The Nursery pupils have not been put off by the cold weather. They have been wrapping up warmly and working outside in their garden
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Monthly Archives: February 2012
Slow Marathon
Gordon Primary is going to join in with the Slow Marathon, organised by Deveron Arts.
Ethiopian artist Mihret Kebede would like to have walked 5850 from her home town of Addis Ababa to Huntly. This is not possible for her alone, so she is asking the people of Huntly to help her achieve this goal.
On 17th March there will be a Slow Marathon around Huntly, where walkers will walk around the hills of Huntly (the Battlehill, the Clashmach, the Ba’Hill and the Bin).
Pupils from Gordon Primary will be going on a walk in March (date to be confirmed) and sending details to Mihret so that she can add them to her total. If every pupil walked one mile, this could add almost 400miles to Mihret’s total!
Find out more about the Slow Marathon and how many miles have been donated so far;
http://www.deveron-arts.com/wb/pages/artists/mihret-kebede/slow-marathon.php
Nursery’s Scottish Day
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The Nursery also celebrated Robert Burn’s birthday. The pupils were encouraged to come to school wearing tartan. They enjoyed oatcakes and cheese for snack, followed by shortbread. They also listened and danced to some Scottish music.
By Duncan (P5 Glow Blogger)
Doric Poems
Classes in the school have been busy learning and reciting Scottish poems.
Winners have been chosen from each class, and these winners will recite their poems at assembly.
We are hoping to record some of these poems for you to enjoy on glow!
Congratulations to these winners.
P4A; Logan, Grant, Ahmed and Rachel
P4B; Ellie, Nicole, Amy and Mitch
P5A; Connor, Katie and Craig
P5B; Cameron, Murray, Samantha and Gabriele
P6A; Magnus, Georgina, Jack and David
P6B; Louisa and Beth, Samantha and Jasmine
P7A; Kyle, Fiona, Callum and Megan
P7B; Scott, Sandy, William and Grant
Bridge Building
P5B have been making bridges with Miss Crawford as part of the project Victorians. We have learned about the Tay Bridge disaster that took place in the victorian time over the River Tay. The more the trains went over the bridge the more bolts loosened and on the 28th Dec 1879 the bridge collapsed and 75 passengers and the crew died. This happened because it wasn’t tested properly.
Heres a web link to find out more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tay_Bridge_disaster
After looking at various bridge design of the Victorian period, P5B were given the challenge to build a bridge. The design brief required each group to produce a bridge which would allow access between two tables with a distance of at least 50cm. They would be tested to see how much weight their bridge could hold. The class were allowed to use only K’Nex in the building process.
The groups made lots of different models of bridges and some could hold a lot of books.
Chris’s tables bridge held 16KG!!!
Becky’s table held 15 maths jotters!!!
Nick’s table held 12 maths jotters!!!
Ross’s table held 5 maths jotters!!!
Felicity’s table held 3 maths jotters
Cameron’s table held 17 maths jotters
Heres a web link to see a full account of the bridge building:
P7 Scots Performance
Primary 7 put on a “Scots Performance” for parents on Tuesday 31st January, as part of celebrations for Burn Night.
Parents listened to Scottish songs, old and new and poems. They were treated to a display of highland dancing and heard scottish music played by violins, flutes and saxophones. Groups of pupils recited scottish poems written by Robert Burns himself, and also more modern poets. Everyone enjoyed the very entertaining “Haggis Dance”. The performance was brought to a dramatic close by a drumming display by Scott Dingwall.
£92 was donated by parents towards a collection for a local charity. P7 pupils will decide shortly which charity to donate it to. Among those that they may choose from are Huntly Area Cancer Support Group, GRAIN and Friends of Jubilee Hospital.
The P7s wil repeat the performance on Wednesday at the Upper Stages assembly.
Many thanks to everyone involved in making the performance a success!