Month: May 2018

lyrics for songs

Hi Primary 7,

I have attached the personalised lyrics we have made for you to practice at home. The rapping sections should flow a lot better when you know the lyrics well.

Good luck!

Miss Cohen

“This week for Digital learning week, the Primary 7s taught the P2s how to make a pixilated movie. We taught them their roles and what they were doing, so like the cameraperson and the movement co-ordinators. Pixilation is when you take separate pictures, but when you play the video it looks like one big video that you just make without using the recording feature. It involves small shuffling steps. The P2s picked what story they wanted to do and what they wanted to be in the movie. The app that we used was called “Stopmotion”.

We were taught about this app from Mr. Stewart, following a visit from DFieFoe, a film company who we helped create a pixilated movie for the 2018 European Sports Championships.

We’ve not yet made the video for our paper cinema, but we are planning and getting the ideas written down. The paper cinema is about creating scenes from a movie, creating your own music and sound effects, and not speaking or using direct text. Here’s a link to their website, that gives you more info on how it works;

https://www.instagram.com/thepapercinema/

We are using key scenes from the movie “Wonder” to inspire us. We have different responsibilities in our teams; sound and lighting technician, illustrators, musicians and visuals and movement co-ordinators.”

We are also going to have a Skype conversation later on Friday morning to show our e-twinning school in Barcelona our fantastic Migration movie. Hopefully they will really enjoy it!

Blog post written by Arisha, Abu Bakr Qasim, Lee, Hafsah and Muntaha

I am SO proud of Primary 7, following their fantastic performance at last night’s Migration showcase. They were absolutely incredible, and a true credit to our school!

Here is the link to the fantastic video that Ally Bhatia, our videographer from Mambo Video Productions, made to document our amazing work and partnerships:

Also, have a look at our St Albert’s Twitter to view live videos of our performances; @stalbertsg41

Thank you for coming and showing your commitment to your children and the Arts!

Miss Cohen

Today, the whole school visited Kelburn Castle in Largs. We had such an amazing time exploring and adventuring. We took part in a nature trail – which gave us loads of clues and fun facts about bees.  We climbed and roamed in the Adventure Playground and the Secret Garden. We went to the waterfall and walked in the lush, green forest. A fun day had by all!

I don’t know about you but I am positively knackered! Bath and a cup of tea for me tonight – will need to save my energy for tomorrow’s Barrowland Ballet performance!

Well done for your super behaviour and excellent company, as always!

Miss Cohen

Muntaha, Sana, Khadijah & Hafsah exploring the flower garden 🙂 

Dany embracing the forest leaves in his hair, lol! 

Muntaha, Hafsah, Sana & Khadijah sitting about in 1000 year old trees!

Smiley Sadheeya 🙂

Mostafa – King of the Castle! 

Uh oh, what have Abu Bakr Hanif, Sadheeya & James done now?! Hehe…!

Gurpreet getting creative in the sand!

Posing with the 1000 year old tree! 

Nooooooo!!! Don’t bury Lola Nabeeha and Mostafa! 😂 

What’s Lola gotten up to now? 

The 1000 year old tree!

We love a tree hug! 

Having fun at the water falls!

On the Nature Trail… spot the castle…

Lola made it to the Hansel and Gretel house in the Secret Forest! With Muntaha, Gurpreet, Subhaan, Iesa & Zainab. 

Monkey bar fun with Malikah, Areeba N, Aisha, Areeba B & Khadija. 

Trying to solve the Nature Trail problems! 

More monkey bar fun with Areeba N, Aisha and Khadija.

Muntaha and Aisha just chilling on the swings! 

Oh heeeeey Kirtan! 

More fun in the adventure park! 

All of our amazing parents and family members – thank you for helping us today! We hope you had as much fun as us!

In French, we were learning new vocab for positional language; en face de, a cote de…

In Maths, we were learning how to measure angles and draw our own angles, for a partner to then solve and calculate the hidden angle.

During Hammer the Grammar, we were learning about prefixes, dashes, suffixes, hyphens and brackets. We were learning how to implement them into sentences and how to use them to improve our Writing.

With Mrs Kheirabi, we were learning how to write a report about Lions and some of us began typing that into  a Microsoft Publisher document.

We spent Wednesday’s outdoor PE session playing Tennis with Miss Bancewicz.  We practiced bouncing and volleying the ball with a partner. At the end we had to relay the tennis ball, balancing on our racquets.

On Wednesday afternoon, we had visitors from Education Scotland come to see US about our amazing Social Enterprise work! The three different groups were the Finance team, The Maintenance team and the Design team. We  designed and painted our logo onto big boards for our first workshop, we asked plentiful questions about how to service a bike and got handy tips and we also secured some fabulous deals online for bike parts and accessories.

Ally came back to class on Thursday afternoon and filmed and recorded voiceovers from our Migration topic. Ally taught a selection of us how to use the camera equipment and microphone, which involved a lot of stiff arms! He recorded us talking about our experience and our families experiences of Migration.

Mr. Stewart was also in class, and helping us to pixilate videos. We were split into groups, and asked to create pixilated movies. We made these by taking lots of snappy photographs of small actions, and then merging them together. Group 2’s ‘Kidnap’ piece was particularly entertaining! Gurpreet even went home and created her own pixilation movie using the Stop Motion app.

In Science with Miss Brookes, we had to get different objects and shine a torch at it. We had a greyscale and we had to see how grey the shadow appeared, out of 7 shades.

We watched the fantastic Primary 5s perform their Barrowland Ballet piece.

“They had real pride and confidence in their performance!”; Maria M

“Good choice of music – especially the middle song. It sounded like in the jungle”; Iesa

“I enjoyed the pushing the border part as it was quite funny and infectious”; Abu Bakr Qasim

“I liked the part where everyone was jumping and then they formed a star”; Gurpreet

“When Mohammed Sami fell, he showed resilience and got straight back up”; Dany

We’re very much looking  forward to a long holiday weekend. Dany will be playing ‘fortnite’, Zaina is in the Dominican Republic, Subhaan will be going to Karate, Abu Bakr Q is going to see the new Avengers in…LUXURY seats, Maria is learning how to play the piano, Miss Cohen is going to Madrid to see her friends, Mostafa is going to London and going on the London eye, Areeba N is being an activist for children’s rights, Zainab is going to get a new water bottle (breaking news!) and Miss Bancewicz is going on a hillwalk this Sunday.

 

 

Our Social Enterprise ULTRA team, James, Tylor, Zahraa, Aisha, Abu Bakr and Aisha went to a Dragons Den Presentation, which was being held at the City Chambers. The group told the Dragons about St Albert’s whole school approach to creating sustainable SE projects. They were fantastic!

The judges were really impressed by each class teaming up with a local Social Enterprise. Sandra, one of the judges, commented on how well we understand what SE means and “we get it!”.

Here are some pictures of us in action:

Zahraa having a lol after James introduced the presentation by flossing!

Wowza, look at that marble!

 

We had the best day out last week. We were given the massive privilege of participating in Glasgow Pixelation filming, a project run by DFIEFOE. Since 2018 is the year of the young people, DFIEFOE are choreographing and filming routines around some of Glasgow’s biggest landmarks. We had to shuffle around as slow as we could, it was harder than it looked! DFIEFOE will then speed the videos up and let the Pixelation magic take place! All of these videos will be compiled to make a short film which will be shown in the GFT and a number of places electronically at the end of Summer, how exciting!

Here are photos of us in action (of course Lola had to come too!):

Gopal, Dany, Sana, James, Furqan, Lana, Ellie and Aiden all participated in the Bridging the Gap transition programme this year, and what a fantastic job they all did!

Here they are receiving their awards for their dedicated participation:

Massive congratulations to you all!

Miss Cohen

Before the Easter Holidays, some of us got the opportunity to attend a football match at Hampden Park, it was so exciting! It was Scotland vs Costa Rica, and although the game ended as a 0-1 to Costa Rica, we all had a great time.

Here is one of our personal blog posts by Adam Zaman:

“On Friday the 23^rd of March we went to a football match at Hampden Park, it was Scotland Vs Costa Rica. Scotland lost by one goal, but we bought chips and juice to cheer us up. It was cold! Miss Cohen, Mrs Harker and Tony went with us to help out and everybody enjoyed themselves. We went home quite late and everyone was knackered!”.

 

We had the best time at our Easter Egg hunt in Maxwell Park! We found lots of treasure and eggs! What a fantastic way to spend Easter time.

Here are some of our own blog posts:

Today we went to Maxwell Park for an EASTER EGG HUNT!!! When we arrived at the park we played while Miss Cohen and Lisa hid the yummy treats. We had to find chocolate lollipops; if you found 2 or more you had to hide them for someone else to find. Also, finding a plastic egg could win you 3 dojo points and you could get as many as you want, YAY!!! It was so hard to find something but I got there in the end. For the people who never found anything, they got some of my eggs. P7 are so lucky we get an Easter Egg Hunt!

by Arisha Malik and Kirtan Kaur

Today we went to Maxwell Park for an easter egg hunt!!! We walked all the way to the park. Once we arrived we went to the playground so that Miss Cohen and Lisa could get set up. After that we all ran about trying to find the chocolate lollipops and plastics eggs. If you found the plastic eggs you would get 3 dojos, and you could get as MANY AS YOU WANT! It took ages for me to find something but then I finally found some.  Miss Cohen kindly bought mini easter eggs for anyone who didn’t find anything. SO FUN!