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As part of our Scot’s poetry celebrations, the children of Class 1 have created fabulous pieces of artwork to accompany the poems they have been learning.
I’m sure you will agree that there has been a lot of effort at home to produce these masterpieces!
Our responsible P7 pupils, Innes & Katie represented Portpatrick Primary at the annual Rotary lunch. Whilst there, they chatted to Greg Drummond, the Olympic silver medalist, and learned about his experiences.
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Well done to the four pupils from Portpatrick school who went to the Academy last week to represent their school at a fun Maths Transition challenge. The team consisted of Myles Hine, Rowan Harbottle, Lachlan Ross and Jenna Marshall. The challenge began with an Activity Pack full of Christmas themed maths puzzles and problem solving, as well as a complex cube building challenge and a ‘Tarsia’ hexagon challenge.
Following this, the teams were given a pack of spaghetti, tape and one sheet of paper and tasked with creating the tallest tower. This was very entertaining!
The event was a great success and we look forward to participating in the challenge again next Christmas. Kirkcolm and Leswalt School joined in the fun as well.
The pupils and staff of Portpatrick primary were treated to a delicious Christmas dinner today. We enjoyed singing along to well known Christmas tunes as we tucked into roast turkey with all the trimmings. Three cheers for the chef!
For the second year running, the Mount Stewart has very generously hosted a Christmas Party for all the boys and girls of Portpatrick Primary. The children were treated to a party buffet. This was followed by carol singing with Kenny kindly providing the piano music for everyone to enjoy and have a little dance to. Olivia S. also treated us all to her skills on the piano! The parents had a lovely opportunity for a pre-Christmas mingle. Everyone received a present of a selection box before leaving tired but happy. A very BIG thank you to Diane and Graham and all the staff who worked so hard to give the children such a special night.
On Sunday, Portpatrick church hosted their annual carol service. It was a lovely service with local speakers telling us all about the true meaning of Christmas and why it is a special time of year.
A big well done to everyone who came along to the carol service, you all sang beautifully! A special well done goes to Jenna and Mia who both confidently did a Christmas reading in front of the whole congregation.
# Confident Individuals
Primary 4-7 have been learning about sound as part of their science topic this term. They boldly took on the challenge of designing and constructing an instrument capable of making sound. Many skills were used such as:
There was an impressive array of creative ideas using pitch, percussion and wind to produce sound in a variety of ways. Barbara judged the winning designs:
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Portpatrick Primary yet again proved what sporting heroes we are when our boys competed in the primary cluster badminton tournaments on Tuesday. Lachlan and his partner from Rephad won gold in the the doubles match. Lachlan also won a silver in the singles games. Rowan achieved a very impressive quarter finalist ranking for his efforts. Well done boys!
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Our girls have done us proud at the local primary cluster school badminton competition yesterday. Rhian won gold in the girl’s singles tournament. Jenna narrowly missed out on a medal by finishing a very impressive 4th. Rhian and Jenna also won bronze in the doubles matches. Mia and Katie represented the school with sterling sportsmanship and effort. Well done to all!
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P1-3 were very lucky and received fantastic gift bags full of literacy and numeracy activities and resources to take home and explore. This included a selection of books, pencils, activity book and maths games included tropical trumps, snakes and ladders and a time/measure/money game.
Parents were invited in for the launch of these fantastic sets and older pupils took time to explore the gifts with the younger pupils. This was lovely to observe 🙂
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