News from Hutchesons’
This is the main news section for Hutchesons’ Grammar School.
Primary news stories:
Award-winning children's author visits Hutchesons'
Award-winning children's author Theresa Breslin visited Hutchesons' on 3 November to talk to P5 and S1 pupils.
4 November 2009
Primary Word of the Week: singen, chanter, cantare, cantar
The 'word of the week' was evident at a special November assembly at which Superbär hosted a Eurovision Song Contest.
4 November 2009
Vive la Revolution!
Scottish Opera visited Hutchesons' Grammar School in October and led a day's workshop and performance for Primary 6 pupils on the theme of the French Revolution.
30 October 2009
Cooking and Farming for Primary 3 Pupils
Chef John Quigley from Glasgow's Red Onion restaurant visited Kingarth Street just before Halloween and showed P3 pupils how to make pumpkin soup.
29 October 2009
Crafty Kids
Who knew that crafts would be so popular? In just 15 minutes, Primary 7 pupils sold several months' worth of hand-made crafts, raising £865 for CHAS.
9 June 2009
Anniversary of The Very Hungry Caterpillar
The hall at Kingarth Street was a mass of antennae when the Hutchesons' celebration of the 40th anniversary of Eric Carle's The Very Hungry Caterpillar came to a rousing conclusion on 3 June with a celebratory assembly and lunchtime fair.
9 June 2009
From Clothes to Cash
Pupils at Kingarth Street had a lesson in recycling and fundraising when they organised a Rag Bag collection on 13 May.
29 May 2009
Brush up your Shakespeare!
Primary 7 pupils (and their class teachers) donned Elizabethan garb on 21 May and entered the parallel world of Shakespearean England, relocated for the day to the Fotheringay Centre for the second Hutchesons' Shakespeare Festival.
29 May 2009
Heartstart Training begins for Primary Pupils
After securing a grant from the British Heart Foundation, two enterprising S6 pupils have started implementing their Heartstart UK programme to provide emergency life support training to primary pupils.
12 May 2009
Primary School Musical: Gamblers, Missionaries and Showgirls!
It was back to New York in the 1930s for Primary 7 pupils at Kingarth Street when, in association with Josef Weinberger, they presented Guys and Dolls, with words and music by Frank Loesser.
14 April 2009
Animal Magic
Zoolab visited the Primary 1 classes to talk about lifecycles. Eileen showed the children tiny eggs and they had to guess had hatched from them.
27 March 2009
Sing Like a Roman!
Primary 3 pupils sang, ate and partied like the Romans when they celebrated the end of their Romans topic.
23 March 2009
Primary School Musical
Primary 7 pupils were dazzled by the visit of West End star Lisa Stokke to one of their rehearsals for Guys and Dolls.
13 March 2009
Cookies for Cash
Five boys in Primary 5 baked and sold cookies to their fellow hungry pupils to raise money for CHAS.
5 March 2009
Hilarious Hutchie
Pupils from Lucy Black's P5B class had a rib-crackingly funny time with their Enterprise project - creating, designing and selling a joke book - Hilarious Hutchie.
27 February 2009