Today we had another adventure in the Millennium Woods, and the rain even stayed off!
Today we collected a variety of different leaves and once back in class we organised them into groups and used a key to help identify the tree that they belonged to. Our next step is to use Microsoft Excel to complete graphs to collate our information.
In teams we used the leaves to create art work inspired by Andy Goldsworthy. I am sure will agree they are fantastic!
Primary 6 and 7 were asked by the minister to contribute to the village poppy display by painting rocks with the names of all those who lost their lives fighting in World War 1 and World War 2. We then laid the stones around the war memorial.
We also created mix media Poppy art.
Primary 6 have been invited to enter the Kilmaurs Photography Clubs annual photograph competition in March. This year the theme is “Our Town” and as you can imagine the children had lots of ideas about the areas they wanted to capture to show Dunlop off at its best.
We were very fortunate that Mrs Cooley was able to come into school to offer us all some advice on how to capture that perfect picture. I now have the huge task on trying to narrow down the huge selection of pictures down in order for the class to select their 6 favourite images.
A huge well done to all of the children of Primary 6 who hosted a fabulous Harvest Tea! The children were great hosts, serving tea, coffee and a huge selection of home-baking.
This is a great inter-generational project giving the children the opportunity to interact with the senior citizens of Dunlop and Lugton. They all thoroughly enjoyed their morning, especially when sampling the delicious cakes that had been provided by our generous families.
All of the classes performed a song from the ECC to Primary 7 (Primary 5 unfortunately were held up on the way back from swimming and were greatly missed).
Below is a link to Primary 6 singing Highland Cathedral, once agian their singing brought a tear to my eye, I hope you enjoy!
A very proud Miss White
