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This week pupils are moving on from Added Value unit and starting a new unit on Persuasive writing, Today, they will be thinking about what persuasive actually means and where we see examples of persuasion. Throughout the rest of the week, they will start building up their skills and gaining practice with techniques. This week’s focus will be alliteration.

S3 will continue work on ‘Lamb to the Slaughter’. They will be thinking about characterisation and will be producing visualisers on the character of Mary Maloney in the second part of the story, selecting textual evidence to support their statements.

This week classes 2.1-2.4 will be starting a media unit on Jurassic Park. They will develop their summarising and paraphrasing skills and will start to look at media techniques.

Classes 2.5-2.7 do not have English this week.

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.