Fabulous Fireworks
Art club with Regina
Author: Miss Dunsmore
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!
Building, Thinking classrooms
A few highlights from our problem solving maths session today! Super communication and collaboration skills.
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!
Outdoor learning highlights
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
HWB community meeting
Today we were very lucky to have Melissa Dunn from our council HWB team come along to talk to partners and pupils on what actions we can we can take in the local area with a focus on sustainability and climate. They met with our eco reps in school who went along to join in the collaboration and suggest their own ideas.
Challenge Poverty week
Today we were very lucky to have S6 from West Calder high visiting us today to explain challenge poverty week. They talked about lunches and uniforms and highlighted what actions we can take. This is a Scotland- wide campaign that challenges the stigma and discrimination often associated with poverty.
Art and Craft club fun today
Today we were creating snow globes and designed our own personal skateboards. It was messy art and we loved it!
