What is the course?

The course in S3 is structured to provide variety and interest, building on the skills gained in S1 and S2.

Students will:

• Continue to develop their expression in order to effectively convey strong emotions, clear opinions, vivid imagination and individual personal identity.  The themes and topics that are covered include human emotions, as well as issues related to today’s society
• Develop their appreciation of the richness and breadth of literary heritage and culture both within Scotland and within other cultures.  This is done through a wide range of appropriately challenging multi modal texts such as novels, drama, poetry, film, websites and various media texts.   Both classic and modern texts will be studied
• Examine the use of language in all its forms and apply these skills to their own work.  A wide variety of activities will allow pupils to demonstrate their knowledge, creativity and critical abilities in analysis and evaluation

How will I learn?

What topics will I learn?

What skills are developed?

• Skills for learning, life and work – literacy and english, health and wellbeing, expressive arts
• Employability, enterprise and citizenship – vital means of developing language skills that will equip pupils to work effectively in a team as well as the ability to think independently and develop leadership skills.
• Thinking skills – the ability to analyse, evaluate and create.

How will I be assessed?

Assessment will take various forms:  pupils will be involved in self and peer assessment as well as receiving written and oral feedback from their teacher.   All forms of assessment will focus on next steps in learning and tracking of pupil progress.

What might this help me with when I leave school?