NEWS

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

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

Here is another interview.interviewing william and maisie

This is my podcast of my learning.
Bronagh interview

First log on to glow.
Then switch in on and go to fire fox.
Next click on the glow button.
After that click on the go to glow button at the top of the page.
Finnaly put your username in and your password in to the little boxes, that have the words username and password. Then wait 2 seconds and click on the p4/5 button and you should be on.

We had a panto and I was a lumberjack. On  Monday panto at the finale we sang Happy Ever Afters and it was
so funny because Matthew Campbell was very excited to go on stage. The song that the Lumberjacks sang was called I am a Lumberjack.

I was a Lumberjack in the panto and I really enjoyed doing it I enjoyed singing the song.

By Joe

We designed a chair. P4/5 helped us write this blog about Charles Rennie Mackintosh. I made a mirror and I bought it at the Christmas Fair.

We made a chair of Mackintosh’s design. P4/5 helped us to make this blog. The chair had flowers on it and some mirrors on it.
by William

On Monday 12th December it was the panto and I was a lumberjack. We sang I’m a Lumberjack. We were holding an axe. At the end we sung a song called Happy Ever After. I was nervous.
By Beth

On Wednesday 14th December P45 helped us go onto Glow to do a blog and it was fun.
In the Pantomime of Rebecca Riding Hood I was a Lumberjack.
By Bronagh

P4/5 helped us get on to Glow to write about Charles Rennie Mackintosh. I hand painted a chair and the bit I painted was a flower.

By Logan Porter

The school panto was called Rebecca riding hood. I was a lumber jack I liked dancing to the music.

Emma

On Thursday 8th December it was very windy, rainy and stormy. Because it was very stormy most of the schools in Scotland had to be closed so our school couldn’t have a panto that night but we are going to have it on Monday instead.
By Emily

In Port Ellen there was a stormy day.It was so windy that all the schools were closed down. At lunch time we had to have our lunch on a paper pleat because the staff have to go home too and the kitchen staff did not want to stay behind and clean the proper pleats.

On Friday it was the panto. My class were dwarves even me, before the panto started P4/5 and P6/7 went to get changed in the nursery. Once we got changed we went through to Miss Macrae’s to get our faces painted.  Then it was time, the panto was on.   First up was scene one which was Aliaes who was Rebecca Riding hood and Violet who was Elidh.  We went back through to the nursery one we had our face paints done ,but not Elidh and Aliaes because they were on stage.  One we went back to the nursery we watched a movie it was Garfield.  By Danni P5