NEWS

The leavers assembly was on Monday in the hall and it was all the p7 pupils had a video of them on the screen and they got to choose where they went and there song to. The video had 10 pictures of you and they where baby photos and photos of you now. Every P7 had an individual video and the was also a lip dub and a walking on the waves memories.

Towards the end we got an award assembly and Finlay, William, Chloe, Iona and Orsay all won an award at the assembly. Finlay won the sports boy champion and citizen trophy, William won Drew’s math trophy, Chloe won the girls sports championship trophy, Iona won the Endeavor cup and Orsay won the most points. And finally after all of that we got to go outside to get ice cream from the ice cream van and we got a break!

On the 21st Of June,2023 Mrs leask And Mrs Mcfarlane`s Retirement Ceildh was held.  There was presents, tea, cake, dancing, tears and fun.  We will miss you both terribly, enjoy your retirement!

On 19/06/23 We had a Endeavour fair. For the Endeavour fair we had to set up our targets and make one big aim its like a independent topic that we do on our own. Also it has to be something that we have not done before.  The whole school do an endeavor but p5/6/7 get judged and you win a trophy the winner this year was Iona Kirkpatrick. To make an Endeavour it takes about 6 weeks to complete it. here are some good examples of Endeavour. Mya Munro  who won the endeavor cup last year for doing sewing. Iona did history on Islay for he Endeavour. another good example was Finlay Addison who did football training for the whole school. Also Our parents got to come in and see the projects and it was set up for Monday many people came to see our things. In my opinion it was really fun.

At Bruichladdich I danced, and I did the Flora and Lilt. The dancers that do the flora and the lilt get a special outfits and I got dark blue Chole got red Evie got green and Mia got light blue. We all looked great, and we all had a black leotard and we all loved them! 

Me Chloe Evie and Mia and everybody danced on a small stage with black fabric put on. Everybody danced like the where under a spell that makes their feet go so light. Lots of people were watching and lots were taking photos and Videos somewhere smiling like their lives depended on it. I had lots of fun and I hope the other dancers liked it too. 

Ayla   

In Scotland, there is a very popular type of dance called Highland Dancing. It is unique but can also be difficult. Every single dance in all of Highland Dancing must be danced to bagpipes because it is traditional to dance to it. There were 2 competitions a few weeks ago, one of them was Tarbert, and the other one was Erskin. There were lots of dancers there and they were all amazing at dancing. When they jumped up and down it was as if their kilts were waves coming in from the ocean. 

In Islay there are quite a lot of dancers. Every year, we have Feis, it is a festival on Islay where thousands of people come over to see distilleries, they get to do whisky tasting and there is lots of traditional music as well. Because there were so many dancers (all of them were mostly from the mainland) it was quite hard to focus when dancing because of the amount of people. There are 4 categories, Highland, National, Jig and Hornpipe. All the dancers do different dances in groups together at Feis and it is lots of fun. At the competitions we just go up on front of the judges, then they will mark you as you are dancing, and then you will get medals at the end. 

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.

Endeavour is a project that you pick to do until Endeavor Day. Our class does it every year, and it is so fun! On Endeavor Day people come round, and you show what you have done over the past few months, maybe even sell stuff. I’m doing cooking skills for my Endeavor. All the skills I have learnt so far are peeling, cutting and bread-making skills. I’m doing cooking skills for my Endeavour. 

 Firstly, I made delicious broccoli soup that was as good as candy floss mixed with cupcakes, the week after that I made little bread rolls for the class bread, so I developed bread-making skills. Finally, I made spaghetti bolognaise that had venison in it and when I tried it my mouth exploded! 

In school we had a health and wellbeing afternoon On Thursday 18th May so people could stay more healthy and parents and people from the community  came into school.  We also got to go round the school doing different activities:

• Coast guard,
• Mrs Harrison showed us how many sugar cubes were in drinks,
• Miss Tate got us to do orienteering
• There was MYFOS,
• we got to get a baby massage. 

My favorite was the coast guard because we got taught how to tie knots, we got to wear life jackets and we got to lift someone in the stretcher. They also taught us about water safety and what to do if we find someone in the water and the said “we need to call 999 and ask for the coast guard”. We got a wee bag with stuff to do with the coast guard. As we were leaving the different stations the teachers told us where to go next.  

When we were done, we had to go back into the hall and reassemble with our group. Before Mrs Mcdonald came in we got pencils and a toothbrush.   I really enjoyed the afternoon.

On Thursday 18th May we had a Health Afternoon. It was where parents came into school to do things like Orienteering, Coastguard talk, Baby Massage, and more. All the students went into teams had to work around all of the activities. It was so fun because we got to find out facts as well as activities. Every group had a leader in it who was the oldest person. It was great fun! Even though we got quite wet, we still had a great day.

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

Islay is very famous for whiskey but the whiskey needs to come from somewhere. That place is a distillery and I have done my endeavor on distilling because when I am older I  want to live on Islay and there is a high chance that I will work in a distillery when I am older. Another reason I chose it was because most my family works in a distillery.

Endeavor is a long-term competition that P567 try and make something and learn about a project they chose themselves. Everything is done independently.

I have wrote letters and reports. planned everything and a lot more.  I hope to build a distillery, have tour videos and some other things.

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.