs Cusworth’s retirement concert at 6:30. during the night we had piping,highland dancing,solo singing,class songs and duets. The whole night was wonderful, at the end Mrs Cusworth was in tears but she still read out her speech that she had written that morning and for the finally we got a bunch of people from the school,2 from each class went up behind the stage and got her presents.we got her a big weeping cherry tree,a wooden chair with a brass sign so that she can remember us , we got her a box of chocolates and a really big card.the whole night was absolutely fabulous and we hope that Mrs Cusworth had a really great night.by Emily P5
On Saturday 4th June we went to the Islay Mod. It was an exciting day, people shivering with tension. ELLEN-I did a solo and a poem, and it was the best experience ever. The choir sang 4 songs, and won three firsts. We really liked the 2 part.
It was amazing to win so much and sing in the concert. It was such a thrill.
Ellen and Helen
Click below to hear a gaelic poem read by Ellen and Ruby
On the 9th June me and Scott went to the Science centre in Glasgow along with Ellen, Emily, Ewan and Eilidh. We did a presentation in front of 4 judges of our Mission SOS topic. Afterwards we did some STEM challenges, they were fun and quite tricky. After that we went to the Imax to find out we had won an amazing prize of £250 for the best presentation on the day. It was a really great trip.
Jason and Scott.
On Friday 10th June schools from all over Islay went to Bowmore for multisports day. We did lots of different sports, for instance football, touch rugby, hockey, sprinting and handball. We all enjoyed it very much and it was very good fun.
By Elinor
At sports day it turned out to be a good day to have races. We had the three legged race and of course the relay and much, much, more. I really enjoyed the three legged race because me and Reece won for the second time in a row. In the relay all the houses took part and Orsay won all three relays. In the senior championship Bailey and Anna won the trophy. I thought sports day was great.
By Calum and Robbie
P4/5 have been doing a topic about life cycles.I am doing a topic on a rose life cycle.I am doing it with Calum and he is doing a penguin.P4/5 is doing life cyles and we went on brain pop.We all got partners to do the life cycles.We are all enjoying it and having great fun.
In the classroom we have our very own Quail eggs. We each have our own one. We put them in the incubator to hatch. Once the quails come out of the egg they are all slimey. A few weeks after they grow feathers. Our eggs will hatch on the 23rd of June.
Alicia and Reece
On the 28th of April 2011 Port Ellen Primary had a royal wedding lunch. There was lovely roast beef and bright orange carrots. But my favorite bit was the beautiful chocolate ice cream and chocolate fudge cake, it was great fun.
By Liam
I went to the National Gallery of Scotland in Edinburgh for the Inspired Get Writing Awards. I was awarded with a special merit which means I was in the top ten. I really enjoyed the day.
By Scott
To make your own piggy bank you blow up a balloon and cover it in layers of newspaper. Let it dry and paint it and add accessories and you’ll need to make a coin slot.
By Calum Campbell
Lots of exciting things have been happening in P1/2 since Easter. We found a map of The Land Of Me in our classroom and we drew what we thought the places on the map might look like. We then worked together to plan how we could recreate each of these areas within our classroom transforming it into The Land Of Me.
We had to be very organised and collect lots of materials.
We invited our mums and dads to come and help us make The Land Of Me on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Everyone was very excited as we worked together making, painting, building and designing. It was great fun having so many of our mums and dads working with us.
We worked really hard and our classroom looks fantastic! We even have a real forest and a cave which we can play in.
Some of the animals who live in the Land Of Me have come to stay in our class for a wee holiday and want us to teach them all about the wildlife of Islay so we are going to be very busy!
It was science week last week, primary 4 to 7 were doing a lot of science on the 17th March. We were trying to solve Japan’s horrible earth quake by trying to separate a handful of the dust from the quake. It was so hard! We were learning how to separate mixtures. I have learnt so much from how to separate mixtures. It was so fun!
By James and Ellen
This term we are learning creation stories and doing puppet shows and shadow puppets. One of the creation stories is about how the world came from an egg, a dog breaks out of the egg and he holds up the sky, his tears fill the streams and rivers and seas. Another creation story is how the turtle carried the world, we are using shadow puppets to act the scenes out, well there was a sky city up in the clouds and there was a hole in the sky and sky women fell down and nearly drowns but then 2 swans flew up and caught her, then some animals went under the water but couldn’t bring any mud up, then the grandmother toad went under and brought up mud and place it on the turtles back. Now the puppet show, there is 5 puppets one is called Bob that is very crazy because he makes weird noises, there is Jim who is the clever one and does all the research, there is Killer who wants to eat the humans so him and his gang can RULE THE WORLD!!!!!!!!!, Fred talks very slow because he is the thickest out the lot and finally Zob is the one that has a deep voice and always says dude after every word he says. They want to find out about all the different creation stories.
Ruby (P5)
How to make a shadow puppet.
First you draw any animal or any sea creature then you cut it out. Then you can get a bit of clay or any soft object to pot under your thing.
After that you get a pencil then you pop the holes out of your object.
Finally you put your object in front of a Projector or a screen.
by Alicia
On the 18th March 2011 was comic relief day or some people call it red nose day. Port Ellen Primary School did loads for red nose
day. The first thing we did was have a Glow meet with schools all over Scotland. We had a bit of a difficult time because every one kept moving the pods so we only had our turn then we turned off the camera and returned to our red day. Every one dressed up as some thing red just by wearing some thing red. We then had a beach clean in the afternoon and every one went in to groups. I was in group 1 and we went first to go round the street to get money from people for red nose day while every one else cleaned the beach. Aileas and Erin were really good at stopping cars and getting money of them.
All together we raised a whopping £700.
By Emily Logan p5
P1/2 had a circus on Tuesday 22nd March for their end of topic.
Darren was a snake charmer and the hula hoopers were Katie, Sturan and Bronagh. There was lots of gymnastics and a lion tamer. The clowns were extremely funny. It was very entertaining and at the the end they started spraying water at us and other stuff. It was fantastic!!!
By Eilidh
On the 23 of March some people came in to talk to us about submarines. There was a lot of information. The royal navy submarine was the same length as a football pitch. They had no phones so they could not contact their family. And they had to share a bathroom, and a bed, but not at the same time! I think it would be not good to be in a submarine. Because they didn’t get to contact their family. The royal navy helped us with our round house. They painted our benches brown. We got some gifts from them. We got a hat and a picture of their submarine and a sticker. I thought it was brilliant.
By Alicia
On Tuesday 22nd March P1/2 held their very own circus show. To prepare for our show we brought in colourful clothes to wear for our costumes and we made hats. We made posters and tickets so that everyone knew about our show. Tink and Jeremy came to help us rehearse for our show and we worked really hard to make it the best it could be.
We were feeling very excited about performing our circus act especially once we got into our costumes and got our faces painted!
The whole school came to watch and they all seemed to love it!
Ronan, Julie and Ellie were clowns.
Mirren, Eva and Caitlin were acrobats.
Finlay was a juggler.
Bronagh, Struan and Katie were hula hoopers.
Ross worked with Jeremy to be a Ring Master and he was also a scary tiger.
Darren was a snake charmer!
Ruaraidh thinks it was great fun doing our circus show.
Bronagh liked performing her act and says it made her feel good.
Ronan felt nervous but he enjoyed it!
China’s creation story is about a dog called Pangu. Pangu was in a egg and like all normal animals in eggs he broke out with an axe, the gooey stuff spilled out and became the earth. Pangu created the world. Pangu’s hair was the stars, his eyes were the moon and sun, the plants were made of his skin and the rain, the sweet rain was made of spit.
By Scott
At the swimming gala we had a lot of races including front crawl, backstroke, obstacle course and the relay. Orsay got in the lead early by winning races and stayed there and won the gala in points, but came second in the relay with Texa coming in 1st in the relay and Nave came 3rd in the relay. In the points Orsay came 1st Texa in 2nd and Nave in 3rd.
By Calum
On Tuesday 8th march 2011 p45 held a museum exhibition. It started at 1:30 to 3:00. We held it because our topic was on history. In the morning Bowmore P56 came over to look at our museum. We all had had a different table to work at. I was at the information desk with Eilidh. We were selling bookmarks,delft tiles and leaflets. There was a desk that you could go to try old food like Dundee cake,oatcakes with goats cheese and venison and there was viking bread. I had a bit of Dundee cake and it was very nice. We had interactive displays and timelines, toys, bedrooms and kitchens from the past. P6/7 did a World War 2 display as well. A lot of adults came to see our museum. I had a great time.
by Reece Bowman.
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