S2-4 continued their Hidden Histories Wednesday Afternoon Activities with calligraphy using real goose feather quills and ink made from crushed oak galls, rusty nails and tree resin. They also studied patterns and made their own designs for pewter bracelets, taking inspiration from the ones found with the Galloway Viking Hoard.
Category: Art and Design
Resident Artists deliver creative workshops
The resident artists for the Energise project Leeming & Paterson and Jason Nelson came into Dalry and worked with students from P3-S3. Visual artist Jason Nelson and photographers Leeming & Paterson delivered a series of creative workshops which enabled the students to consider energy consumption with relation to the Galloway Hydro Scheme.
Dumfries & Galloway College Schools Competition
Well done to all of S3 for being a credit to the school on Friday whilst participating in Dumfries and Galloway College Schools Competition. Special congratulations go to our prizewinners:
Hana and Sarah – 1st Prize Digital Photography
Andrew and Andy – 2nd in Wallpapering Challenge 
Grace and Euan – 3rd in Visual Communications
Christmas Decorations
Miss Andrew has been busy with the Primary students in Art. Recently they have been making decorations for the Primary Christmas Fayre.
RSA Schools Art Award 2017
Congratulations to Eva Gibson in S2 who has received a Highly Commended for her mono-print which she submitted to the yearly RSA Art Award.
Her work will be on show at the RSA exhibition from 2nd April – 16th April along with other prize winners throughout Scotland.
Anniversary Tea Towel
Posted on behalf of Mrs Devlin…………………………….
Here is the preview of Dalry Nursery, Primary and Secondary’s anniversary tea towel. We think it’s fantastic, hope you do too!
£5 each
£4.50 each for multiple orders (2 or more)
Pre orders are available by filling out the order form given to pupils on Friday, or they can be purchased at the Primary Christmas Fayre on Tuesday 20th 10-11.30am. If you have lost the order form, please contact the school for a replacement.
Please note the tea towels are printed in royal blue.
A fantastic Christmas pressie for family members and friends!
All profit goes straight to FoDS, benefiting ALL our pupils from Nursery to Secondary.
Art in Term 2 at Dalry School
S4 – National 5 Design
S4 Pupils have been very busy finishing their design folios for the SQA. They have completed their development sheets and created their 3d final outcomes pieces. Every pupil has chosen a different theme and a experimented with a range of materials that suited their brief. We hope you like them. Next term you will see examples of their Expressive folios which will be complete by Easter.
S2 Design
Here are examples of the S2 shoulder pieces that pupils have been creating in the last two weeks. After looking at the work of Peter Chang, pupils used research drawings of natural and man made objects as inspiration for their shoulder pieces. The designs are made of paper mache, straws, card, polystyrene and coloured paper. The designs are bold and eye-catching with a range of repeated shapes and patterns in the style of Peter Chang.
Education in Glenkens this morning
Sunshine and crisp air turbo charge learning!
Term 1 in Art and Design at Dalry School
It has been a very busy term in the Art and Design Department.
S1 have been designing and making Venetian Masks. See their exciting designs in gold, silver, black and white below. 
S2 pupils have been improving their observational drawing skills and have started designing a Chang style piece of body adornment. Look out for photos of their 3d design pieces at the end of November.
S3 pupils have been working on their graphic design skills creating a design for a skateboard based on the theme of “Zoo York”.
In S4 pupils have been working on their design folios for National 5. Look out for the photos of their striking final outcomes at the end of November. Below are photos of pupils 3d paper models. 
P5/6/7 have been busy designing and making bright, colourful and eye-catching Carnival Masks to link with their class theme Rio 2016.
Art and Design at Dalry School
Support in Mind Scotland Art and Design Competition
Congratulations to the below S1 and S2 students who have been awarded prizes for entering the above competition as part of the Dumfries and Galloway Mental Health Festival. Pupils were asked to do a drawing or painting that illustrated what kept them mentally well.
First: Florrie Newbery with Baking picture £50
Second: Arran Macdonald-Kiernon with Pokemon picture £30
Commendation: Laura Edington with Music picture £10
Commendation: Finlay McGaw with Books and Leaves picture £10
Pupils are showing off their winning entries in the photo.
