It is cool being in a new class with two new teachers who are called Ms Marr and Mr Hay. Mr Hay is young and fun and Ms Marr is sporty and fun. It’s really cool being in this new class because we have two different teachers, one who really likes the Simpsons and the other who loves sports. As part of our healthy school we are now going to get fruit at the tuck shop, yummy! As P7 pupils we are buddies to the P1 children. This is great fun but our buddy keeps following us around.
By Brandon, Fraser, Jordan, Amy, Daniel, Calum G and Alasdair.
It’s fun being at the top of the school. In primary seven we run the tuckshop and buddy the new primary 1′s. At the moment we are staring a new topic about space, we are very excited and hope it is successful. We started on the moon walk and there’s more to come! This year some of us have made new friends and some of us haven’t but we all have someone to play with.
By Andrew, Lauren B, Connor La, Lauren M, Zak, Jamie R and Jamie S.
It seems very exciting being primary sevens. We have a new teacher who is young and likes the Simpsons and whose favourite football team is Raith Rovers.
This year we have moved class, you won’t believe it but we are back in our old class, the one we had when we were in p4!
We also have a teacher called Miss Marr, who is really nice and great fun. She loves Australia and goes there every year. We do shape work and Art with her every Tuesday and it is fab. We have to write a five page essay about Earth and Space which is very hard. This year we will get to go to the Choices for Life concert and also go to Benmore for a weekend. We have started our swimming block which is brilliant.
By Chloe, Calum L, Connor Le, Ahren, Cara, Fiona, Leigh and Rebecca.
I was up at the crack of dawn and at school by 8.15 a.m.
Mr Wylie let me in to start getting things ready.
Jamie.
Monday and Tuesday were SO busy.
We were all regrouped to do the practical tasks of putting our work on display in the hall.
We noticed that some of the silver needed polishing and the glass covered pictures needed shining up.
Then we had to get the displays organised.
pictures put on the wall
trophies and medals placed properly
some went up high
the cake was baked and decorated by us
and cleaned up afterwards
There were 300 biscuits to decorate – when we were tired the teachers helped!
We set up a stand at the entrance to help visitors know what to do.
The balloons were set up in the hall after the tables and chairs had arrived. It all seemed to happen at the same time. No sooner had we set the tables than the balloons came. It was a real hectic afternoon.
But worth it!
Friday has been a mad day.
We’ve been moving chairs, tables, our displays, chasing up people who haven’t replied to our invites, ordering more crockery —-oooops ——
making lists, checking who sits where, who does what ……
and at the end of the day we get a visit.
This is the famous ALASDAIR HENDERSON.
Mrs Davies was really really pleased to see him.
He was one of her primary 1 pupils about 14 years ago.
He’s now at The Royal Academy for Music and Drama and is studying the bagpipes and the piano.
Mrs Davies said he is the most musical pupils she has ever had and even when he was 5 it showed.
His playing was breathtaking.
Some of the children in other classes appeared at our open class door to listen to Alasdair.
It was pure magic.
Before he lest he talked to us again and told us to stick in at school.
He was amazing.
All of us who learn chanter are going to practise a bit more!
SINCLAIR MACFARLANE is 82.
He was a Kirn pupil.
We sent a taxi to collect him from his house so that he could make it on time.
He usually uses the bus, but we wanted to treat him.
He was one of those people you just can’t help listening to.
His stories were full of how life was way back when he was little.
He had a great memory.
He ran out of time, and so we stayed in during our playtime just to get another 15 minutes of him.
He said he thought we were lucky to have the kind of life we have nowadays.
He said when he was our age the school masters would not have given them so much freedom.
We hope he’ll come back to tell us more.
He left Mrs Davies with a booklet called ‘An account of life on the Cowal Shore from 1848 to 1900′
It was written by an aunt of his in 1935 when she would have been 87 years old.
It’s a really interesting document … not the slightest bit boring …. we’d like to reprint it and keep it in the school.
We need someone now to write the same sort of thing from 1900 onwards!
It’s Wednesday now and we’re so busy we haven’t had time to do the blog until now.
This week we thought we’d be getting the hall ready and pictures hung, but we’ve been having visitors again ….. so many people want to come in to help us ….. it’s amazing.
We haven’t done our diaries either. Ooops! Just too busy doing other things we think are more important.
Well, we had a visit from Liz Goodall.
She was smart.
Her job covers healthy schools and she had already offered us drinks for the day.
HURRAY.
When she came to visit she asked us about the project and what else would we like!!!!
Banqueting roll for the tables.
Flasks – big ones – for the hot drinks.
Fruit platters.
Jugs of fruit juice for adults.
Then today Mr Campbell came in to check with us how many tables chairs etc we needed …. the P.A. and lighting and of course the bunting.
He’s cool.
Last of all came Mr John Stirling , the curator of our local museum and an ex pupils of our school.
HE WAS FABULOUS.
HE KNEW SO MUCH.
WISH WE HAD SEEN HIM SOONER.
HE TOLD IS SO MUCH ABOUT SCHOOL IN THE ’40s into the ’50s when he was there.
Mrs Davies was out today for the day, so topic work had to be put aside. We’re back in the class room though and it’s nice and bright. We like the new flooring.
With only two weeks to go we’re getting a bit anxious that we’ve done everything we can so far.
On Tuesday Mr Blane arrived. Fiona had invited him to help her group who are getting the concert ready. Mr Blane used to be chairman of the speakers club and came along to help with speeches. Here he is listening to one of them.
Mrs Davies has just told us that she’s to be out AGAIN on thursday.
Can she not just stay still!
We’re as busy as bees.
Ahren got on the internet and ordered some pens that we’re planning to give to our guests as a remembrance of the day. We got a good deal. 180 pens with the words
Kirn Primary School
Pupils’ Day
March 14th 2007
“The place where we do
Our absolute best”
And they only cost us about £80. That’s less that 50p for a personalised pen.
YOU’LL BE AMAZED BY HOW FAST THEY GOT DELIVERED …. THIS THURSDAY AFTERNOON.
We’ve been cutting, pasting, making lists, measuring and re-measuring … counting and re-counting ….. trying to remember everything. Having problems getting people on the phone-
BUT OH DEAR! We had a major blunder on Wednesday .
We deleted our active white board presentation.
Mrs Davies put her head in her hands and was very still- we thought she’d turned into stone.
Then she looked up and said, ” Well there’s only one choice. We’ll have to do it again, and fast!”
So that was what Wednesday was all about. And we almost did it. We remembered every page and we had saved all our pictures, so that by Friday we had the presentation re-done.
WHEW!!
Ahren came into school on friday with a surprise. Two gigantic yellow balloons with a smily face that he was offering to use at the top of the pillars of balloons at either side of the stage.
We all thought it was a cool idea.
