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Port Ellen Primary Nativity

This year our nativity was called the Twinkly nativity. It was performed by the   P 1/2 and they did amazing with their lines and songs. The songs were performed using Makaton and it was great. They had a few tricky words but they spoke so clear and it was super impressive. The nursery came up and joined in on one of the songs. Their outfits were so cute because they were little stars and they also done some Makaton as well.

For their characters they all had a special outfit and they were amazing.  Well done!

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Christmas Lunch & Movie

The Christmas lunch was on the 13th December 2024 in our school. It was also Christmas jumper day. We had a lovely lunch filled with goods like: Turkey, carrots, stuffing and pigs in blankets. The staff are brilliant at cooking our amazing meals but this one is the best. We went to the lunch hall at 11:45am and we all sat down. The luxurious tables where set up perfectly by the teachers and the P6/7 class had one long table for all of them! The whole school inhaled there lunch and went outside to play!

Not long after lunch we watched the new Inside Out 2! Before it started we talked about our emotions because this movie relates to our rights topic we have been doing. Inside Out 2 is almost the same as Inside Out but there are new emotions in her head trying to take over. It was a great day!

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The Cupcake Challenge

P67 made some delicious cupcakes for the cup cake challenge this year. They made them for the Christmas fair. The taste testers were Mrs McDonald and Mrs Hamilton. They were sold in the Christmas Fair on Saturday 7th December 2024.

The teams were called the Ginger Bells, Crazy Christmas Trees, Rocking Reindeer and the Christmas Crazys.  The winning team were the Crazy Christmas Trees. They were only 1 point in the lead in the end. Second place was the Rocking Reindeer with 16 points so that means that Crazy Christmas Trees got 17 points. The Christmas Crazy`s got 3rd and the Ginger Bells got 4th.

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Maths Inside

For Maths Week Scotland Port Ellen primary School have entered the Maths Inside competition. We enter it every year and p1-7 enter and this year for the competition and there were 4 highly commended people.

There was Rowan Gordon in p1 and she did the maths of  one of Ardbeg distillery walls.  Tilly Johnston in p6 talked about the maths behind how a sea hare breathes.  Findlay Cunningham  looked at the maths behind different patterns on shoes and how they relate to animals and Archie Logan did lorry logistics and they all got highly commended  in the competition.  Well done!

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NAVE BEE RIGHTS RESPECTING GROUP

We are the rights and nurture group and we are working on supporting the children in the school to meet their right to good health (24).  We have decided to make a friendship bench and a happy boxes and then put them around the school.

People are voting for different  types of bench designs:   flower, Dinosaur, fish, boats, rainbow.

People had paper and there where righting out different ideas we were in groups of three. We also had to write ideas for where to put the boxes around the school or the playground.

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Endeavour

This year p6/7 are going to be doing an Endeavour project.  An Endeavour project is when you chose a topic that your interested in and do a longer version of a personal topic on it.  You have from October till the end of June to complete it.  Last year everyone picked something slightly different and worked to aim their personal goal everyday.

The different projects in our class are Cooking food from around the world, Japan, Sewing a quilt, Survival skills, Chicken farm, Celebration cakes, Volcanoes, Beauty therapy, Horse riding instructor, Writing a book, Climate change, Growing Vegetables, Puppets, Video games, Fitness and diet, Traditional singing and Exploration survival.

Everyday you have to fill out  record sheet to record everything you’ve done and everything you need to do.

By Maisie

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Primary 5 Learning

Primary 5 have been doing a lot of maths in fact I think they are math experts, they have been doing a lot of work on their times tables and place value.  For homework they have been getting sudoku for fun. In Spelling they have been doing the normal Nelson spelling textbook(plurals).   For PE they have had Brandon Freeman in as a sports ambassador from High School to teach different skills and basketball. They have had Mrs Macdonald in for gaelic to teach numbers up to 20 and items in the class room. For art they had Mrs Onions who tought them how to change a spring picture into a autumn picture.For Music most of them have taken up an musical instrument and received them today.  Their class room has now became a secret agent HQ as they have designed their own gadgets and wrote about them.

By Eilidh Mcmillan and Ruby Miller

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What P2/3/4 Have Explored

Eva- I really enjoyed reading Hamish MacHaggis books and she loved making up stories.

Abi- My favorite thing this week was learning Hamish MacHaggis songs,

Sophie- I liked writing imaginary stories, mine as about seals

Taylor-Making the car called the Willie Bang out of Hamish MacHaggis

Ross- Making Hamish MacHaggis stories mine was about Hamish going to Ardbeg Distillery

Struan-Learning my 2 times table I used a numberline.
everyone has enjoyed their week in p3/4

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Welcome Back Everybody!

Hope everyone has had a great holiday and is settling down to the new term in school. We have already hosted the Islay book festival, where we were visited by author Ruth Rendell! We also enjoyed some interesting talks by children’s authors Allan Burnett, John Fardell and Cathy Macphail. Thanks to the book festival organisers for providing us with such great events.
Coming up this term is a visit from Kilmartin Museum to discover all things Viking, and a Gaelic awareness day on the 30th September. Keep in touch to find out what the pupils think.

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Our First Learning Blog by P1/2

Welcome to our learning blog!

We are learning all about the circus. We have been learning tricks like balancing, juggling and hula hooping! It has been good fun. By Finlay

We have been learning about the jobs people do in the circus like the ring master, juggler, tight rope walker, trainer, office workers and acrobat. By Bronagh, Ronan, Jasmine, Kaya, Mirren and Struan

We have been thinking about the skills people doing these jobs need. The ring master needs to be able to speak out loud and he can’t be nervous. He must be organised. By Katie

A juggler has to be good at throwing and catching. By Natalie

A tight rope walker has to be good at balancing and he has to be careful not to fall. By Murray

We have a Big Top in our classroom. We have been playing circus games in it. By Ross

We have dressing up costumnes to wear in our Big Top. Ellie

The circus tent has colours on it that make a pattern. There are red and yellow squares. There are purple stars and blue moons. By Eva

I was juggling! by Darren

We turned the bench over in the hall and used it as a tight rope. We had to be careful not to fall. It was tricky! by Ruaraidh

I am good at hula hooping and I love it. By Julie Ann

I want to be an acrobat in the circus because I like doing hand stands. By Kaitlyn

I am really hoping that the lion doesn’t escape from his cage! By Miss MacRae

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