New Higher Modern Studies class off to a flying start!

Here are Lamorna, Beth and Lara completing their first essay for Higher Modern Studies. The class are tackling the issue poverty and it's effect on children.






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S5 design

Lamorna was working on the sewing machine today for her war themed poppy dress:




And Beth was creating an intricate beaded peacock feather as an embellishment for her design:

Glasgow School of Art

Pupils in S3 - S5 enjoyed an interesting visit to see Glasgow School of Art's degree show today. Thanks to Robert Kyle and Stuart McKenzie for facilitating it.
















My favourite piece was a sculpture made from shoes:

Today Doctor Rankin and Mrs Creighton took 12 of the secondary pupils to Waterstones to choose new books for the school library.

Everyone chose at least one book each, but lots of the books were in a 3 for 2 offer so we made sure we took advantage of that!

Most of the books we bought are novels but Finlay choose a book about Ferraris which the rest of the boys assured me would definitely be looked at on a regular basis! Declan also choose non-fiction and he has added a Horrible History to the school collection. Amongst the novels we bought are 3 Artemis Fowl books, the latest Alex Rider book and a Michael Morpurgo novel. We also bought some books for the senior fiction section of the library.

Spending all that money made us hungry so we headed up to the food hall and then everyone had a chance to do some shopping of their own.

All in all it was a great day out!

S5 art

Lamorna completed this super oil pastel cityscape on her 1st day in S5 - well done!

ArtRage & pottery

Euan in S3 completed this super iPad painting using ArtRage:




Meanwhile, the bar has been raised in the Pottery HD high score league during an S1/2 competition... I think it was Melissa who ended up with the final high score after a close battle...



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The Terror!

S2 are reinforcing their learning about the changes in France after the revolution- with some drama in the sunshine!





















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