Gibson Art prize

Congratulations to Euan, Lamorna, Ailie and Megan who all won prizes for their entries into different categories of the Gibson art competition at the McLean museum - well done!

Euan won 1st prize for his oil pastel cat:


Lamorna won 2nd prize for her oil pastel garden scene:


Ailie won 2nd prize for her oil pastel still life of sports equipment:


Megan was highly commended for her iPad digital finger painting of a midnight garden:

S5 art

Rebecca, Massimo and Megan have been working on their final expressive pieces of art work for their folios. Rebecca has been drawing this super pencil portrait:

Megan has been painting a clown:

And Massimo has been painting some Swiss mountains:

Robyn has also been working on some developmental drawings for her folio using oil pastels:

S1/2 Art

S1/2 are looking at fonts and typefaces in art. There have begun designing their own book covers and will work with Mrs Creighton to write the summary 'blurb' on the back in English.

S4 art work

Lamorna completed this colourful rooftop painting today - well done!

There's a mouse loose...

S4/5 dramatists were trying on their mouse ears today in preparation for their upcoming performance of "Can You Hear the Music?"... the furry costumes will follow soon!

More S3 design

Here are some pictures of S3's ongoing design projects.

Chloe has been learning how to use the sewing machine:

Scott was using spray glue and talcum powder to give his headpiece a frosted look:

Euan completed this dryad mask:

Jennifer has been working with mod roc to create a giant tea cup:

Rhys has completed a rather vicious looking cactus for his mexican sombrero...

And David has been working with money... only tissue money though, not the real thing!

French dogs!

Nathan gave a super presentation this afternoon on Pyrenean mountain dogs, which he had researched for his French studies.

Presentation, presentation, presentation!

This morning, S1/2 paid a visit to Mr Jewell's class, where they gave their presentations on what it is like to move up into secondary school. All the groups did very well, and received some very positive feedback from the pupils in Mr Jewell's class.

S4/5 drama

S4/5 dramatists were busy working on their final production piece today. Deborah, Chloe and Zander were working on the set and Lara was measuring up for the costumes:

PE fitness

Today the s grade PE class were at the gym. We were designing our own fitness and training programmes, focusing on both cardiovascular and muscle work. We recorded our results on our fitness programme outline on the iPad.







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Encore de la grammaire

Today in French, Chloe and Jessica from S3 gave a presentation on -re verbs, and the class then did some work on them. Last week's work on -ir verbs certainly paid off, as they all got 10/10 in their test on them this morning. C'est fantastique!

S4/5 drama

S4/5 dramatists have begun work on their production piece which will be externally examined in March. It is a play called "Can you hear the music?" and is the tale of 6 mice who get whisked away by the magic of a sinister piper's music...

Deborah is in charge of the set so she and Megan were measuring the hall and making notes on Wednesday:

With the kind help of Andrew Collins, we were able to begin creating a match box bed, complete with giant matches, and a giant cotton reel - the thread will be on it shortly!

S4 dramatists have also been working on another play called "Blackout" as part of their Drama Skills unit - they will be performing it next Thursday:

Design projects!

S3 and S4 artists have been continuing all their design project work this week - here is a quick look at what has been going on in the art room...

A Japanese umbrella hat by Lara:

Foam sandwiches for the Mad Hatter's hat by Jennifer:

Leo was using fabrics to give his lion mask a fur like texture:

Stuart was helping Rhys with his mod-roc cactus:

Beth was working on a dress design for her peacock costume:

Chloe was inspired by Lichtenstein's pop art to make a template of a huge speech bubble, cut it out and attach it to her 60's style dress:

Meanwhile, Euan was working hard on his leaf mask: