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Working together at Balhousie

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For the past month Mrs Barclay’s P6 class have been going to Balhousie Care Home for an intergenerational project with the residents there.

This is the third year of the partnership between Gordon Primary and Balhousie.

Working together the P6s and some of the residents worked together to create canvas artwork which will be hung in the four wings of the care home.

Pupils and residents have enjoyed working together and building up friendships.

Next Friday Balhousie is holding an open day, where the canvases will be on display.

Battlehill Walk

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The whole of Gordon Primary walked from school to Battlehill and around the hill for the third year running on Friday 6th May.

Primary 7SC led the way. The school stopped for a rest and snack at the shelter in the woods, before continuing on their walk. While there they had a chance to look at some of the young trees they had planted two years previously which are now growing healthily into young saplings and were just coming into leaf.

Staff and pupils agreed that it was good to do a whole school activity together.

Nursery go to Deans

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Recently the nursery have been to Deans Shortbread Factory in Huntly  and have been learning about how shortbread is made in the factory.

They walked all the way to deans and back and had to wear orange vests for safety. They got their photo taken with Shorty the piper of Deans ( Deans mascot). They really enjoyed their trip and learnt a lot about how shortbread is made.

Fairtrade Fortnight.

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Fairtrade Fortnight is well underway and pupils are enjoying some of the activities that have been organised by the global group.

Fairtrade Fortnight is a two week period stretching from the 29th of February to the 13th of March. It is to raise awareness for farmers in developing countries who do not get fair pay.

Because we are a Fairtrade school we decided to help and show our support to these farmers. We set up a breakfast snack table at break and we sold bananas and milk for 30p. We also set up a word treasure hunt for all pupils at Gordon Primary to have fun with.

13 letters are hidden around the school. Pupils should collect all the letters and unjumble them to make a word related to Fairtrade.

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Global Group

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The Global Group has been busy meeting fortnightly, making preparations for Fairtrade Fortnight.

Some group representatives are preparing a Powerpoint reminding pupils what Fairtrade is about, and why it is important that we support farmers and make sure they get a fair price for their goods. They will show their powerpoint at assembly. The group is also planning a “Fruity Wednesday”  providing Fairtrade Fruit eat at morning break on each Wednesday of the Fair-trade Fortnight.

They are also planning a Fairtrade treasure Hunt.

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Puppet Workshop

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Mrs Fitzpatrick’s Primary 4 class were invited to join in a puppet making workshop. Storyteller Ben  Macfadyen, who has been working with Deveron Arts, has created a story about the White Wood which was planted in the Bin Forest to commemorate peace. The story, set 300 years in the future, when the oak trees in the wood will reach maturity, tells the story of how the WhiteWood came to be.

He came into school to work with the primary 4’s, making shadow puppets from cardboard. puppets included a great deer, a fox and a rabbit. Pupils were very interested to see how to create a shadow puppet performance using torches.

Musician Omar Afif, from Morocco,  worked with a group of the pupils creating percussion music to accompany the performance. The P4’s presented their puppet show the following day to a group of S3 pupils in the secondary school.

Rememberance Day

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On Sunday 8th of November the community of Huntly gathered together to remember the men that sacrificed themselves in all of the wars.

To get the Primary ones involved,  the primary sevens and ones walked to war memorial to find out more about it.  Mrs McIntosh had brought along some photos to show us about why and how the memorial was built.  She told us that they made the memorial in 1922 and finished in 1923.  Hundreds of people came to see it being revealed to the public.  Names sometimes still get added to it.  It was very interesting.  Everyone enjoyed it and showed respect.  Two of the Primary ones from Miss Gilchrist’s class laid some wreaths that they had made.  The whole school also did a two minute silence at 11:00 to show respect for all the soldiers who had fought.

by Ailsa and Amy p7sc

Mark Beaumont’s visit

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On Friday 30th of October Mark Beaumont, a famous cyclist, visited our school. He was telling us about his great adventures around the world.

Mark cycled around the world completely solo, it took 194 days. He went to some of the most dangerous, war-torn countries like Iraq, the boarders of Afghanistan, Ukraine etc… He also cycled round some of the most beautiful countries to like India, France, America, South America and more.

He also mentioned the STV Scottish appeal where they made him swim and  run through Scotland, two things he wasn’t very good at.

He also holds a Guinness World Record for going right from the top of Africa to the bottom. It took him 41 days, 10 hours and 22 minutes.

He also did  a speech which basically said, ” If you set your mind to it you can do anything” which I thought was very nice

-Libby