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Yell Show Cake Making

For the Yell show we are entering a novelty cake.  On Friday we baked sponge and put it in the freezer until we need it. Today we finished designing our cake and we have already made the cake bases, animals, marshmallow krispies, a bouncy castle and bunting.  We got fondant and have been moulding animals. We made cows, horses and dogs. To make the marshmallow krispies we got butter, marshmallows and rice krispies. We melted the butter and marshmallows together and then added the rice krispies in. We will mould them into cars. To make the bouncy castle we used flumps and cocktail sticks to put them together.

 

Picasso’s Blue Period

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.

Rangoli Patterns

Rangoli Patterns

As part of our Hinduism topic, P1-7 have been learning about Rangoli patterns.

A Rangoli pattern is a colourful pattern used during the Hindu festival of Diwali. They are drawn at the entrance to welcome the goddess of wealth, Lakshmi, into Hindu’s homes in the hope she will bring them good luck.

Rangoli patterns are made up from lots of 2D different shapes. They are often symmetrical and take ideas from nature: peacocks, swans, flowers, etc.

Traditionally Rangoli patterns are made using coloured rice, grains, flour, sand or chalk.

Primary 1-3 used coloured salt to symmetrically colour some well known Rangoli patterns.

Primary 4-7 designed their own Rangoli patterns and coloured them using traditional coloured grains.

P4-7 art

 Primary 4-7 have been learning about Vincent Van Gough and impressionism in Art.

Van Gough was born in the Netherlands in 1853 but sadly died at the age of 37 in 1890. He is what we call a Post-Impressionist painter.

Impressionism is a French movement, developed from an association at the end of the 19th century. The paintings made by the impressionists are generally small, with visible paintbrush strokes.

We had a go at an impressionist painting in the manner of Vincent Van Gough. We took two of his paintings as inspiration: Starry Night and Sunflowers.

 

 

Designing Christmas Stamps

Yes we know it is only March but we have had our Christmas thinking hats on this afternoon as we have been busy designing Christmas stamps to enter into the Royal Mail’s Christmas Stamp Competition 2017.

The theme is ‘What does the Christmas season mean to you’. The winning designs from 2 children will be featured on Christmas stamps in 2017, the winning stamps must be approved by Her Majesty The Queen! There are 2 categories in this year’s competition: 4-7 years old and 8-11 year olds.

 

This links to article 31: taking part in a wide range or artistic activities

Up Helly Aa Shields

Each year we design a shield for Up Helly Aa because on Up Helly Aa day we all hold a shield with one of our designs on the front. In order to get this we all had a go at designing our own one before voting on which one we like the best. Most people do something that the jarl likes so we had a brainstorming session to get our artistic juices flowing.  (A jarl is the leader of the group of Vikings) The Jarl this year was Mr. Lawson and he likes Celtic football club so most of us did something with green and white, some drew celtic designs which was very intricate. We all put in a lot of effort and they came out great as I’m sure you will agree with the photos!

This year, after a very close vote, Abbie won and she won last year too! Abbie’s was snakes with the Celtic symbol touching each of the snakes’ tongues.

Happy Valentine’s Day!

In the morning we went over the story of Valentine’s Day. There are lots of different stories of how Valentines Day started but this is the story we looked at today.

Valentine is the name of a person who lived  over 1000 years ago. There was an Emperor called Claudius who lived in Rome in a big palace. Claudius wanted lots of men to join his army and go and fight in different countries. Most men did not want to fight wars because it meant leaving their wives and families. This made Claudius very angry so he decided to make a new rule that people could not get married. He thought if men did not have wives and children then they would want to join his army. Valentine was a priest and one of his jobs was to marry people even though Claudius had banned people from getting married. Valentine would marry people secretly – sometimes at night, whispering so no one would hear them. Valentine was caught and sent to prison. Claudius said Valentine must be killed because he broke the law. When people heard what had happened to Valentine they felt very sad. Some people threw flowers and notes up to his prison window. One of the prison guards had a daughter who he let visit Valentine. They talked for hours and became very good friends. On the day that Valentine died he sent a message to her thanking her for her friendship. He signed it… from your Valentine.   It was the 14th of February. So now every year on the 14th of February people send Valentine cards to people they love and care for. Sometimes they want it to be a secret so they sign it, From your Valentine.

After we read through this story Mr Spence showed us a PowerPoint on Valentine’s Day Around the Wrold. We learned of different traditions and customs around the world:

  • In Denmark they don’t give roses to their loved ones, they give white flowers called snowdrops.
  • In South Korea, women give men chocolate on Valentin’s day but the men give women gifts on a different day. This is on the 14th of March and they call this White Day, traditionally they give non-chocolate sweets as gifts.
  • In South Africa women traditionally follow an age-old custom called Lupercalia. Where they write the name of their love on a piece of paper and pin it to their sleeve on Valentine’s Day. This is where the saying ‘to wear your heart on your sleeve’ comes from.
  • In Brazil Valentine’s Day is not celebrated in February, instead Brazilians celebrate ‘Dia dos Namarados’ on the 12th of June.
  • In Wales they don’t celebrate Valentine’s Day they celebrate St. Dwunwen’s day as he is the Welsh Patron saint of love and friendship. This is done on the 25th of January.
  • In Germany lovers exchange traditional Valentine’s Day gifts. It is popular to give giant ginger biscuits shaped as hearts with love messages written in the centre of the biscuit. It is also customary to present loved ones with a pig (figurine, picture, chocolate, etc) as they are thought to symbolize luck.
  •  People in Taiwan celebrate Valentine’s Day twice a year, once in February (the 14th) and again on the 7th day of the 7th lunar month. Men buy bouquets of roses for their loved ones. The number of roses is very important as different numbers of roses mean different things: 1 red rose means ‘an only love’, 99 red roses mean ‘a forever love’ and 108 red roses mean ‘will you marry me?’

Here is how you say ‘I love you’ in each of the above countries:

  • Denmark: Jeg Elsker Dig
  • South Korea: Saranna Heuo
  • South Africa: Ek het iou lief
  • Brazil: te amo
  • Welsh: ‘Rwy’n dy garu di
  • Germany: Ich liebe dich
  • Taiwan: góa ài lì

In the afternoon we made Valentine’s crafts. P4-7 made heart books for someone special. We wrote their name or Happy Valentine’s Day on the front then on the other pages we wrote down nice messages or drew pictures for that special person. They came out really well, we forgot to take pictures so here is an example of what it looks like without the writing.

P4-7 made these heart books and wrote on the pages something nice about the person they were giving it to

Cullivoe Owls Enterprise 2016

This year for the Cullivoe School Enterprise Primary  5-7 split into two groups, I am part of the Cullivoe Owls, one of the two groups, for our logo we had an owl with a line of cards that says Cullivoe Owls.

cullivoe-owls-logo-final

It was my design, we all made a few logo’s each and then we did a vote me and Sabienne were picked so we had another mini vote and I won.  The reason the logo has a line of cards is because we are making plaited coloured twine with glittery pegs so you can hang Christmas cards on them.

The sale day is on the 8th of December at 9:30 to 11:00 at Cullivoe School, we hope you can come along and buy one!

Remembrance Day

Last week we did work on Remembrance Day. We looked at what Remembrance Day is and why we have this and completed work around this. Primary 5-7 watched a few clips about Remembrance Day (also called Armistice Day) and the poppy and why this symbolises Remembrance day. We each had a clipboard and paper and had to take notes when watching the clips. We learned that they make 40 million poppies each year. Did you know that there is an English poppy and a Scottish poppy?! You might see presenters on the TV with a poppy that has 2 petals and a leaf, this is the English poppy. Whereas our poppy, the Scottish poppy, has 4 petals and no leaf. Do you know why? Well, it costs £15000 to add leafs onto all that poppies so Scotland thought they could put that money to better use by giving it straight to those affected by the war. You can get a white poppy which is a peace poppy. The poppies that you buy are actually made buy war veterans and the money that we raise from selling these poppies goes to people affected by the war, both past and present!  When wearing your poppy you should remember that men wear them on the left but the women should wear them on the right! We all read In Flanders Field and then wrote our own poems about ‘Remembrance’.

Miss Nicholson and Miss Jamieson also took us for art one day and we created poppy art of our own. P5-7 used paint to paint poppies on a black background, they really stand out and look fantastic, wouldn’t you agree?

P1 created poppies by painting bun cases. We had fun painting them then got to stick them together when they were dry. Miss Nicholson put them on the window of the classroom door to make it look like a wreath.

P2-4 created pictures of poppies blowing between crosses using chalk and crayons. We thought about this after reading the poem In Flanders’ Field as the first few lines are:

‘In Flanders fields the poppies blow

Between the crosses, row on row,’

Julie had been to Ypres in France and told us of her trip there. She had been to the Commonwealth war graves, visited a grave of a man that came from Otterswick and found the name of a man that originated from Cullivoe! She even left a piece of Cullivoe by the Menin Gate where his name was engraved. It was very interesting listening to her the history that she told us behind things. It really made you think and be grateful for everything.

On the 11th at 11 o’clock we all took part in the 2 minute silence. Primary 1-4 discussed the importance of why we have a 2 minute silence and watched the news live online before observing the silence. P5-7 went to the kirk to attend the service there.