CROSS COUNTRY 21st November 09

CROSS COUNTRY
The next race is on Saturday 21st November 09. Details are listed
below.

VENUE Craigend Visitor Centre, Mugdock Country Park,
near Milngavie
RACE TIME Primary 5 Boys and Girls – 2.2km – 10am
Primary 6 Boys and Girls –
2.2km – 10.20am
Primary 7 Boys and Girls –
2.2km – 10.40am
All distances approximate
ENTRY FEE £2 per athlete per race

RESULTS Results will also be posted on the
internet at www.garscubeharriers.co.uk Click on the Downloads page.
Names and money have to be given
to school by Thursday 19th November AT THE LATEST as names have to be
forwarded to the event organizers.

The Privy Room is complete!!!.... and a lot lot more!!

Another great week in the life of P7 Room 19...

Wahoo! We finally finished our WW2 garden privy!

It looks good enough to use and it even has it's own

toilet paper...awesome!! (If you like the feel of

newsprint that is!!) Updates to follow on our

“Privy Room” adventures!

This week we painted our German U-boats which

look amazing! It was lots of fun but very messy :)

U-boats were German war submarines which went

under the surface of the water.

We have also been making paper Japanese aircraft

to represent the attack on Pearl Harbor; the

significant point during WW2 which caused the

US to enter the war. We have started to hang them

up around the classroom.

Work on our WW2 personal project began this

week too. We had to email Mrs Russell our

introductions so she could give us feedback. In

language we learned how to skim text in books

and online to help us understand the meaning

of a source quickly and allow us to decide

whether it would be useful to us in our research.

We started learning a bit about the Holocaust

and how Anne Frank was involved. We began

making Holocaust Journals... a bit like Anne

Frank's diary!

Our evacuation letters are almost finished now.

We had to write them in the old style handwriting

which was difficult but looks great! We can't believe

that's how people used to be taught how to write!!

The letters 'f, s, r, h and k' were favourites!

Some of the girls in primary 7 have been getting

together at lunchtimes to start planning a dance

for the Bearsden and Milngavie dance festival.

It's for primary seven girls, and they have to
make up a dance and choose some music and then

perform it at Milngavie Town Hall on Monday

the 30th of November. There are ten girls in the
dance group and they are working with Catriona

Sheilds who is helping a bit with the dancing and

supervising. It's really fun and it's a nice way to

spend a cold lunch time!

In other news, we finished watching a dvd about

racism on Monday with Mrs Monkman, and on

Wednesday we played a great game in the gym called

“Cat and Mouse” with Mrs Russell... it was hilarious!

And finally... a huge well done to the Indian Dance girls

who performed at George Square last weekend. It

was a cold and wet day, but they carried on regardless

and brought home trophies for all their hard work!

Photos to follow we hope...!

Sayonara ;) !

Written by P7 Room 19... via email!

Anderson Shelters, U-boats and Japanese Aircraft over Pearl Harbor...

Anderson Shelters...

German U-Boats...

Japanese Aircraft over Pearl Harbor...

Toilets... U-boats... Fireworks... Football... and Halloween!

This week primary 7 room 19 have taken
part in so many exciting activities, here are
our thoughts on just a few of them...

On Monday, we started to make our classroom
privy. A privy is an outdoor toilet which was
used during WW2. The outer shed was normally
made of wood, and inside the toilet was very
basic and also made of wood. They used newspaper
as toilet paper and had to clean it out regularly,
making a compost heap behind!  We have not yet
made the shed, but we have made the toiliet
which we created out of cardboard and a class chair.

This week some of the p7 girls have been doing
Indian dancing. We are practising for a dance festival
at George Square which is on Sunday the 1st of
November and it'll be exciting!

On Tuesday, we watched a history DVD about Pearl
Harbor for our WW2 topic and then later in the week
we went on to first sketch and then make German
U-boats using clay.

We also had a fire safety talk on Tuesday to make sure
that we will all be very responsible with fireworks
because Guy Fawkes night is coming up.

On Wednesday, the primary 7 football team won the 
Bearsden and Milngavie football cup! It was held at
Garscube and our main rivals were Baljaffray as their side
were strong attackers. We got to the final and it was
against Baljaffray so we knew it would be tough. It was
0-0 at full time so it went to penalties. Harry made a great
save and so the game ended 3-1! We won!!

On Thursday night we had our Halloween disco. We
really enjoyed dancing with our friends under the colourful
spray from the bubble machine and dooking for apples.
We had a new healthier tuck shop this year with no sweets
and chocolate – our house captains and vice captains
worked really hard to make it a success. We had snacks
such as raisins and popcorn instead and everyone's
costumes were great! We will upload our photographs
very soon...!

On Friday we had a fire drill at lunchtime. Everyone
did really well getting to their class assembly point as
quickly as they possibly could.

What a great week we have had!!

Written by P7, room 19... via email!!

Mrs Russell's Skydive for Malawi!

On Saturday the 17th of October, at the end of 

our October holiday just there, our teacher 

Mrs Russell did a tandem free fall skydive 

to support our fund raising efforts for 

Mphunzi School in Malawi.
 
Through the events which we all took part in 

back in June this year, it was hoped that we 

could raise enough money to allow Mphunzi School 

to finish building their new classroom.

These events included our bad hair day, back to 

front day, soak the teacher and beat the goalie. 

Mrs Russell's P7 class last year also made DVDs 

of their Hollywood movies and sold them to 

parents.
 
As well as all of us taking part in these 

activities in school, Mrs Russell tried very 

hard to get as many people to sponsor her jump 

as possible, with people living as far away as 

Dubai being so kind as to donate money to this 

worthy cause.

Initially the skydive was to be held at the end 

of June and then it was postponed until August, 

however due to cloudy and windy weather it 

wasn't safe to jump and it was postponed again 

to October. 

On Saturday Mrs Russell woke up and saw that 

the sky was a beautiful shade of blue and there 

wasn't a cloud in sight.... It would finally go 

ahead!!

Mrs Russell went to Glenrothes to the airfield 

and her and Miss Sheldon, who taught in P2 last 

year, carried out their jumps. 
 
Afterwards, Mrs Russell said that it was an 

amazing experience and she loved every minute of 

it!! She was even happier when she got home and 

counted up all the money that had been raised from

both our school events and her own sponsors and 

found out that £2496.31 had been raised!!!! 

This is even more than she had ever expected and 

will definitely be enough to help finish building 

Mphunzi School's classroom - and a lot more!!

Mrs Russell showed us all the DVD of her jump. Her 

plane went up to 10,000 feet before she jumped out 

with an instructor and free fell until she reached 

5000 feet high. The parachute was then pulled and 

she was able to control it until she landed in a 

heap on the grass!!!

Everyone deserves a huge round of applause for 

raising so much money for Mphunzi School, and 

we are glad Mrs Russell and Miss Sheldon made it

back safely to the ground!!! :)

Have a look at Mrs Russell's photographs of her 

experience...

 Primary 7, Room 19.

Cross Country Training

Cross Country training will start on Thursday 22nd October at 3pm.
However, you will not be allowed to start until you have filled in
and returned the EV6

parental consent form given to you by the school.This form will be
given to you when you
return from the October Holiday.