What we enjoyed:

• touching the fake snow
• seeing all the shops
• hearing the shop lady talk about her bath-bombs at the stall
• analysing what all the art was about
• watching the video in the art gallery
• using the blocks in the creative area
• getting free food!

What we learned:

• what analyse means – trying to figure something out
• there are actually lots of artists
• some things in art didn’t actually happen – it was just the artist’s imagination
• you don’t have to paint to make art – you can use pictures or photos of real things instead and it can still be art
• we learned about some new artists
• to use our imagination
• there are still slaves in modern times, even in Scotland
• classical art is art that looks like the thing you are painting or drawing, modern art can look totally different
• Any Warhol did colourful art and one of his pieces was a soup can
• how to use the subway
• Shields Road subway is the closest one to our school
• you need to buy a return ticket to go somewhere and back

Why would we recommend going there to our friends or family?

• It’s fun to learn about artists
• It’s interesting
• It makes you think and you use your brain!

A group form P.6 visited the Necropolis. None of us had ever been before – and we will never forget it! We travelled by subway from Shields Road to Buchannan Street and then walked past lots of famous Glasgow buildings to get there.

We enjoyed:

• seeing new parts of Glasgow
• being on the subway
• scaring Mr McCormack
• the views from the graveyard of the city
• making movies
• writing the poems and sketching
• taking photos

What we learned:

• where lots of famous buildings are – the cathedral, Strathclyde University, Glasgow College and the oldest house in Glasgow
• the word “crypt” and how it was a fancy tomb like a stone hut
• the stones and graves were all designed differently
• we didn’t expect the Necropolis to be so big
• we researched Halloween poems – we didn’t know them before and also some of us didn’t realise poems didn’t always rhyme
• we practised reading our poems in public

Why would we recommend it to other people to go?

• it’s educational and fun!
• you can learn about the past
• you can practise using your maths by working out people’s ages on their gravestones
• you will see the best views of Glasgow!