New interactive book - The Chief O Moonthooley’s Kilt

Check out the new interactive book created by some very talented writers and artists from Primary 3/4 Causewayend:

Books > The Chief O Moonthooley’s Kilt

Add comment July 9th, 2008

Causewayend PodCast - June 26th 2008

The Causewayend broadcast team present a special show on the Children and Yound People’s Services Awards, featuring:

• interviews with winners and others attending the ceremony
• stories from the session with writer Simon Puttock
• discussion about the upcoming summer holidays
• studio guest Peter from SHMU
• a brilliant dramatisation of the orginal and Doric ‘Crocorattie’
• a fun 3 word game
• interviews with students about the move to Gilcomston school

Add comment June 26th, 2008

Fyvie Castle

Primary 5/6 from Causewayend School visited the Aberdeen Art Gallery with their class teacher and Sheena Blackhall and David Barry from The Reading Bus. The class were enthralled by storytelling sessions from Sheena using different paintings as the stimulus. Back in class the youngsters wrote fantastic poems, stories and plays using the paintings as the inspiration.

Fyvie Castle, 1828

James Giles RSA
Aberdeen 1801 - 1870

Aberdeen Art Gallery: Fyvie Castle

We hope you enjoy the following writing about Fyvie Castle:

By Jordan P6

Fyvie Castle

Fire coloured grass
Yellow stoned castle
Very dark and scary inside
Inside a skeleton lays
Everyone who goes in,
The ghost will get you.
Could the castle be haunted?
Anyone who goes in Fyvie castle
Skeletons will be on you
Strong stone walls
Towers are very old.
Long, long ago noblemen lived in Fyvie Castle
Everyone who visits is scared.

By Daniel Thompson p5

By Liam D P6

Add comment May 1st, 2008

Causewayend PodCast - 24th April 2008

This is an extra special broadcast promoting the Children and Young Peoples’ Service Awards to be announced in June 2008. Primary 7 at Causewayend looked at various aspects of achievements and interviewed different award winners. The broadcast includes:

• Interviews with award-winning diver Ben and ACE Award Winners Lacrosse Champions from Hanover Street School
• Interviews with Gill Graham, Shiona Annal and Jenny Watson
• Two Reading Champions, Campbell Robertson, Deputy Head Teacher at Hazlehead Academy and Ian McCarver, BP Education Co-ordinator
• Poems and jokes from Causewayend pupils
• And a surprise Doric story from Les Wheeler “aboot twa brothers” to finish the show

Add comment April 24th, 2008

Causewayend Podcast

Click below to hear the pupils of Causewayend Primary School interviewing other pupils as well as Reading Champion David Barry, Aberdeen’s Lord Provost and council staff at the Townhouse. You can also hear a thrilling story about a prisoner escape bringing to life Aberdeen’s Toll Booth.

And there’s lots more, in this jam-packed hour originally broadcast from the studios of shmu fm.

Add comment December 20th, 2007

The Adventures of Harry Snotter

This animation by Causewayend Primary is a very funny and unique version of a popular farmyard song. Sing along with the funny lines…

Add comment November 22nd, 2007

Countryside in all its glory!

There was a little old cottage sat in the middle of the countryside. It wasn’t the greatest place to live but the view was spectacular. Every morning you could hear the birds singing and the animals grazing through the fields. All around, there were beautiful trees with green and gold leaves. In the distance you could see bumpy, green hills and mountains. The mountains were used as everyday family activities such as rock climbing and abseiling. There was also a huge river nearby. Every Sunday afternoon they would canoe race from the start to the end of the river. It was definitely a great tourist attraction. The weather was almost always wonderful. The sun stood gloriously in the heavens above beaming down onto the Earth below. The pavements were burning hot and not one cloud was in the air. The countryside in all its glory. It was like a beautiful painted picture. (It could even have been by the late, great Leonardo Da Vinci!) Anyway, speaking of painted pictures…
As you entered the small cottage, the smell of mothballs filled the air. On the right stood a beautifully carved wooden shoe place. Inside were only 4 pairs of shoes. High heels, slippers, a pair of trainers and a pair of sandals. On top of it were 3 pictures of a young couple on their wedding day. They were inside a silver frame with gold writing around them. They read ‘Happiest day of our lives’. The first room was on the left. The door was dark blue colour. It even had a blue knob. There was a plaque on it, which read ‘Football moments’. First thing you see when you open the door is blue, blue and more blue!! The room had blue wallpaper with the Chelsea F.C logo all over it. In the middle of the room was a blue football table. There were also many pictures of an old couple wearing a blue scarf and hat. Probably the only thing, which wasn’t blue, was the white laminated floor!
The next room was on the left. There was another plaque, which read ‘Bedroom’. The room had been kept very clean. In the middle of the room was a double bed with clean white sheets. In the corner was an old cupboard. The smell of mothballs was strongest here!
The next room was a small bathroom on the right. It had white tiles and the floor was laminated with white stone. The room was so shiny it would scorch your eyes!
At the end of the narrow hall there was a large living room. There were newspapers scattered all over the floor. There were empty paint pots all over the place! There were two rocking chairs sat facing the fireplace.
On one of the rocking chairs there was two beautiful portrayed paintings of an old man wearing a suit.
 It was so accurately drawn you could easily tell it was the same man in the black and white pictures and the picture at the football match. There was a non-portrayed, half-finished painting of what seemed to be just like the beautiful view of the outside of the house. Stuck on to the picture was a note.
It read,
Jane,
          Don’t forget to buy more paint from town. P.S don’t forget the car is still broken down. You have to use the bus.
Edward.
 
There was no T.V in the room but there was an old radio on top of a bookcase. There was a kitchen on the end of the living room. Sat on the counter were empty fish and chip boxes. It wasn’t a very comely home but it was obvious the people liked living here.
                                       By Mirshad

2 comments October 9th, 2007

Looking in a granite building!

I arrived at the old granite building with two towers sticking out like huge arms. I was about to open the door but it suddenly opened? When I got in the old granite building the hallway had heaps of old black and white photos. Near the entrance of the living room there was a black 8 ball. There were 4 red balls on the purple sofa.                                                                                               When you go up the stairs and look out side the window the snow was falling on the ground and the trees were bare. If you use binoculars to look out in the distance you see the crop fields are bare.     

When you go upstairs into the master bedroom they are four cues lined up against the wall and trophies in a cabinet. One of them said 1956 champions but the rest were all dusty on the trophy. I went down the stairs into the kitchen and saw a yellow ball covered in red paint. When you look at the garden from the window you see two bushes shaped like cues. Now I have to flee because the owners are coming but the last thing I saw was two solid walking sticks.
 
By Conor

Add comment October 9th, 2007

IN THE MANSION

At the edge of a city there was an enormous mansion. Wait said someone; there was a taxi outside. That person ran so fast I couldn’t describe him. I could hear a loud voice saying airport please. While he left he had left his keys in the door. So I went to bed. The next morning his key was still in the door! So I wondered what to do. So I said to my self should I leave or should I enter? So I entered but I heard voices I tiptoed across the wooden dusty floor you could see that the voices was only recorded on a dumb recorder. So I went to the sitting room there was a trophy so I went to see it. It said Turkish grand prix winner of the year 2006 but still no name.

After two minutes later I went up stairs to the kitchen there was a note of recipes there was salad / eggs/bacon/tomato’s/ chicken/curry/cheese/sausages/ and steaks I said what a long recipe.

There was a trophy room - I opened it all. I saw was bright silver trophies. When I closed the door I thought I was blind. All I could see was black. It took a couple of minutes. Suddenly all the lights switched off. It was so quiet I could her my heart beating really fast. Two minutes later I saw a light straight ahead of me so I followed it. It led me outside the mansion. I thought to my self should I tell my friend john? So I did.

Two days later I went back to the mansion with my friend john. So then we searched the mans house. We searched for about six hours john said to me “I know who it is” then he looked at a picture and he said “ that’s Fernando Alonzo” so I said “ oh that’s who it is”. I said to john”whats that” john said” car tires”. “Oh dummy”. I said “ that’s Alonzo outside so me and john ran home safely.

By Dylan B

Add comment October 9th, 2007

In the castle

Far away in the countryside there was a giant castle. Most of the castle was covered in moss. One cold March day I was walking along an old cobbled road when I noticed a castle. Just as I approached the door a welcoming voice said, “Enter.” So I did. I cautiously walked in wondering what I would see. I turned round and saw two pieces of parchment. I looked in carefully, one had numbers from 1-70A and the other had 70B-140. I looked around, there was antlers, heads and locked gun cabinets. I gazed in awe at all animal body parts. I decided to have a look around the castle. A fierce wind blew the door open, which made chandeliers above me clink together. I walked up the most fanciest looked stairs I’d ever seen. The first door I saw marked 24. I looked in and saw a whole bunch of deer caucuses. I went along a corridor and looked in door 51. I saw lots of trophies. On the back of the door there was a note saying “Hunting Season starts 7.3.06.” 

“Wait a minute that’s today!” I said looking puzzled.   

I wanted to look in one more door. I found door number 1 which was next to the front door. I sneaked in, but somehow an alarm went off. I didn’t bother to wait for what was going to happen. So I ran out the front door and sprinted home. As I ran I could hear the crunching of gravel behind me. By Fraser G.

Add comment October 8th, 2007