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Colin and I were in awe Primary 2’s amazing effort, fabulous confidence and professionalism during their class showcase assembly. The class created the show, including recording the video in 3 short but busy days – what an achievement!
We’re sorry to say that we were so focussed on the pupils that neither Colin nor I took any photos of the assembly or art gallery!
A huge thank you to Primary 4 for this lovely feedback from our assembly!
Please see this term’s intended learning.
Many thanks,
Miss Copeland
Paintings, photos, glass(!) and sculptures – we found so many different mediums of portraits!
Robert Burns’ portrait and sculpture were a big hit and it was ‘so cool’ to see the portraits of kings and queens.
Ken Currie’s Unknown Man, 2019 Portrait of Professor Dame Sue Black and Three Oncologists intrigued the pupils and we had a discussion around their red eyes and ghostly like appearances.
We noticed how a lot of the people were not smiling in the paintings and how it could be because it would take such a long time to paint, that their faces would hurt by the end!
We also admired the frames in real life, having worked from photographs to make our own. We spotted some repeating patterns that looked a bit like… pasta, pea, pea, pea, pea. Maybe try mixing up dinner time and frame your food!
Inspired by a visit to the Scottish Portrait Gallery, we experimented with costumes, facial expression and body position when being photographed. Here is just a snippet, before we choose one to go inside our frames…!
Timing helicopters falling, helping preserve apples last for a long amount of time and timing how long we can dunk biscuits… we had a great time!
We were lucky to get early access to the ESF at the City Art Centre. We had lots of fun at Energy Makers, Little Sparks and Imagination Playground!
Check out these Time related activities you can do at home!
As society moves towards a becoming cashless, more pupils in Primary 2 have seen their grown ups pay use a mobile phone than pay with coins!
It is vital that pupils experience handling money – looking at the shapes, sizes and values of coins, paying with them, receiving change and receipts.
To make it even trickier for young learners, did you know that most coins do not have numbers on them anymore? They were replaced with words!
Old vs new 1p
Your child should be able to…
Can you sort the coins?
“I like the flag” Eddy
“You spoke very clearly” Olivia
“I like the flag” Charlie
“Have you been to Ghana?” Yasmine
“I like rice too” Eddy
“I like the pictures your mum drew” Charlie
“What does your room look like?” Lola
“I like your new house” Yasmine
“I like your poster” Charlie
We were tasked with telling 3 jokes to the whole school. Here are our 3 brave comedians!
Aiden – Why did the Chicken want to fly? Becoooors!
Charlie – What did the artist draw before bedtime? The curtains!
Olivia – What did the whale eat for dinner? Fish and ships!
“We’re setting up for P.E” Olivia
“We were lifting the mats to keep us safe if we fall” Mohamed
“We did balances on the benches” Mustapha
“I am balancing on one leg” Mirabelle
“I done a star jump” Mohamed
“I did a tuck jump” Mustapha
“I done a straight jump” Aiden
“I am spotting for Clay so he can jump off it and land in my hands” Lola
We have been learning about ways of displaying work.
“We’re making frames out of cardboard. We were allowed to stick anything we wanted on our frames like pasta and bottle tops.” Charlie
“We had to make patterns. The corners are the same.” Eddy
In this shop, pupils added dot card ‘money’ together to purchase Lego!
“I was getting to buy a tower Lego. I was taking the money and giving it to Colin.” Yasmine
In this shop, pupils had to select the correct coin to buy items.
“I’m being a shop keeper. They buyed food with money.” Aiden
“I’m asking for a chicken leg. It costs £2 and so I paid with a £2 coin” Mustapha
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