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Jake Williams Workshops

The P5 visits enjoyed workshops last Thursday with local musician Jake Williams. Jake has been doing a project with Deveron Arts about the River Deveron, and has walked from it’s source near the Cabrach to where it comes out to the sea at Banff. Along the way he has collected songs and ballads from the area. He played some of these to the p5’s. Songs included The Marchioness of Huntly, The Deveron Reel, Drumdelgie and The Burning of Auchindoon. The Song The Burning of Auchindoon was written in 1597 around the time of Mary Queen of Scots, and the p5s are hoping the learn it and perform it at the Launch of the Junior Tour Guides at Huntly Castle in early July .

Pupils had a chance to handle some of Jake’s musical instruments, which included a ukelele and a double guitar. Some pupils also took part in some impromptu highland dancing.

Jake told the classes about how he found two bottles on his travels along the Deveron. Inside the bottles were messages, written by past pupils from Gordon Primary! Pupils found this very exciting, and many thought it would be great to write their own messages to put in bottles.

The children enjoyed singing along with Jake and hearing old songs from this part of Scotland

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P2’s and P5’s Assembly

Last week p2’s and p5’s did an assembly about Makaton which is a way of communicating using hand signs. We learned a song and we all had fun singing the song, everyone was joining in. We learned some Makaton to go with the song. Some of the words we learnt to say using makaton included; hello, you, me, friend and play. The song is sung by Mr Tumble. P2 and P5 worked very hard to put their assembly together and learning the Makaton and teaching it to us. They did a very good job.

WELL DONE!

By Charis and Rachel P4

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Gardening News!

The gardening club were very busy this Monday decorating the raised beds in the sensory garden. Pupils painted each bed with pictures to represent the different sense that each bed is designated for.

The beds are looking very attractive now,with the thriving plants  and the clourful illustrations.

Meanwhile Mr Scrimshaw and a group of helpers put up the shed in the allotment grounds. Another group of pupils were planting bedding plants with Mrs Coutts.

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P7 Loch Insh Trip

A couple of weeks ago both of the Primary 7 Classes were picked up in a bus and sent to Loch Insh for their P7 residential trip. This was the first time Gordon Primary has been to Loch Insh so there was a lot of pressure on the pupils shoulders. If they misbehaved, Gordon Primary might not be aloud back at Loch Insh. They behaved very well and both the staff at Loch Insh and Gordon Primary were very impressed. They have booked for next year!

There were 3 activities per day, the first one after breakfast, the second after lunch and the third after dinner! All the activities were great fun and there was no boring or bad activities! The activities ranged from Mountain Biking to Windsurfing covering mostly everybodies interests!

The food was great, they got a cooked breakfast in the morning and a 3 course meal for dinner!  Each day they made a packed lunch in the morning, there was a lot of choice! On the last night of their stay, they had BBQ!  Everybody enjoyed the food and it covered everybodies tastes!

To be continued!

By Duncan (P7 Blogger)

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Butterfly mania!

Primary 4B’s butterflies burst from their chrysalis on Monday to Wednesday. We let two out on Tuesday.  Mrs Sell let some two out; one of them sat on a flower and one of them flew off to enjoy their lives.

Then on Thursday Emily, Jack and Caitlin each let one out.

One had a badly bent wing that Caitlin gently let out and she put it on a pink flower.

The sadness is that they only live for two weeks, so they find a mate and have babies. So we wish the painted ladies luck!

By Emily and Lewis P4

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Gardening Club

Every Monday 30 pupils, ranging from P2 to P6 have been working hard in the gardening club, helped by some parents and staff. They have got a lot accomplished in just a few weeks!

Some have marked out the boundaries of the new allotment, and helped in putting up posts.

Others have helped to fill the raised beds in the sensory garden with soil. The beds are designed to stimulate different senses; sight, hearing, touch, smell and taste. The gardeners have planted leeks, parsley, rosemary, sweet peas, marigolds to name but a few. With the warm weather and rainy showers, the plants are growing well and starting to become quite colourful.

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Balhousie Visit

On the 4th of June on Wednesday the whole of p4b went on a trip to Balhousie.

At the care home we made butterflies and worked with the residents who joined in with making them butterflies.

We used different techniques to decorate our butterflies, such as paint, finger painting, tissue paper and collage. They are going to be hung up on the wall in Balhousie, but were going to continue with our art work next week.

By Sanya and Emma P4B

On  Wednesday 28TH May 2014 our class primary 4b went to Balhousie care home and Jack’s dad built Balhousie care home. And we were doing art with the residents, including Korey’s granny. And we were decorating butterflies. The butterflies are going to be displayed at Balhousie on the Open Day on 20th June

By Finlay and Korey

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Chickmania

P4’s Cute and Cheerful Little Chicks.

Mrs. Coutts brought some eggs and a incubator to p4b and we now have eighteen cute, cheerful little chicks. It takes round about 21 days for them to hatch. We got them on the first of May and they hatched on the 21st of May. The incubator does three jobs: keeps them moist, keeps them turning for 18 days and keeps them damp. When the eggs were hatching it was very exciting because we’ve not seen it happening before. There are three black chicks, one yellow chick and ten stripy chicks. Mr. Scrimshaw took four home.

Some people in P4b are taking some chicks home when the chicks are old enough. Mrs. Sell thinks that the chicks are going to have a good home. And we have had fun with them.

By Rachel and Hilary P4b

Mrs Coutts bought brought some chicks eggs into P4B. Now they’ve all hatched and they are so cute. My friend Peter calls one of them Benjyman and they are now in a box with food and water. The floor is sawdust and droppings – yes droppings. They’re fluffy and when they came out the egg they were wet! And not so cute. Now they play with each other and we are happy.

By HARVEY AND AIDAN 4b

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Choir

On Wednesday 21st May the Choir did a wonderful performance of musicals at assembly. Mrs Innes loves MUSICALS! They worked so well together – smashing voices and the piano player was fab.

The songs included the Cup song, Castle on a Cloud and Frozen.

We can’t wait to join!

By Emily and Owen

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