Two of our S6 pupils, Lucy Diamond and Olivia Dickson, participated in this session’s Lessons from Auschwitz programme, which included a day visit to the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps in Poland.
To commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day, they made a film detailing the background to the Holocaust and their experiences visiting the camps. This was shown to all registration classes tomorrow as St Stephen’s High School’s contribution to this year’s commemoration, and is attached to this post.
All of us in Social Subjects would like to give a warm welcome to our new S1 pupils as they prepare to embark on their secondary school experience at St Stephen’s High School under unusual circumstances.
This link will take you to a Microsoft Sway presentation which introduces the different subjects, the staff and what you will be learning in S1 in Social Subjects:
Morning folks, hope you are all well! Here’s this week’s task on Women and the Vote.
TASK 2 w/c 30th March 2020: This week’s detailed mind map should be on the role of the Suffragists in women winning the vote. As with last week’s task, use the PowerPoint “Women and the Vote” (in the Higher History: British section of this blog” and BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zx9887h/revision/2 , as well as the online Collins resources to help you (log-in details for this are described in the N5 History Microsoft Team). Good luck, and let us know how you get on by posting on Teams!
The publisher Collins have made available free e-copies of their textbooks. There is one for Higher, which could be a useful extra resource when completing your weekly mindmap tasks.
Log-in details have been sent to all of the National 5 Microsoft Team.
Germany 1918-1939:
In addition to using the materials that were given out in school prior to it closing, you can access some resources on the S3 Home Learning page on this blog (BGE>S3>Home Learning).
This link to the History Channel’s website also has lots of useful content on the Weimar Republic and its problems: https://www.history.com/topics/germany/weimar-republic
If you are picking History in S4, you can also go to the National History > European & World Unit: Nazi Germany page of this blog to access lots of National level resources, including the PowerPoint.
For those who are planning to pick Higher History next year, over the next few weeks we will be providing weekly tasks to introduce you to one of the topic areas studied at that level: Women and the Vote.
TASK 1 w/c 23rd March 2020: Use the PowerPoint “Women and the Vote” (in the Higher History: British section of this blog” and BBC Bitesize https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zx9887h/revision/2 to create a detailed mind map on the role of Changing Attitudes to Women in Society as a reason why women won the vote.
All year group pages of the blog have now been updated to include new home learning and revision tasks. Please make good use of these!
We’d like to extend a warm welcome to all new S1 pupils and their parents. We hope you enjoy your time in St Stephen’s High School – and particularly in History and Geography!!
S6 Ambassadors Lauren Brown and Sophie McCahill have been presenting to year group assemblies this week about their experiences when visiting Auschwitz-Birkenau. You can watch the film that they have produced here.
Once again, St. Stephen’s were lucky enough to win two places for our S6 pupils on the Holocaust Educational Trust’s Lessons from Auschwitz programme. This year, Sophie McCahill and Lauren Brown represented the school on the programme, which involved attending two seminars in Glasgow and visiting the Auschwitz-Birkenau camps in Poland. As part of their ambassadorial role, the girls will make a presentation to all year group assemblies during Holocaust Memorial Week in January.
Both girls were profoundly affected by the experience. Lauren said, “I was honoured to be chosen to participate in the Lessons from Auschwitz Project. Hearing a survivor of the Holocaust speak was quite overwhelming. Even though I knew about the Holocaust, hearing someone who was actually involved made it seem even more real. It taught me that everyone individual involved in the Holocaust has their own personal story.”
Sophie added, “The most striking feature of both Auschwitz 1 and Auschwitz Birkeneau was the scale of it all. What I learnt most from the trip was that it is vital to never forget the events of the Holocaust and remember everyone who suffered and died. Their memory has to live on in order to stop anything as horrific as the Holocaust happening again. It is now my responsible for me as an Ambassador of the Trust, to pass on all I have learned about the Holocaust to my peers, school and community.”
