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A huge thank you to all who have contributed photos and items for our Museum.  It is always amazing the range of items folk have and are willing to bring in to show our children, so that they can learn about the past. Our Museum was open over Parents Evening, but if you weren't able to see it, here are a few photos.

We are loving learning from all our visitors about when they were peedie and the differences between then and now. Derry's Granny Kim started school on the very first day that our school opened! It was called Papdale Infant School then, and was for P1-3.  The Primary School was being built on the Ducky Pond area.  The Primary School and KGS pupils were all at school where the OIC offices are now in School Place.   She had lots of photos to show us of Kirkwall when she was peedie, and some of her toys.     Ella's Granny Sheena had lots of her toys too, many of which had been made by knitting, sewing and even weaving!  This beautiful patchwork quilt was made for her doll by her Granny, Ella's Great Great Granny. As well as being really bonnie, it is a way of using up material from clothes that were no longer used - recycling and reusing!  It was especially nice for us to see a real patchwork quilt since we have Jack's patchwork sack already. 

We weren't quite sure who we were going to meet on World Book Day! We really enjoyed hearing about your family's favourite books and reading parts of each one that was brought in.  We had a wide range from Heidi, Black Beauty, The Secret Garden and The Water Babies to Oor Wullie and Rupert. 

A huge thank you to the Mums, Dad, Grannies and Great Granny who came in to help us with our sewing!