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.
Skills Selfish Giant
We are doing a play on the selfish giant and we need a lot of skills well one of them is Expression also movement, we need to learn our words off by heart.
The Selfish Giant
It is our classes turn to do the Easter assembly we are doing it on the Selfish Giant I am Flora the brainy box. Our play is this Thursday I am very very excited!!! We have made a giant out of a chair we have a voice for the giant and a puppeteer. We all wrote at least one line in the play. We have had to think about how much time we have to get everything ready. We have made lots of things we have brought in costumes from our houses we are all very excited.
By Emily Mackie P4
The selfish giant
Today we did a run through of our play and it was very good at scene one but it got bad at scene two and three. We did all the songs and dances. I had to dance for Oliver because he was absent. I think our play is going to be very good. It is on Thursday 29th of March which is this week. I love our play so,so much it is the best in the world.
By Annie P4
The organisation of The Selfish Giant
Hello again,
P4/5 are doing a play named The Selfish Giant, which is adapted from a short story by Oscar Wilde. In another blog I have written about the cast but now I am going to give you more details about the play.
Firstly, we had to write the script so we all wrote a different part of the story. Then we put it all together. Our teacher, Mrs. Clark, added a few more lines and jokes, so everyone in the class has a part.
The next stage of our task was to design costumes. We had some from pantomimes we have done in the past and also we brought clothes from home. 
The third thing we had to do was very hard. We had to make the giant and he was going to be a very big puppet. There were two people controlling him, one for moving him, and the other for his voice. By the end of Thursday he was nearly completed. We just needed to put the head on. But Mrs. Clark put it on that evening and it stunned us all when we walked into the classroom on Friday morning.
In the story there is a scene set in Winter and two scenes set in Spring. To change the seasons some of us got two gigantic pieces of paper. One side was white to show it was Winter, and on the other we painted a spring scene. On Thursday we watched two ‘How To’ videos, one to show how to draw a tree in spring and the other of a tree in winter. Everyone’s tree was very good, but we had a vote to choose the best three from each season. The children whose spring trees were chosen were Abbie, Robbie and David, and the winter ones were Ciara, Maisie and me(Harry).
We also have some songs and even dances. Here they are in order. Firstly ‘Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m 64?’ which is a song by the Beatles. Then ‘Can’t Touch This’ which has a dance to it. After that the Spring does a dance with a bird which does not last for very long. Then the Snow, Frost and Hail do a ballet, which changes into a different dance called ‘Ice, Ice Baby’ and the North Wind joins in too. The final song is ‘Heaven Is A Place On Earth’.
I hope The Selfish Giant will be a great success. And thanks to Mrs. Clark for directing it and Oscar Wilde for writing the story.
Harry
P4/5’s Selfish Giant play
We are doing a play, named the Selfish Giant, which is a short story by Oscar Wilde. This is the cast…
Old Man-(Me)Harry
Old Lady-Maise
Giant puppeteer-Ello
Giant voice-Torin
Hannah-Alicia
Poppy-Izzy
Tom-Robbie
Bob-David
Flora-Emily
Spring-Ciara
Bird-Annie
Snow-Danni
Frost-Abbie
Hail-Jodie
North Wind-Oliver
Jesus-Nick
I hope it will be great!
Harry
Selfish Giant
P4/5 are doing a play about a giant it’s called the Selfish Giant Torin is the giant. I’m a tomboy in the play, I’m called Hannah.
Selfish Giant
Our class is doing a play on the 29th of March. I am the Giant’s voice, one of our songs is Will you still need me when I’m 64 sung by the Beatles.
The Selfish Giant
On the 29th March we are going to do a play called the Selfish Giant. I am the bird, Maisie old woman, Harry old man, Emily Flora, Oliver North Wind, Alica Hanna, Robbie Tom, David Bob, Danni Snow, Abbie frost, Jodie hail, Nick Jesus, Torin giant,Ello puppeteer and Izzy Poppy. I love being the bird.
By Annie P4
Newtons 3rd Law
This week was National Science and Engineering Week and we were learning about Newtons 3 laws, on the Scrap heap challenge every group did a small presentation on what we have learned this week. My group did a presentation on Newtons 3rd law, it goes like this ‘ Every action have a equal and opposite reaction. We used Newtons Cradle to prove it.
Science Week
We have just done our science week competitions, there were a lot of problems along the away. There were 4 competitions and my group won nothing though but everyone had fun and none of the pupils were sad because we all had fun. 🙂
by Helen
Rockets
We did a presentation on rockets on Friday 15th March. I enjoyed making rockets.
Newton’s Laws
From the 11th March-16th March it is science and engineering week. Primary 4-7 are all taking part in a whole week of science and all the activities we do is about forces. The first thing that we learned was Newton’s 3 laws and they are very important because they describe forces very well. The first law is “when forces acting on an object they are balanced,it will remain at rest or move in an straight line at constant speed”. The 2nd law is “force=mass x acceleration”. The 3rd law is “every action has an equal and opposite reaction” and that is Newtons 3 laws.
Science week
At Port Ellen primary we were doing science almost all week we had to learn about forces for example there was friction, if you went on something bumpy friction would slow you down, and mass if something is heavy it will have mass and it will slow it down.
Science and Engineering Week
On the 12th of March we started to do some science for the whole week and today we are making a car and it is really, really tricky. But we manged and it is really fun. Angus was at the dentist so he didn’t really get to do much but he did the wheels and they fitted perfectly. After lunch Abbie and I are going to decorate the whole car.
By Annie p4
Science Today
We are making a car today, we have had to think about what it will run on. We have been designing the car to look funky and cool. The car is looking ok but we will be making it look even better. We have to add our own engine as well. 🙂
By Helen and Danni
Science in p4/5 and p6/7
This week is
science and engineering week. Our aim is to be able to successfully make a car by the end of the week. We are also trying to know Newton’s three laws off by heart, the first one is when forces acting on an object are balanced,it will remain at rest or move in a straight line at constant speed, the second rule is force=mass x acceleration and finally the third rule is every action has an equal and opposite reaction. On Monday we had science activities in groups to complete my group is Daniel Ewan Izzy and I . My favourite activity was buoyancy!:)
By Emily!!!
Mrs Onions
Yesterday we were doing art on the selfish giant and we did trees,children,birds,flowers and a castle I did flowers with macaroni.
World Maths Day in P1/2
P1/2 have been very busy celebrating world maths day. We started the day with a mental maths quiz then we got into groups to work on different maths activities.
We were doing direction work with Beebot. Ellie
We were on the computer playing the world maths day game. Eva
We were trying out different maths games like matching times up and dominoes. Matthew
We played a money game. Taylor
We played a new beebot game on the computer. Kaitlyn
We had a shop to play in. Natalie
We were making up 100 squares and colouring in different tens and units numbers.Kaya
We did lots of clock activities on the promethian board. Ruaraidh
We gave each other directions to move on the roamer mat. Natalie
E-Safety
We did a topic on E-safety and we learnt about how to stay safe on the internet, different ways of mmunicating, cyberbullying and bulllying. We went on a website called www.thinkuknow.com to find all the facts on internet safety
rainforest art
In school we did art and it was about the rainforest animals.Idid a flying squirrel the flying squirrel is cool. I used a torn paper collage technique and my squirrel is now flying through the rainforest in the class.
by Angus
World book day bookmark competition
On world book day we were given a bookmark competition to do. We had to make a bookmark about reading. We don’t know what the prizes are but we hope we can win it.
personal topics
In school we are learning about the rain forest. our personal topics have to be an endangered animal in the rain forest. Most people are doing jaguars. We had a week to fill in a kwfl grid and then we have to make a presentation by march 30th.The presentation can be anything like power points, prezzie, posters or type. We have also to write an essay for a competition.
By Reece
Healthy Tuck
P6/7 are doing the healthy tuck shop to help with our profit and loss maths topic.We get £5.00 and have to make everything ourselves. It’s quite tricky trying to think of different things to do. Everything has to cost 35p and we have to try to make a profit. Please come to the tuck shop!
By Elinor Baker.
P6/7 Personal Topics
P6/7 have been set do to a personal topic on an endangered animal in the rain forest. You could present it any way, like a power point, a prezzi, a poster or even a video. I am doing my personal topic on endangered gorillas in the rain forest. with either a power point or a prezzi. I have never done a prezzi before, I chose to do a prezzi/power point because I love using the computer. I am doing the gorilla because i think they are really cool and they are the closest animal to humans.
Emily Logan
World Book Day
Today was world book day! Some of us dressed up as our favourite character from our favourite book. I dressed up as Matilda. Roald Dahl wrote my favourite book. In the morning we made book marks to enter a competition! Before lunch we went through to Miss Browns class and watched something with lots of authors in it. The p5s were at swimming but they came back after lunch. In the afternoon we wrote stories in groups for the nursery ours was called Aliens love ice cream I hope when the nursery read it they will like it! What a fun day.
By Emily p4
SHINTY TOURNAMNET
On Sunday 25th February, Port Ellen went to Islay High School,to play a Shinty Tournament, against Bowmore and Port Charlotte. There was a P4/5 league and a P6/7 league, each playing in a different part of the school. Our team were in the P4/5 one, and matches were 6 minutes long.
We had a great time,in my team there was Maisie in goal, Jodie and Abbie in Defence, but Abbie sometimes went up, and scored some fabulous goals. I(Harry)was in midfield and Alicia was up-front.
These are our scores(If my memory serves me…)
Super Sweepers(Our team)1-1Mario team(Port Charlotte)
Shinty Strikers(Also from Port Ellen)0-8Bowmore 1(Bowmore)
Super Sweepers0-1Bowmore 2(Bowmore)
Mario team1-3Shinty Strikers
Super Sweepers2-2Bowmore 1
Shinty Strikers4-0Bowmore 2
Shinty Strikers1-3Super Sweepers
Shinty Strikers3-2Port Charllote 2
Super Sweepers3-0Port Charlotte
And we all really enjoyed ourselves.
At the end of it the people who organized it read out the league,also they said that the top 2 play a final,this is the league…
1.Bowmore 1
2.Super Sweepers
3.Mario team
4.Port Charlotte 2
5.Shinty Strikers
6.Bowmore 2
The top 2 were Bowmore & Super Sweepers,so we were in the FINAL!!
The Final was really hard, we were doing really badly at half time,as it was 3-1 to Bowmore. But Alicia added another goal in the second half,where we played a lot bettter,but in the ending seconds, Bowmore scored. Well done Bowmore!
It was Bowmore4-2OPort Ellen, we had come second,but overall we had a wonderful time. Meanwhile in the other hall, Port Ellen were doing rather well, although P4/5’s were only back for one game and the final, we thought it must have been very interesting.
When Miss Ramsey read out the scores I was amazed Port Ellen’s team Spiderpigs were third, The Jimmy Brigade, also from Port Ellen were second and the team in first were The Bullseye Boys from Port Ellen!
We had a great time overall,and many thanks to Miss Ramsey for organizing the tournament.
Number sequences
On Monday 26th Feb we did number sequences here is an example 1,5,9,…,17,…,25. If you work it out here is a harder one 0,…,18,27,36,… if you worked it out could you please write a comment saying the missing numbers.
By David
Pancake Day
Last Tuesday it was pancake day. Mrs onion Taught us about pancake day and ash Wednesday. Pancake day is called LENT. I am going to tell you a story about LENT. In Jesus time they gave up meat for 40 days (not including Sundays) and they were left was eggs,flower,butter,milk and they mixed it together and it made pancakes. And that is the story of lent and pancake day. I gave up my 3DS for 4o days. By Ciara.
The Shinty Tounament
On Sunday 25th February it was the Shinty Tounament. We had to be there by Quarter to twelve and it started at twelve o’clock. The p6/7 went to the big hall and the 45 had to go to the wee hall i was at the wee hall, and the first teams to play were bowmore and the port ellen team the super sweeper and i got hit in the arm by a stick. The scores were 1-1.
