Paisley pupils bury time capsule to teach future classes about Covid-19 pandemic

Many years from now, future pupils at a Paisley primary school will be able to learn all about the Covid-19 pandemic thanks to classes who lived through it.

Face masks, hand sanitiser and Lateral flow tests - these are just some of the items youngsters at Glencoats Primary have buried in the school garden to encapsulate what the past 18 months has been like.

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Pupils at the Blackstoun Road school have created a time capsule for classes to open years from now and learn about the year they will never forget.

The past school year has been difficult for pupils, with schools in Renfrewshire and all across the country quickly having to adapt to a new way of learning.

Each year group contributed to the time capsule (Paisley Daily Express, UGC MSR)

Members of Paisley Men's Shed helped pupils bury the time capsule (Paisley Daily Express, UGC MSR)

The lockdowns resulted in classes taking part in lessons in ways they have never experienced before and spent months being separated from their friends to learn remotely at home.

The school decided their experience would be a good lesson for future pupils, and with the help of Paisley Men’s Shed they have now commemorated the impact of the pandemic.

Each year contributed to the time capsule, with every class adding photographs and letters to future pupils about thier experience.

They also added the four school captain badges - Rafferty, Coats, Tannahill and Byrne - as well as the P7 school year book, and the senior pupils added items such as masks and covid tests.

Senior pupils added items such as face masks and hand sanitiser to the time capsule (Paisley Daily Express, UGC MSR)

Each year group also included class photos (Paisley Daily Express, UGC MSR)

Teacher David Craig, who helped coordinate the project alongside members of Paisley Men’s Shed, said: “Because of the year we have all had with covid we thought a time capsule project would be really good to use it as an opportunity for pupils to think about what it has been like and to put it all together to tell classes in the future.

“A number of pupils wrote messages and letters to future classes telling them all about the impact it had on them and we included class pictures from every year.

“The P6 and P7 pupils also had a think about things that symbolise the past year and came up with the idea to include things like face masks, hand sanitiser and covid tests.

“It was a really great project and the pupils got so much out of it.”