Primary 3a have transformed themselves into miniature Picassos and Van Goughs, by celebrating Halloween and Bonfire Night and exploring these themes through painting.
Firstly, the class explored the themes of Halloween, and worked magnificently to produce some very cool bat styled paintings, using their fingers and a template to create the silhouette of these night time creatures.
After the success of our Halloween paintings, we decided to celebrate Bonfire Night by recreating the landscape during this time of year. To do so, we researched the colours, shapes and form of fire works exploding, and noted that these bore an uncanny resemblance to a blooming flower. To create this effect, we used straws taped together and identified the colours of blue, red, yellow and green as the most commonly seen during a firework display. Next, we used these to dab into our paint, and pressed these onto paper to create a skyline. Our next steps involved researching silhouettes and identifying what an urban landscape looks like during a firework display. We then designed our own cityscape and glued this under our skyline. To complete our paintings, we added glitter to create an exploding effect.
The class had so much fun during this time, exploring different ways of painting and creating some truly wonderful landscapes.
Well done Primary 3a, Picasso would be proud!
Our class have worked so hard in all aspects of school life at Holy Cross, and as such, won Class of the Month. Our prize was a trip to Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in Glasgow’s West End.
The children had the opportunity to learn from the vast array of natural exhibitions, seeing many different animals and species, whilst also exploring some ancient artefacts from human history. Our topic this term is Animal Habitats, and the trip proved to be great experience for the class, where the rainforest exhibition and animal habitats on show helped to build our knowledge and understanding of the natural world.
Well done Primary 3a on achieving such a great accolade, fantastic effort and a very well deserved reward!
Here is a picture of the puppet elephants that our clever Primary 3C children made as part of their Technology and Expressive Arts program.
Can you guess what we made?
November 7, 2016
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Last week Primary 2a got the opportunity to go to Kelvingrove Art Gallery, along with Primary 3a and Primary 6b as a class of the month treat! We had so much fun exploring the fantastic art in the museum and … Continue reading →
November 7, 2016
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Primary 2a have had lots of fun this week learning to play different instruments during big noise. The boys and girls have been learning all about the instruments and the high and low sounds they make when played. We will … Continue reading →
November 7, 2016
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Primary 2a have been learning all about weight this week and how to sort items from lightest to heaviest! We have had lots of fun completing practical activities and becoming human scales to weigh different objects with our hands!
November 7, 2016
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We do lots of things to help our fingers and hands move so we can hold a pencil correctly. Threading, Beading, Looping, Picking, Stacking, Building and Zipping improve our finger dexterity and movement. We like to remember … Continue reading →
We have successfully made it to the public voting round of the OneFamily Foundation Community Awards for our project- Holy Cross Primary Furniture Fund!
Now we need your help!
It could be just one vote that stands in the way of our project securing a life-changing amount of funding, so don’t delay vote today!
Voting closes at midday on Wednesday 30th November.
Visit our dedicated project page to find out more and cast your vote.
A few things to remember about voting:
- All voters must be over the age of 18 and be a UK resident.
- All voters must register to the OneFamily Foundation here>>
- Projects with the highest number of votes will be awarded the funding!
On behalf of all our children and staff, Thank You!
As part of our ‘Made for my Habitat’ topic we made lion puppets from felt. For many of us it was the first time we had sewn. It was great fun.
