My Islay History Endeavour (Through a Childs View)

Endeavour is an independent project that our class does every year. This project can be anything, baking, dancing, football and anything else you can make into a project.

My Endeavour is about Islay history, but it’s not just Islay history. My project is on Islay history, through a Childs view. What I mean by ‘through a Childs view’ is what children on Islay lived like in these times. I am making a website, it will give you a story about a child. Then some information about the time period or event. Then some more text about glossary,  because some vocabulary may be hard for kids to read.

I will also make other things for the Endeavour fair, but my main focus is the website.

Iona

CHRISTMAS FAIR

On the 10th of December, our school held a Christmas fair for the local community to attend. We had lots of merry raffle prizes for adults and children. The nursery and p1/2 had a stall, and p5/6/7 had 4 stalls for each of the tables in the class. The groups that were handling the stalls in p5/6/7 were called:

Santa’s Elves: Chloe, Teddy, Ayla, Evie, Freddy and Sani.

The Gonks: Iona, James, Jacob, Brody, Stephen  and Ellie.

Da Boys on Da Shelf: Aiden, Thomas, William, Finlay, Archie and Alfie

Santa’s little helpers: Rachel, Duncan, Ella, Hugh and Dylan.

These groups made:

Santa’s Elves made Block Christmas Characters, Snowman Face Tree Decoration and Stone Bird Tree Decoration.

The Gonks made Clay Gonks, Scrunches and Block Calendars.

Da Boys on Da Shelf made phyrogrithy cooking spoons and ornaments, Christmas trees decorations made out of blocks and sock creatures.

Santa’s little helpers made keyrings made out of thin blocks, coasters and sock snowmen.

Lots of people came along and we raised loads of money for the school.  There was Santa’s Grotto run by the parent council and also waffles to buy and eat.  Ms Brown did face painting too.  It was a wonderful Christmas Time!

Highlands and Islands Oban Highland Dancing Competition

On the 30th of April 2022 Highlands and Islands dancing competition was held at the Atlantis Leisure Centre. On the 29th of April there was also a choreography competition.

Their were four highland dancers from Islay that were competitors in the Oban Highlands and Islands competition. The four of these dancers were all from Ella Edgar School of Dance. Ella does an amazing job training her dancers for competitions like this.  We did very well and won lots of medals.

By Iona

 

 

 

 

Farkin Distillery Google Meet

On Monday 22 of March, The school had a google meet with Georgie Crawford the manager of the new Farkin distillery  which i being built next to the school.

These are some of the questions we asked:

  • When do you think FarKin distillery will be finished?
  • ls the distillery going to have a malt floor?
  • How many floors are they going to have?
  • Is it going to have a visitor center?

The answers:

  1. The end of next year!!!
  2. The distillery is going to have a malt floor!!
  3. The distillery is going to have 3 floors.
  4. It is going to have a visitor center and a teaching centre.

This has really helped with our distillery project!

RUGBY TOURNAMENT

On Wednesday the 2nd of February schools came together at Bowmore to have rugby tournament. The schools included were, Port Ellen, Bowmore, Keils, Port Charlotte and Small Isles. (Jura)

When we got to Bowmore, we started to do some games to get ready before we actually did the real thing. The first game was Port Ellen and Bowmore, at the end of the first game Port Ellen won by two points.

We all brought pack lunches and sat at our side of the pitch. We split out teams in to 10 or 9 people to be even with the upcoming team. Everyone did extremely well in the tournament, and we may be doing it again very soon.

Gaelic Lessons With Caroline

This term we have been learning Gaelic with Caroline, Caroline is a online Gaelic teacher who teaches kids Gaelic through video call. We have been learning hobbies in Gaelic, food in Gaelic and we also do actions to remember.  We also learned about jumping and sitting down and listening. Some examples are, sit in Gaelic is suidhe, Stand in Gaelic seasamh, jump in Gaelic is leum.

Caroline teaches P12, P234, P567.

JENNI MINTO

We had a google meet with Jenni Minto.  She is a member of the MSP and she used to work in the museum in port charlotte.  She taught us about the important about the environment and planet. She has been to COP26 and she passed a speech. Jenni talked with us for a long time on the google meet and showed us cool things about climate change and how we can help the environment. Jenni told us that we have rain forests on Islay but they are not tropical rain forests. The reason Jenni is doing this is to help our future.

help out planet. If we do not stop this out future is gone.  Jenni also grows her own plants to help the environment you should to.  Port Ellen Primary School is inspired by people like Jenni for the things that she is doing to help the globe, she also explained to us about the worlds blanket / the worlds atmosphere. The worlds blanket is a blanket the covers the world and it is called that because of the suns heat that gets trapped inside it. This heats up an atmosphere like a blanket.

By Iona and Mya

Highland Dancing Exams

Ella Eagers dancers have all just gotten their dancing exam results, I am sure that all of Ella’s dancers have achieved with their knowledge of highland dancing.  You could go into different stages to get different exams there is a very low change to fail you’re exams with the famous Ella Eager as you’re dancing teacher.

 

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Ella Eagers dancers have accomplished lots during their time with Ella. I hope they improve until their next dancing exams.

 

 

Card Making By Iona

Welcome to my Endeavor. My Endeavor is card making and can be very stressful but also fun at another angle. My dreams may start to come to life if selling cards can lead me somewhere in life. Card making can be done in many different ways like, portrait cards, landscape cards, pop up cards and more! My Endeavor is great and I love it! I hope that other people choose my Endeavor through years to come. I’ve made 37 cards and 5 of them look like this. 

Sometimes when I get pen on my fingers while making and getting cards ready to sell I can get colorful fingerprints all over packaging and cards, it can get really messy. Endeavor is the best thing ever! You get to learn new skills, and you get to work hard to achieve something.

Stay safe, and have a nice day.

By Iona.

Evie’s Phone Box

Evie Wood is opening a shop in the Oa that people call “Evie’s Phone Box ” or “Shop In The Box “. Evie is going to be selling cards and other exciting things. Because of coronavirus there has been a hold up of the opening of the shop, but Evie hopes to open it up soon. Evie has started painting the phone box and getting it ready for the opening, Evie has created a a logo for us all to look at when we come in to the little shop, We all hope for the shop to open soon.  She won a enterprise award and was featured in the Big Issue.

 

By Iona

Highland Dancing

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Highland dancing is a fun activity for kids and teenagers. Highland dancing is ran by a lady named Ella. Highland dancing is on a Saturday at 11:00 to 11:00. The dances that you can learn are the Pedi bias, Pedi Bias and High Cuts, Highland Fling, The swords, Scottish Lilt, Flora MacDonalds fancy, Blue bonnets, Heilind laddie and barracks Johnny. Highland dancing. In corona virus we have to wear are face masks when going out and we have seats with our names on them when we come back out we have to wear our masks again. After we have went away the chairs will be cleaned for the next week. Every week we will be teched by great teachers and get on to new dances if we do well! Highland dancing is  great for kids and teenagers! This is a great opportunity for children and teenagers! I hope to see you there!

By Iona

 

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