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Daily Archives: December 4, 2013
P6/7 Trip (Careers Talk)
On Tuesday 3rd December, 47 pupils from P6 and 7 classes got a chance to go to AECC in Aberdeen to find out what the sort of jobs the sea has to offer!
They arrived a little late and sadly missed the beginning of the presentation. The presentation was about how they got the gas and oil out of the ground and the machinary they use to achieve this. Some of the equipment used is made up of more than 1000 pieces, they would use a crane to lower the machinery down to the site where they will be extracting the oil and gas, then they will gradually build the machinary up so that they could extract the oil and gas from the pools underneath the sea!
The second talk was about renewable energy. Firstly, they discussed what sort of energy was renewable, the person that was explaining about renewable energy, worked for the wind industry and he talked about how they made energy from the wind. He also explained about how they will soon be using the sea to get power from the wind because it is windier off coast and also people can’t see the turbines (which helps loads)!
The third presentation was about the sea animals in the Moray Firth, the lady told the pupils about some of the thousands of sea creatures in the Moray Firth!
The fourth speaker told the group about diving. He told them about how much pressure there is on top of diver when they are under water and how they use oxygen and carbon dioxide but they have to give the diver helium after they have dived 50m. He then told the group about helmets and how you could make a helmet from a bucket, you would just have to add some weights, a window and a tube for air! He then asked if Mrs McIntosh and 2 pupils could come up to try the helium, their voices were very squeaky!
Everyone really enjoyed theirselves!
By Duncan (P7 Blogger)
P6/7 school trip ( The gym bit!!)
Yesterday some of the lucky P6/7s got to go on a school trip to the exhibition centre in aberdeen and the Beacon Boys gym in Bridge o’Don. You will find out about the talk at the exhibition centre somewhere else in the blog but I am going to tell you about the gym. The gym was really good. There were two coaches and lots of equipment!!
There was a very wierd bouncy floor, a floor beam, a beam, a couple of centre meters of the ground beam and a compition beam, parallel bars, a trapeze and a tramproline. All the girls on the trip got to try the beam they had to try and walk backwards on the beam none of them fell off the beam. There was also a very long bouncy tramproline that was Really fun, but it wasn’t like your tramproline that you have in your back garden,it was much bigger and bouncier and made for gymnastics. Everybody got to go on the tramproline everbody really enjoyed it some people couldn’t stop laughing it was so fun. There was a volt wich was very springy that you would have to jump on and then land on a mat you were told to try and land perfectly on the mat but it was hard. The boys got to jump over a horse (not a real one.) and hold their own weight on parellel bars and go along it. On the bouncy floor mat they warmed up with some running and some stretches then they cooled down after.
It was really good fun thank you to the two tutors Mrs McIntosh, Mrs Deadman, Mrs Duncan, Mr Copper And Ms Whyte.
By Fiona P6 Bloggers
Saint Andrews Day in the Nursery
On Friday the nursery celebrated Saint Andrews day. The children and been invited to wear a touch of tartan. P6 pupils provided the entertainment. Aiden played the accordion, Lucas played the chanter and Logan recited a Scottish poem. The nursery pupils made stovies and ate them all. They even made their own tartan and their own pictures. After that they also did some scottish dancing and a fiddler also came in and played some tunes: they really enjoyed it. It sounded really good and fun. They had an amazing time. they said that their stovies were fine.
by Ellie and Sophie p6b bloggers
Creative Place!
All the prize winners of the Huntly cultural fund met together in the hall of the Parish Church on at 7 o’clock on Tuesday 3rd December.
These included many groups that are developing creative projects in the community, such as the Huntly Pipeband, Huntly Summer School, Dudendance and Gordon Primary’s Huntly Castle junior tour guides.
Philippa and Hannah went to along represent the tour guides, dressed in their beautiful costumes. They did an excellent job of telling other community groups about the Junior Tour Guides and about how we intend to use our Cultural Fund award.
More details about the Cultural Fund can be found here
http://huntly.net/cultural-fund/
Well done Philippa and Hannah!
Choir
The choir sang beautifully on Sunday at the Parish Church.
They sang lots of different songs that include Silent Night, Away in a Manger and 2 other Christmas Carols. The choir shall be performing at the end of term service and will possibly be singing at Balhousie for the old folks. They have been practising hard once a week.
