P5 have been taking part in many different and varied outdoor learning experiences. They have completed the Ellon Circular walk. explored the woods by making dens for small animals and nests for birds. They have seen the world through many different colours and made wishes on the trees. They have experienced glorious weather, cold weather and freezing winds. Here are a small selection of the photos we took on our adventures.
Category Archives: Expressive Arts
World Book Day 2015
World Book Day
World Book Day was organised by the Kids’ Council who worked with their classes to decide on some fun activities for the school to work together on. The costumes were excellent and it was great to see so many book characters around the school. Well done to Erin, Keeley, Dregan and Calum Souter who won the “Design a superhero” competition created very well thought out book covers. The Kids’ Council had a hard time narrowing the entries down to just two. Thank you to everyone who sent in photos of their children reading in an unusual place. These are now all up on the wall for everyone to see.
Jacobites
Jacobites
On Thursday 12th March a man came and talked to the p4 p4/5 p5 classes about the Jacobites. He came with all the clothes the Jacobites would wear. Everyone enjoyed looking at the weapons he brought in. The pupils had a chance to have a mini battle some people were Jacobites and some people were redcoats. Everyone enjoyed it.
Written by Lucy
Red Nose Day Success
Red Nose Day
Last Friday was Red Nose Day and this school had lots of activities like the bake sale , the photo booth and face painting done by our amazing office lady Mrs McNeil (You are amazing too Mrs Travis ) . The Enterprise club are still counting the money but we know that it was over £200
Written by Emma Patrick
Art and Chess Club
- Art Club and chess club
Mrs Whalley and Mrs Wotherspo
on , have been running an art club after school on Tuesdays . they have used Magic Maze , painting plant pots , made photo frames and did Valentines crafts !!!
P2’s to p4’s can join.
There is also a club called chess club ! It is run by Mr Craig on a Thursday afternoon from 1:00pm to 1:30pm . Anyone can join !!!! I do chess club myself, it’s realy fun !
Written by Sophie Sutherland
Playground Behaviour
Good playground behaviour
Over the last few weeks there has been a lot of things happening in both of the school playgrounds. Such as green mulch, bark around the trees, spongy ground, new playground toys , new plants, flowers, trees , This week the p1-3s playground got a new trim trail with new, fresh, nice, good quality bark (that smells good). There also has been EXCEPTIONALLY good behaviour .
Written by Emma P5
Fun at the Park – P5
The P5 class were treated to some time at the park today.. Look out for lots of smiles!
The Auld Brig – P5
Community Council asked pupils from Ellon Primary School to draw the Auld Brig in Ellon and submit their work to be displayed in Ellon Library.
Here are some photos of their walk to the bridge and some of the artwork that they produced.
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Extra – Curricular Activities at Ellon Primary
We have a number of Extra-Curricular activities on offer at Ellon Primary School just now. Here is a list of the most recent clubs.
| What? | When? | Who? |
| Blog Group
(P5) |
Monday 3:15pm – 4pm | Mrs. Whalley |
| Homework Club
(P4-7) |
Tuesday
1pm – 1:30pm |
Miss Davidson |
| Chess Club
(P |
Thursday
1pm – 1.30pm |
Mr Craig |
| Skipping
(P1 – 3) |
Monday and Wed. Lunch time | Mrs Whalley |
| Art Club
(P2 – P4) |
Thursday
3.15 – 4pm |
Mrs. Whalley and Mrs Wotherspoon |
| Football Club
(P5-P7) |
Monday 3.15pm – 4pm | Mr Craig and Miss Stout |
| Netball | Wednesday | Ellon Academy pupil – Zoe Webster
Mrs Wotherspoon and Mrs Kelly |
| Enterprise
(P6) |
Friday Lunch time 1pm – 1.30pm | Mrs Whalley |
| Badminton
(P4-7)
|
Thursday 3.15 – 4.30pm | Active Schools |
K’Nex Challenge
Our P6 and P7 pupils all had the opportunity to take part in a K’Nex Challenge.
The K’Nex workshops employ active learning to develop problem solving, communication, teamwork, planning and critical thinking skills. The pupils were all thoroughly engaged in the team activities and gave very positive feedback. Here are some of our P7 pupils working together.
Burns Assembly
Primary 4 class Miss Jamieson performed a wonderful Robert Burns Assembly for primary 1 to 7. They would have put a lot of effort and confidence in this and braveness! There speech’s were really amazing and clear. And a lot of research was put in to this as we could see!
Well done primary 4 and Miss Jamieson!
Written by Keeley
Robert Burns Poetry Competition
Everyone from P1 to P7 took part in the competition. Children in Primary 1 were learning the Wee Red Motor while children in P5 were learning Ellin’s Spellin’. The winners of p5 where Amber who came 2nd Cameron came 3rd and Millie came 1st ! They where presented with a certificate at Assembly. There are more certificates to come from the Burn’s Federation but haven’t arrived yet .
Written by Sophie Sutherland
Meet the Blog Group!
Ellon Primary School Christmas Assembly
This year’s Christmas assembly told the real meaning of Christmas while celebrating the amazing talent that the pupils hold.
The Xmas Factor!
The Xmas Factor!
Well what a show!! Parents, granparents, brothers and sisters, young and old all lined up waiting in anticipation for the P6-P7 Christmas show. The outfits were put on, the last minute adjustments to hair were put in place and then it was time to get going.
We were all feeling a bit nervous but we were looking forward to putting the show on too. The songs were quite hard to learn but we knew we would be able to do them well because we had all tried so hard to learn the words and the actions.
Here are some photos of our concert:
We also have some short video clips of our concert too which will be uploaded very soon. Watch this space!
