Pencaitland Primary 5

As part of our project on The Victorians we have been looking at the work of Charles Rennie Mackintosh.  This stained glass window was the inspiration for our artwork …

We have been looking at mixing colours over the last 2 weeks.  We started by creating a colour wheel using just red, blue and yellow.  We then used what we had found out to mix-and-match.

We have had our last session with Phil from ABC Creative Music using their online composition and practice software.  We have had the chance to create our own tunes and then practise playing along with them.  Many thanks to Phil who started these sessions during lockdown and has continued once we returned to school.  We are the first school to trial this new software so as well as being great fun, it has also been a unique experience.

Having reminded ourselves of the work we did in P4, we have been building electrical circuits.  We have also started drawing circuit diagrams using symbols.

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We have just heard that both the re-cycling and energy reports were shortlisted in the competition but were not chosen as the winners.  Well done to the makers of these 2 reports.

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The Edit is a video making challenge being run by Sky and Adobe.  Using video footage from the Sky TV archives and stuff we filmed ourselves, we made these news reports:

We welcomed Phil from ABC Creative Music for the first time this term as he asked us if we would like to trial a new part of his project.  We really enjoyed trying out his new practice matrix and also had chance to compose some new tunes of our own.