Every Wednesday in the afternoon we do endeavour, endeavour is when you chose a topic to learn about and present stuff at the endeavour. For my endeavour I chose animations. I chose animations because as a kid I loved watching cartoons, my favourite was probably morph. Morph was a guy made out of clay that did silly things like annoy his friends and that kind of stuff, the cartoon morph was an animation!

At the endeavour fair I presented my Lego animation that I made for rejig, the animation was about how people drop litter on the beach and how they don’t think about what it can effect. The skills I learned while doing my endeavour was patience, time management and learning to use imotion. Imotion is the app I used to make my animations.

During my endeavour I learned that no matter how hard you try in your endeavour, you will still make mistakes. I made a lot of mistakes in my animations like; my hand getting in the way or the camera moving out of place or that I moved the character in the animation too far. Making animations is actually very stressful!

The problems I had to overcome was iPad glitches or that the animation was too short or something like that. Animations was a new learning for me because I had never made Animations before and I had never made animation be for either. It was a bit tricky at first but I got there in the end.

The person that helped me with my endeavour was Mrs Clark, she taught me how to make animations and how to keep the camera steady, and she also showed me how to get good lighting so thank you Mrs Clark! I shared my learning by putting my animation on a key and they I put it on the screen at the endeavour fair with a lode of other amazing videos. For people that do endeavour next year I just want to say whatever you chose you need to make it interesting or else it won’t be as good as an endeavour project that you will enjoy! Good luck to people next year!

 

 

Endeavour is a long term project when you get to pick your own project. At the end of the project you have to present your learning in front of not only the school but parents as well. For my Endeavour I am doing golf and I have learned new skills and have achieved lots.

I felt that I could have achieved more for my Endeavour because of the time that you had to achieve stuff. The thing that I’m most happy about is my model that I made of a golf hole. I annotated it to show where the parts are and what they are used for and what clubs are used there. I painted it to show where the different places are, like the colour of grass on the fairway and the ruff. I also made a quiz for people to do and I brought in a mini golf hole with a golf club for people to play. One of the skills that I have learnt was model making once I was making my model, I think this will help in the future in school once we are doing topics or even in my future of Endeavour. Another one of my skills was quiz making, this will help me when we are going quizzes for homework. The last skill was getting better at golf, now I can go down to the golf course with my dad or even play in the young competitions. I have learnt how to play golf and what is golf. I also learnt how to get better at time management because everything was finished that I wanted finished.

The problems that I had to overcome is that I had to change my planning because I wouldn’t have enough time to do it. I also didn’t know when to start my golf hole and when to finish but my time management was good. My topic was ambitious because I had to make a model that was planned by myself so it was hard to copy.

The people that helped me was my uncle who sent me a reply and he works at the golf course as a greenkeeper on Islay. Gregor also helped me paint the model the same as Mrs Macmillan.

Endeavour is a long term project when you get to pick your own thing to work on the whole year. At the end of the year you show it to the whole school and adults.

By Jack

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Every year, P7s from every school present and talk about all of their memories and experiences that they had. To present this, they think of wacky, funny ways to present it to their teacher and parents at the end of the school year. Port Ellen are doing a leavers that includes memories and photos of them when they were little, a lip dub containing the song “We Are The Champions,” and also videos that describes what we want to be when we are older. There were also voiceovers of us thanking our teachers and displaying photos of when we were younger.

The theme of our leavers is growing up, and at the start and the end we sing two different songs, Count on me by Bruno Mars, and Can’t Stop The Feeling by Justin Timberlake.

I am really excited for leaving school and make a new start in High School and to make new friends.

 

All the p7 on Islay and Jura came to high school for transition days. On Thursday we had to go on the groups that were picked on Wednesday which were MW and BM.  There was three house Bryce Winnard & McBean.  For lunch we had a choice of what to eat for example; chicken burgers, hot dogs, macaroni cheese and lots more. We had lots of periods most of them were just us inducing to our teacher. Unfortunately our Gaelic teacher Mr Bond is not going to be there when we go to high school because were getting another Gaelic teacher.  At lunch there was the boys and girls football club and we picked teams and started playing football against each other. We also did P.E with Miss Gibson.

by Andre Cruz

When you go into p5/6/7 you do endeavour. Endeavour is a long term project that lasts from December to June. When you do endeavour it has to be something you have never done before and it has to be ambitious. This year my endeavour was magic. My endeavour was ambitious because I doing magic is a really big push and you need to be very patient and I have never done magic before and I wanted to try it out. I chose magic because I have seen my dad going around the house doing his magic and I want to be like him one day. Also I have seen dynamo on the TV and I have always wondered how you do the magic tricks so I decided to give it a go. Throughout this endeavour I have achieved lots of things, developed new skills, I learned new things, I had to overcome problems, get help and then I shared my learning with the rest of the school and some of their parents.

For this endeavour I have achieved lots of things like learning eight tricks, a sway about famous magicians and some from the past, a magic show for the nursery, a poster about different types of magic on them, and I did a magic trick on the laptop and in that movie I was through the monitor reading people’s minds. I also developed new skills throughout endeavour. One of the skills I developed was being patient when learning the tricks because you won’t just learn the trick in a night you will have to be patient and keep on practicing, I also had to manage my time well because sometimes you set yourself to much and you don’t have time to do it all but make sure you set yourself a reasonable amount to do and I had to be organised as well I had to be organised because I had to remember all of my things to learn my magic with.

Also when you do endeavour you will have problem you had to overcome. One of my problems with my endeavour is learning the tricks and getting them perfect, another problem that happened throughout my endeavour was being organised because I mostly forgot all of my magic tricks. When you do your endeavour you write to someone that knows things about your endeavour. This year I wrote to Dynamo and so far he has not sent a letter back. I also got help from my dad he has taught me all of the sneaky trick when you are doing the tricks and he helped me learn the magic tricks. My mum also helped me with the posters and putting on the QR code they have been very helpful.

When everyone has finished their endeavour at the start of June all of our mum’s and dad’s will come in and sees your endeavour and other people’s endeavours. I had lots of things to show at the endeavour fair. At the endeavour fair I thought that my endeavour was good and I think that some people liked that video that I made. Most of family came in to see my endeavour and I think they thought it was a good endeavour fair. I thought that there was a lot of good endeavours there and soon enough I wat to be as good as my dad at magic and as good as dynamo. Some day! Here is a little bit of advice for you don’t do something to difficult, don’t expect yourself to get lots done and do well!

Rowan Morris

On Monday 19^th June P567 gathered up all their Endeavour and set them up down stairs for parents and people to come up and see what we have learned. Most people had really different projects but some people have similar projects.

A lot of people had some kind of  interaction with the audience that was there like word searches or some people had brought in what they made like a golf hole to try or beauty products.

Many people of everyones family and friends turned up to see everyones Endeavour and its good to see how many people came

To Show People Had-

Andre- Graphic Novels

Taylor- A Sports Documentary

Holly- Birds Nest

Rowan- A Magic Show

Ellie- Toys From The Past

Lauren- Bath Bombs To Sell

Aidan- A Model Of The Rainforest

Struan – A Skeleton

Kaya- Some Poems

Sarah- A Panda Model

Ruaraidh- A Book

Charlie- A Model Boat

Ciaran- Electrical Sets

Jack- A Golf Set

Natalie-  A Model Horse

Eva- Bath And Beauty Products

Matthew- Comics

Darren- Book Creator

Rhys- Game on Kodu

Kaitlyn- A Cake

Aaron- A Book Creator

Sophie- An Animation

Rebecca- A Video

Abi- A Photo Booth

 

 

On Friday 23rd June Port Ellen and Bommore had a beach day down at the White Hart beach.  It was the whole school from each school.  When we got there we all mixed in with each other.

In the afternoon we went to get our lunch. Then we had to do a sand castle competition, but a castle didn’t win, the wining group made a boat.  There were two boats but the one that won had a dolphin in it.

We had a match of football and rounders. In the rounders we did mixed teams, but in the football we did Port Ellen VS Bommore and Port Ellen won by one goal.

It was a great and a very fun day.

by Struan Colthart

On Monday the 19th of june 2017 port Ellen Primary held their sports day. It had been canceled 3 times before and then it finally managed to get it on. There was lots of fun events for the little and older children. But the most important event was the decider for the sports championships, it was the hundred metre sprint. It was the decider for the boys but it wasnt the decider for girls. Sports day is always a fantastic fun day. This year it was really close for the boys championships. There was only 25 points in it and when it came down to the sprint Ruaridh beat the leader by hardly anything and they tied overall. All the little ones love sports day they have a blast every year and they will always have fun then it came the prize giving. For boys it was 3rd Andre Cruz Second Darren Hamilton 1st Ruaraidh Macdonald and Struan Colthart. For the girls 3rd Lauren Macdonald 2nd Natalie Logan and Eva Munro 1st Sophie Macdonald. Now they sat down and everyone will have a blast next year.

On Wednesday 21^st of June Primary 7’s from all round Islay and Jura went for their very first induction day to Islay High School. We had to get the bus over to Bowmore at 8:18. We had to go into the hall to find out our houses. The McBeans from Port Ellen Primary are Natalie Logan, Ruaraidh Macdonald and Eva Munro. The Bryce’s from Port Ellen Primary are Struan Coltart, Darren Hamilton and Kaya Middleton. The Winnards from Port Ellen Primary are Kaitlyn Clarke, André Cruz and Ellie Mackie.

 

After that we got to write out our timetable. This year our classes have been split so there is a 1BM class, which is half of McBean and the whole of Bryce. There is also 1WM class, which is the rest of McBean and the whole of Winnard. We had the senior children help us around the high school to take us to our classes. We got showed what classes we would be tacking after the summer, and we also got a little taster of what we would be doing after the summer. 1MB get different teachers form 1WM, which was quite different because we always got to have the same teachers.

 

I really enjoyed High School and was quite sad to have to come back to Primary School but I am really looking forward to going to Islay High School after the summer.

 

By Eva Munro

On Tuesday 27th we had a picnic lunch to celebrate us winning the STEM awards, we got told there would be a surprise at the end so we were all very excited. When everyone got downstairs there was music playing and everyone was dancing around, they all looked very happy. There was cakes and sandwiches. We all then got told to look out the door and listen. We then seen and heard the ice cream van, we were all very surprised. Everybody got a free ice cream. We went outside for a break and to eat our ice cream, when the bell rang everyone went into the hall and we watched Sing the movie. At the end of the day everyone was really happy.

By Ellie M

On Tuesday 20th June all of the p7’s and S1’s joined together to do a problem solving morning in the high school. We had to go round to different stations and complete lots of different challenges. After we have completed the challenges we have to get a mark form the older people that were at each station. We had to get either a mark of 0,5 or 10. You got a 10 if you figured out the answer to the problem and got it right. You got a 5 if you nearly got it and had good teamwork and talking and you got a 0 if you didn’t work together and didn’t get the answer. I enjoyed doing this because it made us think about lots of different types of questions and how to work them out. It was also good fun because it was like an early induction day and we got to meet and talk to lots of people who we will go to high school with. Doing this challenge we did numeracy and literacy. My team won the numeracy and the overall points. I think everyone enjoyed those tasks and had lots of fun.

After several cancellations, the Port Ellen Sports Day finally went ahead! The races were hotly contested from start to finish, with Texa finally coming out overall winners. Well done to Sophie for winning the Girls Championship and Struan and Ruaraidh jointly claiming the boys title. Many thanks to Donnie MacDonald, a past Championship winner, for presenting the prizes. Take a look at the slideshow below!

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Every Wednesday afternoon we do Endeavour, Endeavour is a personal topic that we learn about or a year. at the end of the year we have an Endeavour fair to show what we have achieved in the year, different Endeavour topics in our class are:

Holly-birds                                             Sophie-animations                                             Lauren-bath and beauty

Ellie-toys from the past                       Kaitlyn-cake decorating                                    Abi-photography

Sarah-giant pandas                              Natalie-horse care/riding                                 Eva-beauty and skin care

Struan-the body                                    Darren-golf history                                            Andre-graphic novel

Aaron-art                                                Rhys-kodu                                                           Taylor-sports

Matthew-comics                                   Jack-golf                                                               Charlie-the Cal mac boats

Aidan- deforestation                          Ruaraidh-book making                                      Rowan-magic tricks

Rebecca-Islay kids website                  Kaya-poetry                                                          Ciaran-engineering

On Thursday 8th June sports day will be held at Port Ellen Primary School.  For the sports championships we have/will be doing cross country, distance throw, football dribble, long jump, baskets, obstacle course, high jump, hurdles and on the day of sports day we will be doing 100m sprint. We are doing sports championships because we like to have fun, enjoy ourselves and to play sports to get fitter. We also have trophy’s and medals that people win for coming 1st, 2nd or 3rd. When you do the activities you get points, 1st=100 points, 2nd=75 points, 3rd=50 taking part=25 points.

On Thursday 18th May Port Ellen primary made a timeline out of tapestries. It was right from the Mesolithic times to WWII.  Some of the timelines we made were The Battle of Trigh Guniart, Port Ellen in 1820s, Kildalton Cross, Finlaggan, Higland Clearenses, WW11 Boat Planes, Tuscania and Kilbride Chapel. Everyone in the school took part, with help from the Islay Quilters and other members of the local community and some people made a banner for the Feis as well. A lot of the tapestries are for monuments in the past and the timeline will help us remember our history.

The primary 7s at Port Ellen Primary will be going to High School soon and every year when primary sevens leave the class P5/6/7 help make a video to show on the last week of school about the Primary sevens. This year we have included animations to go with the poem “If” by Rudyard Kipling. Everyone in the class created a short animation to go with a line from the poem. To create an animation we used IMotion. We had to make sure that the animations went with the line of the poem we had picked. The animations took a long time because you take a photo of something then you have to move it a little bit more then it keeps going like that.  We hope you like the finished movie.

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On Friday 26th may in port Ellen at the co-op beach there was a community festival. They were selling cakes, drinks and toys. Up to a certain time the burgers and drinks were free however eventually the burgers and drinks were £2.50. All the stores were giant tents and they were constantly crowded.

Most of the people from the school were there and people from all over Islay where there too. More than one hundred people were just wandering around, either playing on the beach or talking. There was about 5 people running each store and they were constantly busy.

Some people were sitting down on the beach however no one went too close too the water as everyone wanted to buy something when the lines went down. The toy store shut down at about half seven however most other stores were still running.

Most people started leaving at around about eight to either go to their home or just to have a walk around the beach. The stores started to close and go out of stock so people shut down their store which made people leave.

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