At the Pumpkin Party there were three DJs called Jim, Steve and Luke. Some people dressed up as scary monsters like witches, pumpkins, devils, zombies and two people wore morphsuits! Who were they? There was a pumpkin contest with all the best pumpkins ideas anyone could come up with! The P1 to 3 winner was Scarlett. The P4 to 5 winner was Jennifer and the P6 to 7 winner was Jade. Everyone had a really good time and the music was blaring loudly. Gangman Style was on, Sorry for Party Rocking, Party Rock Anthem, YMCA and lots more groovy tunes. The DJs were dancing with us and putting on songs that we requested. The night was awesome and everyone who was there had a GREAT TIME!!!!
Fergus from Theatre Modo came to p 4/5 to make oil rig hats out of willow sticks. The website has videos you can watch and Theatre Modo was formed in 1995,it is a recognised Scottish charity.Theatre Modo has been producing memorable shows across Scotland and Europe since 1995 and is filled with theatrical,musical and physical invention.Their shows engage the audience in live performance.
Sooner or later Fergus came back to help us finish our oil rig hats by painting them with a vairity of bright and wonderful colours. Then we all got our face painted very strangely (yellow with blue stripes going down).There is another blog with the drama.
All our classes, who had been working hard over the last month to research an aspect of the 1960’s and come up with a performance, performed their Magical History Tour to family and friends on Friday 15th June.
Every class performed and performances took place outdoors within the school grounds and at various locations within Gordon Park. The event began with Ellon Pipe Band playing as the audience arrived to watch the P5 class, dressed in animal costumes, reenact the farm animal parades that took place in the 1960’s as part of Ellon Agricultural Show. The audience was then moved onto an underwater scene where the P2 class performed an octopus dance around a huge model octopus to the Beatles song Octopus’s Garden. From there onto a civil rights demonstration being held by out P6 class. The promenade performance involved the audience moving around the outside spaces from one class performance to another ending up at marquees in Gordon Park. A large birthday cake was wheeled into the arena and the children and audience sang Happy Birthday Ellon Primary School. We then all enjoyed birthday cake and juice in the marquees before returning to school.
It was lovely to welcome former members of staff to the event. They enjoyed getting together and reminiscing about old times.
We were delighted with the support from families and friends demonstrated in the huge turn out on Friday afternoon. A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who supported our Golden Jubilee event we really appreciate your support.
Here are a few photographs of the day there will be more to follow soon.
P7 1960's 'Strange'Primary 6 Civil Rights - 1960's Peace ProtestPrimary 3 Moon Landing -1969Primary 1 - 60's Flower Power
Last week Theatre Modo has been in to help the whole school learn to do creative things like paintings, drama, dance routines and songs for our Golden Jubilee which is 60’s themed. P6/7 has been making Andy Warhol flags. Andy Warhol was a famous artist in the 60’s. He was famous for his style of art which was pop art. He designed the famous and colourful portrait of Marilyn Monroe. We are making portraits of ourselves in the same style as Andy Warhol’s. We drew pictures of ourselves then made stencils and spray painted them onto material. We will be attaching them to a flag pole and doing a routine with them for the jubilee. We are enjoying working with Theatre Modo, and hope that our flags and routine will wow the parents.
Primary 7 pupils have started to create life-sized puppets with the help of Theatre Modo. We have been making the puppets out of withies (sticks of willow) and cardboard for the school Golden Jubilee. We are nearly ready for the big celebration on Friday at Gordon Park and we are learning a routine to go with it.
When we started learning about the 60s we realised how weird and strange a lot things were in those days, so that is the theme of our performance – STRANGE. On Friday you’ll see some strange things like; flying cars, toppling towers and strange animals. Watch this space for photos.
Our Golden Jubilee stall proved to be very popular on the day of the Ellon Gala. Members of our Parent Council set up a display of photographs of staff and pupils through the decades.
The stall had many visitors who reminisced about old times at the school. The 1960’s style sweets went down a treat with the children and the water bottles and pens with our limited edition Golden Jubilee logo were selling
like hot cakes. These items will be available along with other limited edition products, tee shirts, polo shirts, mugs and pencil cases on our celebration day on Friday 15th June.
Golden Jubilee learning experiences have begun in ernest this week. Primary 1 pupils visited the Winter Gardens at Duthie Park to investigate a variety of plants and flowers. They met Clare and Arthur who helped them to spot and name a variety of brightly coloured flowers and to create a crafty flower. Primary 1 took photographs with their DSs and they drew pictures of what they saw. The photographs and drawings will be used to inspire them to create a 60’s floral pattern for fabric.
Today we launch our Golden Jubilee School badge design. Elements were taken from design ideas from Alex-picture of the school,Maria-Stars,Jack-50. Our Golden Jubilie Logo will be used during our celebrations this term and will be printed onto t-shirts ,polo shirts,water bottles,sweat bands,pens,pencils and other goods. These will be avalible for purchase soon. Ythan Bakery will be donating our birthday cake.
On Monday the 16th of April 2012, P7 left for their residential school trip to Lendrick Muir which is situated in Kinross which is a little bit further north. It was a great trip, they had an amazing time. There were all sorts of activities to take part in. Primary 7 were put into different groups which they did activities in. The groups were yellow, green, purple, red and blue. The activiteswere trail biking, high ropes (leap of faith, pizza box), inflatables, search and rescue, land grab, bungee trampoline/crazy golf, rocket launch, canoeing, mini survival and cheeseydisco. The leap of faith was found scary by many pupils but most managed to face their fears and jump! On the last night they had a cheesey disco it was great fun and they learned a dance to Cotton Eyed Joe which was taught to them by Adrian (a staff member) :D. There aren’t enough words to describe just how good it was!
Artworks entered into the art exhibition in room 14 will be going on sale this week. Pupils are invited to come to view the exhibition at lunch time on Thursday and Friday. If they want to buy a painting they can bid for it by writing their name, the name of the person whose painting they want to buy and how much they are willing to bid. The highest bidder will get the painting.
Minimum bid 50p. Only paintings next to a coloured dot are for sale. Money raised goes towards Ms Strachan’s trip to Tanzania to build a school.
P4/5 have been learning about an artist called James Rizzi in art class recently. He was a famous artist who died just before Christmas. He painted buildings, cars, aeroplanes and much more. He did pop art. Pop art is a style of painting that is more like cartoons than real things. He drew people. On his people he would give them big eyes. We painted people in class using the James Rizzi style. Now we have a big display. Some have green skin others have blue, purple, yellow,orange or red.
