Category: Specialist Areas

Specialist Areas

Lawman Piano arrives at Orchard Brae

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Today we were very lucky to receive a Lawman Piano which had been gifted to the school to help support all the amazing development and engagement work that takes place with our Music Therapist Emmeline. The Lawman Panio was created by Gordon Bell Pianos in conjuction with Passell designers to celebrate Aberdeen footballer Denis Law receiving the Freedom of Aberdeen City in 2018. The Panio has been on a tour of all the Football clubs that Dennis Law played for and on it’s return was auctioned off for charity. We are delighted to have been selected as it’s permanent home where we are sure it will be used by all of the pupils in school.

One of our Senior pupils really enjoyed the opportunity to make music on this amazing piano, which is fabulously decorated, including its light show and Dennis Law’s signature.

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.

 

 

Rainbow Fruit Kebabs In Room 5

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Room 5 are reading The Rainbow Fish. One of our class celebrated a birthday. We enjoyed birthday cake and rainbow fruit kebabs for snack. We had red strawberries, green grapes and yellow banana on our kebabs.

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.

Room 16 Exploring the Snow

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We have been having fun exploring our playground in the snow, listening to the sound our feet make, looking at the patterns in the grass.  We all had rosy cheeks after 10 minutes outdoors.

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.

 

Room 15: Fun in the Snow!

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Room 15 pupils were excited to see the snow last week.  Some of us lay down and made snow angels.  We enjoyed holding some cold snow in their hands and one of us insisted on taking her snow back in to class with her!  Guess who that might have been! We were all full of smiles and did some great sharing.