The Tog

Class 5 have been celebrating Norwegian independence by taking part in the Norway Constitution Day Parade. Have a look at their blog.

The Story of Sedna

The Primary 7 classes have finished the felt picture of the Story of Sedna.

Christina Sargent came in for the whole day, and with Mrs Firth our art teacher, they made the felt.

This felt is different from the three which have been made at St Andrew's, Rousay and Sanday because it was made the right way round and started with the background, and details were added on top. It also had

three dimensional elements like Sedna's hair and her father's beard.
These were made using a 'resist' technique.

The children also made coloured balls and rope to depict the way we use the seas around us in modern times. These elements will be used in between the four felts along with sea creatures created in Sanday.
You can see all the schools at work in the video below.
Glaitness is the last school in the sequence.

This work was part of the Learning and Teaching Scotland Developing Global Citizenship team's project to illustrate how global citizenship can be embedded in interdisciplinary contexts for learning.

The felts will be exhibited at the Scottish Learning festival 2010.

Canadian Art

Class 3/4 have been creating artwork in the traditional style of the First Nations of the west of Canada, where their link school is.

This term their topic is 'Coasts' and they have chosen a sea creature to paint. Can you tell what it is?

We sometimes see these animals around the coasts of Orkney too.

Check out the slideshow of everyon'e pictures on the class blog here.

Easter messages from Norway.

P6 have received Easter messages from their link school in Bergen.

They have thought about how different our schools are and what difference the weather and being surrounded by trees makes to the way we use our school and grounds around the school.

The topic this term in P6 is Vikings so they will be asking the children in Norway some questions about our Norse ancestors in their next exchange of information and messages.

Gumleaf arrives!

P2 have started the term with a new Australian class mate.

Gumleaf the koala has arrived from their link school.

Follow his Orkney adventures here.

A parcel from Norway

Class 5 have a link to three classes at the same stage in Kirkevoll Skole in Bergen in Norway.

A package arrived from them and the children opened it up today.

It was full of letters and cards and drawings and things that the children had made.

It was very exciting looking at everything and finding out more about the children in Norway.

In their letters one of the things they told us about was the particularly snowy weather.

So we went outside to show them that we had been having very snowy weather too.

Have a look at the video of Class 5 opening the package on their blog.

Music from the Caribbean

Class 1 have been listening to calypso music and finding out abot how steel drums are made. They even have one of their own to try out. Watch them on their blog.