Category Archives: School Events
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
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 |
Dress as You Please Day
We held a Dress as You Please day and asked everyone to wear a splash of tartan to help celebrate the life of Robert Burns. We raised £225 which we have used to buy chess sets, skipping ropes and new equipment in the gym. This has allowed us to start two new extra-curricular activities. Thank you to everyone who contributed.
Barnardo’s
This is our 25th year of supporting Barnardo’s and, over the years, we have raised just over £19000 which is an incredible achievement. Hayley came into school to talk about what Barnardo’s does to support families in Scotland. The P1s have been issued with new boxes but if you still have the cottage box then that can be used to place any extra coins into.
Wishing Mrs Lindsay a Fond Farewell
Mrs. Lindsay came into school on the 19th of January for a farewell assembly with the whole school. The Primary seven pupils from Ms Paterson’s class sang two songs from her hometown of Athlone in Ireland and performed a dance. Athlone is described as being at the heart of Ireland and Mrs. Lindsay was most definitely at the heart of our school. Here we have the oldest girl in the school, Emily Stewart, and the youngest boy, Dean Gordon, who presented Mrs. Lindsay with her gifts and flowers. We wish Mrs. Lindsey good luck with her new post as Head Teacher at Newburgh Mathers.
Robbie’s One Minute Workout
For many people, New Year brings about a desire to make improvements in our lifestyle.
For Robbie, it has brought about a desire to not only make an improvement to his own life but also to other peoples’ lives.
Robbie’s New Year resolution is to help other people get fit.
He has kick started his resolution by holding a One Minute Workout at our assembly. He created a workout which consisted of six different exercises and he carried out each one for 10 seconds. Robbie even managed to get the staff to take part too!
The children enjoyed their workout and could feel their hearts beating faster after just one minute.
Well done, Robbie!
Barnardo’s – Celebrating 25 Years!
Ellon Primary School is celebrating our 25th year of supporting Barnardo’s.
Since 1990 we have raised over £19 000 for Barnardo’s.
On Monday we were visited by Hayley from the charity who spoke to us about the benefits that Barnardo’s has brought to families in Scotland. If we still have our cottage boxes then we can get a new wrap-around and if we don’t have our box (like the P1s) then we can get a consent form and a new box. The boxes will be collected in the Summer term and we will find out how much we have managed to raise.
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.
Our Paper Chain – P4/5
Longest Paper ChainWe made the world’s longest paper chain today. We worked together and made it as long as we could. We used trundle wheels to measure it and it was an amazing 33m!!
Have a look at our video! We lay next to it and managed to
have lots of people next to it… Can you count us all??
Click this link: The World’s Longest Paper Chain!
Mrs. Whalley and Mr Craig let us decorate their office with it afterwards. We had the best fun ever!
P6, P6/7, P7 Christmas Party
Our Christmas party started with some of the Scottish dancing that we have been working on and preparing.
We also played games such as Christmas Corners
And we did some dancing.
We all had a really good time
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!
More Success for the netball team!
- Our Netball Team
From left to right.
Lois Jay-Muir, Shanna Kelman, Evie Howells, Sally Hughes, Erin Kelly, Kayla Wotherspoon, Ailbhe O’Sullivan, Esther Morris, Katie Stewart and Ellie Jaffrey
Ellon Primary School’s P6-7 Netball team played against Auchterellon Primary at Old Meldrum Academy on the 11th of December. The played extremely well and showed off their team working skills and creativity. As a result, they won the game 12-0. Lois-Jay Muir was given the prestigious title of “Player of the Match” so an extra well done to her too!
This is an amazing achievement for our netball team and we are absolutely delighted with how hard they are working.
Thank you to their coaches who work with them every week and help them to achieve their goals.
