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Introducing Manor Park…

This term, Manor Park Primary School pupils, teachers and families will be imagining Manor Park as a place where every child is happy, healthy, safe and able to do their best. Their ideas and drawings will create the vision for the school, which will be turned into a mural by the Imagining Manor Park team.

‘We are the Imagining Manor Park Artworkers and there are 14 of us [from nursery to P7]. We have been coming up with ideas for what a child pre-birth, when they are born, a toddler, 5 years old, 8 years old and 12 years old needs to be healthy, happy and safe’ said Abdullah.

‘A child needs hair because they can be bullied for being different. They also need education because then when you are an adult you can get a job as you can count’ said Deacon.

‘A child needs shelter because without it you can get sick’ said Caitlin.

‘A child needs to be loved by their family and they need someone to help them out’ said Sara.

Introducing the Tullos P4s…

This term Miss Bloomfield and the Tullos P4s will be investigating learning with Children’s Parliament. Stay tuned for more posts!

Introducing Riverbank’s P4s…

This term Mr Nicoll and the Riverbank P4’s will be investigating learning with Children’s Parliament. Stay tuned for more posts!

Introducing Bramble Brae’s P5s…

This term Miss Leckie and the Bramble Brae P5s will be investigating learning with Children’s Parliament. Stay tuned for more posts!

Praising ourselves

‘Our praise poems were great because it had everything we like in it. It made us happy because it was about ourselves. We liked how our classmates came up positive words to describe people – like in my case ‘sassy’, which makes me sound like I own it! We will share it with our friends and family.’

Faith, Manisha and Caitlin

Dear Middlefield Community,

‘We made a big poster about what has changed for the better in Middlefield and what still needs to improve.’

Our ideas for school!

Manor Park P5/6 have been thinking about a healthy, happy and safe school where everyone was doing their best. Here is what they imagine:

Pet rooms so we can learn about animals.
Opportunity to learn about different people’s jobs so you know what you can be when you are older.
No swearing as it is offensive and puts us off work.
Respect as if you respect people they will respect you back.
No fighting so that no one gets hurt.
Healthy food for lunch so that everyone is fit.
More library books. Everybody respects the books and don’t wreak them.
Children don’t stay up late at night so they have slept and are ready to learn.
Bikes for all classes to make everyone happy and exercise.
The building is made of Lego so children can take pieces from the wall and build new structures with their teacher.
Friends as they help you when you are stuck.
Extra playtime as we love playing outside. Plus extra time to run about so we stay healthy.
More opportunities to dance – it makes everything happy!

Bramble Brae Imagineers takeover Westminster

“On Tuesday 23^rd of May we went to London with Catrin, Sarah and Mr Gray (our teacher). We went to the Houses of Parliament to get a tour. Our MP Kirsty Blackman was going to do this but because of the election we met with her before we went and asked her questions about her job and her life between London and Aberdeen.

One our tour we seen where Queen Victoria sat and where she got changed into her robes for the opening of Parliament. The roof in Elizabeth’s dressing room was covered in gold and the carpet red.

We learned a lot of things but here are a few things that stick in our minds:

There are paintings of Henry the 8^th and all his wives. We learned a poem to remember what happened to them all. It goes like this ‘divorced, beheaded, died. Divorced, beheaded, survived.’

At the end of the anteroom there was a statue of Queen Victoria. The purpose of this statue was to make Queen Victoria feel more comfortable while she said her speech. Queen Victoria used to be so nervous she would scratch at the side of her chair and tap her feet on a small stool.

In the past no man or women had the right to vote. Men got it first but woman had to continue to fight for it. They came into parliament and threw flour everywhere last century. After protesting they finally got the right to vote.

The parliament is split into thirds. The parliament is colour coded for different groups. Blue represents the Queen’s part, green for the House of Commons and red for the House of Lords. The Queen is now allowed in House of Commons because it shows the separation of the House of Commons from the monarchy. She can’t interrupt what they are deciding on.

My favourite part of coming to London was the bus tour because it took me to different landmarks and beautiful buildings. It made me feel privileged as we are the first people to do this in our school.

We London because the lights at night looked incredible. The city feels alive. We liked the building designs and how unique they are. It made us feel even smaller!

The London trip made me happy because we got to share rooms. The girls with the girls and the boys with the boys. It was fun!”

The learner treasure I want more…

We’ve been doing Children’s Parliament work and this week we were doing learning treasure maps. We open the learning treasure, on person reads it out while we listen. Then we decide where to put it on our map. The left is what sounds like you like a learner, the right is what doesn’t sound like you as a learner. There is also the middle.

‘The learning treasure I’d like more in learning is ‘I get on well with others’ because if I stopped arguing I’d find a solution to helping me be more calm and focus. If you start arguing over tiny things it can disturb others too if it gets too loud.’

‘I’d also choose ‘I get on well with others’ and will work on less fallouts with classmates – this would help me do my best. When I fallout I don’t get a lot of work done as I think only about upsetting my friends and this distracts me. Our teacher has put different faces up on the wall so we can show how we are feeling. If I move it to sad and angry the teacher notices and comes and asks me questions. I don’t want to answer as it makes me sad. Getting on well with others would make me choose the happy face.’

Cadhla and Madison

‘I’d choose ‘I keep going’. When I’m doing something and it is good and fun I never give up. I get really into it. I give up on maths. I like doing it but sometimes the teacher thinks you can do it but it is too hard to understand and you give up. If it was easier to understand or I knew the way to figure it out then I could keep going. I will try to do this.’

‘I would pick this too because I give up easily. Sometimes work is really hard and I can’t concentrate properly. I am going to try and not get distracted by ignoring people, this will allow me to catch up.’

Sophie-Lea and Tegan R

Dear Tillydrone Community,

‘We made a big poster about what has changed for the better in Tillydrone and what still needs to improve.’