What is Endeavour?

1.  An Endeavour is a project where pupils choose an amazing project to do on their own. It must be ambitious and something that you have never done before. Like a hobby with more work put into it. Whole of P 5/6/7 are doing an Endeavor  

2.  In the classroom I came up with the idea of doing animation. This is what made it ambitious; having to edit, taking loads of pictures and moving the props in tiny little spaces. 

 3.Right now, I have achieved an animation that is nearly one minute long which takes about 300 photos. You need a story line and mine is someone who thinks he is cooler and better than everyone else. 

 4.What I need to do next is to do some research and finish my animation.  

ENDEAVOR 

Endeavor is when you pick a topic and you do it on your own and you need to pick something what you have never learnt before. Also, you start at the start of the year. 

Game design is when you make a game using kudo or Scratch.   After lunch we get our things what we need to use. I am doing game design what is you make a game; you show your game what you made and how you made it. 

 I am going to make a game like a race where Kodu the robot and must get to the end first all. Meanwhile I will be looking at the robot if I have done something wrong.

 At the end of the endeavor we have a fair to show other classes and we show people what we have made, you can show them how you made it and how to play it. After that you have done your Endeavor for the year. If you made something, you could sell it. 

  I am planning to make a full race game what I have to build for my Endeavor, so I need to code it and test it. After I finish my game, I will let people try my game.

We have a thing called Endeavour

I do animation for my Endeavour.  I did my Endeavour alone.  I think I did good at my Endeavour so far.  I have done 59 sections of my animation, it was good therapy to watch, and it was funny.

This afternoon all the classes worked together in their houses to complete three World Book Day challenges; a scavenger hunt, costume design and healthy snack. We had a great afternoon together celebrating reading!

A’ comharrachadh na Gàidhlig air feadh an t-saoghail / World Gaelic Week – Celebrating Scottish Gaelic across the globe. 20-26 An Gearran // February 2023

Gaelic weather with P4. #SeachdainNaGàidhlig ⁦@bordnagaidhlig⁩ ⁦@sngaidhlig⁩ pic.twitter.com/1VLW0DiPOq

— Port Ellen Primary School (@portellenps) February 22, 2023

We had lots going on in Port Ellen for Gaelic week.  P12 made pancakes using Gaelic words, P567 made Gaelic healthy tuck for the whole school, P3 designed Gaelic T-shirts and as you can see, P4 made Gaelic weather forecasts! Sgoinneil a h-uile duine!

As we came around the final bend a blue sign came into sight, a sign that said Ardentinny. We drove up the drive and I saw a building, a building that looked like a dank grey box. This was Ardentinny.  We were coming here for a residential trip will all the P6/7’s from Islay and Jura on the 14th of February. Ardentinny is an outdoor education center that has activities like kayaking, archery and abseiling.

When we arrived, we went up to our dorm and unpacked a few things and went to dinner. After that we went on a night walk through the forest. I stepped into the jet-black forest. It seemed like my light got dimmer as we trekked into the forest, adrenalin keeping me going. I clung onto the rope for dear life and then we were told to switch our lights off, and we were plunged into blackness. When we were allowed to switch them back on, we quickly walked back. The next activity we did was a team challenge which was an obstacle course. In the afternoon, we did rock hop, which involves jumping from rock to rock and climbing.

The next day we did the climbing activity. Everyone was in a rush to the first activity. For climbing we climbed up three different slopes easy medium and hard in partners. Next, we abseiled where you must climb down a slope.  It was all so much fun!

Evie

The bus pulled up to an old dejected looking building. A building that somehow looked like a 1990’s prison. One at a time, we all made our way off the almost luxurious bus we had been sitting in for the last 2 hours. Lazily we all dragged our vast luggage towards the open door leading to the building. All P6/7 from Islay and Jura were very excited to be there.

After an introduction we briskly made our way up to the dormitories where we were supposed to get our room numbers. Without thinking, everyone ran towards their room. Everyone quickly unpacked and was down at the boot-room within 30 minutes. I headed outside and down the hill to the boot-room. We tried on our wellies and fitted them. Everyone got waterproofs for outside activities.

After the boot-room we walked up the hill, through the door and to dinner. About 15 minutes into dinner, a boy in group 6 ( Everyone was selected into groups 1-6 I was in group 1.) dramatically tipped the table and ran out the room. Everyone was talking about it for the rest of the night but it eased off as dinner continued. We all got about 20 minutes after dinner to unpack a bit and get changed, and then we went on a night walk. After that, we came back and had supper, and went to sleep.

In the morning everyone was complaining about the rooms but were still excited for all of the activities. We all sat and ate breakfast in our groups. I had 9 people in my group. That included: me, Evie, Maria, Catherin, John, Ruddy, Johnny, Jacob and Thomas. Our group leader was Catriona. We started off the day by meeting our group leaders and doing a team challenge, an obstacle course and an “Laser escape room” which actually wasn’t a laser escape room. Just some old rope attached to a tree to make a pathway to go through. I made it through on my second try, the main objective was to make your way through the rope/laser escape room without touching the rope. Everyone in my group thoroughly enjoyed it. But, I think everyone also enjoyed the obstacle course. It was a wonderful experience. After lunch we went rock hopping, rock hopping was probably one of my favourite activities out of everything we did. It was an activity that involved a bit of rock climbing, but with rock climbing you usually climb up the rock; with rock hoping you climb across. Rock hopping is an adventurous activity that consists of squeezing into tight spaces above ground. We took the Ardentinny bus to a beach nearby and walked up the path till we were at the place where we were to start rock hopping. We clambered across rocks and made our way towards the end, at one point we actually met team 3. Eventually, we made it to the final rock. We walked all the way back to the centre and packed up all our stuff and lay it down to dry. We all went upstairs to change if we got wet and then went down for dinner.

In the dinner hall we were given macaroni and cheese. There were also some side dishes that you could take instead, most people were fine with the macaroni and cheese but I took chips, garlic bread and pasta. After dinner we went downstairs to the boot-room to get ready for search and rescue, that was our night activity. We all did extremely well. Everyone was tired after a long day, we all fell asleep quickly.  It was so much fun!

Iona

For our Robotics topic we partnered up with p1/2.  We showed them how to program robots like Spheros and Dash and Dot and how to program micro:bits to count how many things were out in the playground. We had to code it all ourselves and de-bug it if it was wrong. Then we all decided to make our own robots. We had planning sheets and had to decide what we were going to make our robot do- they had to solve a world problem linked to the Sustainable Development Goals. Then we had to code the Micro:bits and then make the robots. We junk modelled them and then papermached.  We will present our robots at the end of the week.  For example we have a robot that can detect when the soil gets too dry and plants need watering.

This afternoon we used our plans from last week to code and build our own robots designed to solve various sustainable development goals. @DigitalXtraFund @microbit_edu @STEMedscot pic.twitter.com/3jo6we9YaH

— Port Ellen Primary School (@portellenps) January 30, 2023

Every Wednesday P5/6/7 go to the swimming pool to get lessons with Miss Northcote. There are 3 different swimming groups. Group 1 are people who know how to swim but don’t go to dolphins. Group 2 are the people who know how to swim well and go to dolphins. Group 3 are people who are not confident swimmers or don’t know how to swim.

In the 1st group we practicing different strokes like front crawl, back-stroke butterfly and sculling. In group 2 they practiced breast-stroke and back-stroke. Group 3 practiced front crawl and back-stroke.  Living on an island it is very important to learn how to swim.