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
Well done to the Gordon Primary Quiz team who were runners up in the Annual Rotary Club Quiz! Team members Lucas, Nick, Murray and Ross came within one mark off joint first place. Amelia, another team member joined forces with children from other schools to create a mixed team for the evening.
On 20th March there was a Ballroom Dancing Competition held at the Stewarts Hall. There were other local schools there as well. It was a great fun. Notes were sent out asking if anyone wanted to start ballroom dancing lessons on Thursday. P6 have learn’t two dances and the Elephant Walk. They learned all three of the dances in six weeks.
A big well done to both of the p6 classes, you all did well.
by Sophie p6 blogger
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.
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)
Primary 6A from Gordon Primary school were wondering if you would be kind enough to include in your article about our Chinese day on Friday 31st January 2014. With a chinese pupil joining our class we decided to base our topic on a trip that starts in Huntly and ends in Fujian, China. We worked in our co-operative groups to pull it off and produce our very own travel guide. We started off the day by doing some Chinese homework talks including some power points and a song composed by a pupil. Then we went on to dressing up in Asian and Scottish clothes.
We have our very own China wall in our class with some pictures we made in homework. Some of us chose to write about how people in China live and work. We also got to learn a Scottish poem for homework that we would read to the class. We had to include actions and the best three will be chosen as winners. then one of them will read their winning poem at Assembly.
By Greg ( P6A )
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
On Tuesday 3rd December, 47 pupils from P6 and 7 classes got a chance to go to AECC in Aberdeen to find out what the sort of jobs the sea has to offer!
They arrived a little late and sadly missed the beginning of the presentation. The presentation was about how they got the gas and oil out of the ground and the machinary they use to achieve this. Some of the equipment used is made up of more than 1000 pieces, they would use a crane to lower the machinery down to the site where they will be extracting the oil and gas, then they will gradually build the machinary up so that they could extract the oil and gas from the pools underneath the sea!
The second talk was about renewable energy. Firstly, they discussed what sort of energy was renewable, the person that was explaining about renewable energy, worked for the wind industry and he talked about how they made energy from the wind. He also explained about how they will soon be using the sea to get power from the wind because it is windier off coast and also people can’t see the turbines (which helps loads)!
The third presentation was about the sea animals in the Moray Firth, the lady told the pupils about some of the thousands of sea creatures in the Moray Firth!
The fourth speaker told the group about diving. He told them about how much pressure there is on top of diver when they are under water and how they use oxygen and carbon dioxide but they have to give the diver helium after they have dived 50m. He then told the group about helmets and how you could make a helmet from a bucket, you would just have to add some weights, a window and a tube for air! He then asked if Mrs McIntosh and 2 pupils could come up to try the helium, their voices were very squeaky!
Everyone really enjoyed theirselves!
By Duncan (P7 Blogger)
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
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
