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Art Exhibition at Torphichen Primary School

The Art Exhibition is now ready.  Please feel free to drop in the morning at breakfast club time and or the end of the day when picking up your children.

  • The children’s art work is organised into classes on display boards.
  • Attached to the mounted piece of work is your child’s name, class and exhibition number.
  • If you would like to purchase the piece/s of art work place one of the sticky dots (available on the dining hall wall) on the labels of the art work you would like to purchase and take a note of the number/s and complete the payment form on the letter that was sent home. 
  • PLEASE BE CAREFUL WHEN PLACING THE DOTS AS THE BOARDS ARE VERY FRAGILE.   

Our teachers have also been letting the creative juices flow and have produced a piece of art that is available to bid through a silent auction.  The silent auction sheet will be on the dining room wall as you come in.

If you are interested in these pieces please write your child’s name and the amount you would be willing to pay on the teacher’s sheet.  The teacher’s art work will be anonymous and marked with an exhibition number.   The winning bidder will be notified on Wednesday 7th June.

If you would like to purchase art pieces please complete the form on your letter and return to the school with payment by Thursday 8th June.  Can we please ask that the form has the the exhibit number on it along with your child’s name so that we can match them up please. 

ENJOY!

 

Bienvenido a 1+2 Fortnight

We celecbrated our launch of the 1+2 Languages Fortnight with a whole school Spanish Assembly. We are very proud of our 1+2 Languages achievements so far, and to show our dedication, we have nominated a French Ambassador and a Spanish Ambassador for each class.

Our Ambassadors are:

For French: P1 – Ewan Fraser (representative), P2 – Cameron McHardy (representative), P3 – Elliot Muir, P4 – Lucy Dunsmore, P5 – Alfie Muir, P6 – Louis Chapoy.

For Spanish: P1 – Ben Mallinson (representative), P2 – Mackenzie MacMillian(representative), P3 – Ewan Samper, P4 – Tensho Mercer, P5 – Matthew Fisher, P6 – Rebecca Melville.

COngratulations to our newly appointed abassadors. Your role begins at 8.55am tomorrow morning when you will receive your first assignment.

Poetry in P3/4

Charlotte: “In P3/4 we have been learning to write Cinquain Poems. When you have finished your Cinquain poem, it should be in the shape of a diamond.”

Georgia: “In P3/4, we have also been writing acrostic poems about our USA topic.”

Kathryn: “We’ve been learning about syllables. You have to clap for each beat in the word. We were using words from the USA.”

Luca: “In a Cinquain, there are 5 lines. The 1st one has 2 syllables, the next has 4, the next has 6 then 8 then back to 2 syllables again. Then you’re done.”

Elliot: “We also wrote our own Cinquain poems and we had to do a mindmap of ideas, a practice then the final piece of work.”

Adrien: “The first line is about a place, the second line is adjectives, the thrid line is verbs, the 4th line is about your feelings and the last line is something random.”

Cameron: “You have to write words that describe the place and not something completely different.”

Laura: “When we were doing the Cinquain poems, we were doing different colours to represent each line.”

Please enjoy reading some of our examples: