Primary School of the Year 2022
Every week on a Thursday we are doing healthy tuck. This week my group went first. On the Wednesday we went to the co-op with Mrs Macfarlane and Miss McKascle. We bought all our ingredients then we all went back to school. The next day we had to make them. At afternoon break we sold them and we made a profit of £15.35.
By Emily
Yesterday our school Port Ellen had a science visit. And we made wind surfers for to play races with. We used junior saws to cut our wood. We also got to use straws for attaching the wheels. When it finished it had been home time.
By Nick
On Thursday 24th May we were dissecting a chicken, when i saw the inside of the chicken it looked really cool. Mrs Clark let us hold bits and bobs, the things we got to see and hold were:
• liver
• muscles
• cords
• ribs
• kidneys
• wish bone
• spine
Some of the things we touched was squidgy.
I thought I was brave and calm looking inside the chicken but thought I couldn’t look at it though I could. 🙂
By Jodie
all the p6/7 classes from islay when on an fun out door trip in oban for 4 days! the out door centre was called stramash. the activitys in oban were costering which is when you jump of really high rocks into the sea wearing a wetsuit and a waterproof jacket, it was freezing but great! there was some group work like quizzes and games. there was a lot more activity’s . it was a great trip!!!!!!
We did a podcast on the body. By Ello,Danni,Annie and Oliver.
At school we are learning about tessellation. tessellation is when you use a shape and put it next to it, (or on top of it and under it). You can tell if the shape you are using tessellates if there are no gaps.
Maisie, Jodie, Elizabeth, Ciara and Nic all made up a podcast to do with our topic the body.learning log
This is a short quiz on the body.
Recently we have been learning about the human body but we have been concentrating on the heart. I am going to give you 3 facts. Heres my first fact there are four rooms in the heart they are called the left ventrical and the right ventrical which are at the bottom. Then theres the rigt atrium and the left atrium which are at the top. Fact number two the hearts job is to pump blood around the body. Fact number three the heart is not the shape of the heart it is the shape of a pear the fruit!!!!!!!
By Emily
Here’s our podcast that is about what we have learned this week.
On Friday the 10th Port Ellen Primary School had a beach clean to save the animals we found a lot of rubbish and a lot of rope as well i thought it was really fun, after that we got ice lollies and the ice lollies but mine fell of the stick, and it fell on the grass, so i got half of my ice cream. Me and a bit of rope played a bit of tug a war the rope won, then Mrs Leesk tried it and even she couldn’t do it so hard. We collected 500 kg of rubbish and we got a lot of money from re jig £110 !!!!!!!!! wow Whoo. Some people had to go over to the other side of the beach because there was a quarter of a canoe over there, but somebody got injured my friend Anni she cut her arm because of he canoe she was lifting the big canoe and it fell on her arm and scratched her arm but shes fine.
By Alicia
Hello P4/5,
I’m sorry I haven’t been able to get back to you, I have been really busy, also I hope you remember who I am.
I hope school’s alright,
BEST WISHES, HARRY
We have been doing lots of fact finding using the internet and books. Eva
We also visited two museums in Port Charlotte. Matthew
The museums were Islay Natural History Museum and The Museum of Islay Life. Murray
When we were at the museums we saw bones, stones and old tools. Ruaraidh
At the museum we talked about organising animals into different groups. Eva
Now we know about museums we are going to work together to set up our own dinosaur museum. We hope to have it ready for visitors by the end of next week.
As part of finance week we have been learning all about coins. We have been identifying different coins and we know that if we are counting up coins we should start with the one which has the biggest value. We have also set up a shop and cafe which will be part of our dinosaur museum.
P1/2 are going to be singing in the local mod and we have started learning our song which is about fire engines, tractors and vans.
Struan and Ruaraidh already know all their words! well done! (Darren and Struan)
We have started to think about the olympics and we discovered that the olympic symbol is 5 rings in different colours. Each ring represents one of the 5 continents. (Natalie and Ruaraidh)
We also found out that a long time ago married ladies weren’t allowed to go to the olympics. Eva
Football is an olympic sport and we have been playing it at gym. Taylor
We have completed our stop motion animation about the Polar Lands. We worked in 3 groups and used 3 sets which we made ourselves. First there was a school set with a boy and Scottish animals and a Golden Eagle. The next set was the Arctic which had Polar bears, an Inuit, Arctic Hare, a seal and The Northern Lights. The final set was in Antarctica and there were penguins, a Blue whale, an explorer on his sledge with his husky. We had to edit the photos, add music and our story. We will be uploading it onto the school website. We all had lots of fun working together and put a lot of effort into our animation. We hope you enjoy watching it!
Frozen Adventures
When I was visiting Saltcoats I went to the swimming pool twice. The first time was a fun pool with shutes and a river with currents and stuff. The second time I went in a proper adult pool and swam eight lengths. My daddy was very proud of me.I am staying at my uncle williams flat.It has a lovely and is quite high up. I am missing Port Ellen and all my friends but will be home soon so until then slainte.
Here is P45 reciting the 9 times table.
We went on to the computers to do talking and listening active maths the games we played place value and number detective. Some tips for the place value game is to look at the units and make sure it is the same units then add on the right amount of tens. For the detective game you have to use the right questions, for example is it odd or even were the best to ask because they got rid of a lot of numbers. We enjoyed it.
By Robbie and Asher
I am going to give you my review on The Selfish Giant. On the day of the play no one forgot their words and everyone’s acting was brilliant. I felt very nervous when I was just about to walk onto the stage because I had forgotten some words in dress rehearsal, but it was fine in the end. We did have a down side to our play, just when everyone had sat down the person playing the giant became ill. Eleanor was very clever, she was the puppeteer for the giant and she stepped in at the last minute, even though she hadn’t learned all the words she seemed to know them. There was only one time that Eleanor didn’t know what to say but Harry knew the words so that was a big help. Other than that the play was great and everyone enjoyed it and after the play all the mums, dads, grannys, grandpas were allowed to go up and have a cake that we made and a cup of tea.
By Maisie
we are going to share our learning by creating an animation about the Polar Lands.
Today is the day of the selfish giant play and everybody is nearvis. We are going to have a dress reahersel.
By Annie,Robbie
Yesterday, P4/5 were doing Moral tales.
Moral tales are stories with a meaningg, and the Moral is the meaning, the story is called a Fable.Soon we will be putting our stories on Glow I hope you will enjoy them.
Earlier we were looking at Aesops Fables who was a Greek writer. Milleniums ago, they all have a meaning, and he wrote hundreds.
Also we are doing a play called the Selfish Giant, a short story by Oscar Wilde, that has a Moral as well. I have read a lot of his books and they all have a meaning.
Harry
Primary 4&5 have been learning about moral tales as part of their selfish giant topic this term. They have looked at the stories of Oscar Wilde and Aesops Fables, and have written their own versions. Read them in this online book.
We have been using DSi. We’ve been playing Professor Layton and the Curious Village, to help us with our reading. We do it with the people that we sit beside, I play it with Scott we’re on chapter 4 and have ruffly 800 picerats.
On Friday 23rd March 2012 Port Ellen Primary School went on a 1 mile walk for the charity Sport Relief.
We had been to a Swimming Gala that morning, so it was a very sporty day.We got up with our buddies, and some of us took a balloon and a charity box.
All the classes and teachers went for the walk around Port Ellen, the School went down Lennox Street, turned right, then our feet lead us to the Islay Hotel, where once more we turned right. We wandered past the White Hart Hotel, and came to the park.
Then all of us got together and a picture was taken!!
After that we walked back to school and had break.
On the walk some people stopped to donate, also we stopped some cars too.
When it was over, everyone assembled ourselves in the hall, and Mrs MacDonald announced what we had raised. And we had raised…
£310
We were extremely pleased, I hope Sport Relief will appreciate what we have done!
Harry
We are doing play called the Selfish Giant we had to learn some skills and this involves,
. learning your words of by heart/songs
.Use movement to tell the story
.acttions for your lines so its more real
By Abbie
P4/5 are doing the Easter play. The play is called the Selfish Giant,I am called Bob in it. It is very hard to remember all my lines but I try my best. My favorite seen is scene one.
This Easter p4/5 are doing a play on the selfish giant some acting skills are:
1.good expression
2.follow stage directions
3.good memory for the script
4.don’t rush your words
5.remember when you go on stage
1. You will need a good memory for the script.
2. Speak loud.
3. Either be very tall for a giant or have building skills.
4. Follow stage directions
5. Don’t speak too fast.
6. Know which side to go onto the stage.
7. Have the right props
8. Have enough people for all the characters.
9. You will need to practice.
10. Speak clearly.
.We need to know all our words off by heart
.Know stage directions
.Have actions when you are speaking
1.don’t speak too fast.
2.follow stage directions.
3.remember when you are on stage.
4.lots of practice!
5.speak clearly
6.be confident.
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