Today we made beautiful Christmas cards to take home to our families. We also had a fantastic Nativity rehearsal this morning and we can’t wait to showcase this next week. We hope everyone has a festive and fun weekend.
Festive Fridays
Tag: Creativity
Golden Showcase
Last week we finally revealed our new school vision, to our parents and community at Woodmuir PS. All children had the opportunity to say a little piece about what our new school vision means to us and we celebrated the winning design. The children sang beautifully and the last song added a magical touch to the end of our assembly and really captured the sense of togetherness in our school community.
It was lovely to see proud smiles on the faces of all our parents as they watched the enthusiasm in all children as they sang and danced happily! It was a heartwarming afternoon and events like these create cherished memories for the children. A big thank you to all the parents who came along to this event and provided feedback on the children’s work in their Golden Vision Books. We look forward to more of these open events in the new year where we can showcase our learning and celebrate success.
Our Golden Profiles
After our assembly rehearsal this morning, we worked on our individual profiles ready for our showcase this afternoon. We are taking a great deal of care with these project books to get them ready for our grown ups and we are very excited to hear about the competition!
Project based learning
Highlights from our Winter Fayre preparations today! We are all very excited to showcase our Christmas themed games and raise money for our school.
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!
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
Claude Monet – creativity hour
Today we started our research on Famous French artists. We found out about his Early life, Impressionism, famous paintings and his later life. This involved lots of practice in our literacy skills and skills for life. After our research session we will begin to re- create one or two of his most famous paintings using different materials.
Fraction birds
