We went to Carlton Music Studios next to the River Clyde and we had to cross the suspension bridge to get there. When we got there we met Barney the Studio owner and Jamie the studio engineer and he records all the tracks. We were there to record a bit of Another Day in Paradise by Phil Collins to create a Jingle for P6/7s radio programme about Homelessness with Sunny Govan Radio. We had turns of singing and we got a lot of confidence from practising and doing things over again.

When I went into the vocal booth I felt really proud of myself and I enjoyed it so much and didn’t care what anyone thought about it. We took turns and everybody had a go at singing. The vocal booth was very small but we put on headphones and the music was played though them and we sang along with it. We had lunch and then we listened to Miss Rehman and Mr McCormack sing.

We then went into the rehearsal studio and everyone got together to record altogether. We sang the song and also recorded facts about Homelessness all over the world. It’s a massive problem.

WHAT WE ENJOYED THE MOST
I LOVED IT WHEN WE WENT INTO THE VOCAL BOOTH WITH A PARTNER AND SANG WITH THEM
I REALLY LOVED THE MIXING DESK IT WAS SO BIG AND HAD SO MANY BUTTONS AND SLIDERS ON IT

WHAT WE LEARNED
WE LEARNED ABOUT HOW SOUND IS RECORDED AND WHAT MAKES A GOOD RECORDING
I LEARNED THAT YOU WOULD USE THE MIXING DESK TO CONTROL THE SOUND OF PEOPLES VOICES. HE MADE OUR VOICES SOUND SQEAKY AND HIGH PITCHED AND ALSO LOW SO THEY SOUNDED LIKE OLD MEN. JAMIE SHOWED US HOW THE MICROPHONE COULD BE USED TO PICK UP SOUND.

BY SAFA AND ZAIN P6

We really enjoyed our trip to Sunny Govan Radio Station. When we got off the subway we saw the Mary Barbour Sculpture. Mary was an activist who fought for people’s rights. When we got to the station we met Heather who started the station and who still runs it. We also met radio presenters Jim and Steg. Jim split us into 2 groups.

1 group created and planned slogans to help promote Sunny G. We learned to write something catchy to get listeners attention and get them interested. We also learned how to use the studio equipment like microphones, the computer and the mixing desk.

Steg got a group of us to sing Baby Shark live on air. It was great fun even though our singing wasn’t very good. We also got to introduce songs and read out dedications to listeners

THINGS WE ENJOYED
Introducing and choosing songs
Meeting new people
Using the equipment
Recording a jingle for the station

WHAT WE LEARNED
USING THE STUDIO EQUIPMENT
BEING A GOOD LISTENER IS SO IMPORTANT
HOW TO USE THE MICROPHONE
THE VARIETY OF JOBS YOU CAN DO WHEN IN A RADIO STATION
THE SKILLS AN QUALITIES NEEDED TO BE A GOOD PRESENTER

BY NAJIB ULLAH AND ZAYD

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.

Make, Do and Grow

Make, Do and Grow is a social enterprise in Govan. It is a swap shop where people can donate items and buy other things, like toys or clothes.

What we learned:

• How to make different crafts like kites from recycled materials.
• The shop sells items for children aged 3-12 years old.
• They provide workshops for children and families for arts, crafts and music.
• They provide a space for birthdays as well as activities for a charge.
• Their workshops are free except for on Saturdays. £3 for a child and £2 for siblings, to help families afford the prices if they have more than one child.
• Families are encouraged to come in and spend time in the space to chat, have a cup of tea or coffee and make friends.
• Kaytie, who started the social enterprise, decided to create the service when she had children of her own and realised how expensive it was to buy toys and clothes and also how expensive clubs were. She wanted to create something herself to help with this.
• Their expenses (the things they have to spend money on to keep the service going) are paying the staff, rent, bills and insurance.
• The service is considered a CIC: Community Interest Company, because it helps the community, so Kaytie was given some money by the government to help start it and keep it running in the beginning.

Some Primary 6s and 7s visited this important Glasgow landmark to learn about the historic building and the everyday work that goes on there. The main focus for our visit was to learn about the role the library has as a social enterprise.

What we learned:

• the library team provides advice to people starting new businesses, including what qualifications they need to have a new job or start a certain business
• they can carry out marketing for people to find out who would buy their product
• they help to expand businesses that already exist
• the library can give a patent to people’s ideas or inventions that allow them to belong to the person and no one can steal their idea
• there are 5 floors which are open to the public and 5 more which are only for staff
• there are over 10 million items kept in the library
• they use a decimal reference system to store the items in order
• the building is made up of three parts: one from the 1910s, another from the 1960s and another from the 1980s

• we are able to help members of the public with skills that we have, for example one of us was able to help a man who couldn’t speak English use a computer because we spoke their language too
• there is a rumour that the building is haunted…

So today, we went on a trip to Sunny Govan Radio Station. We met Heather, the person in charge and also the founder of the station. Here we were working on the live radio program with Steg.

Things we enjoyed:

• Introducing songs and choosing them
• Doing interviews live
• Using the mixing desk
• Seeing Steg
• Recording a message for the unity project
• Singing to a local man called Archie

What we learnt:

• Being safe on the journey
• Using the mixing desk again
• Being responsible
• Using our voices on air
• The story of Sunny Govan- Heather started by only walking down a street and asking the community if they wanted a radio station and the community named it Sunny Govan.
• The three main jobs of Sunny Govan- Manager, producer and DJ
• The purpose of Sunny Govan- to make people happy in our community but still needing to make money to run the organisation.

So here we were in front of the new Mary Barbour statue. Mary was a political activist, in the early 20th century. We were set a challenge by Brian, a local historian, to count how many people were part of the statue. We all got it wrong a few times but eventually we discovered 17.

Some of us from Primary 4/5 went to the Kelvingrove Museum for the day to learn about Scotland’s history, animals and some famous people. Five out of twelve of us had never been before.

Here are some of the highlights 🙂

Things we enjoyed:

• taking photos of things we loved in the exhibitions
• looking at the stuffed animals
• the baby polar bears!
• learning about Scottish animals and history
• the giant Irish deer skeleton
• the whole Egyptian section
• the organ recital at lunchtime

Things that we learned:

• Ancient Egyptians took people’s brains out of their nose before they were mummified!
• Rich ancient Egyptians could afford special coffins
• They shaved their heads and wore wigs to show they had more money
• The brain wasn’t considered an important organ
• Polar bears live in the Arctic
• The huge Irish deer is now extinct
• We saw an organ being played for the first time
• Haggis is not actually a real animal
• Many Scottish people migrated to America to make money
• There are lots of different jobs in the museum – people who clean the exhibits, security to protect everything and someone called a taxidermist who stuffs the animals

Skills we used:

• we travelled by subway and found our way to the museum
• we made good decisions with our money
• we had to work out how many things we could buy at the shop and work out our change – which was very tricky!