- Primary 5 transformed their classes into tourist information centres for the city of Inverness!
We sent letters to Miss Sweeney at the real tourist information centre in the city and she replied sending lots of fantastic information, from how to welcome people, questions to ask tourists, leaflets about attractions in the highlands and the layout of her building!
We displayed lots of information on the walls, created characters to work in our centres and even created a gift shop with lots of wonderful nessie figures and post cards for sale! At the Scottish Showcase we invited our parents to visit our centres to find out lots about the city! We also had a Highland Cafe serving haggis, oatcakes and of course Irn Bru! The event was opened by Paige and Rachael dancing the Highland Fling! Some people spoke to parents about the Inverness Caledonian Thistle Football Club, showing them highlights from the last game and giving lots of information about the club!
Some people were telling our visitors about the Scottish Whiskey industry and the very important job of a coppersmith! Some people where showing parents our own mini version of Urquart Castle and telling them some key facts about Inverness! Another group were showcasing our historic portraits of Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Red Coat Army and were looking at the battle of Culloden! Lastly we asked parents to participate in the St Nicholas Highland games! The activities were: chuck the welly, toss the caber, strength test and toss the hay! We even had a trophy for the Champion! To round up the event Oliver played the bagpipes to a cheering crowd!
We hope you were able to come and enjoy this great showcase, but if you weren’t able to have a look at these great pictures!
That was really fun I loved doing my dancing!!!!!!
Mrs Buchanan Coutts can i ask you a sensible question please(thanks) is it possible if i can bring my bagpipes in again and play it to the class because that would be AWESOME
EVERY THING IS AWESOME…..
from your lovely friend Oliver Stewart
Happy valintine day to you and miss king
Hi
I think it all went well it was grate I had a amazin time
I’ll have a look Olly, and put it on for you.
I loved doing the Inverness topic.
This was a truly fabulous event covering so many aspects of Scottish heritage – a great learning experience mixed with lots of fun! And a perfect opportunity for Oliver to showcase his pipes, which he really enjoyed.
Looking forward to further topics being displayed in future – very well done!!!
from Oliver’s mummy!!!!!!!!
it would be great if you can put a photo of me with my bagpipes that would be awesome you and miss king are the best teachers in the world but now I much better because I’ve got my drones switched on now so it does not need to be a photo and if you don’t to then fine with I just thought it was a suggestion from Oliver Stewart!!!
I loved doing the Inverness Research it was awesome! The best part was when we painted Urquhart Castle!
I loved doing the Inverness topic because I learned a lot I really wish can learn even more because it was FUN
Hi Miss King,
I think this blog is a fantastic idea and a great resource for parents. It was particularly lovely to see the pictures from camp – more information there than we got from him on his return!
It would be a good idea, I think, to have more run-of-the-mill info being blogged too, just so parents can keep up to date with what’s happening in class, like the introduction of Big Maths etc just to keep us right.
Thanks for all your hard work.
Gina Hendry