Musselburgh Grammar Art & Design Blog

As part of A Curriculum for Excellence, the Art & Design, RME and English Departments worked together on an Anti-Sectarianism project.

It was a fantastic, innovative project that really brought Departments together and allowed pupils to use their experiences and knowledge across the curriculum. In Art & Design, pupils from 2CA designed Anti-Sectarianism posters, with Hayley Johnston taking first prize. Hayley’s ‘Cut Sectarianism Out of Your Life’ design can now be seen displayed in every classroom in the school. In RME, pupils composed Acrostic poems and in English, puils read ‘Across the Barricades’ and wrote a book report.

A large number of pupils involved then took part in a trip to Ibrox and Parkhead where they had a tour of the grounds and took part in workshops where they found out how both Rangers and Celtic dealt with the issue of Sectarianism.

To end the project, on June 3rd, Kenny Miller the Scotland International football player and former Musselburgh Grammar School pupil, returned to his old school to present awards to the prize-winners. Kenny is only one of three players to ever play for both Rangers, his current club, and Celtic making him an ideal choice to be able to reflect on Sectarian issues in Scotland.

It was a great project to be involved in and one in which we all learned a lot. Thanks to all those who participated, pupils, staff, guests and designer! A list of all the prize winners and photographs can be see on our Competitions and A curriculum for Excellence pages. Large Display boards showing images of the project can be viewed throughout the school.

This year saw MGS launch the Musselburgh Grammar School Savings Union.

Class 1CD took part in the competition to design the winning mascot logo. Some brilliant designs were created and in the end, there had to be joint winners!

Well done to Claire Hyndman and Jason Gray for their winning designs. Their prize was to open the first two accounts at the Savings Union - a slice of history!

See both winning designs on our Competitions page…

It’s been a busy year for competitions!

In April, a number of pupils entered the Annual Rotary Young Photographer Competition for 2009. The pressure was on after one of our S6 pupils last year went on to win not only the district award but also the Photographer of the Year award.

As usual, our fantastic photographers didn’t let us down and the quality of the entries was high.

Well done to all pupils who took part, but particularly to the winners:

Juta Reine (S6) who won the 16-18yrs category

Dean Ballantyne (S1) who won 1st Prize in the 12-15 yrs category

Ross Baillie S(1) who won 2nd Prize in the 12-15 yrs category

Nicole Souter (S1) who won 3rd Prize in the 12-15 yrs category

Michael Morrison (S1), Catriona Morton (S3) and Rebecca Paterson (S3) who were all Highly Commended in the 12-15 yrs category.

A presentation and buffet was held at the Quay in Musselburgh during the Easter holidays. Check out the Competitions page to see the photographs!

Our Rotary Young Photographer of 2008 was presented with her trophy at a ceremony on Monday night at the Quay. Well done again, Morag!

All you budding photographers - look out for next years competition!

Rotary Young Photographer Competition

Congratulations to Morag Barton, one of our S6 Advanced Higher Art & Design pupils, who was named as the winner of the ‘My Home Town’ section of the Rotary Young Photographer Competition.

Morag won the District 1020 competition which covers the whole of the South of Scotland, and over 50 Rotary clubs. A formal presentation ceremony is to be held in the Quay in June. Well done Morag!