Some children from P4, P4/5 and P5 visited a museum in Govan to learn about the famous shipbuilding industry from Glasgow’s past.

We learned about the importance of the industry in Glasgow and how the technology evolved over the years.

We learned about all the equipment and tools that were used and how those improved over many years.

We heard a lot of new words that we didn’t know before like “welding” and “riveting“. We saw how the ships were designed and constructed. At the beginning whole ships were built there and in later years parts of ships were built there and stuck together somewhere else.

We took the subway and walked the rest of the journey. We had our lunch in the park before coming home – we were all very tired!

In November last year, a group of Primary 5s visited the backstage, technical workshops at the Royal Conservatoire to see how shows were produced behind the scenes. They visited the props, stage and costume departments where they saw how everything was put together by various professionals in order to create an entire show.

Here we are learning about the various props and costumes that are kept behind the scenes. We also saw how the costumes were designed and made:

Here we are looking at some other props that we constructed using moulds. The second photo is of us visiting the set cosntruction of their Christmas pantomime: The Jungle Book.

We also did a fun workshop where the staff where we learnt about using raw materials to be creative.

Return to the Conservatoire.

This term a group of Primary 7 students were able to visit another section of the conservatoire, this time to see the performance and practice areas as well as interview various professionals and students who work there.

We were able to speak with people who all had different roles behind the scenes and performers themselves in order to find out how they managed to be get into their career and what qualifications and experience they needed. We also were able to ask them questions about what they loved the most and what made their journey difficult as well as asking them our own personal questions we were curious about.