National Galleries Art Competition Winner!
We are delighted to announce that Alfie, p3S has been awarded a special merit in the p1-3 category, ‘Pirates and Mermaids!’ There were over 7700 entries this year from all over Scotland are we are proud to have another winner in this prestigious competition! Well done Alfie, we love your ‘Merman’!
P2 Holyrood Palace Trip
Primary 2 took a trip to Holyrood Palace to learn more about Mary Queen of Scots and life in the past. We had the opportunity to handle different objects and become detectives to discover why and how these objects were used in the past.
We also got a tour around the palace.
P4 – Cooking
This week, Primary 4 have started to work on their Health and Wellbeing focus on how to cook safely and hygienically. With some excellent help from a parent who is a professional chef, we had fun measuring, chopping and mixing the ingredients. Last term we started looking at farming in other countries and now, in our groups, we are cooking recipes from these countries using ingredients that would grow there. On Tuesday, we were able to taste some wonderful Florida Strawberry Muffins and a delicious Spanish Omelette.
The class loved both the cooking and the tasting and we are very excited for the coming weeks with more brilliant dishes.
Picture Japan Winners!
Huge congratulations to our three prizewinners , ( Ursi, first prize P6, Suvi, third prize P5 and Megan, third prize P7 ), in this year’s ‘Picture Japan’ art competition run by the Japanese Consulate. The pupils were presented with certificates and prizes at the ‘Children’s Arts Day’ held at St Mary’s Cathedral in Palmerston Place.
Pirates Ahoy!
Pupils in p3 thoroughly enjoyed exploring ways of representing ‘Pirates’ when entering the Tesco Bank Art Competition for Schools! Their delightful work shows bold use of colour and composition and a range of media use including watercolour, oil pastels and chalks. Well done p3!
2017 Fringe Poster Competition Success
We are delighted to announce that Luke, p3B and Tristan p5B have been shortlisted in this year’s Fringe Schools Poster Competition and their work will be exhibitied in the Fringe Poster Competition Exhibition in Dynamic Earth. Well done Luke and Tristan!
P6/7 – Cross Country
On Monday 20th March our school was represented by 18 of our pupils who took part in the EPSSA Cross Country race at Duddingston Playing Fields. The race followed an undulating course around the fields for approximately 1700m. Each race was contested by roughly 250 pupils. Our children demonstrated true perseverance as they jostled to finish the race. They were a real credit to our school and will be receiving certificates later this week.
Picasso-inspired Portraits
As part of their topic on ‘Europe’, the p6 pupils have been looking at the work of Spanish artist, Pablo Picasso. There were mixed reactions to his style of portraiture and the pupils found it very challenging to create portraits that did not look ‘realistic’. The results however were amazing and the pupils were delighted with their final pieces!
P5B Applying Their Learning in Maths
Primary 5B have been working extremely hard to apply their knowledge in maths. They were learning about how to convert units when measuring. To give them practice measuring they helped Primary 2 measure objects around the playground and then took these measurements and converted between metres and centimetres in their own classroom. They have developed this understanding by finding perimeter and area of objects. As an extra challenge they have found areas of triangles and irregular shapes. More recently they have been solving a murder mystery using their knowledge of shape, coordinates, grid references and codes.
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