Top tips on staying up-to-date with what your children are doing online.

Does the fact that photos disappear from Snapchat make it completely safe to use? If things do go wrong, what can you do?

How to be a bit more careful, and a bit better informed, when using Snapchat.

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On Wednesday 14th May, p6/7 went on a trip to Port Charlotte school, to discuss our Endeavour projects and do some orienteering. We got to go down to Port Mor and do our orienteering down there. My team got all of our marks first so we won.

Last Wednesday p2/3 and p4/5 went to play golf at the Machire golf coarse. At the golf coarse we did putting, chipping, shooting.  We took the school mini bus to the Machire. MR. Gaudie, Mrs Ramsey, Mr Gairns thought us how to play golf. The Machire grass was really wet and boggy so it was harder to play golf at the golf course. we also saw a smashed golf buggy behind the fence. There were a lot of animals by the golf coarse.

By Mathew and Sarah

Robbert Burns is famous  for his poems.  Ally Mccoist  is famous for being a manager of Rangers. Andy Murray is famous for tennis. GreyFriar Bobby is a dog that was thoughtful and lived in the country. He lived with jock a shepherd of nearly a hundred years ago. Foods that Scotland are famous for are Haggis neeps and tatties. Animals you find when you are in scotland are : highland cows ,birds of prey ,puff adders ,sheep and of course wild haggis. by jack and Aaron.

In class we are learning about money in maths. We have been learning the different types of money. We have also been learning about money from different countries and what they are called. Here are some examples.

Money in America is called Dollars. Lots of European countries use Euros.

You can pay for lots of different things with money. Money makes The world go round.

by Mara and Charlie.

On Friday 2nd May p2/3 made a Beetle Drive with a raffle. In the game we had to make small sheets to draw the beetles on. Number 1 was the body, and number  2 was the head, number 3 was the antennae, number 4 was the eyes  number 5 was the mouth and number 6 was the legs. To get the numbers you had to roll a dice and who ever won got a prize. We played three games. It was so much fun. We won one raffle prize it was a fantastic raffle.

By Rebecca,Rowan and Eleanor 🙂

P 2/3 have been learning about money all around the world.  We learned you got a $500 notes.In Botswana the money is called Pula.  In Malawee the money is called Kuacka. Lots of places in America use Dollers. Most places in Europe like France use Euro’s and scence. People in Britten use Pounds and Pennies. There are different faces on pound notes, like; the Queen, Robert Burns, Robert the Bruce and in Cameroon you can even get Diggers on the money. ( COOL!!!)  In China you get Yen. You can’t get can get £1 notes here anymore but you can in other places. You can even get £1000 notes in some places and you get £5000!

By Aidan, Taylor, Torin and Izzy

How to make a Commonwealth piggy bank.

What you will need:

balloon

newspaper

paste

egg box

coloured   tissue  paper

card

googly eyes

Instructions:

First get a  balloon  and  blow it up.

Next dip newspaper in to paste.

Then stick the newspaper onto the balloons.

After that put coloured paper on it.

Finally  wait for it to dry.

By Freya and Rhys

It pays to be prepared for parents’ evenings…

Research shows that children do better at school if their parents are involved in their education. When parents show interest, exam results tend to improve – so what’s the best way to take an interest without putting them off completely?

Children do better at school if their parents are involved in their education. That means taking an interest in what they’re doing academically – but it also means creating conditions that help them… here are some suggestions.

On Monday 19th of April Port Ellen Primary p4/5 and p6/7 went to see the traveling art gallery bus in Bowmore. The art exhibition inside was made by Rachel McClean, all of the paintings were made by her and even the paint design was made by her on the inside of the bus’ wall. We watched  one of her movies The Lion and the Unicorn, it was based on Scottish Independence.  She used a green screen to take her pictures, all of the people in the  paintings were her.   The paintings were very strange but did show us what the artists views were and were very clever.

By Nicholas and David

On the 30th April Bowmore P7 came to visit us to find out about our Endeavour projects.  We were partnered with people from Bowmore and met new people.  Before they left they got to try out our Endeavour projects and we answered their questions.  We had great fun.

On Thursday 20th March the Islay High school band and the Primary band went on the ferry to set off for the trip.  Once we got to Kennacraig we got a bus to Inveraray, we had our lunch there afterwards.  Then we travelled into Glasgow and checked in at the Euro Hostel and put our bags in our rooms, later we got to watch a magician.  They next day we met some professional instrument players and they told us all about them and gave us some tips.  On Saturday it was the day of the competition, we went shopping and then we went to get ready.  We went into the school and played our songs on the stage, then we found out our results.  The primary band won the cup.  It was fun and a new experience for people who hadn’t been on a trip before.

P6/7 have been learning about rounding decimals, converting decimals, dividing decimals and multiplying decimals.

Rounding decimals is the same as rounding tens or hundreds etc. If you were rounding  tenths,  you would look at the hundredths and if the hundredth is five or over, the tenth would be one unit higher, like; 1.48=1.5 You take away the zero because it has no use to you at all any more.

Multiplying by 10, 100 and 1000 with decimals is the same as multiplying any digits.  All you do is move the digits to the left. If you were multiplying by 10, you move the digits 1 place to the left, with 100 you move the digits 2 places to the left and with 1000 you move the digits 3 places to the left. It is the same with diving but with dividing, you move the digits the right.

Converting decimals is easy as well.  Zero point four equals four tenths. The four is in the tenth column so in the denominator of the fraction is a tenth and in the numerator of the fraction is four because that is how many tenths there are. The same would happen if there is a digit in the hundredth column, but instead of the tenth it would be a hundredth and the digit on top would be the number in the hundredths column.

By Anwen and Elizabeth

When we started doing our Endeavour, I decided that I would do mine on quilt making.  The first time, I set myself up and wrote a letter to one of the Islay Quilters.  A few weeks after I got a reply from someone called Rae Woodrow, she was one of the Islay Quilters that said she would help me with my project.  I phoned her to say when it would be available for her to come over and she said on a Tuesday at 2, oclock, I was excited!  On the first visit I showed my design and picked the materials to suit my quilt.  I have learned a lot throughout the weeks and I have now got the basics of making a quilt.  I was so interested in making one that I have got four squares finished and two ready to attach them all together.  From now on I  hope to get my quilt finished and I will be entering the Grand Exhibition, it’s for people who have made a quilt or something to do with quilting.

By Danni Barker

Today at the school P6/7 and P4/5 were visited by two Ladies who were from Edinburgh International Science Festival.  The two ladies called Amanda and Charlene came to talk to us about electricity and how it flows. We did many exciting activities, one of the experiments was we had to generate electricity, measured by an ammeter, though our own body energy. Then we charged Hex-bugs by using the energy from our arms and body, we had a race with the charged Hex-bugs. My Hex-bug came second and  his name was Steve the turquoise Hex-bug.

By Eleanor and Beth 😉

On the 19th of March Primary 7 went to Islay high as part of our electricity topic. We took part in lots of different experiments throughout the day. At the start of the day when we arrived we were split into three groups with schools from all over Islay and Jura. There were three different laboratories we were working in, each room had a different focus; one was circuits, one was how electricity travels and the last one was sensors. In the first room there were lots of different ways to wire a circuit and we were looking at many ways to do so we tested series and parallel circuits and even ones that are in computers. In room two we were focusing on how electricity travels. Some of the experiments were making a clock work using a orange and my favorite of the day was lighting fire with our fingers to do this we got a metal dome and charged it up by rubbing a comb on wool while this was happening someone would have their left hand on the dome then we would let gas out of a pipe and the person that was charged would touch the pipe and a fire would start. The last room was exploring different sensors and what they would be used for.  It was great fun.

by Robbie

In class we have been learning how batteries work. Here is a description of how a battery works.

Electrons have a negative charge so they are attracted to the positive end of the battery but there is a electrolyte in their way. The electrons want to go to the Cathode because they are attracted to the positive charge. The only way to get the electrons to the Cathode is when you connect the circuit with a wire and when the electrons pass through the wire they light up the lamp. When the battery runs out of chemicals that create a difference in the electrical charge that means the battery is dead and cannot be used.

by Abbie