Category Archives: Drama

P1a – Learning Update 9th May

Last week we enjoyed taking part in a variety of activities with  Louisa from the Drama Box and Miss McDermott is going to be trying some more of these with us in class – although perhaps not learning how to speak “banana”!

We are enjoying using the new ipads to support our learning  in literacy and numeracy although everyone has not yet had a turn and we are also learning to be patient.

For art this week we read the story The Day the Crayons Quit and then worked with a partner to draw pictures using the wrong coloured crayons.

Our famous artist this week was Henri Matisse. We looked at some of his paintings but also some of his famous “cut out” art work too.

We then used only coloured paper, scissors and glue to make our own amazing and very colorful Matisse style pictures.

Unfortunately over the last week we haven’t been very quick at getting organised in the mornings and this is important as on Tuesdays we have Music first thing with Mrs McWhirter and on Thursdays we have French with Ms Hussain.  Miss McDermott said we were “as slow as treacle” but none of us really knew what treacle was.

On Friday morning for snack we had a little treat – pancakes with treacle! We were able to see how slowly the treacle dripped off the spoon and of course the best part was we got to taste it.  As you will see from the photographs – most of us actually quite liked it, despite what you might have thought!

P7A Defenders in Action

Well done to all the P7 pupils who took part in their mock trials this evening. They were confident, well-prepared, well-behaved and enthusiastic. We were impressed by their persuasive arguments and their cool, calm and collected approach under pressure. Here are a few snaps of P7A in their case against St Mary’s (Leith). JP

P2/1 learn about 1967

This term P2/1 are learning about 1967 – the year that the school opened on Preston Road. We are creating some displays to share our learning at our open evening in a few weeks and we really hope that you will come along.

Today we were learning about February 1967 and our team challenge was to create our own Sooty, Sweep and Soo puppet shows. Here are just few photos and  video clips – more will follow of the other groups next week.

Film Club

Our new film club has been up and running for a few weeks now and we’ve watched 3 very different film so far!

Our first was Beauty and the Beast, and it was interesting to compare it to the new version in cinemas.  Our second was The Lego Movie – a very different type of animation.  Our third movie was The Red Balloon – a French film from 1956.  For many of us, it was the first time we had watched a foreign film, and one that was so old.  It was really popular!

‘Curse of the Stewarts’ – Film Premiere

Last night saw the Premiere of the ‘Curse of the Stewarts’ – 6 short films created by pupils from S2 at Linlithgow Academy and performed by all our P6 pupils here at Linlithgow Primary.

S2 Created the scripts and our P6 pupils acted them out. They were filmed at various locations down at the Palace by a professional film company. These short funny films will be used to help visitors to the Historic Scotland Website engage with some colourful characters of our past; James I, James II, James III, James IV, James V and Mary Queen of Scots.

P7A Creativity Challenge

P7A have been looking after a mysterious box for the last few days.  Today was the day to open it…

Inside was a crest wrapped in a blanket – we brainstormed some ideas of what the crest might mean, where it was from, what is was and what the symbols meant.  After a bit of research we came up with some ideas…

Then we worked to think of creative things we could do – we had loads of different ideas.

Right now, we’re working on some of the suggestions we cameup with.  We’ll post up some of the final creative activities!