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Paul Anderson

Pupils at the school were very lucky to be able to listen to Paul Anderson playing fiddle at assembly. Paul has been working with Deveron Arts, who arranged the visit into school.

Paul explained the difference between a fiddle and a violin. He then played some traditional scottish tunes. Everyone”s toes were tapping! Next he played some haunting music and asked everyone to close their eyes and try to imagine what the music was about. Some children thought the music was very sad. Paul told us that it was about the lady from Fyvie Castle. He then invited the school to walk around the hall in time to a tune.

Everyone enjoyed listening to the music and learning more about fiddle music.

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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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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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Ballroom Dancing

For P.E. primary 6A and 6B classes have been doing ballroom dancing. We have been learning the Elephant Walk- it is very funny to do or to watch, also the song is very catchy. The Quick Waltz is very elegant, then there is the Mambo which is very hard and you need to be fast at it. 

Mr.Robertson has been teaching us the dances, it is fun.         

By Morgan Minty P6A Blogger.

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P1 Nativity

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On Tuesday 17th December the Primary 1 Classes did their Nativity, they did one show for the parents and another for the school! The parents and all the pupils thought it was great!

There were 5 children in Pyjamas narrating the story of the first christmas, the singing was great and they remembered the words really well, the songs were very merry! The Nativities are always good but this was one of their best ones!

By Duncan (P7 Blogger)

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P3 Assembly

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Mrs Jamieson’s Primary 3 class shared what they have been learning in a very interesting assembly attended by staff, pupils and P3 parents.

The children had been watching the Nutcracker ballet.

The children thought about the main characters in the ballet, (Clara, the Nutcracker, the mouse king) and thought about wow words to describe them. They also described the setting of the story.

They wrote their own endings to the story of the Nutcracker. In science they made simple circuits, drew pictures of the Nutcracker and used the circuits to light up the buttons of their Nutcrackers.

They also really enjoyed watching the ballet and listening to the music.

Well done Primary 3; thank you for sharing your project with us!

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Saint Andrews Day in the Nursery

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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

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Talented Composers

Some budding composers from P4 had their musical compostions played by the Isla Quartet at a concert at the Tin Hut on Saturday 16th November.

The concert was recorded by BBC Radio 3, so their compositions will be heard all over the country!

Mr Main, specialist music teacher at the primary school had been asked to get a group of children to compose some short pieces of music for the Quartet to play.

A quartet is a group of 4 musicians. The Isla Quartet consists of 2 violins, a viola and a cello. They played work by Mendelssohn and local composers David Ward and Ronald Center.

Well done to Aidan, Alanah, Alasdair, Alasdair, Annie, Bente, Caitlin, Charis, Finn and Paige for your compositions.