Primary School of the Year 2022
On Saturday night on the 5th of November it was Bonfire night, They’re was Bonfires everywhere and sparklers. The Council set the bonfires up but some of the light the bonfire. The most dangerous thing at bonfire night is fireworks especially the rocket, It goes at 200mph so really fast.
By Alicia
Bonfire night was on the 5.11.11. Bonfire night was fun also my Papa lit the fire and it burnt down very fast. There was lots of good fire works and sparkler. the ground was very cold. The bonfife was very dangerous. beside the maltings.
by Robbie
There was a halloween party and a pumpkin competition and a fancy dress competition and a disco and we all had a snack at the end.
By Abbie
On the 1st November an Author called Vivian French came to Port Ellen Primary School to tell us 
what it is like to be an author. At the begining of the afternoon Vivian said that we were all authors and it was a really kind thing to do. At the end she signed two bookes for us. If you want to read a good book I suggest The Robe Of Skulls.
By Maisie
Hello my name is Jodie. On Monday 31st October it was the school Halloween party. I was minnie mouse and my pumpkin was a snowman. We played lots of games and my favourite game was corners.
On Monday 31st October it was Halloween. We had a Halloween party with the whole school it was really fun.
by Emily
At the doctors they are doing flu jags and my mum is a nurse.
By Eleanor
On Sunday 16th October th
e Port Ellen Primary Gaelic Choir flew off on an aeroplane to Stornoway. It took us 40 minutes to get there and it was 20 minutes less than what it normally is. The next day was Monday 17th October that was the day of the mod, the people that were doing poems and solos had to get up quite early to go and do them. I got a 4th for my poem and for my solo I got a score of 178. My choir did really well, we won all of our songs that is our 2 unisons, 2 two parts and our Puirt a beul.
By Maisie Logan
We went on an aeroplane to Stornoway to sing for the Royal National Mod. On the day of the Mod we sung two of our songs in the sports centre. I had a lot of fun.
By Danni
A bird with the cold blood splatter on its wing tips
The blood of million men, the greatest warriors, slaughtered,
Still people battle the ancient beast,
It speaks with many voices,
But it always speaks of death.
A Viking Poem By Oliver P4
On Wednesday afternoon P4 to P7 played netball. I really enjoyed playing netball. Orsay scored 21 goals, Texa scored 20 goals Nave scored 19 goals. I am in Texa I came in second place.
By David
The mod is good because we all have fun and we won. It’s too bad that the big girls and boy are leaving. I learned that singing is fun but singing in Gaelic is AMAZING!!!!!!!
By Elizabeth.
Hi my name is Ciara and yesterday we were doing science in class in the afternoon. This is what we did, we got a bowl and put plastic over it and put sugar on and banged a drum loud and the sound made the sugar move. We learned
that sound is faster in water and if someone bangs the wall quietly you can hear it far away. We did three other experiments.
Ciara
Yesterday we where learning about science. One of the things we learned was if you put your ear to something metal and get your friend to hit something hard on it you will hear it faster than through the air. If you put your ear to the wall and get a friend to hit it round the corner you can hear.
Annie
We did some experiments on sound today. We learned that sound travels 15 times faster through metal and bricks than air. In the ear there is a little bone that sends signals to the brain, it tells it if it’s a high sound or low, loud or quiet and the bone is above the ear drum. Sound is shock wave of vibration. We did an experiment on making something move without touching it. First you get a bowl and wrap it in cling film, second put sugar on it and then get an instrument and bang it and the sugar moves.
By Abbie
Hello, my name is Jodie, and our new Topic is sound. It is interesting because we did an experiment. You get a
musical instrument and and a drum and put salt on it and bang the instrument and the salt should move and I learned when you speak sound waves come out.
By Jodie
Hi my name Eleanor, I am going to tell you about the when Port Ellen primary choir went to Stornoway for the 2011 National Mod. They won 3 trophies and they stayed in a lovely hotel and the food it was lovely too. I enjoyed singing because I like people watching me.
By Eleanor.
Yesterday we were learning about Science. Two interesting facts I found out were that sound travels eighteen times faster through
metal than air and if you want to measure sound you have to use a Oscilloscope.
By Emily
At the Islay Hotel they have a lovely bar and out side there is a lovely pace to sit and have a drink.
By Eleanor
Hello my name is Jodie.
On Thursday 6th October p4/5 were having a viking feast and we did a power point. My one was about Vikings on Islay.
Our mums came to see us and each group had something to do, my group was doing weaving we had a good time.
At the Viking feast there was weaving and I did weaving. For food there was stew, bread, fruit and mackerel and there was the 
viking name generator and runes. We made up a saga with Jeremy. We made our own sagas for display and we sang Godred Crovan and showed our anamation and a power point.
By Robbie
On Tuesday 4th October P4/5 went to Finlaggan museum and we found out lots of interesting things about Vikings and how Vikings lived.
By Emily
We went to Finlaggan this week and found out about Vikings on Islay. Then we found out about where they had council meetings if something went wrong. Next we got to see the chapel that had a fire place. Finally we got to go inside and see some viking things. The first thing you could see when we went in was the information desk with a real wooden carved tail and head. They let us look at a model viking ship in a glass. After that we had lunch and came back to school and had our break.
by Danni
We had Body Works in the school, they were from Glasgow science center. We had lots of fun, do you know if you get a blow torch and icing sugar you put the icing sugar near the blow torch and it will go up in flames. The presenter was talking about the throat and vomit it was funny.
By Alicia
Hello my name is Annie.
On Thursday we had a Viking feast and we made stew, fruit salad and bread. Then we did some weaving and we got to see what our Viking name was in runes. Our mum’s and dad’s got to try the food and they did some weaving and got there names in runes. They watched our power point and our animation we made.
There was a Gaelic awareness day at Port Ellen primary school and all through the day we were doing lots of Gaelic activities. Clare Jorden came in to help us sing Godred Crovan and she let us do harmonies and play musical instruments. After lunch we had a game of Gaelic bingo and I was the first person to get a house. This is what you say when you get a house in Gaelic ‘thi’ that means house and we did exercises as well.
by Maisie, primary 5
Major General Alexander McDougall was one of the most important men involved in the American War of Independence. At Portantruan where he was born, a cairn to him was unveiled last Thursday, 1st September. This young boy, born on Islay in 1732, grew up to be a truly great man.
We went to Portantruan in a minibus and then we climbed a small hill to get to the cairn. It was overlooking the Major General’s place of birth. Lord George Robertson, people from the Bank of New York, Mr Oglivary and Mr Reavey from the Museum of Islay Life were there along with some invited guests. Lord Robertson gave a speech and then we left. The others went to have lunch.
The Major General was born in 1732 at Portantruan. His family left Islay to go to America when he was only 6 years old. When he was 14 he became a merchant seaman and then a privateer. The British put him in prison for five months because he thought that America should not be ruled by the British. After the war, he became the first President of the New York Bank. He died when he was only 53. His last act was to be carried on a stretcher to vote against paper money.
I was very honoured to have been invited to the unveiling and I thought that it was very interesting what Major General Alexander McDougall did. It proves to me that if you work really hard you can do anything you want. I wonder what he could have achieved if he had lived longer?
By Elinor Baker (P6)
Today we were visited by port Charlotte and Keills school because we were having a visit from Kilmartin Museum. We were doing woodworking, viking food, weaving and spinning, runes on clay and Viking music. We were were chopping wood with an axe and turning wood with a pole lathe, and I liked making the wood round on the lathe. I learned that Vikings used some horns for blowing to make music and had a spinning bone that made music.
Elizabeth
For the Islay book festival this year we had lots of visitors and authors. One was Ruth Rendell and another Allan Burnett, also John Fardell and Debbi Gliori. I went to see Allan Burnett and brought three books and got them all signed. I got to dress up as Columba again. I learned how to be an author and I love Allan Burnett’s books. Thank you to the Islay book festival.
Oliver
Allan Burnett was at Port Ellen primary school and he was talking to us about his history books. These are some of his books Columba, Wiliam Wallace, Mary Queen of Scots, Bonnie Prince Charlie, Rob Roy, Robert Burns, Robert the Bruce and Invented in Scotland. Oliver dressed up as Columba and looked like Darth Vada. It was great fun!
Maisie
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