Interview of Sandy Bowick and Margaret Elgin - by Isabel Robbie Danny Alasdair and Lauren

This is one of a series of interviews conducted by P6 pupils at Campie Primary School with former pupils and staff of the school.

In this interview the children talk to Sandy Bowick and Margaret Elgin, who both joined the school in 1959 as P7 pupils. They had spent their P1-6 years only a short distance away, at Fisherrow, but recall that they knew hardly any of the children at Campie when they moved their. They were both very happy at Campie and shared their memories of school life. Margaret's favourite time was Friday morning, when her teacher wheeled in a piano and they would all sing together.

They remember how the physical building has changed since they were pupils here. Their classroom was tiered, with the more able students sitting at the back of the class where they would work unassisted. All written work was done with pens made of wood, with steel nibs which were filled from a small inkwell on the desk. Towards the end of the interview, Sandy descibes the thrill, as the P7 Campie boy who was awarded the dux, he got a hurl in a horse-drawn carriage.