Primary 5C
Term 4
On Thursday 3rd June, P5C went up to the Wallace Monument on foot.
We left at 9:30 to get there on time for 10:00. We had to walk all the way up and down and we were assisted by Mrs Westland and Mrs Rennie. When we got there we got a small film presentation about Wallace’s imprisonment by Edward I. In the same room was Wallace’s famous 5ft 6inches sword. We then got split up into three groups; Mrs Rennie, Mrs Westland and Mr Craven. Mrs Westland and Mr Craven went up first and then Mrs Rennie followed. When we all met up top we had our snacks. We had a great view! Once we were all fed we made our way down and all met at the gift shop. When we all were there we went down to the car park. There was another gift shop selling plastic weapons and just about everybody bought one.
We set off to get back and arrived at 12:40. Some of us were very tired.
Primary Fives Perform at the Tollbooth Theatre
On second last Friday of the spring term (26th March) 5C and 5M went to the Tollbooth Theatre to sing some Scottish songs as the opening event of the The Blend, a traditional music festival organised by the Tollbooth. The songs were selected by Amy Lord, a free lance Scots song tutor working for Stirling Council. She taught us our songs beforehand in our class. The 5C songs were: Silkie of Sule Skerrie,Tramps and Hawker. 5M did A Mans a Man Fir A’ That, There Was a Lad Born In Kyle. We did Scots Wae Hae together.
Our singing lessons with Amy started in January and fitted in well with that terms topic – Battling Scots. The first song we covered was Scots Wae Hae which is about William Wallace and Robert the Bruce battling for Scottish freedom.
At the concert, we started off by singing 5Cs songs. Then a lady came on and played a harp. After that, Amy Lord came on and sung Plumin’ Laddies. Then the harpist played another tune accompanied with a fiddler and a traditional drummer. Then P5M came on and sung their songs. Finally, we all came on and sung Scots Wae Hae.
We all enjoyed learning our songs, it was great to hear the adult performers and it was a big thrill to perform in front of our parents.
We are going to the MacRobert Arts Centre on May 18th for another performance of our songs.
Our Art teacher, Ms Carter
had the idea of the class doing some art to decorate the local allotments. The
class had made some origami animals with Ms Carter, so she thought it would be
good if we could display this work. As a class we came up with different ways
of doing this. We had a class vote to see 
whose idea was the best. In the end Helen, Gen,
Holly G and Nayab won. Their idea was to make wooden sheds to put the origami
in. We had planned it all out but it was too hard for us to make all of the
models ourselves. Ms. Carter’s friend, Tim, part made the sheds. We had to make
the panels out of lollypop sticks and then glue them on to the model. We cut out
photos from magazines then stuck them on a piece of paper then laminated it,
then glued that in the base. Mr. Craven bought some varnish; we covered our
sheds in the varnish to keep them water proof. Then we stuck on the plastic
windows with the glue gun. It was all done!
We brought them to the allotments on June 15th to put them up in a lovely lady’s allotment. The lady is Maureen. She had posts in her allotment, for us to put our sheds on top of. We left our sheds for Ms. Carter to fix to the top of the posts.
