Tag Archives: Creativity

Ripples of kindness

October 1, 2026 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

When we created our Class Charter at the start of the year, the most important quality the children wanted to see in their classmates and staff, was kindness. With this in mind, we set out to create a ‘Ripples of Kindness’ display in our school foyer so that others could be made aware of the importance of small acts of kindness too.

We used oil pastels to create the ‘ripple lines’ that would be seen if a pebble was thrown in water. Then, we experimented with water colour paints, using the ‘wet on wet’ technique. It was so relaxing, watching the colours spread and mix, as we placed our wet brushes on the card.

Look how the water sits on top of the wax!

Time spent playing around with the paints, mixing colours and adding more or less water to our card, definitely paid off! The finished results are beautiful! Well done P4-5-6!

Here’s just one example created which shows bubbles spreading outwards – just like kind acts!

Now, we are thinking about the different ‘types’ of kind acts we can do and the positive ‘ripples’ they can send to others in school, at home and in our community.

Please stop and take a look when you visit school next week.

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Preparing for SMUHA! 🤞

March 9, 2023 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

The two snow closure days have stopped us doing some of our planned activities for our Viking themed SMUHA week. However, we managed to prepare torches and helmets on Monday and got our photo taken with our school galley today, before we burn it tomorrow. 🤞

There was a production line going for torch making!

The Draatsis with the galley that’s been waiting to be burned since 2020!

Just in time for SMUHA, the Children’s Parliament mascot, Max, arrived in the post! We have to show him around our school and community so it’s perfect timing to bring him along tomorrow!

Alec made him his own helmet for tomorrow!

In the afternoon, we made Viking heads using clay. The class practised on Monday using plasticine and explored how to add to the base to make it look 3D and used the different clay tools to add texture and detail. This really helped them create Vikings with lots of character!

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Chuck Close Portraits

September 3, 2022 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

It’s taken us a while but sometimes you can’t rush a good job! The children have all created beautiful self portraits in the style of a famous artist that we found out about. They were shown his work and we talked about how we could recreate it. The children were given the choice of working with larger squares or smaller squares in true Chuck Close style. We talked about drawing 2D shapes within each small square or taking the opportunity to make each small picture more personal to them and some chose to do a mixture. We talked about the use of shading to make certain parts of their picture stand out and used black pen to make each portrait more visible than the shapes and squares. When the pictures were complete, we looked at the colours used and they picked backing colours to help display them to their best advantage! They will be displayed in our ICT Suite so please look out for them when you next visit.

Below are three examples from our P6 pupils.

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Scott’s portrait really catches your eye! His small shapes fill his page and I like that he’s left some of the background white. This works particularly well on his face. He’s still used skin tones to create the colour of his face.

Innes chose a bright background and his small shapes work really well on this! I really like the way he’s captured his hair line…very effective! Best of all…Innes thinks it’s his best portrait!

Robbie worked tirelessly! He chose the bigger squares, but within each one, he drew something special to him. Robbie chose the backing colour green to compliment the colours in his picture and to represent his favourite team!

Dance in Class P.E.

June 17, 2021 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

Over the past week, we have been putting together a class dance with an African feel! It was a beautiful day so we took our rehearsals outside and managed to run through all the steps as a class. They’ve picked it up really quickly. In the afternoon Fearne’s Mum, Mercyline, met us in the multi court to show us some moves that would be typical in the Sengenya dance and then she helped us add some of these movements into the group sequences that the children created. They had some lovely, creative ideas! We’ll record these dances tomorrow and hope to share our work at the end of term. A big thank you to Mercyline for giving up her time for us. 😊