Author: Mrs Burton

There was a live lesson this morning for this group where together we read and discussed chapters 7 & 8 of “Jekyll and Hyde.”  Students will spend the rest of the week developing their notes on these chapters with Mrs Burton providing a  tutorial on Thursday, during the double period, to allow students to ask questions and seek clarification on anything which is puzzling them.

S2 are working on a Newspaper writing project which explores the job of a journalist and allows students to develop their knowledge of language while also getting the chance to develop their writing skills.  Students are encouraged to work on their individual class notebook on MS Teams as it keeps their work together and allows class teachers to provide instance feedback.

There will be an eSgoil tutorial for Higher English on Thursday 14th January at 10am.  This tutorial will cover the Reading exam which is traditionally the paper candidates find most difficult.

There will be a similar event for N5 students on the same day at 2pm.

We would encourage ALL students at N5 and Higher to take part in these events on Thursday if they can. Details can be found on the school’s Twitter account.

S2 will be working on a newspaper project starting this week.  The unit covers diffferent aspects of journalism and culminates in students getting a  chance to write their own front page story on the events of the poem “The Ballad of Billy Rose” which they studied before Chirstmas.

One of the aspects of reading newspapers which students find difficult is the style and language involved.  Given that the N5 and Higher exam almost always contain a newspaper report in Paper I and that being able to handle news stories is an essential life skill we would encourage students to read news stories online as much as they can.  Time interacting with a quality news story is never time wasted !

This week we will be working on “Jekyll & Hyde”.  On Monday students can work on the materials for chapter 5 and ensue they have completed all the review exercises.  On Tuesday I plan to read chapter 6 with students and allow for questions and  discussion as we go.  On Thursday there is an eSgoil tutorial on the Reading exam at 10am, students should take part in this tutorial (unless they have an online lesson at this point or cannot access eSgoil) on this important part of the exam.   This tutorial will replace any classwork for Thursday.

I have set up a meeting in MS Teams in my channel for each of the double periods to allow students to come on and ask questions and seek any help they may need. Students should keep cameras off.

As a faculty we are looking forward to starting online learning on Monday 11th January.  We have worked hard to maximise learning and teaching during this time.

Each week the blog will contain an overview of what each class will be working on.  More detailed information can be found in the individual MS Team.  Teachers are available via their Glow email if pupils have questions or need support.  Work should be uploaded and sent to teachers as requested to allow for feedback.

If anyone has any issus accessing MS Teams or regarding Language learning then they can contact me by emailing: gw09burtonmary@glow.sch.uk

We can make this work if we all work together.

Mrs Burton

S1 will continue to work on “Spit Nolan” this week.  Materials are available in MS Teams and work should be undertaken in purple jotters, picking up where they left up before the October break.

Teachers will post work on their own channels.

This week S3 are starting a new unit of wrk on advertising.  All of the materials have been posted on MS Teams.  Mr Kedra’s class should be on S3 Team 2, all other classes are MS Team S3 Team One.  work should be undertaken in pink jotters.