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Welcome the Baton

The Glasgow schools' baton has now visited schools and nurseries across the city as it mirrors the Queen's baton's journey across the Commonwealth.

The youngsters at Westerhouse Family Learning Centre will welcome the baton with open arms from St Rose of Lima PS pupils, take part in their own mini commonwealth games and bury a Commonwealth Games time capsule.

The children, helped by staff have chosen a number of items to include in the capsule – flags, drawings of 2014 mascot, Clyde and a pen drive with facts and figures about their nursery and local community.

Clyde will also be popping along on the morning to help the children dig a spot in the nursery garden to bury the capsule. Schools and nurseries across Glasgow have been very imaginative in their ideas on transporting the baton from school to school and each celebrating hosting the baton in numerous ways.

The schools' baton was waved off by the Lord Provost Sadie Docherty in October when she handed over the specially designed baton to pupils from Balornock Primary school as they embarked on the first leg of the 10-month relay.

The baton will arrive back at the City Chambers in June at the same time as the Queen's Baton. Over 70 schools and nurseries will take part in the event, organised by the council's active schools co-ordinators and gives pupils and staff the chance to take part in the build-up to the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

Travelling in excess of 203 miles – schools taking part are devising their own ways of transporting the baton from school to school and the relay will mirror the countries where the Queen's Baton as the chosen school is twinned with that country.

Councillor Stephen Curran, Executive Member for Education and Young People said: "This is a wonderful opportunity for our school children to be actively involved in the countdown to Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.

"The fact that the schools' baton relay is mirroring the Queen's Baton and using the schools twinned with each country the baton will be travelling to is a genius idea.

"Over the next few months the excitement will mount as schools celebrate the baton coming to their school and local community and raising the profile of the games to as wide an audience as possible.

"I'm excited to hear about all of the weird and wonderful ways the pupils and schools staff have dreamed-up for their leg of the relay and have been watching the progress with interest."

Liam Doherty, 14 years of age, from St Andrew's Secondary won a city-wide competition to design the special baton. Glasgow and Cube Housing Association's Gold Medal Legacy programme funded the production of the baton and made by local company, Product Design


published 11/06/2014 by Online Submission
last update 02/06/2014

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