Ideal Home Exhibition

Today was the culmination of two months of topic work and lots of homework. P6/7 were absolutely superb in presenting their models, presentations and ideas to over 100 people at our exhibition today.







The event was photographed for the local paper and visited by 25 Danish educationalists and politicians who were visiting the school today. We also enjoyed the visits of many parents, friends and relatives, as well as a number of people who just popped in after coffee in the coffee shop.






All our visitors were mightily impressed. The Danish delegation were blown away by the confidence and fluency with which the children presented their ideas. Other visitors spoke of how high the standard was and one gentleman asked for a photocopy of some of Isabella's presentation.












The competition was judged by 5 independent judges, Miss Bell, our science teacher, Miss Oakley, our art teacher, David Ostrowski, currently studying engineering at Glasgow University and a former Head Boy, Mr Speirs, our IT teacher, and Scott Gage, managing director of Ecosse Joinery, one of the sponsors of the event.
















The results were close but the winners were

1st Toby Neilson
2nd Aimee Jewell
3rd Ruaraidh MacKinnon












Well done to all winners but also to all the class. All the staff were so proud of their achievements and hard work. Some of the children today will be presenting from the Apple / XMA stand at this years' Scottish Learning Festival in September and this was excellent practice for them.

You can view a time lapse video of the day on our YouTube channel here



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Ideal Homes Exhibition Tomorrow

Today we were setting up our Ideal Home exhibition. It looks great!
The exhibition is on from 10-2 tomorrow and we would love all parents, grandparents, relatives and friends to come and support.






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Trip Days Until the Summer

Our trip uniform days from now 'til summer are Tuesdays (PE) and Thursday (trip). We are hoping for good weather and look forward to doing as many activities outside as possible.


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Ideal Homes Preparation

Today we are back after a long holiday. It's certainly been back with vengeance!
Preparations are underway for our Ideal Home Exhibition which takes place this Thursday.
The entries are all excellent and it's impossible to know which will win.
The judges are:

Miss Kristeen Bell
Miss Jenny Oakley
Mr David Ostrowski
Mr Scott Gage
Mr Chris Jewell

All parents, friends and relatives are warmly welcome. The show is in the hall at New Dawn Bookshop, Greenock from 10am - 2pm.

The project has this week been reported in Inverclyde Now's website. You can read it here:

http://www.inverclydenow.com/index.php/news/local/4553-schools-home-work-going-on-show

We look forward to seeing you on Thursday

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Easter Service

Today we have our Easter service at 1pm at the church. It is a nice way to end the term and P4-7 are singing with iPad accompaniment. After the service children are to be collected and then it's the holidays!


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Pupil of the Term

Congratulations to Courtney in P6 and Brett in P7 who are Pupil of the Term for this term.
Both have worked exceptionally hard this term and thoroughly deserve the award.



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Choir

Today we were working on the singing and choreography for one of the main numbers from our coming play; 'We are the Narnians'.
P1-7 worked really well. Check out our photos here and see a sneak preview video on the school YouTube channel.








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Art - Tone

Today we were looking at the visual elements in Art. Specifically we were producing observational drawing of fruit and vegetables to show tone, the amount of light and dark in a colour.
We looked at famous examples by Monet and Gaughin to see how tone shows in painting.






Monet










Gaughin

Then we made our own observational drawings of fruit and vegetables using an app called 'Brushes'. Brushes is a great tool for art. It enables you to paint without fear of making a mistake and develop real confidence in art. I'm sure you will be impressed at some of the results we came up with today. Look for tone - the amount of light and dark in the colours of our fruit and veg. If you can see varying amounts, depending on where the light was in the room, we have achieved our learning goal for the lesson.
What do you think?

Fruit and Veg with Tone by P 6/7








Toby








Robert






Courtney







Jack








Olivia





Aimee




Mete

Melissa Scott in P6/7

This week we are enjoying a visit from Melissa Scott, a teacher from near Washington, U.S.
This morning she came to join p6/7 for our art lesson on observational drawing with iPad. It's great to have her with us and so enthusiastic about what we are doing.


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Pupil of the Week

Today Isabella is our Pupil of the Week. She is working so hard and it's great to see her work improving all the time. Well done Isabella!


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Audio Files of 100 Word Stories

This week we have been making audio files of our 100 word stories from a wee while ago. Here they are. I think you'll agree that the children have done very well. Some are funny, some moving and some strange but all are examples of high quality thinking, writing and technical music work. I'll try to upload all of them to the blog so that you can hear them all. Here are one or two finished ones as a little taster.

Alex's story is here.

Jack's story is here.

Courtney's story is here.