Fruit Faces

 We looked at the works of the artist Giuseppe Arcimboldo. He uses fruit and vegetables to create faces.

After practicing drawing the still life of fruit and vegetables we moved on to imitating the work of Arcimboldo. We got to choose paint, crayon, pencil or pastel for our faces. Have a look at how we got on.

http://www.giuseppe-arcimboldo.org Click the link to find out more about the artist

World Book Day

Guest Speaker: Marita Conlon McKenna 6th March 2013

As part of World Book Day our school was delighted to have the world famous author Marita Conlon McKenna come in to speak to us about her books.
Having studied Under the Hawthorn Tree before Christmas we were all so excited to have the opportunity  to meet her. Lots of the class brought in their own copies of her books and were so lucky that she took the time to sign them
Marita firstly spoke about her childhood in Goatstown and Greystones and her inspiration for her writing. She talked about her children and grandchildren and the funny things they get up to. She also answered lots of our questions.
She was funny and interesting to listen to. We have lots of budding authors in the class who are now inspired by a wonderful role model.
Check out the pictures below :-)

The Wreck of the Zanzibar

The Wreck of the Zanzibar by Michael Murpurgo.

We recently read The Wreck of the Zanzibar as our class novel. It was another fantastic book by the famous author and was described as 'a page turner' and 'extremely interesting' by members class.