Author: Miss Dunsmore

Art Fridays

Theme: From teeny- tiny to towering

Focus artwork: Spider by Louise Bourgeois

Today we explored the work of Louise Bourgeois looking at scale, emotions and memories in art work. We had a go at creating sculptures using only newspapers to explore scale- tiny and huge. The children developed and communicated their ideas, demonstrated imagination and presented at least one possible solution to a design problem. Everyone responded to the work of Bourgeois by discussing their thoughts and feelings.

Designing our Christmas games

Today we started to design our Fayre game thinking about our theme, decorations, the title , goal, players, rules and materials we will need to collect. We also sketched our game and discussed prizes! Again lots of the Woodmuirps skills were visible today including communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking.

Project Based Learning

Today we started our new term 2 topic where pupils voted for a Christmas Enterprise theme. Lots of great discussion resulted in everyone choosing to create a game for our winter Fayre . Lots of skills were visible in our random groups such as integrating knowledge and skills to foster critical thinking, collaboration and communication. After looking at our key question, we had a busy brainstorm session focussing on our end product. Next we will move on to the process and how we will create our game using the materials we have in school. This is is super exciting and we can’t wait to showcase our games!

Spooky Halloween Fun

The children had a great Halloween party this morning including lots of dancing, fun party games, party food, sweeties and prizes for all. Highlights were corners and dooking for apples.

We showed off our spooky costumes and everyone looked spectacular!

Thank you to all our lovely parents and carers for all of your support with costumes and to all staff who helped make this morning so much fun and memorable for all our children. We hope you have a great weekend.

Watercolour sunset

Today in creativity hour we practised a different technique using various brush strokes with watercolours. We were inspired by the artist Monet and his river paintings. Once we painted the sunset we then painted the reflection using warm colours in long strikes. After our paintings dry we will paint on the city scene in dark grey with the reflection in the water. We cant wait to see the finished result ready for our showcase next week!

Scrap to Sculpture

Last Friday as part of our Art lessons we looked at the work of Eduardo Paolozzi. We tuned in to a live broadcast from The National Galleries of Scotland to lead this session. After exploring the artist a little we then created our own paper creations using only scissors with no glue or sellotape in sight! The creativity was exceptional with everyone helping each other, communicating politely and demonstrating critical thinking. We are going to follow this up in our creativity lesson this week using our French theme and transferring our art skills in to a new concept

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