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February 2003 Update

Open Doors, Glasgow - Mum's Old School

Open Doors Day is a day every year when you can go round buildings that aren't usally open, or sometimes you can go for free into buildings where you usually have to pay.

In September 2001, we went to Kelvinhaugh Primary School in Glasgow, built in 1886.

You don't have to pay to go in there, but it's usually for pupils and teachers only.

It's a huge building - about the same age as Holmston Primary, but 3 floors high and it used to have over 800 pupils.

Today, there are many fewer children, only 130 or so, less than at Holmston.

They don't even use the classrooms on the top floor any more, and there's loads of room inside for everyone else.

The school has a big glass roof, 3 floors up, so that light comes right down inside the building. Like a big greenhouse.

Up in the roof, there's a round picture of Queen Victoria, who was Queen when the school was built.

Because it's round, it looks like an old penny with the Queen's head on it.

You can see it from everywhere downstairs.

The pupils at Kelvinhaugh call it "The Coin".

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