On Monday 17th June Highland Youth Theatre put on a production of Snow White in the theatre of Inverness Royal Academy. Many of the actors were from our class and we are very proud of their performances. Kelly took the lead role as Snow White and entranced the audience with her acting, dancing and singing while Andrew as her father, King George, entertained us all with his dramatic skills in portraying the personality of a weak husband and loving father with great humour. Other stars from our class were Iona, Mollie, Kate L, Tara, Amy and Katie as the maids who displayed good timing in their dances and good memory in learning their lines and cues. The maids had other roles to play: Mollie was a very authoratative Doc, Tara was a convincing Bashful, Amy was a credible Sleepy, Kate L was a wise owl, Katie was the back of the horse and Iona was the front and also the clear speaking narrator who explained the story to the audience.

The cast would like to thank Shayne, their leader and coach, for the weekly sessions and for working with them to get ready for all the productions they have put on this year. The pupils have loved going to Highland Youth Theatre and have thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to put on the shows.

We are very proud of our class members who have been part of this group and confidently acted, danced and sang in Snow White.

Well done, everyone!

On Wednesday, 12th June, P4 pupils invited 9 residents of Inverness who volunteered to be interviewed about the facilities available in Inverness to come to our classroom. We had prepared and practised our questions in our interviewing trios and we arranged the classroom like an open-plan office to suit the activity. We had a welcoming team to meet the visitors and a hospitality team who baked delicious cakes and sweet treats for the interviewees and interviewers!

 Our guests had interesting answers to our questions and they complimented us on our good manners and behaviour! Mrs M-H was delighted and said she was very proud of us.

We were all allowed a cake to savour – just like Mrs Henderson taught us to do in Term 1. Now we know what other age groups think of the facilities in Inverness and all our interviewees said they enjoyed living in Inverness.

We would like to thank all the people who agreed to come to school today to be interviewed by us. We really enjoyed being interviewers and we could not have had that experience if you were not there. Thank You!

Our final city walk was to VisitScotland Tourist Office and to Zizzi’s Restaurant! We took the same route to the city centre as for Walk 3 and walked so smartly we had time to visit Will’s Dad in his wonderful Aladdin’s cave of a shop on Castle Street. He told us about the customers he had from all over the world who came to Inverness to take part in the traditional sports of fishing and hunting and how important they were to the economy of Inverness.

Then we went to VisitScotland where Jen took very good care of us. She explained what services her office offered tourists and presented us with information packs for each group. We also received a huge poster promoting the film Brave which Mrs Martin-Hodgson had put our class into a draw to win!

When we had a good look around the tourist office we walked to Zizzi’s which was just across the road. There Chrissie looked after us very well. She seated us, explained how a restaurant is run, demonstrated to us how the pizzas are prepared then served us olives, pizzas, calamari and ice-cream! Zizzi’s has a great view across the River Ness and up to Inverness Castle.

As we waited for our food we watched soldiers from the 1st Battalion Scots Guard marching past. We had a great morning and we discovered the walk back along the riverside is a quicker route to town than walking via Drummond Road and Culduthel Road. Now we are looking forward to interviewing some local people to find out what they think of the city’s facilities.

A big thank you to all the parents who accompanied us on our walks. We could not have done it without you!

Mrs M-H