Monthly Archives: February 2013

FAIRTRADE Tuckshop

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The Fairtrade Tuckshop began yesterday (beginning of Fairtrade Fortnight)! It will run all the way through Fairtrade Fortnight and after Fairtrade Fortnight has finished it will run on Fridays each week!! The queue was very long!

It has made over £80 in 2 days!

The names and costs of the products are below.

Dubble Bars £0.75

Chocolate Buttons £0.60

Yoghurt Raisins £0.65

Chocolate Toffee £0.40

Divine bars £o.85

Many thanks to the Fairtrade reps who are helping to run the tuckshop.

By Duncan (P6 Blogger)

Orchestra

 On Monday after school there is an Orchestra practice. Mrs McIntosh and Mrs Innes hold Orchestra and choose the pieces of music we play.

There are several instruments including violins, cellos, trumpets, trombones, oboes, flutes and clarinets.

Sadly, Orchestra is going to stop for Easter and start again at Winter. They are not planning to do an concert.

The songs they are playing now is the Chariots of Fire, Air on the G string and the water music.

By Cameron (P6 Blogger)

Trio Assembly.

 

  • Last week we had 3 groups all coming to tell us about things. We started of with P5A’s  sharing assembly. They  read book reviews, writing and some information about their project about the jacobites. Groups had done research on 3 famous people from that time; Bonnie Prince Charlie, Flora McDonald and the Duke of Cumberland (nicknamed “the Butcher.”) They showed us models of blackhouses that they had made.
  • Then Carl Wright and Jake Florence had some very good news to tell us. They are climbing Mt Kilimanjaro. !!!!! !!! Tit will take about 5 days to complete the climb. They are raising money through their climb for Cancer research and Help for Heroes.
  • Plus we had the Fairtrade reps to tell us about Fairtrade fortnight. They reminded us why we should support Fairtrade. They also told us that the Fairtrade tuckshop would be running over the fortnight!

By Fiona and Sophie P5B Bloggers

Girls Cricket

After school girls cricket club is a cricket club for girls age P3 to P7. Its in the school hall at 3:45 to 4:45 on a Tuesday. It is organised by Active Schools Aberdeenshire and run by Neil Nichol.

We desperately hope new people join us for cricket as numbers are running low. At the moment there are only 7 or 8 of us and Neil wants to have a Gordon Primary girls cricket team.  This involves turning up to training and cricket Matches. Please come!!!:)

By Fiona P5 Blogger

FAIRTRADE Fortnight

Fairtrade fortnight will be starting soon (February 25th to March 10th).

The FAIRTRADE representatives from all the classes in the school have been busy having meetings and deciding how they could help to promote Fairtrade over the fortnight.

There will be a Fairtrade tuckshop during the fortnight, run by the P4, 5,6, and 7 Fairtrade representatives. There will also be a sculpture/collage competition; each class is invited to bring in Fairtrade wrappers and packets and use these to make a sculpture or collage which will be displayed in the school. Photos of the artwork will be uploaded to the Fairtrade website.

There will also be a Fairtrade logo hunt in the school grounds during the second week.

Primary 4 Fairtrade reps have written letters to parents about the Fairtrade activities. Some reps have been busy making logos (for the treasure hunt) and badges. P 1-3 reps spoke to the early stages at assembly about the fortnight , and P5-7 reps wrote and delivered an assembly to the Upper Stages, reminding them why we should try and support Fairtrade and how Fairtrade helps some farmers to get a better (and fair) deal..

The Primary 6 classes are looking at Fairtrade as their project. P6B designed some lovely posters to promote the fortnight and the tuckshop.

Find out about Fairtrade with Aberdeenshire

http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/green/fairtrade/index.asp

P6a Advertisments

P6a have been planning an advertisement poster to advertise a random product, this product will not exist and will be made up!

Some people have made up a product like Tractor Polish to make the tractor shiny it comes in loads of different colours! Also someone is going to sell a celebrity’s used toilet and toilet roll! Also there is product that includes Will-I-Am’s finger nails which will make money if you whack it with a frying pan! There are loads more advertisement ideas!

After the plan/poster plan has been made they will then make the poster. They have learnt that an advertisment doesn’t have much writing just a few sentences and a picture of the product and if they have anough time they will make a video!

By Duncan (P6 Blogger)