Category Archives: Uncategorized
Full Steam Ahead for our Creative Infants
It’s full steam ahead for Art in the Infant Area. We have been looking at the story Where the Wild Things Are and responding in plasticine, paint and 3-D Lego and junk modelling while creating our own imaginary wild things.
Can you please donate any small boxes, plastic cutlery and fabrics for our Art this term.
it would be great if the pupils had spare art clothes for our messier artwork
. 
P7 Leavers’ Party
We all had a great night at the P7 Leavers’ Party on Wednesday night. Everyone looked amazing and there was chips, ice cream and dancing… what more could we have asked for??!!
 
 
 
 
Goodbye & good luck Primary 7, we’ll miss you! Don’t forget to keep in touch!!
Newsletter June 2018
New Nursery Sway
P6 and P7/6 Microscope Magnifiers
As part of our Science investigation looking at items under the microscope, we decided to explore our local environment and take closer look at the natural world. First we had to guess what things were in teams before going outside for ourselves and choosing what we put under the microscope. We discussed how to use the microscope well, thinking about focus and zoom. We studied our findings in detail and we were able to represent what we saw by drawing it.
P4 Food Journeys
This week Primary 4 have been exploring food journeys through the context of ‘Field to Fork’. Our first challenge was to watch two short videos about the journey of milk and wheat from farm to shop. As we listened and watched we had to take notes about the different stages of the journey:
Our next challenge was to use our notes to create a PowerPoint to explain the journey of either milk or wheat:
Our final challenge this week was to present our PowerPoint:
P6 Toy company
P6 designed their own product and we voted who’s we liked the best and then the people that had the most votes became a boss of their product. People wrote a CV and the bosses read the cvs and picket their favourite ones. The products are the robotic slime maker 3000, fortnite figures, the fidget master, terrific teddies, spectacular squishies. Some of us have started to film an advert and some of us started to build our product. To make our products we used cardboard, Paper, Bubble wrap, News Paper, and paint. Everyone will get a shot  to make their product because they need to include their design in the advert.By Lucy,Alicia,Iona and Caitlin
‘You can make mistakes here, but you can’t get away with not taking risks’
Sara Barker-inspired Strangely Fragile Sculptures in P5A and P7
The Second Level pupils in Art have been looking, thinking and wondering about the Glasgow-based young artist called Sara Barker. She creates fragile-looking sculptures from metal and paint that we tried to describe. Her artwork is on display in Edinburgh at the NOW exhibition and there is one work outdoors at Jupiter Artland. The Edinburgh exhibition is free:-) Some saw deconstructed people, butterflies, airplanes, mountains, coastlines and even a coat hanger! We tried making our own structural forms from paper Artstraws and pipecleaners. It was a challenge to make the 3-D structures stable to stand on a plinth or to attach to a wall. Some of them worked collaboratively.
Next week we will add a painted element or use another of our Art skills. I can’t wait to see what direction they will take…
