art – Fetlar Primary

May 30, 2018May 30, 2018

Unexpected sites exhibition Mareel and Bressay lighthouse trip

On Tuesday 29th May 2018 Fetlar Primary School visited the Mareel to view their work in the Unexpected Sites exhibition. The exhibition was part of a collaborative project to bring children to art and vice versa. We made large maps and used our sketch books to create viewing frames and pictures from our environment. Our pieces des resistance were the papier mache boulders which were based on the boulders slung over the wall at the big house in Houbie. Everyone asked what the boulders are for since they look really old and its unusual to see them hung over the wall but they are weights to keep the ivy on the other side of the wall from falling down!

We met the children from Skeld Primary School there and then went on a bus to Bressay lighthouse with them to meet the resident artist Amanda Welch who lives in London but loves Shetland so much she keeps on visiting and drawing. She has drawn and made sculptures of the Shetland Islands. One was made from dress material.

Aaron said the best thing he enjoyed was to see the rocks he had made at school with Amy. Darcy said the best thing she enjoyed was making new friends and going over to Bressay.

May 24, 2018May 24, 2018

Hans Holbein’s ‘Lady with a squirrel and a starling’ trip

The children visited the Shetland Museum and archives last Tuesday 15th May 2018 to look at the portrait by Hans Holbein of ‘The Lady with a squirrel and starling’. The Lifelong Learning Coordinator Yvonne Reynolds explained to the children how the museum had to work hard to get the painting on loan. After this the children went into the gallery to view the painting itself, getting the chance to look at it ‘up close’. Following this they asked questions about the period in history, Holbein’s life and the painting itself. Then they dressed up in character. This, I suspect, was the most fun part. Finally they drew some self portraits in the style of the painting itself.

We will be continuing our own artwork from learning how to section off a painting and tackle it in quarters to a large scale whole school collage. Watch this space!

May 24, 2018

Community Enterprise in Action!

Fetlar primary school was involved in the preparation for the arrival of the cruise ship Ocean Bravo which had sailed from Baltasound earlier in the day.

The children did some maths to find out what money could be made from the sale of items they decided to make for the school. They took advice from the Interpretive Centre about the sort of things that visitors to the Isle might want to buy based on their experience at the centre. They designed and planned the creation of decoupaged stonework with old maps of Fetlar.

The visitors loved talking to the children about where they lived and went to school as well as what they were selling. To top it all the sun shone throughout! Well done everyone.

March 21, 2017

2317

We traveled down to the 60:40 pitch with BJHS. There were football games and club golf.

In Bonhoga we started working on the new art projects, “The Future, 2317”
It was amazing seeing the exhibition and talking about what it would be like in 300 years.
The mike was called a dead cat because it’s all fluffy!

October 28, 2016

Lerwick Day 2

Our day started with a quick visit to Bells Brae Primary. We joined in watching the Northumberland Ranters with primary 4-7.

We had another fantastic swimming lesson. We even got to snorkel!

Super fast lunch!

Our Litteral Art workshop with Julia Barton at Da Gaddery was really interesting, we worked with Nesting Primary School.

We also got a chance to see some other art.

On the walk back to the hostel we went through Fort Charlotte,

and then we were back ‘home’.

Foula Primary managed to get a flight out to join us, so we saved them some fish and chips!

Joy Duncan came for a drumming session, and some of the older hostel ones joined us 🙂

Another super day – last day tomorrow before heading home!

March 29, 2016March 29, 2016

Easter Egg Hunt

This morning everyone gathered at school for an Easter Egg hunt, from secondary pupils right through to preschool.

Eggs were painted, and then the hunt began!

A big THANK YOU to the staff that gave up their time to help set up painting, closing up the school after, and the Easter Bunny for making a special trip to Fetlar for us.

I hope everyone had a eggtastic time!

March 11, 2016March 11, 2016

Trip to Bonhoga

All of Primary 3, 4 and 5 went to Bonhoga. We went on the 22^nd February 2016. There were two schools. The two schools were Baltasound and Fetlar. We went to the art gallery. We were going to do art there. The teacher was called Amy Gear. She was very nice.

First what we did was to see which picture we liked the most out of all of them. Then we said which one we didn’t like. It was hard for me because I liked most me of them. Then we had lunch I sat with Claire, Zoe and Talia. When I finished I played tag with my friends. Then the teachers came outside to take us for an adventure. There was a little wall.

When we went back inside we wrote a word and we surrounded the word with other words that described the first word. After that we went in the bus to the ferry and on the ferry we got to go up stairs. When we got to other ferry me, Aaron and Mrs Hay went to Cullivoe Primary School. I played with Amanda and Tali.

I had a great day!