Tag Archives: S5

5th Year

Apprenticeship Opportunity

An exciting opportunity exists within the Uplawmoor Hotel.

If you are interested in cooking and wish to study for a qualification in Hospitality, then please contact Head Chef Alan Muir on 01505 850565 to discuss the position further.

This is paid employment based on working a 40-hour week.

Scholar Online Sessions

This week’s Scholar online sessions are detailed below.

If you need your login for Scholar, either see your class teacher or Mr Boag in the Maths dept.

This week’s SCHOLAR online sessions will be:

Higher Modern Languages                            Monday 22nd February at 7.30 pm

                                                                           Tuesday 23rd February at 7.30pm

Advanced Higher Computing Science          Wednesday 24th February at 7.30pm

Higher Maths                                                    Thursday 25th February at 6.00pm

 

Full details can be found on the SCHOLAR website: http://scholar.hw.ac.uk/Resources/Live_Online_Sessions/

The Tutors will also be online to answer student questions on the discussion boards, details can be found: http://scholar.hw.ac.uk/Resources/Ask_a_Tutor.html

East Renfrewshire Volunteer Programme

Active SchoolsEast Renfrewshire Culture and Leisure Limited are looking to recruit an enthusiastic group of sports volunteers, aged 16 or over, to assist in the delivery of their sport and physical activity programmes including multi-sport coaching (daytime, after school, evenings or weekends) and school holiday activities.  Our next recruitment evening will be held as follows:

 

Wednesday 3rd February 2016

St Ninian’s High School, Giffnock

6.00 – 7.00pm

 

If you think you have what it takes and can make a difference to the local sports community, we’d love to hear from you!  For more information or to book a place, please contact Barry Cook, Active Schools Team Leader on 0141 570 7330 or email activeschools@ea.e-renfrew.sch.uk

Scholar Online Sessions

Next week’s SCHOLAR online sessions will be:

Advanced Higher Modern Languages                                                Tuesday 26th January             7.30 pm

Advanced Higher Computing Science                                                 Wednesday 27th January      7.30pm

Full details can be found on the SCHOLAR website: http://scholar.hw.ac.uk/Resources/Live_Online_Sessions/

 

The Tutors will also be online to answer student questions on the discussion boards, details can be found: http://scholar.hw.ac.uk/Resources/Ask_a_Tutor.html

 

 

S4 & 5 Options Choices

doors-optionsOver the next few weeks all S4 and S5 students will be looking at the subjects they wish to continue studying in 5th or 6th year.

The following booklets explain what courses are available to students:

1.  National 5 courses

2.  Higher courses

3.  Advanced Higher courses (S6 only)

4.  Additional courses

Each student will have an interview with either their Pastoral Support Teacher or a member of the Senior Leadership Team, to help them with their decision.

If students are unclear about what a particular course involves, then they are welcome to ask for advice from a teacher or principal teacher of that subject.

Supported Study 2016

Please find the Supported Study Timetable for January and February leading up to the senior school prelims starting on the 8th of February. As you prepare for the upcoming prelims we would strongly recommend that you attend all of the sessions that are relevant to your subject.

All of the sessions will start immediately at the end of the school day and last for one hour. For more information about the individual sessions please speak to your class teachers or the Principal teacher of the department in question.

Good luck and prepare to be successful.

 

Scholar – Parent Information

Scholar - Parental LeafletScholar – an online resource developed by Heriot Watt university – have been updating and extending their courses to fit with the new National 5, Higher and Advanced Higher courses.

They recently published a Parent Information leaflet to help explain the benefits of using Scholar.

Scholar is an exciting resource that allows students to access free course materials for a variety of subjects.  In addition Scholar have been running Live Homework Sessions, which have proved particularly popular.

Students will require their Scholar login details to access these resources; speak to either your class teacher about obtaining these or see Mr Boag in Maths.