Mrs E. Williamson’s Art Blog

Mr White came to talk to us today about his Dad’s role in World War 2. It was so interesting to listen to his Dad’s story .

We interviewed Mr. White after his talk to find out more!

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We also found out that Mr White has written 6 books. We have invited him back to talk again because some of primary 7V think that they might want to be writers too!

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Mr White showed us his Dad’s Medal from World War 2.

It’s worth a lot of money, but Mr White said that his family can’t part with it!!

Fraser interviewed his Grandad ……… thank you Fraser’s Grandad! We learned so much from you

Click on Fraser’s ‘weemee’ to hear his interview with his Grandad.

We’re also learning some Scottish poems. Fraser’s is called ’Heh Granny’ ……… more poems to follow  

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Primary 7V are having a wonderful time listening to how times have changed over the years!

Life is very different now ……… click on the ‘weemee’ images below to be taken back in time.

Some memories go back to the 1930′s!

We wrote thank you letters today to show how much we appreciate the time taken to record these memories …………. and there’s lots more to come, too, so stay tuned

Please remember that the wee ‘mp3 icons’ don’t work – click on the images instead (be patient …… it’s really worth waiting for the podcasts to load!)

We are going to be learning about life during WW2. Before we do that we wanted to get a sense of history, so we made up interview questions to ask an older person in our family. Some of us interviewed our mums or dads, some interviewed grans, grandads … even great grans and grandads.

We want to say a GREAT BIG THANK YOU to them all ………. we learned loads listening to what life was like in the past!!

We’ve included just a few of them here ………. but promise lots more great interviews to follow in our next few posts.

Click on the ‘weemee’ pics below to take you to the interviews.

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Click on the image above to link to some more of our ‘playscript videos’!

 Primary 7V worked very hard to convert their stories into playscripts…. and then into plays!  They’re really keen to see the final results!

Have a look at the first to get published!!!!

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These pictures show us dressed up for our plays. We will be acting them out soon and they will be on the blog.

By Ainsley and Anna

Some of the girls in P7V decided to try out our new webcam so here is what they finished with!!

By Anna ……. click on the ‘weeme’ below to visit my blog!

In school we have been making small movies up. We got into groups and came up with a few ideas. Then we brainstormed what would happen. Mrs Vass and the class then commented on your different plays and then we changed the bits our classmates were unsure about. Then we went up-to the costume room that they used for accent on schools and we picked out our clothes but we did not take them.We then showed Miss Law who is a student teacher our plays in our groups she decided if it was ok or not.We fixed our plays then showed our class.Then we changed our stories into scripts for a writing lesson.Then we showed our plays again.In the future weekswe will be videoing them and they might go on the blog!

By Monica and Darcie. Visit our blogs by clicking on our weemees.

We are doing World War II for our topic at school.We had done a bit before but the teacher said that we would be doing it agian after the Christmas holidays.We have now started it agian.Our teacher, Mrs Vass, gave us a letter home about going on a trip to the Calendar House Workshop for a trip.P7V’s class ( the class i am in ) are going on the 22nd and the other P7K/S Are going on the 29th.We are going to come back at lunchtime then.Our art teacher , Mrs Williamson, She has planned on making some World War II scenes.We are hoping on doing well.Some people in my class are thinking World War II is a bit boring because its all black and white.Well,at least it might be fun!

By Maryam

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