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.
World Book Day
Today is World Book Day this maens that at school you get to dress up as your
favirate book character. I dressed up as Rebecca the Rock ‘n’ Roll Fairy I am wairing a rock ‘n’ roll skirt a pink top a black belt pair of black shoes with white ankle socks, and my friend Jodie has dressed up as Minie Mouse. Then all the Teachers areaking up some fun activites.
Brownies in School
This Wednesday we had brownies it is at quarter past six
and I am suppose to be a seconder a seconder is a brownie that is suppose to help the other brownies in your group but a sixer is a brownie that is the oldest and has to be responsible and tell your group what you have to do. This week we were talking about thinking day, thinking day is actually on the 22nd of February but we have it later, we have it some time in March. We were making posters about Reduce Reuse Recycle the three R’s
we were also playing a game called Bees and Toadstools.
We have four groups and they are called Elf’s,Pixies,Leprechauns and Imps.
Maths
We have been doing number sequences we stated them on 26th of February. We have also been doing fractions. And we have hard maths up to 1000. And we have been doing
lots of maths
By Nick
World Book Day
Today is world book day and everyone if they want to they can ware there favorite character but the P5-7 don’t ware there clothes an till they come back from swimming. By Eleanor 🙂
Climate Zones
On Wednesday 29th February we were doing a minie topic about Climate Zones. Mrs Clark put us in to pairs I was paired up with Abbie we were doing polar animals!Abbie and I watched a video about polar zones we found out the coldest weather was – eighty eight degrees that is very cold. we also made a poster on word art!
By Emily
The Shinty Tournemen
Gaelic Choir
We have been singing lots of songs in our school at gaelic choir.
By Nick
Super Heroes
On Wednesday all the tables made a super heroes. My table super hero was called Killer, Harry’s table super hero is called Ferocious Frog, Robbie’s table super hero is called Toxy, and Maisie’s table super hero Precious Poppy.
Our Super Hero Poster
We had to do a super hero poster in our group our super hero was called The Ferocious Frog and its logo is the FF.Its weakness is a fly he has lazier eyes and stretchy legs.
Super Heroes
Yesterday we started a topic on super heroes and we looked at a power point of super heroes then we went back to our groups and we made a super heroes oliver was the manger robbie was the artiest and i was the scribe our super hero is called Toxy he’s half dinosaur half of a dolphin and half of toxic then i did the title and we’ve got a toxic sign on it and toxy is very strong thank you for listin. 🙂 😛 😮 :3 😀 :v . By Ciara.
Making super heroes
On Wednesday 22nd February we made super heroes my groups super hero was called Precious Poppy her weakness was weeds she lives in the rain forest and she looks after where she lives. Her power is flower power!
P.E
On a Wednsday and Thursday we do P.E and on Wedensday our P.E teacher called Iean. He teaches us hockey and basketball useallay and there is a game called splat. On a Thursday ewe do cirses training that is when you have a partner and you go different things and see how long you can do it for. 🙂
Super Heroes
Our new topic is based on super heroes but I wasn’t
here when we got told it because I was off, my groups super hero is called Toxy my group came up with that name by combine ding every persons super hero in our group. At the end they came up with Toxy.
