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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.

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

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.

Primary 4 Castle Tour

On Wednesday 5th of  June 2013 P4c went  to the glorious Huntly  castle . Eight p6s were going to give us a tour. The p6s were called  Tour Guides. First they showed us the bit that the old Castle was.

They said that their sons were all called  George. Then we went in the freaky Castle and then we went down stairs to the dungeons. The prisoners got chucked into the dungeons.

Then we went up to the kitchen we all felt hungry at the kitchen . There was a boy with one side of his face black with the fire.

When we were half way we played a game called “Cooks Coming”. In the game you have to play instruments, beg for mercy or chisel the wall. We played it in the Lords Lodging. We got to see the toilets and some of the p4cs sat on the smelly toilets. They were really stinky.

Then we went up more stairs to the Ladies Lodging. There were two fire places. Then we went downstairs to go out to explore outside. Some people fought that the brew pit was a spa and also an old swimming pool.

Then we walked back . Alec’s mum came with them and Reef’s mum came as well.

By Alec and John P4C

Tour guide news!

Gordon Primary is delighted to have been successful in it’s application to Huntly Cultural Fund for money towards developing the Huntly Castle Junior Tour Guides.  The school has been awarded £600.

We are planning to take the tours to the Balhousie Care home, the Meadows and Scott’s hospital. Some of the money awarded will be used to purchase a portable projector so that the Tour Guides can perform in front of photos of the castle.

We are also planning to introduce an Elizabethan style dance and songs into the tour; in this way the whole of Primary 5 can become involved, and this will really  bring the tours to life! Costumes will be made for singers and dancers.

Thank you Huntly Cultural Fund!

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)

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)

 

Tour Guides

The tours guides are ready to go and give tours around Huntly castle, and there will also be some mini junior guides coming soon…

Primary 5 pupils will be given a chance to watch the current tour guides and decide if they would like the opportunity to train to become a Tour Guide for next year.

Primary 5’s who want to become Tour Guides will have to work really hard. They will have to go through a lot of practicing at home and at school in order to become a successful tour guide. This years’ primary 6 tour guides will help them in their training.

Nursery Tour

The nursery were told about Huntly Castle by some of the Huntly Castle Junior Tour Guides.

They learnt about the kitchen and how the food was cooked in an enormous cooking pot. They learnt that the fire was never allowed to go out.

They were also told about the prison, the Great Hall and the Lords chamber.

Back at the nursery they made a soup just like the one that would have been made 400 years ago in the castle.