NEWS

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.’  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

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.

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.

On monday we were dancing to scottish music

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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.

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

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!

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 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!

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.

On Wednesday at school at 2.30 we are going to go home early instead of 3.30 and you could bring your DS games and you DS or Ipod.

Tomorrow is the christmas party at the scool and in the morning the pre 5s are having threr christmas party and in the afternoon the P67,P45,P43 and P12. By Eleanor

On Friday 16th December our school had a Christmas dinner and we had roast turkey dinner and we had crackers then we had our pudding it was ice-cream shaped as a Christmas tree and wrapped in chocolate.

By Eleanor

Today it was the Christmas lunch and I was a pack lunch and we all had fun and pulled christmas crackers. After break we went down to the hall and watched the panto and it was so funny then we went back to class and we got christmas cards and lined up for going home. Me Jodie and Alicia were playing football and I went for dinner and Jodie went home and me and Alicia were playing football and we went home and I got dressed for bed. By Ciara.

Tonight me and Alicia were playing football and training then we saw meteors then my dad called me in for dinner and I came back out and the meteors stopped and we all went home.

By Ciara