Pupils were asked to gather family stories as part of an exploration of the role of oral stories in everyday life, the focus here is on narrative content over spelling and grammar. Here are some wonderful examples…

My mum grew up in King Edward with her mum, dad, brother, and sister. Her brother is 3 years older than her, and my aunt is 18 months younger. When my uncle was 16 years old, he got a motorbike an old Suzuki 50 cc.
He used to drive it up and down to the Quarry near there house and she would hop on the back with him and head off. One time down at the Quarry when she was 13 years old, she asked to have a shot of the bike. He showed her how to work it and said, “On you go!”
She instantly took off into a pile of stone and crashed the bike, it fell on her leg, and she lay in a heap with the still running motorcycle laying on top of her!
My Uncle was more concerned about the bike and took it from her and drove a circuit of the quarry to ensure it was fine before he went back to check on her…Typical older brother!
My mum was, however, unscathed by the incident.
She did eventually sustain an injury about 4 Months later when on a journey back to their house from the quarry they took a bend too fast and they both toppled off the bike, my mum broke her wrist, but my uncle was fine….and so was the Bike!

I was play fighting with my brother and mum started telling us to behave, it was raining outside and we were bored so we decided to play a prank on mum, Hanging trousers out my bedroom window while my mum was washing dishes and scared her, she run upstairs and seen I was joking, she was really angry, I said that it was my brother’s idea and don’t think she believed me much, she grounded the two of us for a week, It only lasted until next day as we were to noisy.
We still to this day bring this up and have a good laugh about it.
Thinking back it must have been scary but not sure why mum didn’t see there was no shoes at the bottom of the trousers. So yeah this always sticks in my mind and we still speak about it, probably done more but this is one I can look back and have a laugh about.

Interview-Granny Val
My Granny said the naughtiest thing she has ever done has done is she sprayed anti-dazzle spray on her dad’s glasses, don’t think he was very happy about that. Although even after that he still let her play golf and tennis. Granny loved playing tennis she still sometimes talks about how good she was. I haven’t seen her play before, so I take her word for it. As for golf she took me and my little cousin out to the range not that long ago, I gave her a turn and she was pretty good I must admit.
Granny went to Macduff high school; there she sang in the choir. When I found that out, I was so shocked she never told me about that. Don’t get me wrong she looks like a person that can sing really well, thinking about it now I remember when she used to sing to me and my brother when we were little.
At school she had a so-called ‘friend’, and that ‘friend’ would pick on this other girl for what she dressed like. One day granny got so sick of it she stood up for the girl and never talked to her ‘friend’ again.
Now back in those days granny and her classmates had way more respect for teachers than today, you probably know why. Granny was one of the good kids but surprisingly she wasn’t very smart, well so she said.
When she was in school, she helped in a little hairdresser’s shop, she would just help clean maybe was people’s hair stuff like that. But when she got older, she started to work at the golf club. She served food and drinks at the bar, she said she really liked it, she also said that she got some awesome stories from people.
I asked granny what her best memory was, she said the day her brother launched his boat out in Macduff, to be honest with you I didn’t even know her brother had a boat.

The naughtiest thing you had done as a child
One day my dad went to the shop. He had no money with him, so he stole a packet of fruit pastels how bad of him he had to put them back after though. My sister stole some of my mums make up box and put green eyeshadow all over her face it was very funny because when my parents woke up and made breakfast, they shouted on her and realized she had shiny dark green stuff on her face my mum recorded it and said “Thea what is that on your face “she replied saying “i don’t know” then it eventually got to “ Thea is that mummy’s green eye shadow” Thea then says “no” then my mum says “ tell mum the truth mummy doesn’t like liars” she answered saying “yes”. Then another thing my dad done was when he was like a teenager, he “drove round the flaggy” which is where he went speeding up main street in Fraserburgh then head to tail with other cars going round the flagpole and back down main street and sometimes was drifting round it but then one day it became a leisure center, and he was very sad because he was having fun doing that.