The hills are alive with the Sound of Music!

Pupils enjoyed a trip to the Kings Theatre on Wednesday evening to see a production of "The Sound of Music". It was a super trip all round!

S3 historians learning in progress

S3 challenge based learning groups are presenting their findings so far.

Here are Jennifer's group doing keynotes...














Here is Scott's group using an imaginary conversation between different countries to show who they think caused the war, and why....








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S1 tribal survivors

S1 are using a board game to find out about life for the desert tribes in 7thC Arabia.




Landing on an oasis means missing a go whilst the tribes camels, stock and people drink up!

Landing on a dry water hole gives you another go because the tribe wouldn't have stayed there long!

Other places to land in the game include the sandstorm, Mecca, flashflood and a fight with another tribe.

Iys a great way to learn!


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Narnia make up!

Jacqueline and Alana, our make up artists for Narnia, were practising on the beavers and the White witch yesterday. They did a fantastic job!

Time travellers from P4/5 visit Social Studies

Using special effects music and lots if imagination, P4/5 have travelled back in time today! They investigated the past using the artefacts and sources in Miss R's room. We've looked at newspapers, coins, collectors books and souvenir handkerchiefs from the Queens coronation. We've examined medals and coins, ration cards and a 100 year old accordion. We've looked at Egyptian coins and calendars, tea caddys from World War II, goblets, newspapers from JFK's assassination, spinning tops, old photographs, books from 1900, and piggy banks.































































And we've tried on hats of all shapes and sizes and imagined who we might be from the past....












It's been a great, fun, informative afternoon! Thank you for visiting!
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Creative Cakes!

Thanks to Ellie in S1 for making an absolutely beautiful cake for the S5 pupils who are leaving school. They loved it- well done, it was very professional and tasted great!

S3 Art

A varied day in S3 art with digital art, sculpture, critical studies and design work going on simultaneously.

A super ArtRage landscape by David:




A fun brushes painting by David:




An excellent mashup using flow paper, brushes and safari by Rhys:




And a feat of plasticine and wire engineering by Scott and Stuart:







Meanwhile Chloe and Euan were working on their design projects:







And Jennifer was completing her Picasso research project:



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S1/2 simile poems in geography

Pupils in S1/2 are using their knowledge and understanding about floods to create simile poems describing a river in flood.

They will then use GarageBand to record their poem and create a soundtrack for it.

We started the lesson with a listen to Stanley Cook's poem on Clouds, to give us an idea of what we are aiming for.

Today, the class are in the ideas zone, working both individually and in groups to create a page of words, phrases and similes. Here are just a few examples:

Destruction
Bubbling
Like melting chocolate, murky and bubbling and brown.
Human cost
Dramatic
Bubble bath
Sweeping torrents
Tears
Waves
Crashing smashing lashing
Submerged
Sudden
Unexpected







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Artrage

S3 and S5 artists were using artrage today. Here are the results so far: