NEWS

Today is the 2nd day of the school holiday the last day
we were at school it was Thurday 9th February and we were having a internet saftey day and we had our parents
at school, we were teaching them computer skills we were also showing them a power point and a video then
after the video we had a quiz about what they have learnt and to also see if they were listening.

Today was Internet Safety Day, and it Was also Denim for Diabetes. For Denim for Diabetes every body wore jeans, it was very fun it was also swimming for P5-7 I improved my swimming today. By Danni

Today is Denim for Diabetes, we raised £ 150 for it oh!
and everyone well almost everyone wore denim,I think
it is very kind don’t you well I do bye!!!

On Thursday p4/5 had a internet Saftey day and our parents came round to teach them some skills and they got teas and coffees and homemade Chocalate cake.

I AM LEARNING NEW SKILLS FOR INTERNET DAY AND I AM BEING TAUGHT BY ONE OF THE BOYS IN P4. I HAVE LEARNED TO PUT PHOTOS ONTO A MEMORY STICK. NOW I AM LEARNING HOW TO DO A BLOG.
BY SARAH

Today we went to the P4/5 classroom to see how much they had learned about internet and internet safety. Then the pupils taught us some ICT skills.

BY
Sarah (Elizabeth’s Mum)

Last Friday, P1/2 came to school in their old clothes ready for a day of action creating Dinoland. We invited our parents in to help us and we all had a very busy day painting, building and using paper mache. It was great fun and we now have a massive big dinosaur in our class and a volcano! We even have a time travelling tunnel that you can crawl through to get back to the time of dinosaurs.
We are still working hard to complete our dino nest and eggs.
Today we had a Glow meet with Liberton Primary in Edinburgh who are also learning about dinosaurs. They tweeted us some questions about dinosaurs and we have been looking at books and the internet to help us find the answers.
We are going to have another glow meet with them tomorrow to tell them what we have found out.

We learning about polar regions in p3/4. this is a fact that we learnt in antartica that ice bergs can be 100ft long and 25 miles across. Narwhals live in the Arctic and have a spiral tusk about 2metres long.

In primary 3/4 we are learning about the polar regions. The Polar bear is the largest land predator in the Arctic. We have also found out that emperor penguin can stay under water for twenty minutes and they can drink both fresh and salt water. We also found out that Antarctica’s thick covering of ice makes it the highest continent in the world.

William and Anwen

we have been learning about the Arctic and it has cold winters and cool summers there are penguins, snow owls, arctic hare.

The Arctic polar bears actually come from Greenland.
The male hooded seals inflate their noses by closing one nostril and blowing air through the other one. Polar bears are the largest land predator in the world and also often swim up to 60 miles between patches of ice.

The Arctic is actually a desert made up completely of ice as it hardly ever rains and hardly ever snows. It has very cold winters and cool summers. The animals on the Arctic is killer whales, penguins, orca whales, Arctic fox’s and polar bears.

the arctic is very cold. they have cold winters and cool summers. the animals on the artic are poler bears penguins artic fox seal husky sea lion and the antartica ice and snow 3 miles thick.

We are learning about polar regions. We have found out that the weather is bitterly cold and windy and the Arctic and Antarctica are covered in snow and ice. We have been learning about polar animals and have found out that polar bears only live in Antarctica and penguins live in the Arctic. We are having a good time learning about our topic.

Jasmine and Emma

We have been looking at really hard puzzles and  trying to slove them, it is linked with professor Layton on the DSI, it is a really fun way of learning . We were told to make a class puzzle book, you could use one of your own puzzles or Mrs Harrison would lend you one of her puzzle cards to use. I used one of my own- Ramon got in trouble with Inspector Chemly and got send to S.T Mystere Jail. He was locked in a cell with a steel door(no hloes in it) so he couldn’t break down, no windows and rock hard walls. All that was in the cell was a piano, a calender and  springs. How did he eat, drink and get out.

A- He used the DATES on the calender as food, he DRUNK the springs(water) and he used the KEYS on the piano to get out. If you got it right then well done!!!

P4/7 has started swimming on Thursday.We get the bus to Bowmore. When we got to the pool we got split in two groups of twelve by our abilities.We get to learn different things and it is really fun. When some People are not swimming the do work.But this week we got to take are NDDIS.By ERIN

on Wednesday the 1st of February we had a rainforest lunch because p6/7 are doing a topic on rainforest. it was really good and it looked very yummy. by Helen Sinclair 🙂

After the big wind in January the playground was filled with rubbish . P6/7  and Mrs MacDonald cleaned up the playground; it was a tough job and we even found a lawn mower . We were all split up into different groups each group got a different area to clean up.There  were two filled skips full of rubbish.

By Eilidh

We have been giving DSIs from Argyll 7 Bute to play Professor Layton and to help our reading so its a funner way to read. We also get to do lots of puzzles. Unfortunately we only have them for one more week…..
by James

We have been using DSi to help us improve on our reading and we think it is great. We have been playing Professor Layton and the Curious Village. Me and Jason and Scott think it is great.We were given the DSi’s from Argyll and Bute Council and they have been wicked! by Jason and Ewan

Our new topic in maths is patterns and codes. We are focusing on things like the Fibonacci code and all that. I think it will be good, I can’t wait till we do more. The Fibonacci code goes 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13,

by Calum p6

You can see lots of Fibonacci patterns in nature.

In school Reece, Scott, Harry, Connor, Liam and Donald have started an art club on Wednesday lunchtimes for p1-p5.  Last Wednesday was our first time. We had 22 people (more than we thought) and got a lot of good pieces of art work done. We have still to make certificates for the best 5 pieces of artwork. So far Abbie Morris done the best piece of art. She drew a picture of Phinneas and Ferb.

By Reece p6

We have chosen our photos and written our stories about them for the National Galleries Competition which Port Ellen Primary does every year. Sometimes we’re lucky and other times we’re not but it’s fun to do any way. This year I did my story from the point of view of a horse. Elinor in our class is really good at writing and I hope she gets placed.

By Aileas

In class we have been using Professor Layton to

do reading so we are making Layton comic strips!

I’m working with Emily and we have a puzzle and

a golden apple and a cool code and a secret passage!

It’s one of the best comic strips in the class. I’m not

very good at coloring though so it looks a teeny bit

messy. The plot’s good though!

By Elinor.

On the 31st January me, Aileas, Elinor, Ellen, Emily and Helen held a book club for primary 1 to 5. It will be held on Tuesdays at lunch time breaks. We have a younger group a middle group and a top group. Come along every week for a good laugh and a fab story. Every week there will be something new story time, acting, drawing who knows so come along and find out.

On Tuesdays Miss Browns p4s come in to our class. We all get a bit of poetry to clarify, predict, summariese and question. This week we had Timothy Winters my partner was Danni! We got the prediction right even though we’ve never heard of it!!!

By Emily p4

We did fractions and foody fractions, foody fractions is where you count how much food things are there then you make out a fraction with it, then you make it really neat presentation you bring it to your teacher and she eats gives you a mark out of 5 or 10 then you go back to your table and you can eat it.

On my table we are going to do a video about how to stay safe on the internet. My name is Alace popson, Ello is Jane, Robbie is Jack and Harry is Profesor Dally Dubby.

By Annie