Author: Finlay

Today the 30th of May 2023 Finlay and William (2 p7s)  went to Laphoaig open day and they were selling tea towels of a map of islay that had been designed by Port Ellen primary school pupils. We were walking around asking people if they wanted to buy any tea towels from us and we managed to get lots of sales; we even got a guy who bought 6 for £30!  At the start we were designing all the pieces of paper and put them over the tea towels. It said Islay Tea Towels designed By Port Ellen Primary Pupils. In total we made £150 pound all together after 1 hour and Chloe and Iona are having another hour after us and after them James, Teddy and Dylan are going to have another 1 hour.

My endeavour is football coaching and I have coached lots of youngers ones/ people my own age. I have made a how to video on how to do different football skills that you can easily do yourself.   I have made a poster on very good football skills and I have made a poster on what skills and drills I will be teaching all the younger ones. And I wrote to Billy Wingrove who was a youtuber coach and a professional football player at one point in his career.   I have made my daily planner that you have to do and I’m thinking on making another how to video.

Last week Finlay and William from P7 went away on a high school/ dolphins trip and we were swimming for Port Ellen Primary school in Helensbrugh. There were 5 girls that went in total, two of them were in p7 and 3 of them were in high school. There was 8 boys; two of them were primary school and the rest of them were high school. When we got of the ferry we went to the chippy we both  got a battered sausage. That night we stayed in a very nice youth hostel near Helensburgh. In the morning we got up and made our beds and then we went down to make our breakfast at 7 o’clock. Then we got on the bus and went to the brand new one month old pool in Helensburgh. The pool was very cold and the blocks (that you jump of) were giant and you could a just them by kicking them.  We were sitting on the side the pool and the changing rooms were very posh and the benches that you sit on were air heated. We both got all Personal Bests.

By William and Finlay

Shinty  is a sport that we play at P.E and you use a stick that is like a hockey stick and a light baseball on the all weather pitch.

We have been practising our shooting and dribbling and some people have been  defending and goalkeeping.  We have learned that shinty is hard and shinty sticks are easy to break! Shinty sticks in Gaelic are called caman. We wear shinty helmets which are very tight and sore on your head . We have proper sticks and fake ones but the fake ones are better because they are a lot harder so they do not break.

We done a football tournament and Nave came first, Texa came second and Orsay came third that was the scores for the football tournament. We are going to do a basketball tournament next time we do a tournament. And we had a referee just in case there was a foul and the referee kept the scores and Nave had a total of 48 goals and then Texa had 39 goals and Orsay had 33 goals and that was the scores for the football tournament.

The first zone is the sunlit zone that’s where you get the most sun which makes it nice and bright. The  sunlit zone is about 200m deep. The animals in the sunlit zone you might find are seals, sea turtles, sharks, sea lion.

The second zone is the Twilight zone The Twilight zone is a bit dark but not the darkest in the ocean. you can get sea animal like lobster, star fish, and angler fish , and you might find octopuses as well.

The third zone is the midnight zone were  there is a giant spider crab, Atlantic wolfish pair, fangtooth fish and six gill shark. There is no light in the midnight zone.  You might get different types of jellyfish which glow up in the water due to bioluminescence.

The next zone is abyssal zone were it is very dark and cold. You get types of fish in the abyssal zone like , spiny fish ,  dragon fish,  and dumbo octopus.

The last zone is the trench zone  and is the deepest part of the ocean and the darkest part of the ocean.   People say that it is the most scariest zone on earth but really it is not that scary. The animal you might see down there are  giant tubeworms and lots of different types of star fish and  eels.

So far on my project  I have made two model bridges and made a sway on civil engineering for every type of bridge in civil engineering and I am hopefully going to be making a bridge out of lollypop sticks with a glue gun. And I am doing this because my dad was a civil engineering person so my dad told me a lot of stuff for different types of stuff to do with civil engineering.

Islay And Jura Dolphins is a swimming club were you learn how to swim and youse swimming techniques .  At the the deep end it is 2 meter deep and in the shallow end is 1 meter deep. At dolphins for a warm up we do 2 lengths of front crawl  2 lengths of breath strock 2 lengths or back crawl and 2 lengths of butterfly.

When there is about half an hour left we get out the pool and go the the deep end and practice are dives into the pool. After that when there is about 15 mints left we do races. Last week I did IM agents Ben, IM is were you do one length of every stroak.