Today P4-7 from Kirkcolm followed in the footsteps of the younger pupils and took a jaunt out to Wigtown to experience some of the fun activities the Book festival has to offer!

We started our day by eating our lunch on the bus before exploring the streets of Wigtown to locate the Church Hall for our Shoo Rayner Event.

First ones there, we settled down right at the front with our clipboards, paper and pencils and got to meet Shoo and see some illustrations before the rest of the schools joined us and we all got to partake in a mass drawing session!

We got to see how Rayner builds up all his illustrations from simple shapes and through simple instructions we got to make our own illustrative designs and find out a range of different techniques for drawing.

We also learned that Math is key! (Geometry to be specific) in creating people and animals using simple shapes and lines (…which gave us a handy reminder of how much Math is truly everywhere during Math Week Scotland!)

Here is some of the photos of our time there.. 🙂