Category: THS Faculty of Languages and Literacy

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

Between now and Christmas classes will be focusing on starting to prepare for their Talking exam. All pupils should have a presentation prepared on the topic of school by the time we are starting back in January. Teachers will take time to explain this to their individual classes, including how to access support with this from Teams.

This week S3 are working on School and Future plans as well as learning the conditional tense. By Friday everyone should have completed the School and Future Plans reading and worked through the PowerPoint to learn to use the conditional tense. Both of these files can be found on Teams.

This week S2 are revising the topic En Casa and preparing for their Speaking Assessment. Resources to revise and help prepare speaking can be found on Teams.

For the next two weeks S1 are working on introducing family member vocabulary. By Friday 18th December all pupils should have completed up to slide 38 in the PowerPoint “Mi famila y yo” which can be found on Teams.

This week in class we are doing exam practice across all four skill areas. If working from home pupils should access Past Papers to practice. Pupils should also ensure they have prepared answers to the Talking Questions posted on Teams in preparation for practice in class.

National 5 classes are continuing to work through the topic of Learning. Pupils should also be continuing to prepare their Job Application. All resources are available on Teams.

This week S3 are continuing to work on vocabulary relating to Jobs. Pupils should be working through the PowerPoint, covering the vocabulary relating to where people work and who/ what they work with. Pupils should also complete the En que trabajas task in the Job vocabulary folder.