S5/6 Prelims
After a busy few weeks all S5/6 Prelim papers in English have been marked and all our internal quality assurance completed. Young people should get papers back this week. Please take time to discuss these results with your young person and think about what is best for them moving forward. As ever if you require any information or help with this Parents’ Evening will be on Thursday 12th February, or you can contact the Pupil Support Teacher responsible for your young person.
All young people will engage in learner conversations with their class teacher in the days ahead to discuss results and future progress. We will also go over the Prelim in class to allow young people to evaluate their own performance.
Spanish results should be available by the end of the week as the exams only took place on Wednesday and Thursday of last week.
Higher Candidates should now focus on their folio of writing which is due by the middle of February and which is worth 30% of the final award. Folio clinic is available every Friday from 1pm – 2.30pm to allow young people to work on their folio.
In class S5-6 classes will move on to study a second literary text for critical essay in the final exam.
National 5 Folios are due this week so these should be being finalised currently.
S4
National 5 Folios are due this week so these should be being finalised currently.
Some young people are finishing off Literacy unit assessments to ensure as many young people as possible achieve the Level 5 Literacy Award this session.
Our S4 classes are all working on a literary text with a view to writing an extended critical essay on the text. Our N5 students will use this in the final exam, while our N4 students will use it to produce their Added Value Unit which is the largest assessment at N4.
Welcome
Today we are delighted to welcome Rebecca Cope to the English Department to cover for Miss Moore who has been absent since before Christmas. Miss cope comes to us from Caldervale HS and we are delighted to welcome her to the Team.
Trip !!!
Many people have been asking for details of a trip to Spain which was mentioned earlier in the year. We are waiting on the Travel Agent coming back to us with prices for later in the year. As soon as we have this information we will get it to you. Thank you so much for your patience.
NLC Literacy Pilot
We are loving having Mrs Darroch and Miss Marshall from NLC’s pedagogy team working with us on our non-fiction Reading and Writing project on climate change. Staff and young people are thoroughly enjoying this new way or working and we can’t wait to share the results with you ! Watch this space for examples of what our young people have produced.
If you have any questions or suggestions then please feel free to contact me NLBurtonM@northlan.org.uk Thank you for your continued support of your young person and their work in Languages and Literacy.
Mrs Burton
