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 🙂
P7 photography composition
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
Musical Flight Art
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.
Abbie and Emma’s visit to Islay High School
On Thursday 18th January we went to lslay High School for an Endeavour visit. Abbie went to a music room to record herself playing her fiddle. She recorded 3 tracks for her CD that she is making for her Endeavour. After recording she had to edit her tracks. The 3 tracks were the Mist Covered Mountains, The Fiddler and the Yetts of Muckart, The Bears Dance and The Road to Goven and The Banjo Breakdown.
Emma went to the gym, the maths room and then she fed the gold fish. Mrs Young and Emma went to the library where she read Fuzzbuzz. Lastly she to the music room and played the piano.
By Abbie and Emma
Address To A Haggis
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
Gymnastics
P7 have been learning all about gymnastics and have been doing it for P.E. We have been focusing on four key things : Rotation, inversion, balance and flight. Rotation means rotating round, inversion is upside down, balance is just balancing and flight is when you jump or are in the air. But remember that when you are doing balance you have to hold it for extended period of time. We went into groups and made mini sequences to show our ability to do rotation, inversion, flight and balance. We were moving to the classical music the BBC 10 Pieces program. At the end we had to peer assess and self assess our ability to perform the four key things. We were all very enthusiastic and exited to be able to have an opportunity to learn about gymnastics.
By Jodie and Izzy 🙂
P7’s Rock Topic
P7 have recently done a rock topic. They have made there own rocks and experimented with them. The types of rock you can get are igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary. To make our candy rocks we got 4 Starburst and cut then in to quarters to show erosion and weathering. Then we kept cutting them until they were quite small and then put them in your hand and squeeze them together just so they stick which is sediment being compressed into sedimentary rock. Then we got a square of grease proof paper and squished it all together really hard so it looks smooth like a metamorphic rock. Then we put it in a cupcake case and then put it in the oven, when it comes out it is liquid like lava and then hardens to make igneous rock which you can eat! That is how you make a rock made of Starbursts.
By Beth and Annie:)
10 Pieces Of Music
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 🙂
Trip to Islay High to learn About Art
Jasmine and I went Islay High too learn about art because we are doing art for there Endeavor. It was really fun and we learned a lot of new techniques such as drawing and printing with Mr Galligan. We hope to hold an art exhibition of our pictures in June when we are finished.
Visit from Janet Watersworth
On Thursday Janet Watersworth came in to our school to tell us about dog training and she gave me a booklet on how to train your dog and she brought in her dog to show us some tricks. I learned how to train your dog what age you have to be and what skills you need.
By Ellie
