As you will know, the weather meant that we could not go out to the Kilmartin Museum Archaeology Excavation Site last week on Tuesday and that the trip there has been postponed to next year, when the site will be opened up again. Although the children were disappointed not to get a trip on a bus and take their learning into another context, in true Glassary style, we soon came up with a Plan B.
Julia and Jacquelyn, the Education Officers from the Museum, came to school instead and led a brilliant session based on the stone carvings and cup and ring marks in the Historic Scotland Site above the school. The P5 to 7 class went out and looked at the site and then returned to the classroom to create their own rock art designs from clay.
But an added bonus also came when Julia and Jacquelyn visited the P1 to 4 classroom and saw the fantastic rock art designs, which are featured on our school website Gallery and also on Argyll and Bute Council’s social media platforms. They realised that the workshop would absolutely fit with the P1 to 4 project on the Past (By exploring places, investigating artefacts and locating them in time, I have developed an awareness of the ways we remember and preserve Scotland’s history) and invited the P1 to 4 class to join in too.
