The launch of the 4th generation of Huntly Castle junior Tour Guides took place today, Wednesday 2cnd July.
Tour Guide Launch!
Tag Archives: P5
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
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
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
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
P5a Assembly
Last week (Wednesday 28th Febuary) Primary 5a presented an assembly about their topic, the Jacobites.
They have been learning about the Jacobites since the start of term 3, they have learnt loads and are very knowledgable about them.
Their Assembly was about a group of children from Gordon Primary who built a time machine and decided to visit the time of the Jacobites. The Jacobites spoke a different language at first (gaelic) but then they found out they spoke English. The children from the past and the children from Gordon Primary had a chat, and compared their lives. The jacobite children worked hard every day collecting water, looking after animals and collecting firewood. They drank water if they were thirsty, and ate shop, bread and cheese. They didn’t eat potatoes because they hadnt been introduced to Scotland yet. They had no electricity, mobile phones. The children learnt how different life was back in the time of the Jacobites.
The whole school and P5 parents enjoyed the assembly and learnt a lot!
By Duncan (P7 Blogger)
friendship tree
As you had probably noticed there is a tree in the school hall thats looking a bit bare at the moment.
The whole school is taking part in a big tree from the famous quote “friendship is a sheltering tree.” Each class has beeen getting little bits and bobs, such as leaves insects and flowerpots. As their project p6 has been learning about friendship and bullying and the class came up with the idea to make a tree representing “we are all Gordon Primary School.”
everybody will be taking part even the teachers.
The Nursery and P1s will be getting flower pots, they will put their names on the pot and write what they think friendship is on the petals.
P2s to p7s will be doing leaves that they can decorate with their names. Also they will be getting insects or birds to write on what they think friendship is.
The staff will be getting watering cans to sign.
So every single person in Gordon Primary will be taking part.
We are looking forward to seeing the completed tree flourishing and full of leaves!
by Fiona p6 blogger
Christmas Fair
Thank you to everyone who attended the Christmas Fair and the adults and children who were helping out. The choir were excellent and the orchestra were superb. The christmas fair raised an astonishing £1853. Thank you to the P.T.A members and Mrs Innes who organised the fair and also thank you to the pupils who made the crafts.
Almost everything was sold ! The girls who were helping sell the P1 fatballs made up a motto “save the birds,buy a fatball”
Well done to everyone who took part; it was greatly appreciated.
These are the things that were available:
felt badges, fat balls, homemade bags, sweetie cones, candle holders, cards, bookmarks, nail painting, decorations, tattoos and many other things.
The raffle was a big success.
By Caitlin p6b blogger
Fairtrade
At the Fairtrade council we have all noticed that there was not as many Fairtrade products in the supermarkets as there were a few years ago.
So some people from Fairtrade group have agreed that they will go round the supermarkets an some local shops to see who has the most Fairtrade products. We have made a list of things we should think there should be in the supermarket such as
bananas
coffee
tea
sugar
and a few more things.
we think there should be a trophy for the shop with the most Fairtrade products in it. We will have a meeting in a few weeks to see what we found out.
by Fiona p6Blogger and Fairtrade rep
P5 Science fun
In P5b They have been having lots of fun in science making boats out of tin foil and see how much paper clips they could put in tje boa before it sunk. They did all the planning together and diecided how they were going to build it. It sounds really good fun I wish I was in that class.
By Fiona P6 blogger
