Roseburn 'Harvest' Art Exhibition - September 2011
Our first Art Exhibition in partnership with Murrayfield Parish Church was a huge success! After weeks of preparation, the work from Nursery to P7 was mounted and framed ready to be exhibited at Murrayfield. Over 70 pieces using a wide range of media were on show - displaying the wonderful talents of the pupils at Roseburn.
Friday's preview was very exciting and as the doors opened at 7pm a crowd of proud pupils and parents entered the hall. Within minutes paintings were sold! There was a real sense of excitement and pride in the hall as the first visitors viewed the collection.
Following the preview there was an evening of entertainment including the auction of local artists' work. Together with the ticket sales and sale of pupils' work, we are delighted to announce that over £2000 was raised! Thank you to all those who attended this event and those who donated items for the auction!
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Mrs Denvir is thrilled to add a 'red dot' to the first painting sold! Well done Mark in the nursery!
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Mr Ridland admires the artwork. He was most impressed with the creativity of the pupils!
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Dorothy, our visitor from Kwamebikrom stops to admire P7's 'African Ladies'
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| Our auctioneer encourages bids on Miss Veronica's amazing chalk ballet dancer |
Saturday's coffee morning was well-attended with another opportunity to view the artwork |
Children from Roseburn Primary and Murrayfield Parish came together to create more fabulous art!
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On Saturday the Ghana Group from Murrayfield ran a very successful coffee morning. Mrs Denvir and Mrs Forsythe, a P7 parent, organised art activities for the children from Roseburn Primary and Murrayfield Parish. These were very popular and the children had great fun painting African masks, making necklaces and creating a 'harvest' collage from chocolate wrappers and bottle tops!
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Jennifer and Ellie had fun
making their masks |
Jemma and Charlotte
select colours for their sky
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Finlay was delighted
with his mask
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On Sunday, Murrayfield Minister, Bill Brown led a multi-faith service celebrating 'the Gifts of Harvest'. This was a wonderful family occasion where we enjoyed the light footwork of the Roseburn Highland dancers and some wonderful singing from our Ghanaian visitors.
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| The Roseburn Highland Dancers |
Bill Brown welcomes Eric and Dorothy |
The weekend was clearly a great success and it was wonderful to see so many families coming together to join in the harvest celebrations. Below are some of the comments written in our 'guest book' - if you had not had the chance to add yours, please pop in to the school office and do so.
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"A wonderful exhibition. The children's work is excellent and so professionally displayed. Pupils, staff and organisers must be very proud, and rightly so!"
Richard Avey
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" Excellent exhibition, great work by all the children and a really good idea. Well done to all!
John Sutherland |
"Wonderful exhibition! What gifted children!"
Susie |
"Congratulations on a great event!"
Jane Crispin |
" A wonderful exhibition! Having visited Kwamebikrom 3 times I know that the villagers and schoolchildren will be delighted with the hard work and effort put in and the money raised. Thank you!"
Alison Marwick |
"I'm so impressed at all the nursery children's work! All the pictures are great!"
Holly R. P7 |
"I'm so proud to see my painting on the wall!"
Tina L. P4/5 |
"Fantastic exhibition! great evening!"
A.Pawlik |
Thank you so much to everyone who helped to organise and support the events of the weekend
Gillian Denvir
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