{"id":5808,"date":"2025-11-07T14:05:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/riversideprimary\/?p=5808"},"modified":"2025-11-07T14:05:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T13:05:44","slug":"national-portrait-gallery-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/riversideprimary\/2025\/11\/07\/national-portrait-gallery-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"National Portrait Gallery Trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This week, Primary 7 at Letham visited the National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. We had a fantastic time exploring one of our school value of creativity in a wider context. We explored the beautiful galleries and were given the opportunities to sketch in our new sketchbooks kindly gifted to us. We then had to create different portraits using a wide range of materials.\u00a0 Before returning to school we walked over to St Andrew&#8217;s Square to visit Paddington Bear, and to Princes Street Gardens to visit the Remembrance Garden. We had a great time!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/riversideprimary\/uploads\/sites\/1049\/2025\/11\/07140515\/wusHtHwd-d63sd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"5809\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/riversideprimary\/2025\/11\/07\/national-portrait-gallery-trip\/wushthwd-d63sd\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/wl\/public\/riversideprimary\/uploads\/sites\/1049\/2025\/11\/07140515\/wusHtHwd-d63sd.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1260,945\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" 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We had a fantastic time exploring one of our school value of creativity in a wider context. We explored the beautiful galleries and were given the opportunities to sketch in our new sketchbooks kindly gifted to us. 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