P7

Last Friday was Chryston Primary’s Eco day. Each class had different tasks to do. Primary 7 had to make an outfit out of recycled material and model them at the afternoon assembly. We were all partnered up with someone. Someone was the designer and the other person was the model. There was also orienteering, colouring and different activities. I really enjoyed the orienteering and we all had lots and lots of fun.

On the 7th of February was Chryston’s annual Scottish Afternoon, there was lots of great acting and singing and poetry recitals. It was hard but all of the practise helped. Over 120 people came to see it. P7 hosted the event, and we acted out the Broons vs oor Wullie. Then we had our sport stars, who were Charlie as Andy Murray, Jordan was Ricky Burns, Josh was Sir Chris Hoy, Aaron was Sir Alex Ferguson. They were great, but the best bit was when we danced to Shang-a Lang, and sang to Calvin Harris & Emile Sande. Scott (me) did a rap, which was a huge succes & I got my own applause. It was a very successful event & we can’t wait to do our Leaver’s Assembly.

In class our new topic has become WW2. We started off with what we know and what we wanted to learn. We found out things like how the war started, what countries were involved and what countries were neutral. We are having people which may have lived through the war or fought during the war. We also have a reading book about some children who were evacuated because of the war. We are gong to be learning about civilians during the war and their ration books. We have already started a bit of that with the air raid siren. We have to get under the table, get down on our knees and hold the back of our neck down to protect our vital organs and then wait until a long constant siren sounds so we can get out.

On Wednesday two people from Hopscotch came in to the School and did a play all about Robert Burns’s life. It started off with Robert Burns in his death bed and he was telling the story of his life. Him, his family and other farmers around him were too poor to afford to pay for lessons at a School so they saved all the money they could to pay for a teacher to come to the farm and teach them. He was first inspired to write his first poem when he was 15 and it was for a girl he liked. He asked a girl to marry him when he was twenty five, she accepted but her father wouldnt allow it as he was too poor and banished him from the town with the promise of that if he ever came back he would be locked away. He decided to go to Jamaica where he could get a job and earn money so he could return and marry the girl of his dreams. He was persuaded not to go as his book of poems were published. He eventually got married to a girl called Jean. It eventually took us back to his death bed where the devil took him away, but that does not mean he went to hell. P5, 6 and 7 all really enjoyed this show, we really learnt a lot about Robert Burns. We were very impressed how the actors changed characters so quickly and well. The music and the drama was very entertaining.

Primary Seven have had their next school trip to Celtic Connectuions! Celtic Connections is a musical about the life of Jimmy MacDonald in World War 1, it was called far, far from the Ypres. The musical was in The Royal Concert Hall. This was a celebatory performance as its 100 years from the war.They handed out booklets telling people about the songs and the production, there was a list of songs in the books as well.

They sang lots of Scottish songs that the soldiers sang back in the war to keep them happy.

The first song was Last Long Mile\Mademmoiselle. There was a narrator, that would speak in between all the intresting songs. A lot of the class came home singing one of the songs. That song was ‘Black is the sun’. It was the favourite, and creepiest song of them all!

On the booklet we got, there was words to one of the songs. I found this out first and told Grace, so we sung along to the music!

We had a good time watching the performance.

By Carly Watson

On Wednesdays, pupils from the high school come over to help us out with our current art project that is to do with sport because of the Commonwealth games.We drew pictures of photos of the Sir Chris Hoy Veladrome and recreated a sporty statue in our own way. Next week we are going to be making 3D models of one of our drawings out of clay that will be fired at the highschool so its solid.

On Monday, Primary 7 started orienteering around the outside of the high school. We will be doing it for the next few weeks as a transition project. We were given a point where we had to go to find a code and bring it back. To do this we had to follow a map. We were in partners and we were being timed. We had a start time and we had to take that away from our finishing time. Some of us couldn’t find the codes and we had to get some help but we all found it very fun and we can’t wait to do it next week. The transition project is helping us to get to know the high school and some of the teachers and pupils.

Yesterday was our Oscars afternoon and it was a good success. We had all of our stations set up with all of our colourful work we have used during this topic. Our movie was Dr McKerrans How the Bear stole Christmas which was fun to make but ended out to be quite bad, but we got an Oscar and a Certificate for best acting which was great. Lewis got us a second Oscar with Scott Menzies for showing great enthusiasm to the the groups.

On Thursday Primary Seven had an Oscar Afternoon. It was very successful. Grace Sherry and Charlie introuduced the event very well and after that we began watching the movies, beginning with Finding Buddy. They went through the movies one by one and after that they came to our stalls. We worked very hard making games and the parents enjoyed them a lot.

Over the past term Primary 7 have been working on movies which we yesterday showcased to our parents/guardians.
We are all sad to say goodbye to our amazing topic but are glad of what a fun time we have had doing it.
We hope the school will continue to do this project with classes to come and hopefully they will have as much fun as we did doing it.
We were split in to groups of three, it was alot to do for only three people but it was great to see how much we can be pushed to our limits before we go into High School.
Yesterday was our Oscars afternoon and the visitors got to see the first glimpse of our movies. It felt great to be recognised for all our hard work, we all agree that all our hard work paid off. We also got awards such as-
Best Comedy,
Best Drama,
Best Script,
Best Scenery,
Best Film,
Best Acting,
Best co-operative group and
Oustanding Achiement.
I am Grace S and I worked with Kacey D and Nico S to create [the Best Comedy awarded film] The Odd Love Story.
We all wanted to show the people that were not able to come yesterday our movie.