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Theme: From teeny- tiny to towering Focus artwork: Spider by Louise Bourgeois Today we explored the work of Louise Bourgeois looking at scale, emotions and memories in art work. We had a go at creating sculptures using only newspapers to explore scale- tiny and huge. The children developed and communicated their ideas, demonstrated imagination and ... Continue reading "Art Fridays"

Today we started to design our Fayre game thinking about our theme, decorations, the title , goal, players, rules and materials we will need to collect. We also sketched our game and discussed prizes! Again lots of the Woodmuirps skills were visible today including communication, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking.

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Today we started our new term 2 topic where pupils voted for a Christmas Enterprise theme. Lots of great discussion resulted in everyone choosing to create a game for our winter Fayre . Lots of skills were visible in our random groups such as integrating knowledge and skills to foster critical thinking, collaboration and communication. ... Continue reading "Project Based Learning"

A few highlights from our problem solving maths session today! Super communication and collaboration skills.

The children had a great Halloween party this morning including lots of dancing, fun party games, party food, sweeties and prizes for all. Highlights were corners and dooking for apples. We showed off our spooky costumes and everyone looked spectacular! Thank you to all our lovely parents and carers for all of your support with ... Continue reading "Spooky Halloween Fun"

Woodmuir had our first Curriculum Cafe of the year! We had walk down the streets of Paris and beyond, seeing our replications of the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre to name a few. Then we got to see some of our favourite artists work - Monet and Matisse. Thank you to all our parents who ... Continue reading "Curriculum Cafe"

Today in creativity hour we practised a different technique using various brush strokes with watercolours. We were inspired by the artist Monet and his river paintings. Once we painted the sunset we then painted the reflection using warm colours in long strikes. After our paintings dry we will paint on the city scene in dark ... Continue reading "Watercolour sunset"

Primary 2/3 have been learning about 2D shapes this week. We have learned about new shapes and how we can describe their properties. We can tell you how many sides and vertices (corners) that a shape has!

Some of the children are going to start assembling our French buildings this week. We have created our lists of what we need and cardboard boxes tops the list. We would be grateful if you could send in any tomorrow and Wednesday so that we can get started! Thank you!

Today we were creating snow globes and designed our own personal skateboards. It was messy art and we loved it!

We were investigating estimation today and discussing why it is an important skill. Well done to the winners of our estimation challenge!