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How can your child spot relationships that are going to hurt them? Read our parent guide to abusive relationships and what to do about them

Being positive about eating and what people look like (and yes, we’re afraid that means your own body, too) can make an enormous difference to how your child feels about their own appearance. Here are our guidelines for what (and what not) to do.

‘Teens turn to, and are obsessed with whichever environment allows them to connect to friends. Most teens aren’t addicted to social media; if anything, they’re addicted to each other.’

Do you sometimes feel your child is sharing not just too much information, but the wrong kind of information? Do you worry that their adolescent attitudes are going to hang over them for the rest of their lives? How do you talk to them about the identity they’re creating with their friends – and how the internet makes that visible to everyone?

We’re always hearing about ‘digital natives’ as if all young people are happily at home on the internet, knowing where to find all the good things, how to avoid the hazards and partying happily together. But what if most young people were just as anxious and lost as their parents? The experts think that’s much closer to the truth…

When parents split up, they have to agree the contact arrangements for children. The Coram Children’s Legal Centre outlines acceptable practice for contact, what to do when things go wrong, and some tips for making contact work for everyone.

More than 120,000 families with dependent children separated in 2014. Roughly half of those couples who split were married and the other half were previously cohabiting.

Residency is the legal term for where children live when their parents have split up. The Coram Children’s Legal Centre answers some FAQs about living arrangements, formal and informal.

We are currently learning all about how to run an election with Primary 5-7.  We have learned about democracy and how elections work and the different sorts of government.  We are now organising our own political parties for an in school election next week, debating, writing speeches, making party political broadcasts and a manifesto.  Who would you vote for and why?

Hello, we are the FUN party and if you vote for us we will make breaks 5 minutes longer, write a letter to the council to fix the swings at the playing fields, and we will make it a rule that everyone must smile at least once a day.  So vote for us, All for FUN and FUN for all!

We are the Peace Party and we are going to stop bulling in schools, build a peace garden, stop war in scotland and if any country is at war we will give them a reward if they stop.

Please vote for the Peace Party its the right thing to do.

Make Peace, have a Break

Vote 4 The Peace Party!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(Please)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We are the WOF party which stands for World of Fitness and we want everyone to do more exercise and get fit.  We are a party standing in the Port Ellen mock elections.  We want to encourage not just Port Ellen and Islay but Scotland and the whole of the UK to get fit.  Here is our logo. Vote for us!

Hello I am a member of T.A.P, The Animal Party. P5/6 and P7 have been working on a mini topic on elections and we have divided our self’s into six groups each group created their own party we are presented all the stuff we did in our party groups on Monday afternoon. The Animal Party helps the animals. our slogan is We Stand For The Animals

Please vote for the green team, WE ARE GREEN AND WE ARE KEEN. If you vote for us we will stop the poloution in the world, to use less electricity we will get solar panels in our school, we want to have clean beaches so we will encourage people to have more beach cleans and we will use the car less and then walk instead.

We are fruitastic vote for us because we are trying to make the world a better place by getting people to eat fruit more. We have a fruit shop in school, we will get a fruit van for islay and lower the price of fruit and higher the price of fatty food. We will also support the farmers that work hard and dont get much money. Vote for us !!

Ask.fm is anonymous and has been known to lead to cyberbullying and taunting. Here is CEOP’s guide to Ask.fm in a series of FAQs for parents.

Why are so many children dissatisfied with their appearance? What effect does this have on their school work and their confidence? What can you do to help?

Pornography is more available than ever before, thanks to the internet. It can also be a hideously embarrassing subject to broach with your child. In this video, CEOP’s Jonathan Baggaley offers some tips for opening non-awkward discussions.

On Saturday 14th Beach Rugby took place in Port Ellen.  There were lots of stalls, walls, bins and posters. There were female teams and male teams. Lots of interesting stuff happened at the beach and the playing fields both of them had fun things going on. Up at the fields there was a Beach Rugby dance.  There were 32 teams altogether 22 male teams and 10 female teams.

By Nicholas

On Wednesday Cameron and I took a trip to Bowmore to talk about Endeavour in front of the public and other head teachers and councillors.  We were asked to go and speak about this because one of the focuses in our inspection was independent learning and part of this was endeavour. Cameron spoke about planning our endeavour session and his progress in his log.  Also his connection with Beech Grove garden and how he has kept in touch.  He then spoke about his Endeavour learning log then handed it over to Me.  I talked about what my Endeavour was on and why I chose it.  Then I talked about plan do review because it helps us plan our next steps.  We showed the councillors our work and what we had achieved within the amount of  time given.

By Cameron and Danni

P6/7 are learning about averages.   An Average is when you find the middle amount of something.

Mean is a type of Average; to do a mean average, you need to add all the numbers together and divide it by how many numbers you have. For example, 4,3,9,2,13,3,3,3,3,4=44 devided by 10 =4.4

Mode is a type of average, to do mode, you need to find the number that there is the most of.  For example, 4,4,9,13,3,3,3,3,3,2=3

Median is the number in the middle. For example, 2,3,3,3,3,3,4,4,9,13=3

By Elizabeth and Annie

On the 9th of June, Miss Macrae, Anwen Baker, Maisie Logan and Katie Middelton went on a trip to Glasgow for the night for the Scottish Education awards, we were nominated in the Enterprise category.  We got to Glasgow at 7 and went to the world buffet king for dinner at 8.  It was lovely and everything we tried was really tasty,  we got back to the hotel and had showers ready for the morning.  We woke up and went down to breakfast in our jammies!  We went back up to the room, got all glammed up and set off to the Thistle Hotel where it was held.  Everyone was really nice and the smoothie we got was delicious.  The tables were all set out like a circus with tiny horses hanging from lights! At the beginning of the awards these drummers came out dressed as tin foil men.  It sounded great and was really enjoyable.  When the awards started it was really nerve racking,  it finally came to our catagory and there is 3 finalists, we were one of them.  Unfortunately we didn’t win but it was great to even get into the top three.  At the very end we got given an envelope with £250 in it!  There were people on stilts walking around the tables, and magicians and balloon makers.  The lunch they served was really nice, it was nachos with chilli mince and for dessert, it was a mini cone with ice cream, sorbet and a mini pastry scone type thing with popping candy! It was a great trip and I enjoyed it lots!:)

On Wednesday 26th June there will be a leavers assembly. All last week we have been preparing. Also this week we will be too. We have been making movie trailers with help of p6.  Also the p7s had to choose a program and make it with themselves in it. The songs that we are doing are best day of my life. We are also doing a other song called don’t stop me now but in lip dub using teachers in it and actions. We all hope this will be a good success.
Everyone have been enjoying preparing for it.

By Jodie & Ciara 🙂

Over the last six months pupils from Primary 6/7 have been working on, planning and creating an Endeavour project. Everyone has worked really hard and have managed to achieve a lot. Just some of the Endeavour projects are keeping chickens which we hatched in the class room, cooking from around the world and story writing. There are a variety of different projects and they are all very unique. Our old school head teacher, Mrs Cusworth,  has been taking a look at all the Endeavour projects in our class and asking us questions. She will pick the person that stands out as having put in lots of effort and has come the farthest on their Endeavour journey and has thought positively about their Endeavour. On Friday it is the Endeavour learning festival where they will show what they have achieved.

By Emily and Abbie xx

Alex Holmes, anti-bullying programme manager for the Diana Award, outlines some useful things to do if your child is being bullied.