Primary School of the Year 2022
This is how you do reciprocal reading.
You read some of your book and you choose an activity. Then you write about it after that you talk about it to the rest of your group. The activities are Predicting, Clarifying, Questioning, Summarizing, Connecting, Visualizing, Inferring, Evaluating. This is how you get better at understanding what you read. We are reading Cool by Michael Morpurgo.
In school we have been learning about maps, compass points and symbols. We are making our own map in groups the groups are called the adventurous, the muddy maps, the orienteering otters and the history hippies. Talking about orienteering we are using maps in orienteering to help use maps properly and also because it is our topic, it is good fun. We have been doing degrees of the compass and bearings. I have not quite got it yet but I will get it. I also need to know how to use a map because it is a bit complicated with all of the wee lines on the maps although it is complicated it is still fun.
By Rowan P567
The P5/6/7’s in Port Ellen Primary School are doing a topic on Orienteering. We had to learn about reading maps properly so we could find the posts quicker. When we did Orienteering, Mrs Clark our teacher, timed us and she said whoever came quickest back got to design a orienteering course for us to find the flags. It was great fun. We all were with a partner. We all were very puffed after orienteering but we all had fun, and we all are looking forward to do Orienteering again soon!
Global citizens is a group included in the citizenship groups. They are helping to try and stop the issues around the world like: deforestation,endangered animals,animal abuse,children in need etc. We also do things about fair-trade like fair-trade tuck and what it is. We also want the environment to stay litter free so that the environment can stay healthy. Global citizens will do their best to make the world around us a better place to live in.
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At our school every friday in the afternoon we have citizenship groups. The group names are Media, Crofters, Vice- captain and captian group, Eco, Global citizens, Book club and enterprize. The media group write blogs, the crofters group go up to our croft that p3/4 last year fixed and the crofters go up and plant stuff up the croft and down the front of the school, the book club sort out the libary out in the upstairs corridor they also organize the book swap and they preswade people in the school to read morel, the enterprise group they organize the fair trade tuck, the vice – captain and captain group is for the vice – captain and captains to do all there duties and the eco group their doing the eco wall.
All The Groups Have Fun
Our p567s did a 1 mile walk around the school. They figured out how many times they needed to walk around the outside of the playground to make 1 mile. They had to walk it 4 times to make a mile. They all had lots of fun doing it.
Last week we found out the new captains and vice captains. Everybody in primary 6/7 were campaigning for a spot as captain or vice captain. There are 2 vice captains and 1 house captain for every house. There are 3 houses Orsay, Texa and Nave. In Orsay we have Bronagh who is the captain then the vice captains are Rhuraidh and Katie. In Texa we have for the captain Natalie then for the vice captains we have Eva and Darren. Then for Nave our captain is Mirren and for the vice captains we have Ross and Sophie.
On Thursday we went on a walk up the distillery path behind the school car park. We walked to the gate halfway to Ardbeg and then we turned back and started to come back to the school. This was one mile. If we walk a mile then we will get stamina. When we where back at the school we went to a rock behind the car park then we had a race. We ran along the wall,then to the wooden hut then we came back to the rock,had a seat then we went home. And we were all tired. Braeden said he thought it was quite good and Orla enjoyed it too.
by Rhys, Ciaran
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Our new P1s are liking the school. There are 6 of them that have just started at Port Ellen. Everybody likes the school lunches, the uniform and the teachers. They have even started learning their letter sounds. Their favourite part of the school day is break!
Here is a link for P567 to join Duolingo and learn French,
https://www.duolingo.com/o$o=josephine.clark@portellen.argyll-bute.sch.uk&s=P567%20PEPS
For the past few weeks we have been practicing for our leavers assembly and making progress everyday. But this year we have made theme is Harry Potter; everyone has a main part and everyone is in a scene or two but some of the characters have different names and they intemperate things and people in the our school. We wrote the script ourselves and there are lots of jokes.
We are also doing a few songs; which are Dark Lord Funk you up, You’ve Got a Friend in me and a lip dub for-When I’m 64.
all the characters are;
Harry: Torin
Ron: Logan
Harmione: Abbie
Anwen is herself
Nicholas is himself
Prof Sprout, Ginny, Cheerleader: Jodie
Dobby: Eleanor
Cheerleader, Emily, Wolf: Emily
Crabbe: William
Prof Umbridg, a dementor: Beth
Draco, Prof Trelawney: David
Dumbledore: Ciara
Snape, Goyle: Oliver
Vodemort: Elizabeth
Bellatrix: Emma
It is really good and we have included information on our time at Port Ellen. We hope everyone enjoys it!
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My class went the high school for an Endeavour fair but before that we had a a bunch of maths and literacy problem solving stations. You get 10 points per station depending if you do well or not. There were lots of different people from different schools from Islay and Jura. It was very fun and challenging at the same time. We also were helped S4,S5 who also gave us clues to the problems but we lose points if we use them.
by Nick and Beth
On wednesday it was sports day. All of the P1,2,3,4,5,6,7 and the nursary had a whole afternoon of sports and fun also the sports champion was to be revealed and there was the relay races. The sports champion was Ross Thompson and Jodie Jamieson and Texa won the relay and Texa won the shield for the most points.
Over the last few weeks P6/7 have been doing the sports championships. The sports championships is where you take part in lots of different activities and then get points for what place you come in or if you take part. If you come first you get 100 points, if you come second you get 75 points, if you come third you get 50 points and if you take part you get 25 points. The activities consist of cross country, 100m, 50m, high jump, long jump, hurdles, obstacle, football dribbling throwing and basketball hoops. At the the end of sports day the person with the most points will be given a trophy and medal if second or third you get a medal. This year for the girls championships in 3rd place was Bronagh from p6 2nd was Beth from p7 and sports champion was Jodie from p7. For the boys championships in 3rd place was Logan from P7, 2nd was Ronan from p6 and the boys sports champion was Ross from p6. Everyone enjoyed taking part in the sports championships.
By Emily and Jodie 🙂
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