Cultural Tides – Doric Workshops at Meethill School

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As you can see from the second photo, it was a bright and sunny day up in Peterhead yesterday for my first visit to Meethill School as part of the Cultural Tides project organised by Aberdeenshire Museums Service !

I had great fun with the first two Doric workshops – an introduction to Doric in the morning where the P5 and 6 pupils had fun showing off how much Doric they knew, miming Doric words for eachother to guess (10/10 from what I saw!) and creating a Doric vocabulary for use in the other workshops.

In the afternoon they voted (very wisely!) for their favourite of 5 traditional songs connected with Peterheid and the surrounding area, decided what the song was “missing” and added a whole new verse (and a half! Watch this space)

I also got to see the school’s Storytelling Chair for the first time. (First photo) It was made by the folks at HMP Grampian in memory of Mr Black, who was the headteacher until 2024. there are amazing images from childrens’ books all over it and… some of my favourite Doric words!

Brownie Folklore Badge

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It’s been a busy couple of weeks and I’m playing catchy-up with the socials again!

Here are some super photos courtesy of 55th Aberdeen Brownies who I visited last week to help out with their Folklore Badge!

The girls heard a couple of stories of mythological creatures and went on a creature hunt before naming each creature and telling me what they knew about them. I was SO impressed with their knowledge! Tonight the girls will be doing the final part of their badge – designing badges based on the mythological creatures they know! I can’t wait to see their designs 🙂

A lovely Birthday Party!

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This is my favourite image of my favourite fairy tale hero – Tatterhood!
It really shows her pointed chin and pointed mouth, but nae the lime green eyes or unfortunately her goat!
Credit goes to artist Finnguala on deviantart for this one.

I had a great time telling this story at M’s 12th birthday party – such a great bunch of friends and family. Sorry to the Wielder Of The Hoover for the excess glitter and I hope the Happy Birthday Bleepy Thing has taken the hint and gone hush!