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Olympic Torch Run

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On Tuesday 26th June,  Ciara Ennis, one of the Olympic torch bearers came to Gordon Primary with her torch.

Pupils were asked to donate £2, if they wanted to have their photos taken holding the olympic torch.  “It was very exciting,” said Tasmin from P4a, “because it is the first time I have seen an olympic torch in my life.”

The whole school (apart from P7s ,who are at Glenshee) then took part in a lap around the school playing field behind Ciara who was holding the Olympic Torch.

The money collected from the photographs will be donated to school funds.

Thank you Ciara!

The olympic torch

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On Thursday the Olympic torch came to Gordon primary.   Jamie Law and Angela Shearer, Olympic Torch bearers, came with the Olympic torch and told us how they got nominated for holding it.

Angela got nominated by Graham Esson who owns  Costcutter in Huntly because she of her work organizing  the Relay for Life for cancer research UK because she lots her granny and a good friend to cancer .

Jamie got nominated by someone who worked in a hospital because Jamie had a stroke. He told us how excited he was at carrying and how proud he was when he was walking with the torch.

Angela and Jamie told us they felt very felt lucky and honoured to be chosen and they would always remember the experience. They said they would put the torch in a special place and pass it on to their children.

by Ellie p4b glow bug blogger

Litter pick!

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Primary 7s had a very busy day today (12th June) clearing up rubbish from the Meadows. They were shocked at the amount of rubbish, and by the sort of things that people are thoughtlessly throwing away. As well as the normal glass and plastic bottles, food wrappers and containers they were surprised to find old electrical items, furniture and bikes had been thrown away instead of being disposed of properly.

They contacted the council, who came later in the day to remove the large piles of rubbish that they had collected.

Well done P7!

Mini Olympics

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Yesterday the P4s took part in a Mini Olympics with other schools from the Huntly area. The events were;

javelin, shot put, sprinting race,long jump, triple jump, hurdles . Then we did some races at the end of the Olympics for some fun. To start the games of the P6s and 7s did a cheerleading dance.

After that all the different teams did a parade,  waving their flags to the National anthem music of their country. Gordon Primary represented Mexico.

To finish off bronze, silver and gold medals were given to the winning teams. Gordon Primary were disappointed that they didn’t win a medal, but they really enjoyed joining in with the Olympics.Well done to everyone who took part!

Brazilian Samba

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On Wednesday the 23rd May 2012 the Super Slider Samba band came from Brazil to play Samba to us.

They played lots of different drums and they played the Tambourine. Jonas, one of the samba players, explained that you can have 300 instruments in a samba band and they play samba music at carnival for everyone to dance too.

They handed out instruments so that we could join in too!

If you want to find out more, here is an weblink to a carnival in Rio where Samba music is played:

http://www.rio-carnival.net/samba-school/samba-schools-rio-de-janeiro.php

By Duncan P5 (Glow Blogger)

Time Capsule

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Gordon Primary School are going to contribute items to the Diamond Jubilee time capsule.

The time capsule will be buried along the footpath on the edge of the Portsoy road following its official opening on Sunday 3rd June.

It will be opened in 60 years time. It will contain items describing life on the town in the past, life in Huntly today and suggestions on what Huntly may be like in 60 years from now.

Gordon Primary will be contributing copies of class photos, with names of pupils and teachers and also photos of the school taken by pupils.

Slow Marathon!!!

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P1 to P5 took part in the Slow Marathon.

277 people walked around the field today.

We all walked round the field in silence.

Then we went to the all weather pitch and made the word SLOW.

Mihret,Ross and Norma Hunter from Deveron Arts helped us spell the word.

A photographer called Jan took a photo from the school playground which we hope to put on this blog soon.

Altogether each person walked 1319 metres.

The grand total that we walked was 227 miles.

By Pietra P5 glow blogger

Take a Step for FAIRTRADE!

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Fairtrade fortnight begins on the 27th of February. Fairtrade is trying to collect footsteps. Each step supports farmers and workers to take their own steps for a brighter future.
Their target is 1,500,000 footsteps and so far they have collected around 11,000 and they still need to collect 1,489,000 feet!

At Gordon Primary School we want to help get at least 1,000 footsteps and we would like all families to take part. We would like everybody to join in no matter how old or how young you are.
Here is what you do:
1)      Draw around your foot.
2)      Stick a wrapper or label from a Fairtrade product onto the foot you have drawn.
3)      Cut it out.
4)      Write your name clearly on the front and send it to school.
We are going to make a trail of them around the school. Then we will count and let Fairtrade know how many footsteps we have collected. We hope you join in.