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PSHE Newsletter WB 12.11.18

Well done to the following pupils who were awarded Excellence or Achievement Awards in Modern Studies:

Excellence – for the 3 pupils in each class who have the highest marks / best performance in assessment and project work / extended writing pieces and the highest standard of jotter work.

Achievement – this is for 3 pupils in each class who may not have achieved the very highest marks but have given their very best at all times over the course of the rotation. They have made an excellent contribution overall to the work of the class. We introduced this classification to try to recognise hard work and achievement and a positive contribution in a slightly wider sense.

Priya Datta (1a8), Sarah Gallagher (1a8), Oliver O’Donnell (1a8), Leo Henderson (1a8), Hafsah Shoaib (1a8), Aisling McGeady (1a8), Jan Zgoda (1a9), Daisie Bowers (1a9), David Creighton (1a9), Emily Slater (1a9), Eva Reilly (1a9), Grace Docherty (1a9), Millie Robinson (1a10), Juliet Flanagan (1a10), Mia Wilson (1a10), Krish Bhasin (1a10), Harry Brown (1a10), Maya Hussain (1a10).

Well done to the following S1 pupils who were awarded Pupil of the Month in Modern Languages.

All of the pupils have shown:

• constant effort / sustained improvement
• progress
• respect
• neat work (classwork jotters, homework)
• consistent high standard of work
• volunteering to help
• initiative
• enthusiasm

Stelli Coyne (1a1), Ava Wallace (1a2), Hannah Barrett (1a3), Francesca Dunn (1a4), Amna Farid (1a5), Milena Krizova (1a6), Amaya Fee (1a7), Lucie McLaughlin (1a8), Eva Reilly (1a9) and Maya Hussain (1a10).

 

Please see the assembly presentation from 12.11.18 below:

S1 Assembly 12.11.18

 

 

The St Ninian’s High School Parent Council will hold their next meeting in the school on Monday 12 November at 7pm. The Parent Council works alongside Mr Docherty and the management team to take forward specific policies and issues and also provides advice and support particularly from a parent perspective.

The Parent Council is keen for more parents to join them and hope you are able to come along on Monday. No prior experience is needed and it doesn’t take too much of your time.

Please see the assembly presentation from 6.11.18 below:

S1 Assembly 6.11.18

 

 

PSHE Newsletter WB 5.11.18

Please see the assembly presentation from 31.10.18 below:

S1 Assembly 31.10.18

PSHE Newsletter WB 29.10.18

Dear Parent/Carer,

I hope that your son/daughter has had a safe, happy and stimulating start to their time with us in the English Department here at Saint Ninian’s. We have certainly been impressed with their energy, enthusiasm and resilience in making the transition from Primary 7 to Secondary 1.

S1 Class Rearrangement

I am writing to inform all parents and carers of S1 pupils about the changes which will take place in all S1 English sets on Monday 29th October.

Upon arrival in August, S1 pupils have attended English in their “alpha” classes. Over the following weeks, up to the October break they developed various pieces of work such as “Coming to Saint Ninian’s” and “My Holiday Memories”. They also completed some Close Reading work and were carefully observed in class as they developed the core literacy skills of speaking, listening, reading and writing.

Now that we have some direct knowledge of the pupils combined with some assessment data, we are in a position to arrange them into broadly banded classes which means that every pupil will be working at an appropriate pace and depth. They will remain in these classes until the end of S2 when at that point we look again at a broad range of assessment data and make a further set of adjustments.

This approach has been a long-standing part of the success we enjoy as a department, both in terms of meeting the needs of all learners and in terms of national qualifications. Broad banding at this point ensures pupils have the opportunity for attainment of appropriate literacy levels by the end of the Broad General Education in S3. This in turn offers the best possible opportunity for academic attainment in National Qualifications.

We ask for your continued support in our programme of family learning and engagement by supporting your son / daughter with their programme of homework.

Literacy Evening – Tuesday 27 November, 7pm

We will be holding an information evening at 7pm on Tuesday 27th November about our work promoting Literacy across the curriculum and the work of the English department in particular. We hope that you can come along to find out more about who we are, what we do and how you can help your child. Please follow our Twitter account @stninianseng for further updates.

If you have any questions in the meantime, please don’t hesitate to contact your child’s Pastoral Support Teacher.

Kind regards

Christopher Docherty
Principal Teacher of English and Literacy