Hampden Photos. *Image Heavy*

Here are some photos from the Hampden Trip. Due to a slight mishap with the cameras, these were taken on my Blackberry! So if the quality isn't great, I apologise!

Guided tour begins in the Changing Room Facilities! 

We then all moved into the warm up ground! Everyone had a shot at scoring a goal:

Then we were going outside to the park, this is the tunnel:

Back inside for a wander around the Museum:

The Hampden Experience

What a day! Everyone had a great day today on our trip to Hampden. First we were given a Stadium Tour by Bruce, which was very informative, and really interesting. We all had a go at shooting a ball into the net on the warm up pitch, even the teachers had a shot.


Then we were lucky enough to be invited in to watch the Scottish Cup Draw being filmed Live in the Museum's Hall Of Fame. Afterwards some of the pupils were given the opportunity to interview Chris Miller who previously played for Morton. They had their pictures taken with him & got some autographs. Next there was Sean Maloney, and he was kind enough to let some of the pupils have their photo taken with him aswell! 


We then had a look around the museum, and stopped for a bit of lunch in the Museum's cafe.


Pictures and videos to follow soon,


All in all, a perfect day!

Trip to The Scottish Football Museum

On Monday the 18th November 2010 we will be making the journey to Hampden with the S3 ASDAN pupils of St Columba's High School, and will be joined once again by Callum McFadden. Callum did a weeks work experience with The Trust and is from S4 at St Columba's.


We will be taking a Museum Tour, followed by a Stadium Tour of Hampden Park. We also have the privilege of joining in on the announcement of the Scottish Cup Draw! We will be sure to take lots of photographs & will be doing some filming, so expect a photo post next week!


Here are some images of the museum & ground:

Winning Poems To be Featured in Book

The young people of St Columba's took a vote on which of their classmates poems & thoughts about the housing conditions were the best. The three poems who received the highest amount of votes would have their work published in the book itself. There will be competitions such as this one for the young people all the way through the book, as every section they will be asked to contribute their thoughts & ideas about how different life was back then.


The winners were Reagan Kelly, Shannon Docherty and Kyla Downie.


As Kylas poem wasn't shown in the last post, here it is:

People came to oor wee toon

Very poor and lived in one room

Families had loads of wears,

Running around with the pains

With nothing to eat,

No even a bit of meat

Even trying to get into bed

Was a fight you got hit in the head

When there was ten in a bad

Everyone did really well on this part of the project and the young people are really beginning to enjoy working and finding out about the history of their home town.

Poems & Thoughts About Housing in the 1870s.

This weeks ASDAN class at St Columba's involved a group discussion on housing conditions in the 1870s, around the time when Morton was formed, in Greenock and Inverclyde. The young people of S3 ASDAN class were then asked to write a short paragraph, or a poem about how they would feel about living in such conditions. Here are a few examples of what they had to say.


The Old Streets of Greenock were not at all nice,
Mostly everyone was riddled with lice.


From the slaughterhouse, blood would flow down the street,
Who only knows what would be stuck to your feet?


One man was hung in the Old West Kirk,
While immigrants were shipped in, looking for work.


I wouldn't like to live here and neither would you,
I mean would you like to have an outside loo?


By Shannon Docherty


In the olden days I don't think that it would be a good place to live because they were very poor places and there was very little technology. It was smelly, disgusting, dark and there were a lot of fights and sometimes they would drink alcohol because it was even cleaner than the water.


By Michael C


Old Days were hard
There was waste in the yard


Dirty old houses
Filled with mouses


Sewers in the street
All over your feet


Toilets made of card
Old Days were hard


By Connor King


I think it would be so different to live in the houses in 1874 because the things we take for granted are the things these people had to live without, like no electricity, sharing the same bath water, there could be up to fifteen people sharing a room with even just one bed. If I had to live in these conditions that I was not used to I really don't know how I would survive because everything is so different now in the modern days than from they were in the eighteen hundreds. Dirty, dark and smelly conditions are not what I would like to be living in.


By Gemma McConnell


As clean as a horse
As dirty as a rat
In Greenock you wouldn't
get better than that


Bogin wee waines
Jumping on trains
Getting to work
And back again
Smashed in the windows 
by bottles and bricks
little boys getting with sticks


Doing the toilet on the street
No shoes on your feet
Nothing to eat
So take nothing for granted
Be grateful and proud 
Of Old Greenock Town


By Reegan Kelly

S3 pupils Interviews Short Video

Filming at St Columba's

This morning we visited the S3 pupils of St Columba's High School again to interview some of the young people about what they think about the Morton Project. 
Here are some photos of the filming process!

Some of the pupils learning about the camera:

Having a shot at filming: