This term we have been exploring colour and how it is used by artists. We mixed colours in a colour wheel to create secondary and tertiary colours. We now know different colour schemes such as warm and cool. We can use the colour wheel to great artwork with complimentary colours.

We have looked at the work of Japanese Yayoi Kasama. We created a piece of work inspired by her. We made sure our background contrasted with our pumpkins.

Just before Halloween, author Matthew Fit visited P5 to share some poems he has rewritten in Scots. You might have read his book The Eejits, a Scots translation of Roald Dahl’s The Twits. We enjoyed listening to him reading and acting out different words and parts from his work. Matthew taught us spooky Scots words such as skelet, caunle, moosewab, carline and bizzum. We added these words with little drawings to our haunted house.

A few days later we used some of these new words to write the ending to a spooky story of our own.

On halloween we dressed up, danced and played games at our Autumn party.

During Fit Thursday we took part in a number of fun activities and sports including botcha, boxercise, judo, cricket, football and dancing. We were lucky to have experts teaching us throughout the day. We all worked well in our teams and with different partners.

Thanks to Mr McCormack for organising an active and fun day for us all.

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