Faculty of English & Literacy

While we will be continuing to upload resources and links to this webpage in preparation for next term, please be aware that you are not under any obligation to complete school work during the holiday period and that your teachers in the English department won’t be available via email or Edmodo. We wish you all a very happy and restful break away from formal learning and urge you to log back on to the website and/or your English class’s Edmodo page on Monday 20th April to access a wide selection of literacy tasks that will keep you busy and challenged! Happy holidays, everyone. 🙂

Attention S1! Remember you can use Sumdog to work on your spelling and reading skills.

Please join your class on Edmodo if you are in any of the English classes mentioned below:

1T5 Mrs Passmore & Mrs Downie’s S1 class – Edmodo code 4ta67k

2T2 Mrs Passmore & Mrs Hall’s S2 class – Edmodo code s7r9vi

4A2 Mrs Passmore and M Brown’s S4 class – Edmodo code u54vc9

5A2 Ms Downie’s S5 class – Edmodo code jt3edc

5A5 Ms Downie’s S5 class – Edmodo code jzrhrc

A selection of National Theatre Live productions (recordings of stage shows which have previously be screened in cinemas) will be made available on the National Theatre’s YouTube channel from next Thursday (2nd April). Productions are shown every Thursday at 7pm, and then available for seven days.

Has there ever been a better time to read (or listen to) a good book? We don’t think so! Follow the link below to stream stories on your desktop, laptop, phone or tablet. Best of all, it’s absolutely free.

https://stories.audible.com/start-listen

 

Work suitable for all BGE pupils can be found under the PAGES tab.

In addition, links and activities specific to S3 pupils can be found under a separate tab.

Go to the “PAGES” tab on the right and click link to “Mrs Passmore S4/5 Work” to access the resources.

Book Week Scotland takes place next week (18-24 Nov)!  Ever wondered which books the staff at CA are reading at the moment? What do you mean “no”!?  Keep your eyes peeled for posters displayed around the school to discover who is reading what  for Book Week 2019.

Cumbernauld Academy reads to succeed!

Here’s one of my favourites…

Finding the Keys

By Robin Robertson

 

    The set seed and the first bulbs showing.
The silence that brings the deer.

The trees are full of handles and hinges;
you can make out keyholes, latches in the leaves.

Buds tick and crack in the sun, break open
slowly in a spur of green.

*

The small-change colours of the river bed:
these stones of copper, silver, gold.

The rock-rose in the waste-ground
finding some way to bloom. The long

spill of birdsong. Flowers, all
turned to face the hot sky. Nothing stirs.

*

That woody clack of antlers.
In yellow and red, the many griefs of autumn.

The dawn light through amber leaves
and the trees are lanterned, blown

the next day to empty stars.
Smoke in the air; the air, turning.

*

Under a sky of stone and pink
faring in from the north and promising snow:

the blackbird.
In his beak, a victory of worms.

The winged seed of the maple,
the lost keys under the ash.

Attention S1 pupils! Do you love reading and books? Would you be interested in being part of a team that competes in the West of Scotland heat of the Kids’ Lit Quiz? If so, please attend a short meeting with Mrs Hall on Friday 30th August at 12.45pm in Room FO46. Until then, happy reading!

Please return all course texts to your own English teacher at your earliest convenience. Many thanks!

Good luck to all our pupils sitting National 5 English tomorrow (Thursday 9th May)!  

Good luck to all our senior pupils sitting Higher English and Advanced Higher English tomorrow (Wed 8th May)!