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Huntly Castle Tour Guide Launch

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This afternoon the launch of the 4th year of Huntly Castle Tour Guides took place at Huntly Castle. A group of p5’s, who will be going up to P6 next session have been training hard at learning how to deliver a tour to groups of school children and other visitors to Huntly Castle. All the p5s have been learning a song from Elizabethan times, helped by Keith Cockburn.

Parents, members of the local community, Lumsden School  and the Huntly Express were all invited.

The new tour guides walked down to the castle, accompanied by the bagpipes, played by Jack McGowan.

The p5s sang a song connected to Huntly Castle, accompanied by Keith Cockburn. Other entertainment included a dance called the Pavanne, based on dances from the 17th century. The tour guides then delivered their first tour.

After that a group of children served refreshments.

The afternoon went very well  and we wish the new tour guides every success!

Thanks you also to the present P6 tour guides who have done a wonderful job of delivering tours this session!

See more photos here on the tour guide page on the right.

Castle Extravaganza!

Last Sunday (16th June) the Castle Tour Guides joined in an event at Huntly Castle that had been organised as a Fathers Day treat. Also at the castle were members of the Sealed Knot, a historical re-enactment group. They were dressed as Jacobites and had a wonderful assortment of old weapons such as muskets, rifles, axes and even 17th century bombs!

We all got quite a shock when the Sealed Knot soldiers fired their muskets during the tour! Luckily the tour Guides soon recovered their composure and carried on with the tour once they had stopped laughing.

Tour Guides

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This term the new tour guides have been taking on the challenge on learning the script.

A woman from Historic Scotland called Calen came in to the school to help train them. A couple of weeks ago they did a really fun workshop to help them, they played catch and pulled funny faces and vocal warm ups . They also did something called the blocking rehearsal  with Calen, which  is when you go round the castle and see where you need to stand and what features in the castle you would need to need to point to .

Good luck to all of them.

by Fiona and Ellie p5 bloggers and JTGS ( junior tour guides)

P6’s Coffee Morning

On Thursday the 9th of May the two p6 classes had a coffee morning. Which the planning went on over two to three weeks, and it was all organised by the P6’s themselves. The items that were included were

  • A cake stall.
  • A bring and buy sale.
  • A book stall.
  • Entertainment.
  • A raffle
The donations and money we raised came to a whopping £462.00 and shall be split between meningitis trust the RSPCA and our school trip. Thank you to everyone who bought cakes and to the parents who came to the coffee morning and to all those who donated.
 
 
 

Huntly Castle Junior Tour Guides

The P6 Tour Guides have started giving some Tours again.

They willn be passing their job over to the P5s soon. The P5s have been auditioned to see how good they are standing in front of a crowd of people and reciting something and now they are all going through training! Some Tour Guides have non-speaking parts which means they will act out what is being said in the script!

The script will be getting changed as parts of the Castle are getting done up!

By Duncan (P6 Blogger)

By Duncan (P6 Blogger)

 

P3 Easter Extravaganza

Don’t be fooled by the name it really was a extravaganza!!!!

P3 were in the spotlight on the Tuesday before the holidays. Amazing singing and dancing from all of the p3s. All of the blogger team enjoyed it, did you enjoy it?

All of the p3  remembered their lines and enjoyed themselves

Three cheers for the P3s!!!:)

The play was about the Easter story. They all dressed up to make it more life like.

The p3’s did one performance for the school and the following day another one for parents. Both performances were excellent!

By Ellie and Fiona p5b bloggers

Non-Matching Socks Day!

Last Thursday (21st March) was non-matching socks day at Gordon Primary school, organised by Primary 1.

Pupils were invited to wear non matching socks, and to bring a donation towards the Scottish Downs Syndrome society. Primary 1 pupils made badges, which they sold for 30p. They were so popular they all sold out, and more had to be made! Primary 1 also went around the school to collect the money, which they collected in a sock. It became VERY heavy.

More than £190 was collected, which has been sent to the society. Well done primary 1 for organising the day!

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Sharing Assembly

Last week  (13th March) Cameron and Katie from P6 told us about the Junior First Aid course that they had taken part in. They had learnt simple but important first aid guidelines, such as two different ways to help if someone is choking.

Well done Cameron and Katie.

Next Chris, Christine and Pietra told us how they have been busy raising money for Comic Relief by bouncing into school and home again on Space Hoppers. They explained how their journey has been made more difficult because of snow and ice …. and they have the bruises to prove it!  Well done Chris, Christine and Pietra for your  effort!

Finally P4A showed us what they have been learning about this term; they performed a poem “The Fight of the Year” by Roger McGough, complete with actions. Some of the class read poems that they had written themselves. Others told us they had been learning about electricity and learning how to make a circuit. They showed us models that they had made which had moving parts (a propeller on a helicopter) or parts that lit up (cats’ eyes).

Space Hopping (Comic Relief)

Hello readers today’s post is about space hopping. The people who are space hopping is Chris,Pietra and Christine we are going to be space hopping to school and back, to raise WONGA for Comic Relief. It will be fun but hopefully the snow will go away so we can bounce better. So if you see us at school please think about donating some money towards C0mic Relief!  Also the Huntly Express is coming to see us tomorrow as well, so look out for us we will be in the Huntly Express and you might see us at 8:OO am bouncing  to school !

by Chris and Pietra (P6 bloggers)