Classes for 2013-14

Everyone has been pleased to learn about classes and teachers for next session, and I am here to tell you about them. First of all , we shall start with the nurseries and the lower stages.

In the Nurseries the 2  teachers shall be Mrs McGowan who shall be returning to the nursery for a second time and Mrs. Wheeler who is new to the school.

Lower stages next,

P1A  Miss.Love who is also new  to the school

P1B  Mr.Wood

P1-2  Mrs.Innes

P2A  Mrs.Webster

3A  Miss.Crawford

3B  Mrs.Jameison

4A Mrs.Fraser

4B  Mrs.Sell/Mrs.Mansell

5A Miss Barrere

5B Miss Coull

5C  Miss Gelati

6A Mrs Fitzpatrick

6B Mrs. Barcley and Miss Murray

P7A Mrs McIntosh

and finally P7B are getting Mrs Philp Smith

I hope you have a fabby holiday and have an amazing time with your new teachers in August everyone .

By Caitlin P5

Tour guide launch

Good luck to all the tour guides who will be doing their first tour tomorrow at the Grand Launch!

The new tour giudes 2012/2014 are

group 1

Faye  and Lucas             Caitlin and Christy

Group 2

Philippa and  Mitch           Fiona H  and Aimee

Group 3

Tasmin and  Lola      Ellie and liam

Group 4

Liam and Hannah    Fiona B and Heather

group 5

Freya and Nicole   Norah and Ali

So back to the tour guide launch. It will take place on Wednesday the 3RD of July. There will be 5 tours. The first 3 groups will guide the pupils and staff of Lumsden Primary around the castle. Everyone’s parents or guardians are coming along to watch the fabulous show. Other important people from the community have been invited, such as members of Huntly Development Trust (Donald Boyd and Fiona Manson), Claudia Zeiske from Deveron Arts, Pat Scott from the Huntly Express and many other people.

The tour guides will be wearing 17th Century costumes. They will be piped down by Jack McGowan. All P5s have a part to play. Some will be singing an elizabethan song, accompanied by Keith Cockburn and others will be dancing a Pavanne. Some pupils will be  handing out refreshments at the end of the tour.

This is a copy of the invite.

Invitation

Dear_________________,

Gordon Primary Huntly Castle Junior Tour Guides request the pleasure of your company at our Grand Launch.

On Wednesday the 3rd of July 2013

At Huntly Castle*

From 1:30 – 3:00

Refreshments will be provided.

Please R.S.V.P. by Monday the 24th of June 2013

*Huntly Castle location weather permitting

Early Stages Sports

P4c went to see the lower stages sports.  And the sun was shining and they were doing javelin, superman, egg and spoon race,and hurdles.

They were trying to get the ball into the tyre, they were running  round poles, stiltwalking, kicking the ball round poles and jumping in a sack.

Primary 1, 2 and 3 worked really hard at their sports day and they had a lot of fun.

By Louise and Kirsten

P6 Trip to Haddo House

Both p6 classes had a trip to Haddo House, during their time there they attended a Murder Mystery around the grounds!

The Murder Mystery was 2 miles long and it took 2hrs to complete. They had to walk all around the grounds searching for Clues, some clues were hard to find and some were easy! The clues were objects around the grounds such as logos, information boards and lots of other objects around the grounds!

The classes were split into groups and each group had a teacher with them with the answer sheet!

When they got back a person from each group and went onto the website that the Murder Mystery was organised by and typed in their reference number and wrote in their details and left a comment to the organisation!

Everyone enjoyed their trip to Haddo House and also everyone came back smiley and cheerful!

If you would like go on a Murder Mystery trail like this one then use this website to get one booked:

http://www.treasuretrails.co.uk/

By Duncan (P6 Blogger)

Sharing Assembly

We enjoyed the sharing assembly today, watching 2 different dances.

First Mrs Innes’s Primary 1 class showed us the dance that they have been learning.  They looked very smart wearing kilts and their dance was excellent.

Then the new Huntly Castle Tour Guides (the present p5’s) showed us the dance that they havebeen learning for their launch, which is taking place at Huntly Castle next week. They danced a Pavanne, and looked very impressive wearing their beautiful costumes.

4c’s Tadpoles and Frogs

4c has lots of tadpoles and baby frogs. And they are swimming fast. The baby frogs are green colour with a hint of brown in their body. We are really lucky to have tadpoles and frog-lets in our class. Some baby frog-lets are back where they belong in the Bin Forest but you can find them anywhere in a damp place. Once when we put two baby frog-lets in a tub and one nearly escaped but luckily our teacher Mrs Sell caught it in the tub, and it was lucky that it didn’t die.

By Zoe and Keira P4C

Peregrine Watch Trip

First we went on the bus  to the  peregrine  watch,  then  we played a game. Then we went pond dipping  for 20  minutes.   Next  we  went fishing for shrimp. I saw a frog that had no fear of a human.

Then we went hiking up a hill –  it took ten to thirty minutes  to get up the hill.

Then we all had our  lunch then we  went to the hide to look at wildlife. The peregrine  was  not there  but  when we  all got on the bus I saw a great big bird .

By nathan P4C

P5 At Culloden

There have been many,many fun and exciting events happening all at the same time. One of them has been the trip to Culloden for Primary 5. The p5 classes have been learning about the Jacobites and the Jacobite rising.

Both primary 5 classes attended and most came back happy and cheerful, others came back a bit unhappily because they did not get to see the museum but they enjoyed the rest of it.

Inside the building there was a little cafeteria,museum,gift shop and the education room and that is were the p5s went.

In the education room, we were all given tags to wear around our necks, They were three different colours and those colours were Red which represented a Government army supporter, Blue that represented a Jacobite supporter and white that represented people that had not made their mind up or  don’t support either of the sides. Four of the cards had names on them such as Francis Townley, Anne Mackintosh, James Mackintosh, Anne McKay and a couple more; the p5 got to dress up as them. There were 4 main countries that fought in the Jacobite’s and government troops and they were France who were Jacobite’s, the highlands and lowlands were also Jacobite’s.  The Scot’s and the English were a mixture and many people would risk their lives to protect their countries and regions. When we were out on the Culloden moor, we saw a little cottage that we thought was a black house at first but it wasn’t. The cottage was where the Jacobite’s camped during their wait for the government troops.

It was a very long journey to Culloden and back and to occupy ourselves we sang  and sang and sang to our hearts content. some people though did not feel well and they were sick ! But everyone had a great time, and learnt a lot on their trip.

Sports day

Tuesday 18Th June 2013  the upper stages all attended down at the field. Parents to come down and watch us too.  Everyone was really good. It was really fun and everyone took part. We are really excited to hear the results. First classes took part in fun races , like  the monkey run,the three legged race, the crab race, football dribbling and the five shirt race. Then every class took part in a flat race. Everyone was pleased that the weather was good enough to hold sports day, epecially the p4s, who had not had a sports day for 2 years!

We are now hoping that the weather is good enough for the Lower Stages to be able to have their sports tomorrow!

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