Highlights from our Winter Fayre preparations today! We are all very excited to showcase our Christmas themed games and raise money for our school.
Project based learning
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.
Art club with Regina
Fabulous Fireworks
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.
Curriculum Cafe
Woodmuir had our first Curriculum Cafe of the year!
We had walk down the streets of Paris and beyond, seeing our replications of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre to name a few.
Then we got to see some of our favourite artists work – Monet and Matisse.
Thank you to all our parents who attended to see the fabulous work carried out by the class.
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!
Shapes Shapes Everywhere!
Primary 2/3 have been learning about 2D shapes this week. We have learned about new shapes and how we can describe their properties. We can tell you how many sides and vertices (corners) that a shape has!
