Hello from Miss McCluskey.

This time a wee mention for Dance Art…

P4 have actually been dancing ON the daisies…

They have been taking part in ‘Dance Fest’ – This year it is a Virtual Festival.

The boys and girls rehearsed and performed oudoors.

Instead of the Grand hall- this year the filming took place in a variety of places and for Saint Andrew’s it was on our grassy area.

On a very windy and atmospheric Friday they danced to an excerpt from La Dansa Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens.

They were full of energy and really up for it!.

Mrs Taylor ( Class Teacher and Dance Choreographer) said…

The Children have been amazing – being inspired by the music and coming up with some free form dance moves of their own.

P4 also designed some flyers for their performance…

 

 

Lucky me!

I got to see this great performance LIVE

It gave me goosebumps!!!

Look out for Dance Fest…

Coming soon!

 

Hello from Miss McCluskey 🙂

A Wee Challenge…

Let’s go outside and be creative.

Remember…

I am going to do the…

Creative Minds Outdoor Drawing Challenge

(See ~  Creative Minds ~  Post)

I will also try out some of the other activities on the Creativity/Kindness Cards.

1. Design/Make a Map of a favourite walk.

2.  Make a card for someone – include a drawing or a poem/song?

3. Put on a favourite song and DANCE!!!!!!!

A very busy bee…

 

I will let you know how I get on  … ???   🙂

   Adding one more…

4. Design&Create a Wee Arty Journal/Scrapbook.

   Let’s see…

What WE can come up with…???

Have fun!   🙂

 

Hello from Miss Mccluskey,

Be creative !

Experiment & explore through Art&Design  …

The Creative Minds Team was set up                                                          to support Creatives- Artists & Makers

and encourage creativity-

in our schools and in our community.

That’s you and me and everyone we know!

The Creative Minds Blog has lots of ideas for activities in Art, Dance, Drama & Music.

*Parents/Carers will need to help younger children navigate the Creative Minds Blog and choose activities.

 

“The power of creativity and being able to be creative –         promoting a mental state of calm, joy, learning and challenge”

Helen Duncan

Cultural Coordinator Creative Minds Team

 

                                 ART ACTIVITIES

             ………… Creativity Cards …………

   

Creative MindsTeam have produced Creativity Cards

These can be used at home-

“The thinking behind the Activity Cards is that it is an easy way to inspire creativity with limited resources and without too much direction.

Everyone can explore their own creativity and express themselves.

They can also provide some focus when it is difficult to concentrate on other things – a mindful activity.”

Creative Minds Team 

Creativity Cards available for-

Early Years

*Primary

Secondary

Master Class

*Family

 

Link to Creative Minds Team- Art & Design

http://glowscotland.sharepoint.com/sites/EastAyrshire/eacreativemindssacmain2017/creativemindsandmain

There are also links to other creative activities-

CREATIVE ACTIVITIES- Inky ART School …                                        with Johanna Basford Ten Starter Lessons (FREE FOREVER)

https://www.johannabasford.com/inkyartschool/

 

( Some of the Creative Activities that CM Team have listed  specify that you need an Instagram Account or go to a YouTube Video- so Parents/Carers would need to check them out for accessibility, suitability etc)

—– VIRTUAL TOURS —–

Take a look around some Art Galleries & Museums around the world.

London, New York, Paris…   & More

Tate Britain, London

https://www.tate.org.uk/visit/tate-britain/display/walk-through-british-art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

https://www.metmuseum.org/art/online-features/met-360-project

La Musee du Louvre, Paris

https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/musee-dorsay-paris

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

https://vangoghmuseum.nl/en

*** Art Galleries & Museums in Scotland ***

I have provided links in previous posts to some of our wonderful cultural places-

Here are a few favourites …

Ayrshire, Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond…

The Dick Institute, Kilmarnock

https://www.eastayrshireleisure.com/culture/the-dick-institute/exhibitions-archive

Roselle House, Alloway

https://www.maclaurin.org.uk

National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh – Scottish National Gallery, Modern One, Modern Two, Scottish Potrait Gallery

https://www.nationalgalleries.org

 

Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow

https://www.glasgowlife.org.uk/museums/venues/kelvingrove-art-gallery-and-museum

 

🙂   MINDFULNESS   🙂

Creative MindsTeam also have a selection of  ‘Kindfulness’ Cards-      These are a variety of Mindfulness Activities – linked to Breathing, Meditation, Moving and Worry Busters.

    

 

* East Ayrshire Council, Creative Minds Team

Parents/Carers can follow on twitter @EacCreative

   I always look out for…

EacCreative retweeting

Creativity in the Community

Womens’ Art & One World Street Art

 

   Outdoor Drawing challenge

Coming Up!

 

 

 

   …..JOAN EARDLEY …..

We celebrate the centenary                                                                              of the birth of this Great Artist.

Born 18th of May 1921

Died 16th of August 1963

 

Joan Eardley was friendly with the Samson Family when she lived in Townhead, Glasgow

They were very curious and enjoyed watching the work of an artist.

She took photographs and made drawings, paintings and mixed media pieces.

 

 

Children and Chalked Wall

 

Joan Eardley joined a small, established Artists’ Community in Catterline.

She would mostly create SeaScapes, working outdoors in all weathers.

 

Catterline

 

 

Joan Eardley

1921-1963

( Snow in Summer)

   Look out for …

Pastel Drawings and Paintings that celebrate…

Joan Eardley.

 

PIERSLAND PARK

is 100 years old!

How time flies…. 🙂

To celebrate this very special birthday Saint Andrew’s Primary have been invited to take part in an Art Competition.

We made pictures of the Piersland Park.

Entries had to be A4 in size.

Entrants could use any medium.

We used paint and pencil.

We mixed lighter shades for the background.

We used pencils for drawing the outlines.

 

A selection of Artwork –

Mainly from children who live in and around the Piersland Area of Kilmarnock.

P1

P2

P3

P4

All packaged up…

… and ready to go!

 

Good luck everyone!

COMPETITION UPDATE 🙂

Vibrant Communities Staff popped into Saint Andrew’s today to announce the winners and give out prizes….

They said that it was a really hard job to choose the winners as all the Artwork was so good.

They said that they particularly liked the use of colour and all the little details.

There were winners in 1st, 2nd & 3rd place at each stage P1-P4.

Primary 1 Winners

Primary 2 Winners

Primary 3 Winners

Primary 4 Winners

Well done to everyone who took part.

Happy 100th Birthday Piersland! 🙂 XO

Look out for other events/ happenings coming soon…

Tea in the Park for residents of the area and perhaps a Children’s Art Exhibition.

   John Byrne at 80 Exhibition of Prints

Scottish Artist, Author and Playwright ( and much more…)              John Byrne celebrated his 80th Birthday last year.

He was born on the 6th of January 1940.

The Glasgow Print Studio is now having a Retrospective Exhibition- looking at work that he has made there for over 30 years.

Where?   Glasgow Print Studio, Trongate 103, Glasgow

When?   Now ( 27th April) – until 1st June 2021

How?   Visit in person or look online

Why?   See hand coloured screenprints created at this studio over the years.

info@glasgowprintstudio.co.uk

 

 

   

We enjoyed Donald & Benoit

by John Patrick Byrne

( He goes by John Patrick Byrne when he writes)

He wrote this book for Honor & Xavier-

two of his children-who are twins.

 

 

   

We loved the part set in the Jazz Cafe- particularly the illustrations of the Dancing Devil Dogs.

We made Dancing Devil Dogs of our own.

We drew, coloured and cut them.

We gave them names!

I agree with John Byrne when he says…

“The KEY to your imagination is in your own hands-                                  it’s called a PENCIL!”

   Keep drawing!

   Look out for…

National Drawing Competition JOHN BYRNE

& The John Byrne Award

 

 

 

 

 

                          Welly Boots

P.2 made pictures of Wellies in the rain.

They used chalk, pencil and pen for the puddles and the rain.

They used brightly coloured felt tips to design cheery wellies.

 

Welly Boots

Welly boots, smelly boots,

Fill them up with jelly boots.

Welly boots, smelly boots,

See them on the telly boots.

Welly boots, smelly boots,

Now they are in my belly boots.

( From Jelly Boots, Smelly Boots by Michael Rosen                                                      and illustrations by David Tazzyman )

 

Happy Earth Day!

from Saint Andrew’s xo

Theme: Restore Our Earth

Listening to the Trees

And the birch says                                                                                                                 it’s about dancing and colour

and the rowan says                                                                                                               it’s about berries and buds

and the willow says                                                                                                                it’s about shape and shelter

and the hazel says                                                                                                                  it’s about love and lichen

and the aspen says                                                                                                                 it’s about growth and wind

and I say it’s about listening to trees

Mandy Haggith

Mandy Haggith is a writer and an environmental campaigner.

She lives on a woodland croft in Assynt, North West Highlands of Scotland.

She is passionate about trees and forests.

She has been campaigning for forests and forest people for years.

In 2013 she compiled ‘Into the Forest’, an anthology of tree poems.

https://www.mandyhaggith.net/rowan.asp

The Heart of the Tree

What does he plant who plants a tree?                                                                    He plants the friend of sun and sky;                                                                          He plants the flag of breezes free,                                                                              The shaft of beauty, towers high…                                                                               … These things he plants who plants a tree.

Woodman Spare that Tree

Woodman spare that tree!                                                                                              Touch not a single bough!                                                                                                 In youth it sheltered me,                                                                                                   And I’ll protect it now…

To read more of these Tree Poems, and others, in full –

go to discoverpoetry.com>poems>poems-about-trees

 

https://www.earthday.org

Be kind…

…to our earth everyday!

Hello from Miss McCluskey.

   Look at what has arrived…

Hello from the National Galleries of Scotland…

 

Well done to everyone who took part!

 

http://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/national-galleries-scotland-art-competition-schools-and-families

 

 

 

    A selection of entries

coming soon…

 

MAGICAL CREATURES AND FIERCE MONSTERS

Here are some of the entries from P.4 to P.7

We used Mixed Media- starting with torn papers including tissue and foil.

We were drawing with pencils, pens, charcoal, chalk.

We added extra interest and  texture by applying paint effects.

                              FIRE PHOENIX

               WATER PHOENIX

                EARTH PHOENIX

                                AIR PHOENIX

SATYR

DRAGON

 

   Look out for…

Art Competition 2021!

http://www.nationalgalleries.org

Spring Is Springing

Spring is springing,

Birds are singing,

The sun is shining,

Spring is springing!

 

Spring is springing,

Birds are singing,

Buds are swelling,

Spring is springing!

 

Spring is springing,

Birds are singing,

Flowers are opening,

Spring is springing!

 

Spring is Springing,

Birds are singing-

My heart is singing-

Spring is SPRINGING!

(M.A.McCluskey)

   Daffodils

by P.2 Children

Lots of tricky cutting and sticking, using bright green & yellow      crepe paper, for these beautiful Daffodils.

Daffodowndilly

She wore her yellow sun-bonnet,

She wore her greenest gown;

She turned to the south wind

And curtsied up and down.

She turned to the sunlight

And shook her yellow head,

And whispered to her neighbour:

“Winter is dead,”

A.A. Milne

 

   Daffodils…

At the Kay Park 1st April

   More Spring Flowers

coming soon…

   Go outside…

Look for signs of Spring!