Month: January 2015

Every year our school has a Burns celebration and all the classes in the school take part to learn a Scottish poem and also some of the main Scottish country dances. We enjoyed learning Strip The Willow it was so much fun. On Wednesday 21st January all the classes got assessed and in all the classes only six people got through to the finals. Then on the Thursday each of the finalists took it in turn to say it on front of  three judges. On Friday 23rd January we had Burns Lunch and then everyone’s friends and family came up for a ceilidh where we also found out the results of the poem!!

Here Are The Results:

P7-Adress To The Haggis  1st Elizabeth Macmillan  2nd Abbie Morris  3rd Annie Farrell

P6- Twa Corbies  1st Bronagh  Newman  2nd Ross Thompson  3rd Mirren Brown

P5- My Love Is Like A Red, Red Rose  1st Struan Colthart  2nd Ruaridh Macdonald  3rd Natalie Logan

P4- Oor Dentist  1st Rowan Morris  2nd Matthew Campbell  3rd Rebecca Morris

P3- The Brickies On The Building Site  1st Ellen Brown  2nd Holly Mckechnie  3rd Alexander Mctavish

P2- Sair Finger  1st Katherine Borthwick  2nd Dearbhla Newman  3rd Charlotte Rose and Millie Hollyoake

P1- Owe You Canne Throw A Sanne  1st Ricky  2nd Ciara  3rd Phoenix Davey

Overall we had a great time!!

By Emily and Jodie

Today Thusday 22nd Januray I had a visit from a lady called Maggie who makes bags. As part of my Endeavour i am making a bag from scratch and she was going to come in and talk about different bags. She taught me how to make handles and how to put lining  in the inside of my bag. Also she showed me some of her bags which has giving me some ideas. Thanks very much !!!

By Jodie 🙂

On Tuesday 20th January we went to the Woollen Mill.  We had  a look around the Wollen Mill and found out how they make tweed.  This was for our Endeavour projects on wool and making bags.

By Emily, Jodie and Emma 🙂

Last week  our class p7 entered a competition about photography and architecture run by the Scottish Civil trust.  We went a walk round the village looking for  photographs  to take. There were all kinds of photos like roof tops, paths & drain pipes and they were taken at different angels to make them look eye catching. When we got back from the walk round the village we looked though all of our photo’s and picked out the best photo and edited it a wee bit to make it look better.  Then they could enter it in to the competition.

by Logan Porter and William Monaghan

As part of our 10 Pieces music topic we have been creating art in response to pieces of classical music.  We have created abstract pieces and yesterday we made art based on the theme of flight in response to a piece of music.  This is Beth’s picture based on the piece Mars by Holst.

In class we have been learning a poem called address to a haggis for Robert Burns day, which is next week in school.  Have a listen here … haggie

For the past couple of weeks we have been doing a project from the BBC called Ten Pieces. We have been learning about it with P3/4 as well. It is all about classical music and their composers, plus we have to make our own body percussion to the songs and our own art. The three main songs are: Night on Bare Mountain, In The Hall Of The Mountain King and Mars, The Destroyer. When you do music you have to think about all the different techniques which are; Ostinato, Crescendo, Diminuendo, Surprises, solos, when they play altogether, call and answer, layers, gaps of silence and change of tempo and speed. We also were in groups of four to create our own piece of music using our voices and body percussion which we recorded and built up using Garageband. Our group had to make a piece that sounded happy and we used lots of different techniques. In pairs we all researched a song and their composer. We researched Firebird by Igor Stravinsky. Lots of other people researched famous composers too like Mozart and Beethoven. We really enjoy doing 10 Pieces because it lets us find out about classical music, composers and get the feel from different music.

By Emily and Eleanor 🙂