To round off our Scottish Myths and Legends topic, and now that we have finished reading the novel, we will be watching The Water Horse on Friday 24th February.
We will be completeing work to analyse the differences between the novel and the film.
This film is rated PG, if you do not wish your child to watch the film then please contact the school office before Friday morning.
Many thanks
Mrs Ross
This week we have been using lots of active literacy strategies to help us with our spelling patterns and rules- play dough, word clouds, word searches and our favourite game… ZAP IT!
We have been focussing on different repphoneme representations that make the the sound “j” and identifying more challenging words.
Primary 5 and Primary 6 had lots of fun at the Dick Institute exploring the Quentin Blake exhibition yesterday followed by an illustrating workshop.
They explored the exhibition, spotting the mistakes that Quentin Blake often made in his work. The pupils found that quite often Quentin Blake would stick a fresh bit of paper over a section of an existing illustration to replace small sections such as the head if he was not happy with what he had originally drawn.
The pupils then participated in a workshop where they were encouraged to draw their peers (dressed up) in the same style as Quentin Blake, using short thin lines, thick lines, messy and quick. They had the opportunity to use a range of materials to draw their illustrations such as ink, quills, charcoal, pens and pencils.
