French Day at St. Mary's!

French Day at St. Mary's

On Wednesday 14th March, all pupils came to school wearing French inspired clothing and took part in a wide variety of learning activities.  Each class split in to groups and they then travelled to different staff to take part in French-related tasks.  

Here are the activities P4 - P7 experienced:

• Kahoot quiz on French culture from Miss McShannon and Mrs McGrath
• STEM task building a French landmark with Mr McColgan
• Singing French songs with Miss McCluskey
• A range of French vocabulary games with Miss Brown
• Learning about the Eiffel Tower with Mrs Clark

When the pupils came to my room, they were introduced to the work of Henri Matisse.  We watched a quick video about his life, then discussed his paper collage work.  We evaluated his pictures and looked at how we could try to use this style to create work of our own.  

This is the video we observed.

Here are some of the images that we evaluated:

Icarus

The Sadness of the King

The Snail

The Parakeet and The Mermaid


Below are some photographs of the pupils hard at work.  We also invited parents in to become involved in the children's learning and I was overwhelmed at the turnout in Primary 5.  Huge thank you to all that came along today - hope you enjoyed your art lesson!