Local Art meets Local History

October 9, 2015

You may have read about our collaborative school activity at Killermont Primary School, in Bearsden? This 6 metre long frieze is the result of P6’s hard work & creative flair.

After thinking about the work of Willie Rodger, individual figures were printed by each pupil. These silhouettes represent Bearsden commuters, dashing to and from the railway station. Next, the class cut up pictures of local housing built following the arrival of the railway in 1863 – bringing businessmen & prosperity to New Kilpatrick. Finally, the local buildings & commuters were collaged together.

The class proved to be highly successful art detectives too – at home they researched the artist Willie Rodger using Scran. They shared their findings in class the following day. Astute observations were made & we discovered plenty of visual clues hidden in the imagery.

Following a group vote, with 6 votes each from of a class total of 32, the two most popular Willie Rodger artworks were The Chess Players & Honeymoon.

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Happy Holidays

October 9, 2015

What a busy term. We succeeded in reading Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone whilst learning about metalinguistics, metacognition, summarising, predicting, visualising and identifying the main idea. We also completed 6 Big Writing lessons, learned about owls, learned how to blog, developed physical and team skills through football and increased our stamina through jogging. In maths we have found out about the features of circles, triangles and quadrilaterals, created artwork using tessellation, made magic cubes, learned about decimals and fractions and improved our mental agility. We have also learned about classical composers and created fantastic Padlets, talks and leaflets. We have found out about sound and how it is created and transmitted. We have also been looking at the World’s Biggest Lesson and using Launch Pad to examine the articles that make up the rights of a child.

Well done everybody. Have a brilliant holiday. We’re looking forward to seeing how much we can achieve next term.

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Hockey Afternoon

October 8, 2015

Primary Class

The Latest Hockey Game

October 8, 2015

At the Primary 7 Hockey Tournament, on of the Primary 7’s turned their hand to commentary. It was a fantastic afternoon and great fun was had by all.

Primary Class

Macmillan Coffee Morning!

October 8, 2015

Today was our non-uniform day for Macmillan Cancer Research. We had to bring in £1 or wear our school uniform. We sold cakes for 30p for the pupils and the teachers had a party in the staff room. Primary 7 had juice and cakes because we have worked very hard so far in Primary 7!

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More Creativity at Killermont

October 8, 2015

There was a frantic afternoon of printmaking with P6 yesterday, who worked really hard. Today we are going to consider the detail & visual clues within the work of Scottish artist, Willie Rodger. In particular this example, “Day Out, Ferrara”, from 1998. The class have a selection of questions to investigate and will use Scran to become art detectives, using their visual literacy skills to discover what’s going on in the picture.

Our printed figures & silhouetted people, the Bearsden commuters, have been drying on the rack overnight. Next, we will incorporate them into our collaged frieze alongside local landmarks & architecture. We are looking forward to seeing the outcome.

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Creativity at Killermont

October 6, 2015

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Scran is spending the next two days working with P6 in Killermont Primary School. Word on the street is, they’re a creative bunch – so we’ve devised a printing project. We’ll start by looking closely at the work of local Dunbartonshire, artist Willie Rodger.

As well as finding out about print-making, P6 will think about their local landscape too and the Victorian commuters who shaped the streets of Bearsden. The collections from East Dunbartonshire Leisure & Culture Trust on Scran will add that extra layer of context for our learning. We’re going to get our hands dirty & by the end, have made a really cool collage.

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Smoothie making in P3/4

October 6, 2015

After tasting lots of different fruits P3/4 decided it would be good to try to make some fruit smoothies as part of our ‘Our Healthy Body’ topic. We decided on recipes and then voted on which fruits would be the best to put in. We had great fun chopping and blending!

Here are some pictures of what it looked like!