The Primary 7’s are going to be having a World War II day on Friday 21st November. Each pupil paid £2.00 to pay for someone to come and do a talk and art to do with World War II. Patrick Scott, a local Huntly historian, will come in to give a presentation about the War.
Both classes are looking forward to Friday
By Duncan (P7 Blogger)
Last week we planted trees. We left the school at 10 o’clock and walked to the meadows. On the way we saw tiny rabbits. We finally got to the amazing meadows. First we had to get gloves from a man with a black bag. Then we got into groups and we all planted tiny trees. Next we all got to see everyones trees. Me and Annie planted a tree together and we named it Smeagall. We all had a marvellous time and we really did not want to go back to school. As time went on we got to have our play piece. Just before we went went we quickly got to plant one last tree. Then we walked all the way back to school.
By Davina P4A
Volunteers from Vision Romania came to Gordon Primary last Friday to pick up the shoeboxes that have been donated by pupils and parents. A grand total of 80 shoeboxes had been assembled!
These will shortly be making their way to Romania, where they will be given as a Christmas present to young children in Romania. For these children, the shoebox will be their only Christmas present. We are sure they will be delighted with the contents!
Many thanks to all the people who put together a shoebox!
On Thursday 7th November the shoe boxes need to be in so that the people from Vision Romania can collect the shoe boxes and take it to Romania in time before the snow gets too bad.
The children in Romania would be delighted to recieve any christmas presants even if it is only something small like a packet of pencils and a pad of paper. Thank you to everyone who has donated items to go into the shoe boxes.
P2, P4 and P5 classes have been doing some tree planting, organized by Aberdeenshire Council, at the Meadows! They have planted blackthorn, hazel and other types of trees.
The classes have all enjoyed themselves loads!
By Duncan (P7 Blogger)
Gordon Primary School were recently asked to contribute to an art exhibition at the Gartly community hall , known as “The Tin Hut”.
Artwork by Lauren, Abbie, Isla and Aidan from P5B was selected. The colourful landscapes in oil pastel that the children had done with Mrs Wills, was exhibited over the first weekend of the October break. The pictures were greatly admired by visitors to the exhibition. Hopefully the school can contribute to the exhibition in future years.
(Pictures to follow)
P6a and p6b are going to Satrosphere in Aberdeen with Mrs Fitzpatrick and Mrs Mansell and a few helpers on Thursday 30th October . When we are there we are going to learn a lot about science. It sounds really interesting. We are really looking forward to our trip because it is going to be very exciting and we think we are going to get to do a few experiments and learn new tricks and more information.
Primary 4B have been making crow masks that could be worn at the Halloween parade that is taking place this Saturday.
The theme of the Halloween festivities this year is “On the back of the North Wind”, named after a book by the famous Huntly writer George McDonald. Crows feature often in his stories. Crows (or Corbies) will be appearing at the parade, along with the Huntly Pipe Band.
Mrs Chalmers came into school last week to help P4B make the masks. They will be decorated with feathers.
As you know we all took part in a lepra workout last week. The money that we fundraised was all counted and we raised over three thousand pounds so well done to everybody that fundraised. For the workout we did some aerobics . For the aerobics we did some side stepping and walking forward and clapping and stretches.
The money raised all goes to Lepra, who will use it to help improve the lives of people suffering from leprosy.
A very important visitor came to visit Gordon Primary on Monday.
Dennis Robertson, MSP for Aberdeenshire West came to visit the Learning Council at lunchtime. The council had invited Alec Salmond, the first Minister to visit the school and give them advice about running a council.
Unfortunately Mr Salmond was too busy to be able to come, but we were very grateful that Mr Robertson was able to come instead.
Mr Robertson talked to the reps about running a council. He told them it was very important to listen to the views and ideas of others. He told them about elections, and described how he had to wait until 6 o’clock the morning following the last general election to find out if he had won the election. It was very tiring, but very exciting.
Mr Robertson was accompanied by his guide dog Mr Q.
He asked the children about their school lunches, and admitted that he was very fond of cheese and tuna paninis (which were on Mondays menu.)
The representatives really enjoyed meeting Mr Robertson and learnt a lot about running a council. We would like to thank him for taking the time to visit Gordon Primary School.
