The Columban Issue 33 - St Columba's School

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Creative Communities
(Kirstin Zhang)
The power of the creative arts to bring people together, to
inspire and even empower is at the heart of a new national
initiative – Year of Creative Scotland 2012, which “will
embrace London 2012 and celebrate Glasgow 2014”. We are
pleased to launch our own Creative Communities project to
coincide with this. Over the course of the year our writerin-residence,
Kirstin Zhang, will be facilitating a number of
writing and story-telling workshops, which may be of interest
to former pupils. These will be held in Kilmacolm Community
Centre and are free. Please see page 2 for full details.
To reflect the occasion of the Olympic Games our overall
theme this year is ‘superheroes’. However, you are free to
write on any subject you like. To inspire you I’ve included
some excerpts from past School Magazines.
The new Creative Communities website
(www.creativecommunities.st-columbas.org) will
showcase the work produced. If you would like to share
your work with us please email it as a word document to
creativecommunities@st-columbas.org
We look forward to reading your stories, whether these are
fiction or reflective.
1947-48
The royal Wedding – by form II
On Thursday 20th november, 1947, was Princess elizabeth’s
wedding. We heard the broadcast from London at school. Most
of the girls wearing poppies that day, and we all brought our
sewing.
There was a procession of the Life Guards and crowds and
crowds of people. First came the Queen in her coach and then
the bridesmaids. Princess elizabeth drove to Westminster with
the King in the Royal Coach. She was driven al about the town.
She wore a dress with diamonds and pearls on it.
At Westminster Abbey, the minister was talking very loud.
He asked Princess elizabeth and Prince Philip questions, and
they said, “I do.”
1951-52
letters from Two Queens
King George the Sixth died in February 6th. We wrote to the
Queen because of our sympathy, not expecting a letter back.
One person wrote to the Queen Mother. One morning the next
week we had a letter from the Queen’s Private Secretary and
we were very pleased about it. About ten days later we had a
letter from the Queen Mother. (Claire & elspeth)
The Proclamation
Last Friday we listened-in to the Proclamation. The words
were read out very clearly and there is a new Queen now.
There are a lot of names for the new Queen. They are
elizabeth, Alexandra, Mary, but she is Queen elizabeth. (Ian)
School Play, 1907