The National Library of Scotland recently held a great exhibition called ‘Local Heroes - The Art of the Graphic Novel’. This exhibition celebrated the history of the graphic novel and allowed viewers to visually see how the style of graphic novels has changed since their conception. The fascinating exhibits ranged from ‘The Beano’ to ‘2000AD’, to the recently re-released ‘Kidnapped’.
Members of staff from the English Department, Art & Design and Mr Bray had attended different illustrated talks relating to Graphic Novels. Gary Erskine, a freelance Scottish comic artist who is currently working on the new Dan Dare novels, led one of these talks. His enthusiasm for graphic novels and how they could be used in schools was inspiring - watch this space!
The exhibition is now finished, but the Art & Design Department are fortunate enough to have acquired a large number of exciting resources from it. These include large visual display boards that we hope to display in the Department, and around the school, as well as lots of graphic novels. Many thanks to the National Library for letting us have these resources, as well as Mr Bray for collecting them.
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. Well done Morag!
The Art & Design Department were very fortunate to have Malcolm Cruickshank, an Artist in Residence, working with a number of pupils in S1 - S6.
Pupils based their research on the museum at Prestongrange, working from a number of photos that Malcolm had taken at the museum. The projects used recycled materials including plastics and papercrete (concrete and shredded paper) with the outcomes being abstract sculptures. The S3 sculpture can soon be seen in the school garden.
An exhibition of work is currently on display until August in the Brunton Hall. Go along to the Box Office and ask to view it! Visit the Art & Design Department to see photos of the exhibition opening.
A group of our S2 pupils are away in France at the moment – they have been up-dating their section of the website with lots of photos and news as they go. It looks like they are having a great time!
We have an extensive extra curricular activities programme at Musselburgh Grammar School. One of the initiatives that has really gathered momentum in the past 18 months is the schools Duke of Edinburgh Award Programme. W currently have 28 pupils working towards their Bronze Award and 24 pupils working towards their silver award.
On Saturday all of the Silver group took part in a practice walk in the Pentland Hills. One of the purposes of the walk was to test equipment and to practice navigation. Unfortunately due to the poor weather we had to cut the walk short but a great deal of fun and a massive mount of learning still took place.
There are a lot of pupils working around the school with video cameras, voice recorders and digital cameras at the moment. Great! We love using ICT in many of our lessons at Musselburgh Grammar School!
The prefect, S6 group and S5/S6 individual photographs have been being taken in the hall and training room over the last few days. Details on how you can order your photographs will be available soon at registration.
The 5th March is famous for lots of things according to Mr Bray at Assembly this morning. This year the 5th March is also World Maths Day. World Maths Day falls on the first Wednesday of March every year.
Today students at Musselburgh Grammar School have been competing with other schools from around the world using the world maths day website. Everyone in the school has been given a card with their unique log in and password. Some pupils have now been practicing for over a week. In fact, over the weekend 46, 000 maths questions were answered correctly using the World Maths Day website.
Everyone in the school who had maths today got to take part and lots of other subject departments also joined in. The library was also specially decorated for the event. Now we have to wait to see how we got on compared to the other hundreds of registered schools.
In a recent competition our pupils were awarded 3 silver and 16 bronze certificates. all of the certificate winners are listed on the notice board in the Maths Corridor. Well done to everyone that has taken part.
The National Library of Scotland recently held a great exhibition called ‘Local Heroes - The Art of the Graphic Novel’. This exhibition celebrated the history of the graphic novel and allowed viewers to visually see how the style of graphic novels has changed since their conception. The fascinating exhibits ranged from ‘The Beano’ to ‘2000AD’, to the recently re-released ‘Kidnapped’.
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