S4 art

Today's artwork from S4...

Chloe's completed this oil pastel drawing:




And Jennifer finished this chalk pastel still life:

S4 artists

S4 artists have been busy this week!

A pastel drawing by Euan:


A pop art inspired dress design by Chloe:



Some pop art cup cakes by Leo:


Some pop art table tennis bats by Rhys:

Pop art ice skates by David:

And a pastel drawing of a split screen VW by Scott:



David, Scott and Euan were also using iphoto on my laptop to do some photo editing:


And Jennifer was working on a pastel drawing:

S3 art

S3 artists completed some pencil drawings today.

Euan's handcuffs:




Nico's bucket and spade:




And Nathan's top hat:

Hard at work in S5

S5 were hard at work today - Lamorna was continuing to make good progress on her paint and palette knife painting, Zander was doing some still life sketching of sports equipment and Ailie was doing some experiments for her higher chemistry course.

Van Gogh

Lamorna in S5 was experimenting with new techniques in art today. She was developing her expressive style using acrylics and a palette knife (just like Van Gogh!!)

She really enjoyed it and made a great start!

S3 drawings

Kieran completed this drawing for his expressive folio today:




And Nicol completed this drawing:

S5 Art

Lamorna completed this oil pastel piece for her folio today:

And Alexander made a great start to his intermediate art course with this oil pastel drawing:

S3 artists

S3 artists made a start on their folio work today. They have chosen to look at the following topics for their expressive work:

Nicol - detectives

Nico - the beach

Euan - police & pursuit

Christopher - board games

Kieran - Food (Cooking / baking)

Nathan - the victorians

Daria - winter

Melissa - make up, hair, etc...

S1 - 3 Drama

On Wednesday afternoon S1-3 pupils who have chosen to study drama made a great start to the course with some introductory activities and exercises. We focused on improvisation skills and collaborative working this week and will look at portraying character in more depth next week.

We are also very fortunate to have drama graduate and make up artistry lecturer, Jacqueline McDonald, working with us in the class.

S4 art

S4 artists were back to work this week on their expressive and design folios. I am looking forward to a successful year!

Middle school Scotland presentations

Middle school pupils are working hard on presentations about life in Scotland to show some visitors from Switzerland in September.

They have outlined good group work skills...






Researched Switzerland so that they understand their audience...



Chosen interesting, exciting and important information to include...




And are now working on the most interesting way to present their content...















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Alliances and enemies.

S4 are sorting out who was allied with who, and why, in the period before World War 1. Not an easy challenge, but the class have made an enthusiastic start back at school!









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First lesson in Standard Grade history

S3 have started their standard grade history course with great enthusiasm! As we start to look at Britain since 1830, the class divided into groups to work on some key questions.

Here, they are using the thinking space boards to examine the question 'what does transport do for me?'







We are going on to look at how the arrival of steam power transformed British society, and will ask what was the most important change.




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Welcome Back!

It's great to be back, and to hear what everyone has been doing over the summer. We are looking forward to an exciting, successful year at Cedars School.