Santa's Little Helpers!

On Friday the 18th of December, 6 of us from primary 7 were chosen to be transformed into Santa's Elves to help him give out the presents at the Primary 1, 2 and 3 Christmas Party.  It was so much fun and we looked brilliant in our costumes!!

Have a look at the .pdf file in the P7 documents tab in the P7 Glow group - the photos are fantastic!!  Just click on the link to download it.

By Primary 7.

EDC Christmas Concert

On Monday the 7th of December, 7 of us from Primary 7 were chosen to represent the school at the East Dunbartonshire Christmas Concert held in the Royal Concert Hall in Glasgow.

We went on the bus with Mrs Russell at around lunchtime and spent all afternoon rehearsing with all of the other children who were there representing all of the schools in East Dunbartonshire.  Even the East Dunbartonshire secondary school orchestra were there!! Our singing and stamina were really put to the test during the rehearsals but it was so worth it as by the end of the afternoon, the concert was sounding fabulous!

Once the rehearsing was over, we went to Pizza Hut with Mrs Russell and had a bit of a feast! It was really nice to be out having our dinner together!

After we had eaten, we went back to the Royal Concert Hall and got ready for the proper evening performance to begin.  Lots of our friends and family were there to watch us and Mrs Young came along to show her support too.

The evening was a real success and we are so proud that we got the opportunity to take part in such an amazing night!

(The photographs from the evening have been uploaded on a .pdf file to the P7 documents tab in the P7 Glow group.  Click on the link to download.)

The war is over!

After 4 months, we have finally finished our World War II and Judaism topic!  It has been brilliant and we have all worked really hard.  We have now all handed in our personal projects and Mrs Russell is really looking forward to reading them all as they all look fantastic.  We'll all get our feedback back from her in the New Year.

Our Privy Room filming is now all finished and Mrs Russell has helped to edit our shots.  She has put it all together on DVD for us to watch.... we can't wait to see it!! 

(Written by Primary 7 Room 19, via email)

Our Christmas Dance

On the evening of Thursday the 17th of December, we had our Christmas Dance.  It was fantastic!!  All the girls looked amazing in their lovely dresses and the boys were all really cool in their suits and kilts.  There was loads of Scottish Ceilidh dancing and for our supper we got sausages, crisps and pizza with water.  All the tables were set out along the balconies and we had crackers to pull.  The tables looked great with all of our table decorations on them which we had made at home.  Near the end we played some party games including EXTREME pass the parcel, then we got ice cream.  It was a magical night and everyone had soooo much fun!

Our Christmas Dance photos will be uploaded to Glow very soon in the documents tab of the P7 page.  Check back soon for them as we all look so great!

(Written by P7 Room 19, via email.)

Christmas Art and Poetry

We have been busy creating Winter WonderLand-Scapes during art recently... all this snow has given us lots of inspiration!  We used blue sugar paper as the base and then blended different coloured chalks and pastels to create a very realistic vision of what we would see if we looked out a window into a snowy countryside.  We finished them off by adding a touch of white glitter to the hills and then attached them to our window frames.  They look amazing up on the wall outside our class! 

Mrs Russell read us lots of different styles of winter poems from her little book of poetry and then, using our art as our inspiration, we got to choose any type of poem to write.  We could write about anything at all and in any style as long as it was to do with winter.  Our ideas were great and the poems are amaaaazing.  You can read them all in between our landscapes!

Photos to come soon!!

(Written by P7 Room 19, via email.)

Scotland Street School and The People's Palace

On the 2nd of December we went a class trip to Scotland Street School and The People's Palace.  We went to the World War 2 classroom in Scotland Street School first.  It was amaaaazing!!  We had to dress up like children during the war and line up in silence an arms length apart.  We had a really really strict teacher named Miss James - she had an old belt and she kept whacking it off the old desks right beside us!  We had to stand up when spoken to and reply with her name after everything we said.  We used a clock face to recite our tables and we had to use slate as well as pen and ink for our handwriting.  It was really difficult and the blotting paper didn't really help us.  Everyone who ended up with botches on their paper or ink on their hands would have gotten the belt during war times! The classroom had a funny smell - really musty.  After we finished our work, Miss James transformed into the school janitor and we had to do drill.  Life at school for a child during the second world war was sooooo different to what we are used to!!

Check out the rest of our photos of our day out - They are in the documents tab of the P7 group on Glow - it is a .pdf file, so just click it to download!

At the People's Palace, we got a tour of the museum and then took part in a workshop.  We really enjoyed seeing how many of us we could fit into the Anderson Shelter!! We got to learn about rationing too as they had a little World War 2 shop set up.  During our workshop we had to pick items out of boxes and use them in different ways.  Some of us got to dress up as land girls and to demonstrate 'make do and mend'.  Our photos of The People's Palace are also on Glow in the P7 documents tab.

What a great day out!

(Written by P7 Room 19 via email.)