Port Ellen Primary are happy to take part in the Christmas cover competition for the ileach and we also got two very talented winners… drum roll for Aaron Ayres and Soarcha Baker very well done for winning this competition.
Our Trip To Jura
On Thursday 14th September we all went on a trip to Jura primary school to share our Rights Respecting Schools work with each other. Small Isles Primary already has their silver award and we wanted to learn more. We went with Mrs. Mackenzie, Mrs. Clark and Miss Clark. When we got there we learned about the Outright campaign on climate change and we worked in groups to come up with a problem we want our local councillors and MSP to solve. We will work together to write to them about it to see if we can make a change. We got to go out and play at break in Small Isles playground and then we went to the beach for lunch and ice cream. We had a great day out and enjoyed making friends with children from Jura.
Endeavour Animation
What is Endeavour?
- An Endeavour is a project where pupils choose an amazing project to do on their own. It must be ambitious and something that you have never done before. Like a hobby with more work put into it. Whole of P 5/6/7 are doing an Endeavor
2. In the classroom I came up with the idea of doing animation. This is what made it ambitious; having to edit, taking loads of pictures and moving the props in tiny little spaces.
3.Right now, I have achieved an animation that is nearly one minute long which takes about 300 photos. You need a story line and mine is someone who thinks he is cooler and better than everyone else.
4.What I need to do next is to do some research and finish my animation.
Book Week Scotland
This week was Book Week Scotland. For Book Week Scotland we read books and we were doing loads of activities. The first station that we went to was the book quiz with Mrs. Harrison. We did some drawing with Mrs. Brown then we drew a picture of Harry Potter. We went orienteering with Mrs. Hannett and Miss Tate where we had to go round the school and find the name of a book or a person from a book; it was so fun! In the hall we did loads of things like shades and story making and we all got to play games. I really enjoyed Book Week Scotland. It was my Favourite afternoon.
Our Loch Lili Distillery
Our Loch Lili distillery is near a loch and it is located there because it is near water. Our distillery’s special features are we grow our barley on the roof and we have a windmill outside. It is located there because it is near a ferry so we would have some tourists around. But the negatives are too many tourists about and that could be a problem. We made a model distillery and this is a picture.
P5 Burns Poems Port Ellen Primary school
Port Ellen Primary did some poems and Primary 5 did up in the Morning Early and put it on to seesaw and the poem is
Cauld blaws the wind frae east to west, The drift is driving sairly; Sae loud and shill's I hear the blast I'm sure it's winter fairly. Up in the morning's no for me, Up in the morning early; When a' the hills are covered wi' snaw, I'm sure it's winter fairly. The birds sit chittering in the thorn, A' day they fare but sparely; And lang's the night frae e'en to morn I'm sure it's winter fairly Up in the morning's no for me, Up in the morning early; When a' the hills are covered wi' snaw, I'm sure it's winter fairly.
All the words were hard to learn and the meanings were hard to learn snaw means snow cauld means cold.
Happy Burns day everyone! Here is a reading of 'Up in the Morning Early' by P5. Enjoy. pic.twitter.com/hvUidKIF0d
— Port Ellen Primary (@portellenps) January 25, 2022
Gaelic Google Meet
Primary 5/6/7 have had some google meet’s with people from Lewis and know Gaelic very well and were teaching P5to7 Gaelic and all the essentials in Gaelic. So P5/6/7 are getting good at it the person’s name is Caroline she is very good at Gaelic and today we were learning about family.
