Time Capsule

Memories of the old school 1998
Primary 4a and 4b from School Year 2008 - 2009 wrote about the Time Capsule buried in the Old School in 1998 and dug up in June 2008 prior to the move to the new school building.
It was re-buried there.

The Silver Anniversary

This is the Time Capsule. It has a history. We are wondering what to add to the Time Capsule to capture our memories of the time we moved to a new school.

The Time Capsule was created to mark the Silver Anniversary of Annanhill Primary School in 1998.

It fell to the two Primary 4 classes to gather a variety of appropriate memorabilia which they placed inside the Time Capsule.

The children selected to include:

a pencil case, cassette tape, soft toy, yo yo, a set of coins ( £2, £1, 50p, 10p, 20p, 5p, 2p and 1p), Reading 2000 books, Oxford Reading Tree books, a purple sweatshirt, newspaper, drawings by P4, a staff photograph and some Scottish Heinemann maths workbooks.


An Open Day was arranged and many guests were invited. Parents and friends of the school visited the children in their classrooms, sampled an excellent cup of tea and watched the cutting of a celebration cake.


	The Gym was decorated to mark the occasion.


The children from Primary 7 worked hard to plan and create a new school garden. Tons of soil were donated and a flowerbed was created. Friends of the school donated plants to add colour to our garden. Primary 6 children made nesting boxes from off cuts of wood and these were nailed to the mature trees in the garden. One kind friend donated four trees. The trees symbolised the four seasons from the flowering cherry to the prickly holly.

	The garden was declared officially open by Miss Kenyon. Miss Kenyon was the first Head Teacher of Annanhill Primary School. She was accompanied by the Head Teacher at that time, Mr Ian Roxburgh.


A large boulder was purchased from a local quarry. An inscribed plate was attached to the boulder to commemorate the Anniversary.

	The contents of the Time Capsule were vacuum packed in plastic and sealed in the metal canister. During the Open Day the Time Capsule was placed in a hole in front of the boulder and remained there until June of 2008 when it was dug up prior to the move to the new school. It needed a good wash to remove the soil from its surface and then it was carefully carried to the new school.

The new garden included a wetland. Almost every year since then, the Primary 1 children have hunted for crocodiles when reading the story of The Enormous Crocodile and thanks to a little bit of luck they have managed to find one - every year!

Mr Stevenson introduced toads to the wetland and they thrived. During the recent creation of the new playing fields Annanhill toads were to be found enjoying the deep puddles on site.

Squirrels enjoyed eating the pears from a mature tree and they often distracted the children from their lessons. Unfortunately, the wasps also enjoyed the pears.

The infant classes added colour to the garden by planting lots of bright daffodils to cheer us up on dull days in Spring. Teachers were often seen gathering leaves or flowers for use in Art lessons.

A Gardening Club was started and this after-school activity ensured that the garden was kept tidy. Children learned to prune roses and plant seeds and bulbs. They also became aware of the problems litter brings.

The garden became a wonderful resource for out-of-doors learning. Science lessons became more hands-on as the children worked in the garden. Art lessons were enjoyable outdoors when the classrooms became too warm. Minibeasts ran to hide as groups of children turned over stones in their search for evidence of habitats. Story time was more fun when you were sitting on the grass with your friends.

Spotting different styles of houses and the materials used to build them was easy in the garden.

Latterly, the garden housed the recycling bins. We are looking forward to our new garden.