Category: Expressive Arts

Expressive Arts

Our Colourful World Of Art

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‘Our world of colour’ is our whole school interdisciplinary learning context this term and we are loving exploring a different colour every week. We choose one of three activities and are asked to try and sign the colour of the week. We have enjoyed creating with primary colours and secondary colours, tomorrow we are going to experiment with the tertiary colour brown, through cave painting, transient sand art and rubbings. Karen has attached her lesson ideas if you would like to use these at home.

Live Music Now

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Today we welcomed Lloyd and Danielle, student and graduate respectively of the Royal Scottish Conservatoire Scotland and members of Live Music Now Scotland. The pair will join us every Thursday until May. We have two groups of ten pupils nominated by their classes, who will join them to make music. The book ‘Ocean Commotion’ will be used as a platform for music making with a performance on their last week. Today we were introduced to their instruments, trumpet and tuba….what amazing sounds!

Happy Valentine’s Day from Room 13

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Room 13 have been making Valentine’s cards for those special people in their lives: Mum, Dad and Auntie. We took a lot of care making our cards and enjoyed the process.

Room 14 Exploring Our World of Colour

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Room 14 enjoyed exploring the snow and ice last week. We added food colouring to make the snow change colour. Everyone had fun.

 

This week, Room 14 had fun exploring the colourful world of musicals in Drama with Sam. We focused on the musical, Hairspray.

Exploring Elmer In Room 9

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The pupils in Room 9 are continuing to enjoy listening to, looking at and doing work from our Book Study of Elmer by David McKee. Our herd of Elmer’s has expanded. Some of our pupils enjoy playing with these wonderful models they made – the Elmer’s are lined up, placed in order, grouped altogether and observed.

We have also experimented with water and ink, noting what happens when the two combine. The pupils in Room 9 together made a lovely piece of modern art based from this science experiment.

 

 

Room 8 Meet Jack Frost

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Room 8 have been enjoying this winter weather, inside and outside the classroom. We ventured out into the playground, well wrapped up, to experience how cold and frosty it has been. We brought snow back in with us to feel how cold it was and we watched as it melted during the day.

We dressed up in winter clothes during our winter singing and looked at ourselves in the mirror, just to see how good we looked!

During our art sessions we made ‘cold weather’ pictures using ‘cold’ colours. We used purple, white and blue balloons to print with. We also used the salad spinners to make colourful pictures which were cut into cosy socks, hats, gloves and scarves.

This week we made Jack Frost pictures. We had lots of different collage materials in white and silver to stick on and, of course, no Jack Frost is complete without plenty of glitter!

We all love a baking session in room 8 so this week we made ‘frosty’ cakes. We put in rice crispies and ‘snowball’ marshmallows, stirred it round and then added white chocolate. We then decorated the top with some edible ‘silver’ paper. Lots of tasting, smelling, and touching went on. We kept some for snack in school and took some home for our families to enjoy too.

Robert Burns Celebrations In Room 11

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Children in Room 11 have been having fun and celebrating Robert Burns. They have been listening to Scottish music, tasting and smelling haggis, neeps and tatties. They have also been listening to famous poems “To a Mouse” and “A Red , Red Rose”. We were having fun singing Scottish songs and being part of the whole school Ceilidh! All children loved playing the fiddle too!

Robert Burns Ceilidh

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On Thursday the 24th of January we had our Burns Lunch followed by a very successful Ceilidh. It was wonderful to see so many people enjoying themselves, dancing to the music provided by our Music Therapist, Drumming Instructor and their musical friends. A big Thank You to all of them for coming along to help us celebrate Robert Burns Day.

Colourful Art In Room 10

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The children in class 10 enjoyed taking part in a painting lesson that linked in with our colour theme for this term. They produced some very beautiful work between them.