Author: Mrs Baillie

Primary 5-7 have been busy learning about how to make Ice cream, using resources from “science on the menu” .  The children were provided with a variety of fresh fruits and yogurts/milk by Ms Whorlow.  They had to select the ingredients that they thought would combine well, before mixing them and turning them into ice cream – all without the use of a freezer!

This learning and teaching was in preparation for a competition which 2 of the Primary 7 pupils will be entering.  They will have to design and market their own ice cream flavour, utilising locally sourced ingredients.

Have a look at the photographs to see the ice cream making in progress – Mrs Baillie did taste some of the finished products and was pleasantly surprised!

 

Well done to our Rotary Quiz team of Lara, Magnus, Finn and Callum who were runners up in the annual Stranraer and district Rotary Quiz!

Congratulations to Lachlan, Callum, Finn and Dillon who all played football throughout the Winter league, on a Monday night at the 3G pitch in Stranraer.  The boys played as part of the Leswalt/Portpatrick United football team.  At the final prize giving the team were delighted to be given a shield as 4th placed out of ten teams.  The boys played really well as a team and managed to finish top of all the country schools and above 3 teams from larger town schools.  Great work!

Congratulations to our Primary 7 team of Lara, Kelsey, Isla and Emily who went along to the Primary 7 Curling’s cool school tournament, at The North West Castle Ice rink.  Out of all the local Primary schools, the Portpatrick team finished up as runners up! 

Well done – and watch out Eve Muirhead and co!

The annual Burns club competition was held recently in the Ryan Centre in Stranraer.  It was a very difficult job for the judges, as the standard of recitations and singing was very high – from every school in the area.

However,  Portpatrick Primary pupils returned to school , triumphant!

Lachlan was 2nd in his poetry class, Mia was 3rd for her singing and Abbigale won her singing class!

As well as that, Abbigale went on to win the trophy for the best singer and Portpatrick Primary school won the trophy for best performing school.

Well done to Lachlan, Mia, Lara, and Abbigale – we are very proud of you all.

You have shown everyone what stars you are!

Primary 5-7 recently had a fun filled 3 days away to Lockerbie, where they took part in a range of different physical activities.  The children were full of enthusiasm – and smiles!  Have a look at the photographs to see all the fun we got up to  -(this is only a small selection of the 1000 photographs we actually took!)

What a busy day the boys and girls of Portpatrick had today!

They have been filmed all day as part of the BBC Sport Relief , Blue Peter wave runner challenge.  The film crew arrived at 9.30 am and left at 3pm.  The children were followed be a camera crew as they went up to Portpatrick Hotel to hold their snowdrop teas.  This event which was generously supported by the Portpatrick Hotel and Dunskey estate , raised £328 – of which a donation was made to Sport Relief.

Back at the school in the afternoon,  the children got the paintbrushes out and painted some banners to take with them to the harbour at night time – to welcome the “wave runner” to Portpatrick.

Have a look at all the fun we have had – being filmed as we make our way about Portpatrick.  The programme is due to air on Blue Peter on either the 3rd or 10th of March.

And to top it all , all the boys and girls were delighted to go home having being given a Blue Peter badge – a fabulous achievement in itself ! 

Primary 5-7 recently had a series of science lesson which was conducted by use of the video conference facilities, and linked to Glasgow Science centre where Heather Reid MBE (formally “Heather from the weather”) was there to lead and teach the pupils all about forces.

The children listened to what Heather was telling them, in Glasgow and answered her questions.  They were able to test out various applications of forces – and had great fun making their own catapults!

Primary 5-7 and Ms Whorlow tried their hand at cookery today with a difference – they were restricted to World War 2 food rations.  On the menu they had some fruity buns (which included apples, sultanas and prunes) as well as a “mock apricot tart” .  No apricots were actually used in the making of this sweet flan dish –  in fact it was a combination of carrots and jam! 

The fruity buns definitely passed the taste test – however the mock apricot flan was not quite so heartily tucked into.  Callum did enjoy eating it and was quick to tell his classmates “it is actually not all that bad!”

Have a look at the photographs below to see how the children created these World war 2 recipes.

 

The senior pupils enjoyed some winter sunshine yesterday to take part in some outdoor maths with speed distance and time calculations, with Miss Whorlow.

The lesson objectives were to

* Recognise and apply the relationship between speed, time and distance * Applying links to algebraic formulae  * Children to estimate then measure the length of the football pitch in metric units. (Convert between m-km to apply decimals for extension) * Children to run a set distance  * Use stop watches to time the duration of the ‘race’ * Use ICT  graph and/or table formulation for a league table of result * Apply the D/S/T/ triangle: Speed = Distance ÷ Time

The p5-7 pupils coped admirably with the tricky calculations, and were glad to take advantage of a lovely dry day outside.