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Our supported study programme is now up and running. Pupils can receive support in English and Spanish at the following times:

English:

N5: Tuesdays after school

Higher: Mondays after school

Spanish:

N5: Thursdays after school

Higher: Thursdays after school

We look forward to seeing you there!

Welcome!

As we approach the October break, pupils in the Languages faculty have been working hard on the following topics:

S1: Our first years are in the process of finishing their writing pieces on the short story ‘The New Boy’. Once complete, they will be starting the Individual Presentation unit in order to develop their skills in Talk and Finding and Using Information.

S2: In second year, pupils are completing their animal reports. This unit allowed pupils to develop their research skills and learn how to write informatively. Next, S2 will move onto Individual Presentation.

S3: Our third year pupils are working hard studying our class novels. Pupils are studying a range of texts across the year group such as Private Peaceful, Refugee Boy and The Wall. Our young people have been exploring important issues such as war and racism and will complete a critical essay on their class text and report on a key issue from their novel.

S4: Our National 5 classes have completed RUAE and the first draft of their folio this year. Currently, they are starting to study Sailmaker or Tally’s Blood for Scottish Text. In National 4, the classes have been learning all about persuasion and how to use persuasive techniques. They are currently writing their persuasive essays to put all of their new skills into practise.

S5/6: Our National 5 classes are starting their Scottish Texts after completing the RUAE and folio components of the course so far. In Higher, we are studying Men Should Weep for Scottish Text following the RUAE and folio units. Both N5 and Higher will return to folio for a second draft later in the school year.

Overall, it is an exciting and busy time in English and our young people are all working hard and have settled in well.

We hope you all have a wonderful October break!

Happy New Year!

We hope you have had a wonderful festive period!  In the Taylor Languages Faculty we have been very busy beginning new units of work.

In English:

Our S1’s have now started our Burns unit and will have a look into Scots language, Robert Burns and his poetry and traditional Scottish culture.

Our S2 classes are starting our media unit on Jurassic Park where they will be studying media techniques for the first time.

In S3,  we are finishing report writing or a persuasive piece and due to start our independent research unit.

Our S4 are currently studying their Scottish Text unit – studying Sailmaker or Jackie Kay poetry.

Our S5 and S6’s have just completed their prelim exam – well done!

–  THS Languages

Happy October!

In English, our pupils are most of the way through term one and are settling well into the academic year. We are all busy working our way through some very exciting units.

This month our fantastic S1 classes are finishing off The New Boy and beginning our Individual Presentations. This will teach our S1 pupils how to plan for, research, and write a presentation. They will also learn how to deliver a presentation and will present these to their classmates.  

In S2, we are finishing off our wonderful poems based on a poetry study. We will then be moving onto our Newspaper Project where we will study newspapers and their features before getting the chance to create our own.  

Our S3 classes have been studying various novels across the department from To Kill a Mockingbird to Private Peaceful. Our S3 classes will write a critical essay based on the novel which will prepare them for their National courses in S4.  

Our S4 National 4 classes have been making good progress studying persuasive techniques before starting persuasive essays for their Creation and Production unit of the course.  

In National 5, we have completed our RUAE study and completed our Individual Presentations. We are now moving onto Critical Essay studies with classes studying an array of texts from Shakespeare’s MacBeth to poetry from Carol Ann Duffy and Wilfred Owen.  

Our Higher classes have also completed the RUAE and Individual Presentation components of the course. We have started to study Scottish Texts such as Ena Lamont Stewart’s Men Should Weep and Norman MacCaig’s poetry.  

We hope you all have a lovely October break!

This week pupils will be preparing for their RUAE assessment in class and they should also be revising for the Critical Reading paper at home.

Nat 5 pupils will sit their RUAE assessment this week and then should revise for the Critical Reading paper at home.

Nat 4 pupils will continue to work on their assessments in class.

This week pupils are continuing with their work on ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’. They will focus on why the reader feels sympathy for Mary Maloney.

This week pupils are continuing with their Media Unit on ‘Jurassic Park’. Pupils will look at different film techniques and work on developing their analysis skills.

This week pupil are continuing with their Media Unit on ‘Up’ and will look at colour and representations of people in film.

Pupils should also remember that tomorrow is their Literacy period and so should bring in their reading books.