Holidays Ahoy, we all jump for joy!!
It’s the last day of term! Where has this year gone?!
The children are all full of excitement and are jumping around the school, singing ‘Holidays ahoy, we all jump for joy’ with banners and whiteboards.
We wish primary 7 good luck in Mid Yell as they move onto secondary and look forward to welcoming our new primary 1s after the summer.
We hope everyone has a fantastic summer!
Primary 1-3 have been learning about Picasso in art this term.
Picasso was a Spanish artist and is one of the most famous artists in the world. He had a phase in his painting where he made lots of blue paintings. This was called his Blue Period.
We looked at some of his paintings and thought about the colours he used, how they made us feel and how the people in the paintings felt.
We then looked at some of his other paintings out with his blue period and thought how the bright colours made us feel. We compared two of the paintings and discussed colours that we could use to make a happy portrait and what colours we could use to make a sad prtrait.
Half of the class wanted to draw a happy portrait of themselves and the other half wanted to paint a sad portrait of themselves taking inspiration from Picasso’s Blue Period.
In art P4-6 have been doing a mini topic and have learnt more about two artists: Picasso and Steven Brown.
They were learning about Picasso, in particular his artwork involving Cubism and although some of us were a little bit apprehensive about how crazy his artwork was, we really enjoyed creating our own!Then we learnt more about Steven Brown, his life, and his McCoo Family.
We used a mixture of sharpies, pastels and paint to create our artwork. Here are some pictures of our inspired works!
Today we received a letter from Tavish Scott our local MSP which informed us that he has lodged a motion in Parliament in recognition of our recent award from UNICEF UK. He congratulates us on all our work in respecting the rights of everyone in the school and indeed, in the wider community. In return we would like to thank him for lodging this motion and taking the time to send us a letter to inform us. You can see the letter and read the motion below.
Today we held a coffee morning to celebrate our achievements over the year! We have achieved our level 2 Rights Respecting School award as well as our 3rd eco flag! We are very proud of these achievements as well as all the others displayed on our achievement wall for you all to see! We would like to thank the community for coming along and joining us to help celebrate, there was a great turn out and it was great to see everyone.
We’ve been getting in some last minute practise before our Scottish Opera performance on Wednesday at 2 in Mid Yell! Really looking forward to hearing all the schools come together to sing!
