On Friday at Port Ellen Primary 1to5 have been gardening at the front of the school planting flowers in the old whiskey barrels and in the old boat, renovating it for the open day.
Scottish Education Awards
On Tuesday 12th of June it was the Scottish Education Awards, this meant that the school was up for the best school in Scotland for using technolgy. Two girls from Port Ellen Primary school, Emily and Eilidh, went with three other teachers which were Mrs Clark,Miss MacRae and Mrs Macdonald. They went away on Monday Morning and ended up with a whopping surprise. They came first in this Award which meant a lot to Port Ellen Primary.
Port Ellen Primary’s Fourth Green Flag
At the end of May Port Ellen primary school’s pupils where informed that they had gotten their forth green flag!
Now any one can see it on the flag pole out side of the school.
Now Port Ellen is the only school on Islay with 4 green flags.
Choir Sing Their Heart Out
Every Thursday after school every one in the choir go to the hall for practice. On Saturday 2nd June all of the choir went to Bowmore to the local mod. They sang the unison, unison 2, strathspey, reel and the peurt a ‘beul. They came first for the unison and second for the strathspey and reel. They won two trophies, one for the Psalm and the other trophy was for their unison. The choir said “Yeah we came first!” Then Mrs Macdonald the conductor said “We won.” They all had fun. 
The Choir Sing Their Hearts Out
On the 2nd of June, PortEllen Gaelic choir were at the High school, to sing at the local mod,they were conduced by Maureen MacDonald, the head Teacher.
The first song they sang was the unison, secondly was Peurt a ‘ bheul, then the reel. They made some mistakes and Mrs Macdonald said ” we have blown it now” But just then Mr Macdonald, her Husband came though and said they had won 1st in
the unison. Yeh! They also came second in the perurt a ‘ bheul.
Action Song Success
Port Ellen P1/2s, aged 5-6 won the action song trophy, against another two schools, at the Mod in Bowmore high school!!! On Saturday 2nd June. They sang a song called {Engine,Tractor Agus Van}
Ellie said “I am glad we won!” Miss Macrae said “Well done.” Everyone wore fantastic costumes and Ruraidh did very well as Donny Dotamen!!!
By Emily
Incredible Ileachs Win Science Award
Ileachs Jason, Ewan, Dan, Eleanor and Aileas went to the Glasgow Science Centre, Wednesday 30th May 2012.  
Glory fell on them by winning BT Scotland Award for Best Club Presentation and also 250 pounds. Jason said  “My Pyro Pyrimid was great.”
Port Ellen Poets are WINNERS!
Port Ellen Primary School pupils had great success in a local poetry competition;
Scott Kinloch,11 Honourable mention
Eleanor Macmillan,9 honourable mention
Asher Borthwick,10 1st
Nicholas Weatherhogg,9 2nd
Friday 15th June; They are going to read their poems at the Gaelic College.
Asher says “I loved making my poem!”
Eleanor says “I used all my feelings in my poem,”
Scott says” I just had a go…”
Nicholas says “I thought really hard about my poem.”
Gardening At Port Ellen Primary School
On Friday afternoon we do gardening. The gardening is p1 to p5 but last Friday it was p1 to p7. The p7s where tiding the shed. P1 to p5 where pulling out weeds and me and Annie where planting plants or flowers and the p3s where putting plants in the Easter Island head because there topic was about Easter Island so Miss Brown thought they should put plants in the Easter Island head. And the bell went for play time and after play time we went back to gardening and we were doing the same except from p3/4 they finished the Easter Island head so they where pulling out weeds then the bell went for home time so we stopped and went to wash our hands. By Ciara
Gardening
At school on a Friday afternoon P1-5 do gardening. People weed and some people plant!!! This month we had some very extrordinary news we had one our fourth green flag but we had some things we could maybe change but luckily it was not a lot the things we had to change were that we could maybe update our eco codes and get them in each classroom and not just the hall.
Poetry Competition
On Friday 18th May Mrs MacDonald told us we had done really well in the life on Islay poetry competition. The man that ran the competition was called James Knox Whitter. The people that won in our school was Asher who came first and Nick who came third and the highly commended was me Eleanor and Scott.:) By Eleanor
Our Eco Codes
We have 5 eco codes here they are Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, and drink it don’t waist it, turn off the light when its bright, walk or cycle to school, eat more fruit every day. We are going to to put them round the school one at each class room door. By Ciara 🙂
My Personal Topic
My personal topic is the circulatory system and I am going to make a fantastic jigsaw Of the circulatory system. Then I am going to make devil dark red vessels out of papier mache. Next I was going to ask questions one of my questions were what does the blood looks like,my second question was what happens when you cut you self.
Beach Clean
2 weeks ago it was the beach clean and all of the school went. When we were at the beach clean we were cleaning the beach, some of the parents were there. At the beach I found a fishing boat mat so the boys helped me lift it, it was so heavy so we put it in the van and I found a chimney pot when it was finished we got a ice lolly after our ice lolly we went back to the school and had break then it was home time. By Ciara.
My Personal Topic
My topic is the lungs, I have made a 3D modal of the lung that shows how your diaphragm works also I’m making a power point about asthma. How the lungs work, when you breath in your diaphragm pulls down, it lets air in to your lungs and grow out when you breath out your diaphragm pulls in and your lungs goes in.
Dissecting a chicken!
This week we were dissecting a chicken and I thought it was good for research.
We found lots of cool stuff like;
LIVER
MUSCLE
KNEE CAP
KIDNEYS
THE WINGS
SPINAL CORD
CORDS
We thought we saw the lungs but it was on the wrong side for the lungs
but Mrs MacDonald thinks it is the lungs as well so I think it’s the lungs.
I touched every thing, so did Abbie. (I loved it,it was the best lesson ever!)
Dissecting A Chicken
On Thursday I felt so excited because p4/5 dissected a Chicken. Amazingly I felt so,so impressed with myself because Izzy,Ciara and I were the only three girls in the class that held all its Organs. We all were very impressed with Mrs Clark because it was only a Co-op Chicken she bought but there was still liver in it.
At some points it was quite gross but at all time awfully COOL! Here are some of the things we saw
. The Liver
. The kidneys
. The Blood Vessels
. The Lungs (Well we thought it was the Lungs)
Also so much more 😀
science visit
On Thursday 24th May P4-7 were making wind yachts and we had to measure wood then cut it were you put a mark. There was lot of gluing and sellotaping. At the end we had a race with our yachts and we when up in six. In my group I came 3rd. It was very good and exiting.
BY ANNIE
Healthy Tuck
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
Science Visit
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
Dissecting A Chicken.
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
p6/7 oban trip.
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!!!!!!
Quiz night
We did a podcast on the body. By Ello,Danni,Annie and Oliver.
Tesselltion
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.
our learning blog
Maisie, Jodie, Elizabeth, Ciara and Nic all made up a podcast to do with our topic the body.learning log
The Body Quiz
This is a short quiz on the body.
The human 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
Our learning by Emily ,Alicia and Torin
Here’s our podcast that is about what we have learned this week.
Beach Clean
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
Hi P4/5
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
