DD1's school is having a competition - i HAVE to win! Your help required!!!

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they are closing our local Primary and building 2 lovely new ones at each end of the town. There is a competition to decide on a new name, and i wnat to win. dont even know what the prize is yet

old school is Kinloch Primary

most popular suggestion yet is Thomas Street Primary (boring?)

head together every one!

do you really like the name of your local school? what is it?

please!

have emailed you re this.

Does your local area have anything 'notable' in its history ?

Was the land used for anything particular in the past ?

All the ones near us are either St Someone or named obviously after the village / area / estate.

I quite like Thomas Street Primary actually - irrationally I hate schools with inspirational Pegasus-Rainbow Community School type names.
Is there a historical figure knocking about in the area who could do with a boost?

You need to dig up some history on the grounds the schools are being built on.

What's the area known for?

What are the views of if anything?

Give us some clues about the area, the town, paint us a picture and it'll be easuer to think of a name.

My DD's schools have either been named after the churches they are linked with, have a name about the brds that used to frequent the are when it was a field, or they are named after the hill that can be seen from the area and so on.

shall have a dig around

loads of history

Sir George Bullough Primary? Apparently he was laird of Kinloch castle

BTW - am v v you live in Kinloch!

i dont live in Kinloch

there is a Burn nearby (Burnside Primary?)

there is an extremely famous golf course across the road

a beach

its a Pictish town

Oh - sorry. Misunderstood you

Erm....BurnBunkerBeach Pictish Primary?

lol iklboo

i quite like Thomas Street Primary too

i am sure thats what they were going ot call it, but have changed thier minds, so it wont win me the comp

My dd and ds go to The Grove Primary which is nice. Logo is 3 fluffy trees

Tiger Woods Primary.

Seriously, I think as the others have suggested, find out the history of the land.

pinotmum - thatll be the next thing - getting the pupils to design a logo

(anyone else remember when Grange Hill changed theirs! was it suzanne who won )

Wasn't it Danny who won? And then died?

fimbo - all the surrounding streets and avenues are named after famous golfers

we even have a Tiger Beach now

oh yes iklboo you are right

well done

Our local primary schools are either named after the village they are in, or after churches they are linked with. There is one, called the Oaktree, nice name, but perhaps not very exciting...

Just out of curiosity, if they are replacing the old school with two new ones, does that mean children will be split from friends etc? Sounds like a big upheavel....

Urgh, they can't name it after anything 'golf'.

The usual mode for this is that the posh end of town gets the 'Saint ...' and the poor end of town gets something modern and inspirational.

why are you so desperate?

do you get your head on a plaque?

Probably just her name , the other sounds rather drastic. And not much of a prize.