Art and Crafts Club - Week 3

This week we could finally create our finished jewellery pieces.  Having left them for a week to dry meant that they looked great when we strung them into our chosen designs.  We made a mixture of bracelets, pendants and chokers.

Real Life Maths

We had to create a large sign for our fashion show.  Mrs Torney showed us a mini version of the letters which had a length of 6cm and a breadth of 4cm.  She said that we were to use the ratio 1:7 to create a bigger sign so that it stood out.  We knew that for every 1cm of Mrs Torney's letter we had to make ours 7cm so our letter had to have a length of 42cm (6cm x 7) and a breadth of 28cm (4cm x 7).  Here we are making our letters and the finished sign.

The letters had to have silver circles stuck onto them so that they looked like marquee letters.  This meant that we had to remind ourselves of how to use a compass.  We had to create a circle using the ration 1:4.  Mrs Torney's circle had a diameter of 2 cm, so our circle had to have a diameter of 8cm.  We had to half the diameter to get the radius which we used when drawing the circles with a compass.

Arts and Craft Club - Week 2

This week we were painting and decorating our beads with acrylic paints, metallic markers and nail varnish.  We have left them to dry and will put them together next week to make our finished jewellery pieces.

Science with Miss Tolland

P7/6 have been having hours of fun learning about the human body and the sensory organs with Miss Tolland.  They recently completed an experiential learning task where each group had to produce a sensory experience for all of the other groups.  Here are some pictures from the day.

P7/6 taking their learning down the school

P7/6 have been using skills which they have learned during creating their own fashion show outfits to teach the younger children of the school.

Niamh, Morgan and Sophie taught P2/1 how to make a hat template and Scott and Paige taught P4/3 how to make masks.  The children were confident and organised when presenting their lesson and the rest of the class offered support to the younger children throughout.

P2/1 will now take their hats home to be decorated in the style of an Easter bonnet using recycled products.  P4/3 have now finished their masks. They used old books to add decoration and colour to them and used paper shredding for whiskers, stripes and hair.  Don't they look great?

 

P4 - 7 had lots of fun designing and making clay beads using different patterns and textures.  We have now left them to dry and will be decorating them to create pieces of jewellery that will be for sale at the fashion show.