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Continuing with our Easter themed learning fun, the children enjoyed making chocolate Easter egg nest cakes today.
We discussed how the chocolate changed state from a solid to a liquid. We observed how this was a reversible process. As the chocolate solidified we could then re-melt it using heat.
Donning our aprons , we worked hygienically and collaboratively to create lovely wee Easter treats to enjoy at home.
The whole school got creative today with a fabulous response to our egg-ceptional Easter egg competition.
This year, we opened up the brief to allow the children to use any material they liked to craft their Easter themed designs.
Mrs Henry had a very hard job to judge in each primary category. The winners are as follows:
As the standard of standard of entries was so high, each entrant has received a Highly Commended certificate. Thank you to everyone for the fabulous entries. We all enjoyed them very much!
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During remote learning, P4-7 participated in a music project with Feis Rois. The children met together on Teams each week to explore traditional Scottish music and to experiment with sound.
As part of the project, the children wrote comments on what they love about Portpatrick. They also created artwork to represent our local area. Feis Rois have produced digital sound postcards using the children’s work. We will soon have paper versions that we can post to family and friends.
Click on the links to enjoy the children’s local artwork and to read the positive comments they have written about our village. Scan the QR code to listen to a musical sound snippet.
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When we arrived at school this morning, we found that the Easter Bunny had been in early to set up an Easter Egg maths hunt for us.
The children had to work collaboratively in pairs to seek out colour coded eggs to solve four operation maths questions. There were ten eggs to crack in all.
Everyone had great fun, hunting out their eggs and running around in the fresh air and sunshine.
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P4-7 got stuck in to an egg-cellent STEM problem solving challenge this afternoon. The children had to design a zip wire basket capable of transporting a Cadbury’s creme egg on a zip-wire run using just pipe cleaners and a key ring loop.
The boys and girls worked in small groups to problem solve using rudimentary materials. Every group designed a basket that securely held the egg in place.
Trial and error led to our changing one variable: The angle of the zip line.
We found that the egg would move down the zip line if it was at the correct angle. If the zip line was at a lesser angle , gravity would not move the egg down the zip line demonstrating inertia. Inertia is a law of physics that states an object will stay at rest until some kind of force acts upon it. Hence, we increased our angle from our initial position to allow the egg to reach the final travel point.
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Portpatrick Primary were full of fund raising spirit today to support Comic Relief. We all enjoyed a busy day of fun-filled Red Nose Day activities. First up, the boys and girls arrived in style, making a donation to dress either casually or as a superhero.
The children purchased the new eco-friendly, plastic free red noses and bought super hero masks to decorate.
Next, we got stuck into baking Red Nose Day cakes. We applied our maths skills to measure and weigh the ingredients carefully. We cooperated, taking turns to blend the mixture. Everyone enjoyed decorating them with cherry noses and jelly lips & teeth before devouring them – yum!
As if that wasn’t enough fun and games, we then created our own ‘Super Hero City Scape’ scenes by recycling newspaper to make our artistic city skylines.
As an afternoon treat, we were entertained by our North Rhins’ Got Talent show. The boys and girls entered videos of themselves showcasing a personal talent. Among the skills on show were Alba and Izzy performing a beautiful dance duet routine and Atticus demonstrating his table tennis prowess. Our pupils at Portpatrick, carried out an in-house vote and these were amalgamated with the votes across the partnership. There were joint winners for our own school category:
All our boys and girls are talented in so many ways, and it was lovely to view a selection of these skills.
More fun photos for you to enjoy!
To date our wee school has raised an impressive £110 for worthy causes. Thank you all for your generosity and well done everyone!
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It was so lovely to have the boys and girls from Primary 4 to 7 return to school today. The children had so much fun reconnecting socially with their friends. We took advantage of the good weather to have a ‘walk ‘n’ talk’ around our village. It was a real pleasure to see their smiles and listen to them chatter away as they were all able to play together once again.
After a busy morning engaged in active learning building Gingerbread houses and making Christingles, it was party time!
Our House Captains, Robin and Izzy, organised a fabulous party for the boys and girls in P4-7.
The running order of fun and games was as follows:
Everyone got a treat, a snack and a drink to enjoy. When we returned to our classroom, we were surprised to see that we had had a visitor. Santa had popped in to leave presents for the boys and girls.
Have a look at the fun time the children enjoyed.
Portree received their reward for achieving the most termly merits for their house team today. The children elected to have a Christmas themed movie session. The boys and girls picked Nativity Rocks. They cozied in and relaxed to view a modern twist on the classic story.
Dunskey joined in with their own Christmas themed activity for the afternoon. The children worked collaboratively to design and build a sleigh for Santa to deliver his presents. They had to select a range of materials that would fit the construction task, then plan and build their model.
There was great evidence of applying the skills for work and life (employability skills). Everyone was able to use teamwork to problem solve, organise and adapt as a group. The results were impressive. The children even considered aerodynamics, capacity storage and accessibility for the jolly man himself. Well done to all for successfully achieving the desired outcome. Mrs Baillie judged the winning entry – Robin Alfie, Rebecca and Carter!
After they had completed their challenge, Dunskey was invited to join Portree to enjoy a bit of the movie too.
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The boys and girls had a VERY special visitor arrive this afternoon…
Santa appeared in our playground in his motorised sleigh, complete with antlers, no less!
Everyone was surprised and delighted to see him. He said a socially distanced, “Ho, Ho, Ho!” to all the children. Santa chatted to the boys and girls and told us all that he was getting ready for the big day. He said that we have to be tucked up in our beds, sleeping, on Christmas Eve so he and his elves can work their magic.
We sung some Christmas songs out in the fresh air to entertain Santa. He very kindly gave the children a big sack of goodies as an early Christmas treat. It was then time for Santa to leave to carry on with his preparations in his workshop.
Thank you to Santa and his Elf for their kindness. We all appreciate it very much.
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