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Killermont get creative with Scran - Collage Frieze

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

Keep reading over the holidays!
Keep reading over the holidays!

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.

More Creativity at Killermont

jackies2_01530390There 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.

© Willie Rodger via Bridgeman Art Library. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk.

Creativity at Killermont

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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, 00040842P6 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.01850326

Images © Willie Rodger via Bridgeman Art Library, Robert Grieves Archive & RCAHMS. Licensor www.scran.ac.uk

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Smoothie making in P3/4

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!P9280115P9280116P9280118P9280122P9280131

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