I am going to tell you where shinty came from. Once there was a giant and he was walking with loads of people on him and he met a prinsses they came up with a game called shinty and thats where shintey came from. So I hope you try a game of shinty it is really easy. By Ciara.
How to do the Canadian Barn Dance
This is how to do the Canadian Barn Dance! First you have to hold a hand with your partner. Next you have to go forward three times and hop. Then you have to go back three times and hop. After that you have to go out clap and hop at the same time. Then you have to go in the way and hold your partners hands. After that you go forward to three then back to three. Finally go round once in a circle.
By Emily
Gay Gordans
This is how you do the Gay Gordans. Forward two three turn back two three forward two three turn back two three twist your partner and hold your partners hands and go round and keep doing the same thing over and over . You need to have two people together. You need to be in a circle to do the Gay Gordans.
By Annie
Rangers Charity Foundaction
Me and my Auntie Fiona completed the walk with Walter Smith who is the Glasgow Rangers manger. Well me and my Auntie Fiona got this letter through the post and it said you were invited to this evenings ceremony and we got there on Monday night and there was loads of people there, after that the ladies would tell us where to sit and we each got to stand in a queue and wait for our names to be called out and a Rangers player presented our medals to us. On Monday afternoon I got to go and get a picture taken with the Rangers players and get their autographs it was really cool but at the same time I was really shy, but the goalkeeper gave my a signed t-shirt that said best wishes Allan.
By Alicia
T Rex
We went onto the internet to find out about T Rex. We found out that he was 6000kg and 12m tall.
We worked out that if 9 and a half of our class stood on each others heads we would be the same height as T Rex.
We also worked out that if T Rex stood on scales we would need to use 12000 500g weights to balance the scales – cool eh!
Learning about dinosaurs
P1/2 visited the school library to get books about dinosaurs. We are going to look at them to find information. We found out that a book which has information in it about lots of different things is called an encyclopedia.
P4/5
Hi there I’m Harry .
I’ve just arrived at Port Ellen Primary, and I’m staying for 3 months. However I’m English!
At Port Ellen, lately we’ve been practicing Robert Burns for Robert Burns NIGHT!!
My poem is ‘What will I do gin my Hoggie die.’Â And it’s in a competition!
Also we are doing Scottish Country dancing, and are being paired up with P1/2.
In maths we’ve been working on fractions & time.
In computers we’ve been learning how to be safe on the internet and Quadblogging like I am now. Parents are coming, for us to show them what we’ve learned.
In Literacy we’ve written 2 pieces of poetry, one on a piece of art. We all had our own picture.  It’s a tournament too!
The other one is a competition as well, and we have to translate Address to a Haggis by Robert Burns!
BY HARRY
Shinty.
On Monday after school we did shinty we do a club called shinty we stay there for an hour 3.30 till 4.30 we do a game called 1,2,3 1 is dribble the ball. 2 past the ball between your legs 3 take the ball of someone. then we go on pitch to play a game of shinty we get 10 minuts on pitch. By Ciara.
Grammar
Today the 24th Mrs Onions was teaching us Grammar. We were learning about Subject Objects and Verbs in a sentence.
A proper noun is a the name of a place, Christmas New Year and lots of different things.
We had to underline the subject, object and verb in four different sentences.
Scottish dancing
On monday we were dancing to scottish music
Robert Burns Day
Tommorow Wednesday 25th January its Robert Burns Day. On Robert Buns Day we find out who won their poems and they say it out loud to the audiance, then we have highland dancing and finnaly we do some scottish country dancing with our parents or sometimes primary 6/7. But if parent want to they can have a cup of tea and a biscute in the cafeteria.
Robert Burns
On the 25th January We are going to say or poems mine is called What will i do gin my hoggie die. We are going to have haggis then we are go to have a ceilidh and we are going to do the Canadian barn dance and the Gay Gorden. By Eleanor.
maths
we have learned lots of equivalent fractions and how to tell the time we have been doing lots of work we have been doing checups and maths.
By nick
Mrs Onions
On Monday Mrs Onions came to teach P4/5. We were learning about Colors, a tint is when you mix white with a primary colours,a shade is when you mix black with a primary colour.
By David
Scottish countrey dancing
On Wednesday 25th it’s Robert Burns day so p45 are practising three Scottish dances with the p1/2s we are doing the Canadian Barn dance, Gay Gordons and Dashing White Sergeant. My partner is Ellie for the Gay Gordans and the Canadian barn dance! My partners for the Dashing White Sergeant are Alicia and Eva.
By Emily
Scottish Dancing
On Wednesday 25th January is Burns Day and me are all practicing Scottish dancing like the gay Gordan’s, Canadian barn dance and the Dashing White Sargent.
My buddy was Rowan she is so good at the gay Gordan’s
but Rowan was off for a while so she didn’t have a lot of practice.
Shinty After School Club
I go to shinty after school it is very fun some skills are dribbling, hitting it between you’re legs and volling. Mrs Macrae leads it and some times Miss Harrison comes for a bit at the start. There is about 28 of us that go to shinty and there is lots of my friends that go.
BY Robbie
Mrs Onions in Our Class
On the 23rd Mrs Onions came into primary 4/5 and taught us all day. One of the things she did with us was art and primary colours, and how to mix primary colours to make secondary colours. We learnt shades, tones and tints. Shades are when you add black and tints is when you add white. Tones is when you mix a secondary color and add white or black.
Burns Day
On the 25th of January we have a Burns day and we always have haggis. We do scottish dancing and they are called dashing white Sargent and much more. We always have a poem compition and we put 6 people through to the finals from each class and my poem is called What Will i do Gin my Hoggie Die and my friends poem is called Rose. I got through to the finals.
by Elizabeth
Dinosaurs in P1/2
P1/2 have started their new topic on dinosaurs. We worked together to create a list of all the things we already knew about dinosaurs and then made up a list of questions that we would like to find the answers to. Here are some of our questions:
What different types of dinosaurs were there?
What size were they?
What did they eat and how did they get their food?
What does extinct mean?
What different things could dinosaurs do?
We will share what we discover about dinosaurs with you throughout our topic.
Do you know any interesting dinosaur facts?
Address to a Haggis Poems
As part of a competition run by Tesco, we have been writing our own versions of this Burns classic in P45. Here are 2 great versions of the poem written by Abbie and Harry.
The Slaughter of the Haggis
The gleaming feast,
Sliding into a watering mouth,
Which tenderly is swallowed down,
With pleasure and love.
A courageous taste,
Which melts into charging bombs,
That sings luxuriously,
Like a bagpipe.
Surrounded by armed neeps and tatties,
But the haggis defeats them,
Because he is crowned the most scrumptious of them all,
The king of gleaming feast.
By Harry Rennell
Haggis Running Late
Ye Haggis running up and doon,
I cannae wait to attack ye wi’ me spoon,
I’m hunting you, so don’t be late,
My bonnie lass just cannae wait.
Tonight the yowfing dug winnae feast,
We’ll slobber you all up my beast,
My sgian dubh will briefly slice,
Your puddins gushing out with spice.
By Abbie Morris
PORT ELLEN PRIMARY SCHOOL
As we are the first school to be the focus of the quadblogging this term, we thought we would tell you a little about ourselves.
Our school is in Scotland, part of the United kingdom, although there is a debate at the moment about Scotland becoming independent. We live on the Island of Islay, off the west coast of Scotland. We have lots of beaches, some hills and moors and the 4 main places to live are Port Ellen, Bowmore, Port Charlotte and Keills. The weather on Islay is usually windy and wet and we have lots of powercuts, but we have lots of lovely wildlife. You can get to Islay using a plane or the ferry, the ferry journey takes about 2 hours. About 3,000 people live on Islay.
We live in Port Ellen, a village and a port. People in the village work on the land, in the whisky distilleries and fish in the sea. There are 8 distilleries on Islay. Port Ellen has playing fields, a small supermarket and 4 other shops.
Our school has 2 levels, and 6 classrooms, as well as a school hall, staffroom, office and outside playgrounds. We have an all weather pitch, raised beds, a pond, a timber trail and a roundhouse. There are 64 children in the school, and 22 in nursery. There are 4 classes and nursery.
Comments from pupils in Primary 4/5: Oliver ‘There have been many battles in Scotland’, Alicia ‘ My favourite football team is Rangers, who play in Glasgow.’, Eleanor’ I have a lorry with my name on it that carries gravel and draff.’, Danni’ I like playing in the playground on the train.’
Burns Poems
On the 25th January P4 are going to recite ‘What will I do gin my hoggie die?’ and P5 are going to say ‘My love is like red, red rose.’ both by Robert Burns.   After we are going to have haggis.
Robert Burns Day
On the 25th of January it is Robert Burns day and every one in our school has a poem to memorise. We all say it to professionals and they judge it and we find out who wins on the 25th. On the 24th the heats are at 12pm but my class only has 4 people so we just say ours to the judges on the 25th. My classes poem is called My Love’s Like a Red Red Rose and its written by Robert Burns. This is my poem
My love’s like a red, red, rose,Thats newly sprung in June,
My love’s like the melodie That’s sweetly played in tune. As fair art thou, my bonnie lass,
So deep in love am I;
And I will love thee still, my dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry. Till a’ the seas gang dry, my dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun;
And I will love thee still my dear, While the sands o’ life shall run. And fare thee well, my only Luve
And fare thee well, a while!
And I will come again, my Luve,
Tho’ it were ten thousand mile. by Robert Burns
Haggis Poems
We were doing our own haggis poems for a competition to rewrite  Address to the haggis, we had to make it really good. Then it will get sent off to the judges and they’ll say if it’s good or not. We have to say wonderful things about haggis like how the haggis just pours out of the bag around the haggis, you have to gut it with a special knife, it’s called a Sgian dubh, it’s really sharp.
Robert Burns Day
On the 25th of january Port Ellen Primary Scholl are having a Robert Burns day. What we have to do is we have to read our poems to judges and then they’ll decide on who the winner of each class is theres different poems for different classes like say P5 have got my love is like a red red rose or just call it rose.
Alicia P5
Quad Blogging
At Port Ellen Primary we have enjoyed using blogging technology to keep track of our learning, recording exciting and interesting events and expressing ourselves online. However we would like to improve our blogging skills and can best do this by looking at blogs from other schools around the world.
To do this we are going to take part in QuadBlogging, where we join with3 other schools to follow and leave comments on their school blogs. The 4 schools that we will follow are; Burravoe Primary on the Isle of Yell in Shetland, Mrs Dechaine’s 3D class who are in Alberta Canada and Y5PM from Waterloo Primary School in England. So get blogging and leaving comments!
Sleep Over
When I had a sleep over at Jasmine’s we watched movies and played games and we went to sleep. In the moring we played on the DS and the computer and we got dressed. We went to the beach and I went home and Jasmine and Kaya and Ciaran and the dog were at my house to play then they went home. By Ciara.
Mrs Macdonald Head Teacher
Mrs Macdonald passed her test on head teacher for Port Ellen Primary, she used to be acting head teacher now shes head teacher, well done Mrs Macdonald!
Game Day At School
Today we went to church when we came out of church we got a we book about the christmas story. Then we watched a d.v.d and we got a bag of crips and a sweet then we had lunch and played our games and it was home time at 2:30 and i eas playing with katie till 10:00 then i went home and had a snack. By Ciara.
