Cat painting

Euan completed this acrylic painting today - well done!

Exam practice

S3 artists were doing some critical studies exam practice today in art. We looked at an example paper and went over some questions before pupils tried to answer one on their own.

Q. How well doe the artist use colour, composition, pose and shape to create an interesting portrait?




'Heroic Dosser' by Peter Howson

Electricity from pairs of metals

S3 Chemistry















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S5

Robyn, Ailie and Lamorna were all doing some written work today, for Computing, Chemistry and Art:




And Zander was working on his American themed hat:

The news at ten...1945!

S3 are using higher order thinking skills - synthesis and creativity- to bring together and deepen their learning from the past few weeks.

They are writing radio reports for 1945 Britain, called 'rebuild Britain.' they have listened to journalists such as Richard Dimbleby, to give them a feel for broadcasting styles at the time.



Here the class are writing scripts using research and notes from class work:





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S3 design

S3 are continuing to work on their design projects in art. Here are some photos of them at work:












And some images of their design prototypes, firstly, Euan's tyre track T-shirt:




Ben's Singapore skyline:



Nico's Italian ice cream:

S4 were working hard today on a variety of projects. Jennifer was doing some 3D design work, Euan was painting and Leo was working on some digital art:





Leo finished this painting for his expressive folio - well done!



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Location:Mixed Media!

S3, S4 & S5 art

Senior school artists were hard at work this afternoon on a range of creative projects. Lots of mess but lots achieved too!

BC Drama

Today in BC drama we were reading over and walking through an improvised / devised play that has been written by the class over the last few weeks. It is called 'Dilemmas' and tells the story of a teenage girl who faces a lot of different dilemmas in different areas of her life.

Here are some photos of the walk through:

Final Piece!

Zander in S5 completed the final piece for his expressive folio today. He has used acrylic paint and oil pastels to create it - well done!

S3 design

S3 artists have all been working on their design projects this week. Nico was using PVA, paint and tissue paper to create a tomatoey texture for his Italian pizza base...




Ben had designed and cut out some stylised stars, inspired by the Singapore flag, and was using the glue gun to attach them to a t-shirt:




And Euan was stencilling some tyre track prints for his cycling themed project:




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S4 art

S4 pupils were all hard at work on their final expressive pieces for their folios today:

S5 art

Lamorna was busy working on her 'splash' hat again today, painting it in a coloured acrylic/PVA mix to give a sea feel:







And Zander was working hard on his golfing drawing:

Third year working hard

S3 historians are working very well, improving their source analysis skills as they find out about homes in the towns and countryside of 1930s Britain.






They are joined by S3 computing this morning as Mr Speirs is in Lusaka, Zambia, speaking to the American Diplomatic School about our iPad programme. The group are working on HTML coding.



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Water splash hat

Lamorna has been working hard on her design project. She completed her first model usjng PVA, cling film and acetate and began working on her second model using wire mesh and PVA today:

S3 design

S3 were busy working on their design projects today:







Ben began to put together his first design for his Singapore themed T shirt:

Great start back!

We had a successful start back to art in the senior school today. Jennifer completed this painted camping landscape:




And Lamorna was modelling her water droplet hat using PVA, cling film, acetate and double sided tape- it is starting to look good!