Author: Mrs Ferguson

The P7 pupils planned and organised the school Halloween party as part of their STAR award work.

Everyone had a fang-tastic time!

Well done to all the P7 pupils – party planners of the future?

What a great time P1-4 had visiting Wigtown Book Festival! Mrs Ferguson and Mrs Henry were lucky enough to go too. We all met and listened to the authors Emily Dodd and Shoo Rayner. It was a lovely trip.

First of all, Renita Boyle led us in a sing-along session to warm us up! Then Emily Dodd told us about her book ‘Can’t Dance Cameron’ . This is all about a sad capercaillie called Cameron who believes he is a rubbish dancer. We talked about lots of types of Scottish wildlife when reading the story – a pine-marten, a red squirrel and a wildcat. By the end of a story, Cameron shows he is a great dancer. Some of us bought this story and Emily signed it.

Shoo Rayner is an author and illustrator. His latest book is called Dragon Gold and is about Harri who is set the challenge of ‘making’ a dragon for school! Shoo also has two YouTube channels about drawing. Why not Google these and try out one of his tutorials?

Our very own Abbi was chosen from the audience to try drawing with Shoo. What an excellent job she did! Check out the photos to see for yourself!

Quite a few of us bought Shoo’s book which he signed too.

We had such a lovely day and the children were so well behaved. Smiles all round!

 

As part of our Length topic we brought in some teddies to measure. We are now really good at knowing which end of the measuring tape to start at and how to accurately measure. We worked in pairs to complete each teddy’s data file. It was a fun maths session!

What a lovely afternoon P1-4 have had! Ava Lily’s parents invited the class up to Dunskey Gardens to pond dip. We were accompanied by Ruby’s dad and Max and met there by Gabby, David, Charlene and Ava Lily’s mum, dad and Atticus. We had the most wonderful time. We found Water Boatmen, a frog, Pond Skaters, Damsel nymph flies and caddis fly larvae and learnt lots about the wildlife and plants to be found around a pond. Thanks to the Orr-Ewings for the invite!

 

 

P1-4 ventured outside today to do some measuring. Working in groups, the pupils used fairy steps, giant steps, a people chain and (finally) a metre stick to measure the playground. We decided that using a metre stick is the best way to measure accurately!

 

Well, the closing date for applications has come and gone. Mrs Ferguson has had a busy morning reading through them and, after consultation with other staff, the final line-up has been decided!

 

Announcement to be made this afternoon at assembly. Photos to follow too…

* First meeting is scheduled for Wednesday 23rd September

Yesterday Richard Arkless MP visited the school and we asked some questions about his job.

We asked him why he wanted to be an MP. He said the Scottish Referendum had inspired him and he loves his local area.

He told us an MP helps to make decisions to make places better.

Olivia and Jack gave him a tour of the school. I enjoyed meeting Richard Arkless MP.

Finlay P3

 

On Thursday 4th September Richard Arkless MP came to answer lots of our questions. Abbi and Lee welcomed him to our school, and Olivia and I were his tour guides. Rowan took some photos.

Richard Arkless is an MP for us. He wanted to do this job because of the Scottish Referendum and also he loves Stranraer (and Portpatrick!). It was good to see him – I liked it.

Jack P2

 

On 4.9.15 Richard Arkless MP came to Portpatrick Primary. He is an MP and he said it is his job to help to make this a better place to live.

Finlay asked him some of the questions we had thought of like what different things does an MP do. He said he needs to work in London sometimes and he also goes around the region to see people.

Next we asked him about the best and worst things about his job. He said he likes to help people but he misses not seeing his family as much.

After that we all got a photo with him and then we took him a tour of inside and outside our school.

I enjoyed meeting an MP.

Rhian P4

Photos taken by Rowan our photographer for the day. Many thanks to our ‘Welcomers’ Lee and Abbi for their friendliness, Tour Guides Jack and Olivia and Questioner Finlay – a great job done by all!

Laura McClymont from Active Schools visited us with Lorna Mackay on Thursday 27th August. We were taught some Pilates by Lorna. This helps you to become flexible and strong. It wasn’t as easy as we thought!

Hope everyone had a fabulous summer break. Welcome back to a new session at school where we have lots of exciting things ahead.

An extra special welcome goes out to our new Primary 1 pupils. We know that you are going to enjoy being pupils at Portpatrick Primary.