Author: Miss Sullivan

This week classes 1.1-1.3 will be planning, writing and editing their own poems about their favourite Scottish food.

Classes 1.4-1.6 will be staring a media study of Disney Pixar’s brilliant film, ‘Up’. This week they will be analysing film posters and summarising key points of the film.

Pupils are continuing with the unit on Family. Pupils should also complete any unfinished work that they have not submitted.

This week pupils are starting the Employability unit and should complete a reading and a listening on this new topic. Pupils should also complete a Directed Writing task as a follow on from their assignment 2 weeks ago. In addition, pupils are reminded that they should be learning their talking answers and starting to prepare to undertake this exam.

This week pupils will be focussing on Talking and Writing skills.

Pupils should continue with the Week 3 tasks on the desert island project. Some of the islands are sounding great so far!

This week pupils will be finishing off their problem solving map activity from last week. They should also note some new vocabulary relating to how near/ far places are and complete a listening task to practice this. All resources will be posted in the appropriate channel on the days which pupils have Spanish.

This week pupils are learning more vocabulary to describe people and are using Linguascope to practice all the new words.

This week, Ms MacDonald’s class will examine the conventions of Gothic literature in Jekyll and Hyde by working through the Powerpoint. There will be two live lessons this week. On Wednesday, the lesson will look at the ten mark question and on Friday, the lesson will look at general questions about the text.

Miss MacPhail’s Higher class are moving on to Chapter 9 of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. Pupils will make sure that their theme, character and setting visualisers are up to date before exploring the conventions of the horror genre. On Tuesday they will have a live tutorial where pupils will have the opportunity to ask questions about the 10 mark question and any issues about the chapter.

Mrs Nelson’s class are working through tasks on Chapter 10 of ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’ (including questions, visualisers and analysis of an extract). They will have a live lesson on Wednesday over periods 3 and 4.

This week pupils are continuing work on ‘The Lighthouse’. Pupils will look at other characters in the story and then will develop their understanding of themes.

This week pupils will sit a practice RUAE paper on Tuesday 23rd, so should use Scholar, Achieve and the resources in Files to prepare for this.