{"id":123,"date":"2024-10-07T13:09:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-07T12:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/?page_id=123"},"modified":"2024-10-20T21:28:50","modified_gmt":"2024-10-20T20:28:50","slug":"english","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/english\/","title":{"rendered":"English"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong><u>Broad General Education<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In S1, S2 and S3 our pupils will follow a broad general education in line with a Curriculum for Excellence.\u00a0 They will be given opportunities to develop their skills and competence in listening and talking, reading and writing and the personal and interpersonal skills which are important in life and the world of work. Furthermore, they will develop critical and creative thinking skills through the exploration of a wide variety of increasingly challenging texts.<\/p>\n<h4><strong><u>National and Higher Qualifications<\/u><\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>In S4, S5 and S6, our pupils will undertake the new National Qualifications. The main purpose of these courses is to provide learners with opportunities to develop the skills of listening, talking, reading and writing in order to understand and use language. As learners develop their literacy skills, they will be able to process information more easily, apply knowledge of language in practical and relevant contexts, and gain confidence to undertake new and more challenging tasks in a variety of situations.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-253\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/johnpaulacademy\/uploads\/sites\/11889\/2024\/10\/20211946\/IMG_0311-1024x626.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"840\" height=\"514\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/johnpaulacademy\/uploads\/sites\/11889\/2024\/10\/20211946\/IMG_0311-1024x626.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/johnpaulacademy\/uploads\/sites\/11889\/2024\/10\/20211946\/IMG_0311-300x183.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/johnpaulacademy\/uploads\/sites\/11889\/2024\/10\/20211946\/IMG_0311-768x469.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/johnpaulacademy\/uploads\/sites\/11889\/2024\/10\/20211946\/IMG_0311-1200x733.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/public\/johnpaulacademy\/uploads\/sites\/11889\/2024\/10\/20211946\/IMG_0311.jpeg 1260w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broad General Education In S1, S2 and S3 our pupils will follow a broad general education in line with a Curriculum for Excellence.\u00a0 They will be given opportunities to develop their skills and competence in listening and talking, reading and writing and the personal and interpersonal skills which are important in life and the world &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/english\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;English&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":28001,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-123","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/28001"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/123\/revisions\/272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/gc\/johnpaulacademy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}