WWII at Scotland Street School and The People's Palace!

Primary 7 had an excellent time last week exploring what life was like during The Second World War.  

We visited Scotland Street School in Glasgow where we got to dress up as kids from 1939 and take part in a morning's lesson at school with our very own strict school master Mr Valentine!  He was so different to the teachers we have in school today, he even brought out the dunce hat and the belt at one point! (Ahhh!)  

Model students?... pah!

At The People's Palace we got to take part in a rationing workshop where we found out what it was like for people trying to buy food fairly during the war.   

A week's ration

We also got to try out some of the war time artifacts; a baby's gas mask chamber, an ARP hat and some mend and make do clothing!  It was lots of fun! 

Baby's gas mask chamber

Lastly, we had a task to find out how many people could sleep comfortably in an Anderson Shelter over night.  Although we weren't in there long enough to actually sleep over night in it, we had great fun experimenting with how many of us could fit in! 

Our two groups came up with different suggestions:

1) 2 adults and 4 children

or...

2) 13 children!! (4 on each bench and 5 lying like squished sausages on the floor!)

Which would you think is the most comfortable now? ...hmmm!!

Clydebank Blitz

Overall it was an excellent day out and we learned a lot about what life would have been like for us if we had been around during those difficult war years.

Mrs R has posted the photo PDFs on Glow in the Primary 7 documents folder so log on and check them out!

Christmas Invasion!

Happy 1st of December everyone!

Our Christmas concert rehearsals are now well under way for our amazing show entitled Christmas Invasion... we won't tell you any more so as not to spoil the plot surprise, but it's not just an invasion of SNOW that has appeared in Bearsden this winter!!

Our dress rehearsal is this Friday and then our big performances are next week on Tuesday the 7th and Wednesday the 8th of December.  Contact the school office for tickets!

A Christmas Invasion over Bearsden...?!

The backdrop is now up and the classes are sounding fantastic on stage, well done to Mrs Park and all of the teachers and support staff for helping us out!!

Good luck to everyone taking part!

Bearsden Bandits!

After 6 weeks of Geocache adventuring in the great outdoors, P7 Room19's Bearsden Bandits club has sadly come to an end.  Our Geocaching club has been a great success with us exploring Mugdock Country Park in all weather conditions; our wellies definitely came in handy on more than one occasion that's for sure! We end our club for the season with a total of 7 finds and zero DNFs!! (We rock!!)

We are looking forward to the club starting back up in the spring so that we can go on some more adventures with WeeLezalee and Lowriepops!

Mugdock Gunrange!

Mrs R has posted the photo PDFs of our adventures in the Primary 7 Documents folder on Glow, so log on and check them out!

Until next time..... BEWARE OF THE MUGGLES!!!!

Halloween Discos

The House Captains and Vice Captains did a fantastic job organising and running discos for Primary 4&5 and Primary 6&7 to celebrate Halloween last month.

There was a fantastic tuck shop, dookin' for apples, some awesome tunes from the DJ and some super scary costumes! (Even the teachers managed to dress up for the night, although we are not sure whether their new looks were an improvement or not! Hehe!)

Miss Livia and Mrs Russell...?!

Check out all our photos of the night on Glow - you'll find them in the All Bearsden Pupils group!

Termly Update - Term 2

Primary 7 have had a very successful first term.  They have been enjoying the World War II topic and lots have taken part in events within and outwith school. 

This next term Primary 7 will be continuing work on World War II, focusing more on the Holocaust as well as the events which led to the end of the war.  Both classes will be going to the Theatre Royal in November to see a production of the novel Carrie's War which they have enjoyed reading in class.  Everyone is looking forward to the trip to Scotland Street School and the People's Palace as well.

In other news, lots of work will be going into our Christmas Concert this term, with Primary 7 focusing on songs from the Naughties!  The classes have rewritten some popular songs from The Charts and given them a Christmassy feel!

A super term lies a head for Primary 7 so be sure to check back on our blog for updates on our adventures!

What A Great Week!

UPDATE!! This week in Primary 7 we have had a great time! We did lots of exciting work as part of our World War II topic and on Friday we had an active day to help raise money for our school playground. Have a read at our thoughts…

“This week in P7 Room 19 we did great things - especially on Friday! In the morning we all got to come to school dressed down, everyone had been asked to bring in their Wii games and first of all we played Super Mario Bros Wii and then after that we played Guitar hero until lunch. After lunch we went to gym and did a special obstacle course where there were two teams, the white team won.”

By Kera and Dharia

“It's been a great Friday this week. I loved playing on the Nintendo Wii and the Nintendo DS we should do it every week! (I still like doing our topic on World War 2 though.)”

By Euan

Guitar Hero CHAMPIONS!

“This (Friday) is the best day we have had at school.”

By Sarah and Katie

“I also really liked doing the Black Out freeze frames this week. I have had a good week!”

By Usaama

“At gym on Wednesday we had great fun playing bench ball.”

By Jamie

“Friday was a good day - we had a fun active day to raise money for the school playground. In class we were allowed on the Wii and to play on our DS then we had a fun batch of activities in the gym.”

By Paul and Tom

“This week we wrote a poem about Blitz Blasters which had to have onomatopoeias in them. We found out that to spell onomatopoeia easily it goes to the tune of Old Mcdonald Had A Farm! Friday was our active day and we had the BEST DAY EVER!!”

By Harleen and Olivia

“We made great Blitz artwork and wore fabulous outfits on Friday as part of our active day to raise money for the playground!”

By Cara and Heather

Our London Blitz artwork on our classroom window!