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Green Flag Renewal
We are very happy to have had our Green Flag renewed again. Here is what the report said –
Congratulations to everyone in Port Ellen for a great whole-school effort in renewing the school’s Green Flag status. I thought your photographs showcased well all the great environmental work going on in school and it was clear that everyone had been working hard to reduce waste, encourage healthy lifestyle choices and re-develop your grounds as a marvellous resource for learning and recreation and a haven for wildlife. In so doing, you have monitored progress well, shared your successes with the wider community via your blogs and Twitter feed, and worked collaboratively with helpful partners such as Rejig, the RSPB, the Community Garden and your local plant supplier and boat builder. Eco is well- integrated into the curriculum and calendar via classwork such as your Water Cycle topic and events like your Waste and Walk to School Weeks, and you have enjoyed well-deserved success in the STEM Challenge, the Junior Saltire Award and the Pocket Picnic Garden Competition. Finally, you are to be warmly commended for your beach cleaning activities, your promotion of Fairtrade in school and your generous support of worthwhile charities such as Water Aid. Your young people are truly responsible, global citizens and I am sure you will enjoy exploring the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals as part of your ongoing Eco focus.
A Geologist Visits
Just before Christmas P4/5 were thrilled to get a visit from Miss Heads nephew Luke, who is a geologist. He answered lots of their questions about volcanoes and earthquakes. He was also very impressed by the children’s knowledge of the earth’s structure and plate tectonics.
Earthquake-proof
To complete our IDL on earthquakes and volcanoes, P4/5 have learned about the pros and cons of living in areas of the world where there are volcanoes and earthquakes. They wrote a piece of persuasive writing to convince people that living in Iceland had lots of positive aspects and found out how engineers try to make buildings earthquake-proof. The children worked in co-operative groups to build earthquake-proof buildings and then we tested them using a huge tray of jelly to be the shaking ground!
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Burns Ceilidh
Our Burns celebrations were a fantastic affair filled with dancing, music and poems. There was a great turn out from the local community – many thanks to our judges and Nigel Morris. Well done to the children for dancing so enthusiastically and performing so well!
How our swimming lessons went
On Tuesday p5-7 went to swimming lessons it was really fun p5 done multiple things like simon says, rockets whilst p6 done diving and stuff p7 done the same and we all got fun time at the end.
Culture Vultures Book Swap
On the 20th of January 2017 the Culture Vultures a Citizenship group held a book swap at lunch time. We thought it went well and we swapped quite a few books. We hope to have more book swaps before the end of term.
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Photo Fundraiser
After the fantastic Nativity performance, we are selling a range of prints. There are also some group photos from the Christmas Disco. Please refer to your letter from the school for how to order. Enjoy!
school swimming lessons
I think the swimming lessons are good because most of the population know how to swim but the other part doesn’t know so its for good learning. I also think that it is good because it makes you more successful at swimming even if you are good at swimming. Our swimming lessons start on Tuesday 17 Jan. I think its going to be fun but challenging.
By Aaron and Andre
Science Club
On every Wednesday at school we have a science club. science club and at science club. At the first week of science club we had to find out who put a white powder in Mrs. Clark’s hot chocolate. It was great fun. We had to find it by going to different parts of the kitchen and finding out who’s mark matches the criminals mark. There was finger prints, bites on cups and we had to see what what pen was the same as the one the criminal used. The second week we got to make crystals. We made the crystals by putting in over salted water and food coloring to make them look good. On the last week of science club it was really disgusting because we were dissecting a fish and at the very end we dissected a deer heart. Although earlier before we were naming body parts and we got 2 chocolates out of an advent calender. We would like to thank the people from the high school for coming over to help us and we would really like it if science club is on again.
By Rebecca and Rowan
Cooking Club
During this term cooking club has been run by Mrs Harrison on a Monday after school. It was run from 3:30 to 4:30. Every week we made different foods. The first week we made a scone recipe choosing some ingredients to put in. The next week we made pizza using the scone recipe as a base and made our own tomato sauce. The next week we made a pasta bake to take home and share with our family for dinner. We boiled pasta then made sauces, there was a cheesy sauce and a tomato sauce. The last week Mrs Harrison thought of something more exciting so we made pancakes. We made apple flavour which was from Jamie Oliver’s recipe and we also made a thick and thin pancake recipe. We then shared the pancakes and put our own favourites on them. We had jam, butter, golden syrup, maple syrup and some bananas. We all enjoyed making our recipes and going to cooking club.
By Kaitlyn and Ellie.
Craft Club
On our first week we were in partners we had to research nice things to make for the Christmas fair. We made soaps in our partners both people chose what the soaps were going to look like then one person chose the scent and the other person chose the colour.On the second week we got things to draw around one was a star, a Christmas tree and a stocking we drew around them in pen on felt. then we sold our products at the fair and got to take some home for Christmas.
sports club
Every day on Monday after school Mr Shakespeare runs a sports club. Loads of people in the school go to sports club and enjoy it. We have been doing lots of different activities such as football, shinty, hockey handball, dodgeball and eliminate frisby. It is great fun.
Port Ellen Primary Christmas Jumper Day !
On Friday the 16th December, Port Ellen Primary School did a Christmas jumper day for Save the children. We raised £75.65 which was fantastic. We want to say a big thank you to everyone who wore a Christmas jumper and everyone who donated.
Symmetry
P567 have been doing Symmetry for math. We have look at shape symmetry and name symmetry. If you put a mirror in the middle of a shape you can check if its symmetrical or not. We all did name symmetry, it was really fun to make and they look really nice.
Dance Club !
Dance club is run by Eva, Natalie and Lauren on Fridays at Lunch break. It’s for any P1234 that want to come. They have been learning dances and seem to be enjoying it. They hope to be restarting the club after the Christmas Holidays.
The Nativity !
P123 from Port Ellen Primary School will be doing a Nativity on the Wednesday 21st of December at half one at St Johns Church. They have been working so hard practicing and learning the songs and the words. We want to say a big thank you to Miss Brown for working so hard on the Nativity.
Port Ellen Christmas Fair !
Port Ellen Christmas Fair was a great way to get ready for Christmas. P123 had the soap and bath bomb stall, P34 potpourri, chocolates, cookies, Christmas tree decorations, candle holder and more. P567 made Christmas magnets, Olaf’s, candles, lights, bobbles, tagul pictures, nativity finger puppets, little creatures and .The fair in total was a great success, the school made over £2,000.
Christmas Cupcake Challenge
All of P567 have been working hard at the Christmas cupcake challenge making bubblegum, chocolate orange, lemon sherbet and honeycomb flavour cupcakes for their enterprise task. They all look great!
PPPS CHRISTMAS FAIR
The PPPS which are Matthew, Aaron, Abi, Rowan, Sophie and Kaitlyn are making crafts for Port Ellen’s Christmas fair. We made lots of items and it only took two days to make everything. We made tin cans, star mirrors, taguls and finger puppet nativities. The star mirrors are £1:50 there are 7 of them. The nativity is £2:00 and there is 5 sets of them. The taguls are £1:00 and there are 8 of them. The star mirrors are £1:50 and there are 7 of them. The tin cans are 50p and there 6 of them. We had to create balance sheets and work out unit costs to be able to price our items, to make sure we make a profit.
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Rionnag
Rionnag is a enterprise that will be selling there crafts at the port Ellen primary school Christmas fair on Saturday 8th December.We will be selling sock Olaf’s,Christmas magnets and lemon and sherbet cupcake the Olaf’s are £3.00 the magnets are 30p 4 for £1.We only have 6 Olafs and there going sell out fast because every one loves Olafs. We have 38 magnets. We want to get a profit not a loss.Ee hope we get lots of money.
Crazy Claus Christmas fair
We have been making things for the Christmas fair. We have made tiles with a map of Islay on it, we have made rainbow coloured Christmas baubles with sparkles and we have made snow globes. We have made a book on an app called book creator on the ipads with the Christmas fair notes on it. We also designed a cupcake for the cupcake competition. We made crunchie flavoured red cupcakes with a Santa hat on them. We have been learning how to make a balance sheet and how to make a chart on excel and we also did market research for the project. I hope everything sells really well.
Snappy snowmen
For the Christmas fair snappy snowmen are making penguin light bulbs to hang on your Christmas tree we have made 9 of them.We have also made scented candles.The pink candles are rose scented and the orange candles are orange scented we have made 13 of the candles all together.The last thing we have made is Christmas bugs with pine cones as the body and green Pom Pom’s for the neck and 2 red Pom Pom’s with Googly eyes stuck on top.We have all made balance sheets Rebecca and Holly made the balance sheets for the Christmas bugs Sarah made the balance sheet for the penguin light bulbs and Ruaraidh made the balance sheet for the candles and Kaya made the tags for our items.
Decorating the Christmas Tree
Primary 7 have been busy decorating the Christmas Tree ready for the Christmas fair this Saturday at 2pm. The tree was kindly donated to us by Laphroaig distillery, and we think it looks lovely.
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Beach Clean
On Friday 25th November, Port Ellen Primary School went down to the Co-op beach and did a beach clean with Re-Jig. They collected 32 bags of litter and made an astonishing £300 pounds that will help the school. They found litter that was covered in ice, which they found very interesting. As you probably know Port Eleen Primary has citizen ship groups. Doing the beach clean was helping our community which is part of being a good citizen.
By Eva Munro
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Sumdog
Sumdog is when you have lots of games to play and when you play them you get asked questions your teacher can see how many questions you have done what ones you got right and which ones. Sumdog is good because it helps lots of children with their maths. It also helps them to try harder to make a difference with their maths. P5/6/7 have been doing the Argyll and Bute Sumdog competition. you have to answer 1000 questions to complete the test. Lots of schools all over Argyll Bute entered the competition so far only 2 people out of Primary 5/6/7 have completed the 1000 questions. The amount of questions that you get depends if you will make it onto the leader board. If you get 1000 out of 1000 it is almost definitely that you will make it to first. our school is 15th on the leader board in the whole of The Argyll and Bute.
