Primary 5 were inspired by some of Ed Moses’ artwork today. The children created their own paintings after looking at some of Ed Moses’ work. They used pieces of cardboard to create the lines in their paintings.
A special thank you to Kayley who researched and shared the artist as part of her 1970’s topic research.
It was drizzly day as the choirs from Glenmanor and St Michael’s Primaries waited patiently for the service to begin. They sung beautifully ‘Give Me Joy in My Heart’ and ‘Going Home’ and their behaviour was excellent. Well done everyone!
There was a great turnout from the community to support the service.
Willie Doolan, Secretary opened the service and Danny Taylor, Chairman, remembered the 47 miners who lost their lives 56 years ago. David Collins, from Moodieburn & District played while the names were read out. Then there was the laying of the wreaths.
Rev Mark Malcolm read from the Bible then Elaine Smith, MSP, and Provost Jim Robertson, NLC, both read a dedication and Father Michael Briody said a prayer.
Nicky Wilson, President of NUM read a dedication and Captain John Parry, Salvation Army read the benedition at the end of the service.
Primary 5 enjoyed researching inventions from the 70’s in class today. They worked in groups using the iPads to research and make notes. They then used their notes to make fantastic posters!
P1a have been learning about their school. The children worked hard to design a 50th anniversary school badge as part of the ‘My School’ topic.
This clever girl has written a fantastic report explaining what the Millennium Bug was. She included some fabulous sub-headings. Well done Chloe!
Primary 5 developed their knowledge of 70’s playground games today. First they worked as a team to make a long rope out of elastic bands. The children then enjoyed the challenge of jumping over the long elastic band rope as it was raised higher and higher from ankle height all the way to ear height! We used our iPads to record each other’s learning.
Here are some of the children in action!
P4/5 had great fun researching popular toys from the 1980s on our iPads. We also brought some toys in and played with them. We then used our knowledge to design posters about toys from the 80s!
As part of their Decades topic, the boys and girls had a discussion about the technology we use and looked at some photographs of older technology from the year 2000 onwards. They were able to compare the similarities and differences of these devices and sorted them into old and new.
The children thought it was funny when they found out that when rewinding a video tape, people had to wait a while for it to get back to the beginning!
Today Primary 5 looked at some of Robert Smithson’s drawings and photographs. We looked at Robert Smithson’s drawing called the Wandering Canal with Mounds. We found out that Robert Smithson drew this in 1971- linking to our 70’s topic! We enjoyed recreating the drawing using charcoal.
As part of our topic on the ‘swinging sixties’ P6/7 have been learning all about the fashion trends of the decade. In groups we have started to create moodboards on fashion trends which symbolised the sixties. We have been using different textures, colours and images to capture themes such as psychedelic flower power, futuristic space age, mods and rockers. Once complete, we will create our own 60’s inspired outfits with the help of our boards.
