Mosstowie Primary - World Book Day · Let your imaginations fly Flying high Shoot for the stars ......
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Mosstowie Primary School Miltonduff, by Elgin IV30 8TY Tel: 01343 547 811 www.mosstowie.moray.sch.uk We are a rural school in Moray, Scotland with 67 pupils who like to think big! The starting point or inspiration was the video and information on the World Book Day website. The amazing prizes on offer also helped because we absolutely love books! Being smart readers we read everything on the website very carefully. We noticed key phrases kept popping up in the text and the video: The sky’s the limit Let your imaginations fly Flying high Shoot for the stars Our class (P5-P7) brainstormed and came up with lots of imaginative ideas. We were totally enthused! We got creative and decided to make our display on our football pitch, to be photographed from above. Fortunately (from an earlier visit to the local quarry) we knew a man with a drone! He liked our idea and said he’d help. After much discussion and debate we finalised our design based around the word ‘Books’, spelt out in huge letters across the football pitch. We also decided to use ‘Flying Fergus’ as the theme. We were already fans of the books - ‘flying’ was coming up a lot! Our Fergus was going to ‘fly’ through a gigantic book cover having ‘taken off’ from a massive ramp (held up by us), complete with a Scotland flag and a copy of a real Flying Fergus book in his pocket. Mosstowie Primary World Book Day Award Entry: Be inspired – Be inspiring 1.
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Mosstowie Primary School
Miltonduff, by Elgin
IV30 8TY
Tel: 01343 547 811
www.mosstowie.moray.sch.uk
We are a rural school in Moray, Scotland with 67 pupils who like to think big! The starting point or inspiration was the video and information on
the World Book Day website. The amazing prizes on offer also helped because we absolutely love books!
Being smart readers we read everything on the website very carefully. We noticed key phrases kept popping up in the text and the video:
The sky’s the limit Let your imaginations fly Flying high Shoot for the stars
Our class (P5-P7) brainstormed and came up with lots of imaginative ideas. We were totally enthused! We got creative and decided to make our
display on our football pitch, to be photographed from above. Fortunately (from an earlier visit to the local quarry) we knew a man with a drone!
He liked our idea and said he’d help.
After much discussion and debate we finalised our design based around the word ‘Books’, spelt out in huge letters across the football pitch. We
also decided to use ‘Flying Fergus’ as the theme. We were already fans of the books - ‘flying’ was coming up a lot! Our Fergus was going to ‘fly’
through a gigantic book cover having ‘taken off’ from a massive ramp (held up by us), complete with a Scotland flag and a copy of a real Flying
Fergus book in his pocket.
Mosstowie Primary World Book Day Award Entry:
Be inspired – Be inspiring
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Mosstowie Primary School
Miltonduff, by Elgin
IV30 8TY
Tel: 01343 547 811
www.mosstowie.moray.sch.uk
Mosstowie Primary World Book Day Award Entry:
Photo No.1 – The finished Mosstowie World Book Day display 2018.
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Mosstowie Primary School
Miltonduff, by Elgin
IV30 8TY
Tel: 01343 547 811
www.mosstowie.moray.sch.uk
Our class split into teams:
Measuring measured
and re-measured the
size of the pitch.
Design made a detailed
scale plan on squared
paper.
Resources worked out
what materials and
items we could use and
checked sizes.
We used a vast amount of
‘resources’ - including cars,
furniture, P.E. equipment and
even a parachute! We appealed
online to parents for
tarpaulins, towels, tartan rugs
and white dustsheets (for the
World Book Day logo eyes).
Mosstowie Primary World Book Day Award Entry:
Photo No.2 – The Flying Fergus Cover
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Mosstowie Primary School
Miltonduff, by Elgin
IV30 8TY
Tel: 01343 547 811
www.mosstowie.moray.sch.uk
The village hall lent us
big tables plus two
huge backdrops from
behind the stage.
Some of our bikes
were used on the day.
Archie was picked to
be Fergus - he is
absolutely mad keen
crazy about bikes! He’s
won downhill mountain
bike events around
Scotland and was the
obvious choice.
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Photo No.3 – P1 & P2 pupils with books around one of the World Book Day eyeballs.
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Mosstowie Primary School
Miltonduff, by Elgin
IV30 8TY
Tel: 01343 547 811
www.mosstowie.moray.sch.uk
The whole school was
involved! Staff were
directed where to park
their cars. P1-P7 pupils
moved every single desk
and chair onto the pitch.
Everything was placed
precisely according to
the plan.
All teams worked
together brilliantly. We
were amazed how well it
worked - especially
considering that we only
saw the competition
details the week before!
We love the fact that all
pupils, staff, parents and
helpers (who were there
on the day) are all in our
display!
Mosstowie Primary World Book Day Award Entry:
Photo No.4 – Making Flying Fergus.
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Mosstowie Primary School
Miltonduff, by Elgin
IV30 8TY
Tel: 01343 547 811
www.mosstowie.moray.sch.uk
Photo 1 and 5 are now on
permanent display.
We’ve set them as the
background and
screensaver on our
smartboards and
computers!
We’re very proud of
what we achieved as a
team.
Now we’re writing to
the local papers and
council magazine to
show even more people
what we have done.
We hope you like our
display. We love it – and
as you now know, we also
love books!
Mosstowie Primary World Book Day Award Entry:
Text – 499 words Added by the P7 Writing Team on behalf of all the book crazy pupils at Mosstowie Primary - who really have been flying high with reading! ‘Reach for the sky!’
Photo No.5 – Our new computer World Book Day backdrop and screensaver.
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