The launch of the 4th generation of Huntly Castle junior Tour Guides took place today, Wednesday 2cnd July.
Tour Guide Launch!
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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
New Tour Guides
Some of the p5s have worked very hard to pass their audition and have been chosen to become Huntly Castle Junior Tour Guides for when they come up to p6. They are now busy learning their scripts and getting training on how to be a good Tour guide. They have chosen their costumes, which are really pretty. The launch of the new tourguides will take place some time in June.
Meanwhile the present p6 tour guides have started taking tours again. The week the are doing a tour for pupils who are travelling all the way from Dyce Primary School.
by ellie p6 blogger
by ellie p6b blogger
Tour Guides
The tour guides have been practising their scripts again for the tour at Balhousie. It will be in a couple of weeks. The Tour Guides have been practising very hard and are very excited. The Tour Guides are hoping the elderly enjoy their talk.
By Greg (P6A)
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!
Huntly Castle Trip
P4b were taken on an exciting tour of Huntly
Castle last week.
The Junior Tour Guides led them down to the castle and told them about the history of the castle, how the different rooms were used and about life in the castle 700 years ago.
Primary 4 admired the beautiful frontispiece on the doorway of the castle, and learnt why some of it is missing. They were told what a mason’s mark is and saw one on the doorway.
Next they saw the dungeons and were told about the poor prisoners who were thrown in them.
After that they visited the kitchen and then the great hall. They P4s enjoyed playing a game called “Cooks Coming”.
After their tour the P4’s had to say one thing they had learnt on their tour.
The tour guides did an excellent job of showing the class around the castle. Thank you !
Summer Ceilidh
The Huntly Castle Tour guides and most P6s will be appearing at the Stewarts hall this Wednesday.
Last year The P5s did singing with Keith Cockburn, so to end the Summer ceilidhs the old P5s will be singing their Jacobite songs. Also the P6 Tour Guides will be doing a speech to get people to come to the castle.
The Summer ceilidhs are for all the family with lots of entertainment like singing, dancing and musicians.
By Fiona p6B Blogger:)
Summer Tour Guiding
In the holidays some of you guys would have been sunbathing while some people from Gordon Primary were busy at work. Each Wednesday of the holiday some of the P5s/6s delivered tours around Huntly Castle.
The tours were enjoyed by members of the public, including some chinese visitors who were delighted to see the guides with their sumptuous costumes. After school clubs and people from Huntly and the surrounding area also enjoyed the tour. All the Tour guides had to cope with all weather conditions so that means they had to do it rain or shine, including some torrential rain showers! They also took part in the Room to Roam festival in the square (organised by Deveron Arts) where they sang “The Jacobite” accompanied by Keith Cockburn. They also performed at the weekly summer ceilidhs in the Stewarts hall on Wednesday evenings .
The first week of tour guides was the week commencing 8th of July. Tours were given by Mitch Philippa Lola and Ellie.(public)
Week commencing the 15th of July Heather and Devinick(public)
Week comencing 21st of July Mitch Norah Caitlin Faye Freya Nicole Lola Christy and Fiona(Chinese students)
week commencing 29th of July Norah Fiona Caitlin Philippa Ellie Lola Fiona.B(After school club)
Week com3ncing 5th August Norah Faye Lola Nicole and Fiona(Public)
Week commencing 12th of August Lola Fiona.B Fiona and Heather(public)
All the Tour Guides would like to thank Mrs Raeburn and Mrs Greer with organising the tours throughout the summer.
By Fiona and Ellie glow bloggers and tour Guides
