We are wishing good luck to all our S4 pupils starting their Progress Assessments that start today.
The N5 English Progress Assessment is today, Monday 24/11/25 with paper 1 (RUAE) taking place 1:15pm to 2:15pm and paper 2 (Scottish Text) from 2:30pm to 3:15pm.
The N5 Spanish Progress Assessment is on Friday 28/11/25. The Listening paper is 9:45am to 10:15am and the Reading and Writing paper is 11:00am to 12:30pm.
Hopefully you’re all studying hard and we know everyone will do their best!
This week in the English department at Taylor:
1C1 and 2K1 are continuing to take part in our literacy pilot about climate change. This is an incredibly important topic and skills will be developed that they can use across the curriculum so this is an exciting unit!
Higher classes will have a RUAE assessment this week. Hopefully they’ve been revising hard but class teachers are contactable through Teams if there’s any doubts or questions.
S4 will be completing some revision this week to ensure they are ready for their Progress Assessment. These begin next week with the English paper 1 on 24th November 1:15pm- 2:15pm and paper 2 at 2:30pm-3:45pm.
Christmas units will be started soon if they haven’t already begun with S1 creating their own Christmas magazines and S2 studying Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”.
Through the links below you will find the important documents relating to the Higher Spanish Course, including the course specification and detailed information regarding the Talking and Writing Coursework. Please familiarise yourself with these documents and speak to your teacher if you have any questions.
Higher Course Specification https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/files_ccc/h-course-spec-modern-languages.pdf
Higher Writing Assignment https://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/HigherCATModernLanguagesAssignmentWriting.docx
Higher Performance Talking https://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/HigherCATModernLanguagesPerformanceTalking.docx
Higher Assessment Dates
Please see document below for Higher Assessment Dates for the academic year 2025/6.
National 5 Course Information
Through the links below you will find the important documents relating to the National 5 Spanish Course, including the course specification and detailed information regarding the Talking and Writing Coursework. Please familiarise yourself with these documents and speak to your teacher if you have any questions.
National 5 Course Specification https://www.sqa.org.uk/sqa/files_ccc/n5-course-spec-modern-languages.pdf
National 5 Writing Assignment https://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/ModernLanguagesN5CATAssignmentWriting.docx
National 5 Performance Talking https://www.sqa.org.uk/files_ccc/ModernLanguagesN5CATPerformanceTalking.doc
National 5 Assessment Dates
Please see document below for National 5 Assessment Dates for the academic year 2025/6.
Through this link you will find all the important documents relating to the Higher English Course. We ask that you make yourself familiar with these. It is a good place to start if you have any questions or doubts about the course. However, if anything is still unclear please do feel free to ask your class teacher for clarification.
Below you will find a link to the assessment dates for Higher English for this academic year 25-26.
Below you will find a link to all the S4 National 5 Assessments for this academic year 2024-2025.
Following on from feedback from young people and parents we would like to extend an invitation to parents of young people preparing for either National 5 or Higher English to join us for an information session to support the folio of writing.
This session will explain how this will be undertaken in class as well as giving key dates for completion of the different stages.
To express an interest in attending such an event please sign up using this link https://forms.office.com/Pages/ResponsePage.aspx?id=oyzTzM4Wj0KVQTctawUZKbfI96UMa2hJmd-F_8nXpyRUN0tWVTI0U0RaRk5SQVdJUkRMTU83VVBMVy4u
Thursday 4th September sees Taylor High School hosting their SQA Information Evening for pupils in the senior phase and their parents/guardians.
This evening will provide information regarding the SQA courses offered by the school within different subjects and the requirements within them. Guidance will also be given regarding any coursework and study materials.
Here is the English information booklet that will be handed out on the night: S5-6 English Leaflet (1) (1) (1)
Her is the Spanish information booklet that will be handed out on the night: S5-6 Spanish Leaflet
It includes links to useful resources and guidance on aspects of the English course such as the Folio.
We hope to see many of you on the night!
This week pupils will begin to really get into the new units here in the English Department.
S1 will be looking at a short story called “The New Boy” and practising their Active Reading skills, S2 will begin a poetry unit and S3 are looking at persuasive writing. While National 5 and Higher classes will begin preparation for their Folio and Spoken Presentations.
The hard work begins!
