Pupils in class this week will be working on Sailmaker and looking at how to answer a past paper.
Pupils who were in class last week should complete the 2014 past paper at home and bring this into class next week.
S4 N4 English
This week pupils are continuing their unit of work on Persuasive Writing.
S3 English
This week pupils are continuing work on portfolio writing skills in class. For home learning, pupils should complete the tasks on reflective writing from pages 44-49 in the textbook.
S2 English
This week pupils will be working on the RUAE passage, ‘The Great Escape’ in class. For home learning, pupils should complete “The Lure of the Bike” on pages 67-69 of the textbook on MS Teams.
S1 English
This week pupils are continuing with the Literacy block in class, looking at a writer’s main ideas. For home learning, pupils should complete the ‘bringing it all together’ task on pages 14-16 of the textbook on MS Teams.
Higher Spanish
On Tuesday in class pupils will be doing a Listening task, correcting directed writing homework and talking practice. At home, pupils should then complete the second Employability reading passage and “problemas de dinero” translation task.
S1 French
This week, pupils should continue with their work on ‘Family’ and should complete any unfinished work that they have not yet submitted.
Return to School
We are delighted to be back in school and working with our young people.
During these three weeks all students will undertake English/Literacy in class with S5/6 having one double period of English on a Monday. Class teachers will set work for the rest of the week. Mrs Burton’s class also have a live lesson on Thursday during periods 3&4.
S4 will have a double period of English per fortnight. Students in classes 4.4-4.6 will be in class this week and students in classes 4.1-4.3 will be in next week. S4 students will be working on the “Sailmaker” past paper from 2014 this week with classes 4.4-4.6 working on this in class and classes 4.1-4.3 preparing this exercise this week and bringing it with them next week.
Classes in the B.G.E. (S1-3) will have one double period per week, all classes in a year group are working on the same thing and class teachers will set work which should be done during the rest of the week.
During this three weeks all Spanish and French will be undertake remotely and pupils should check MS Teams and ensure they complete the tasks set.
Hopefully all of our young people will be back in school full-time from Monday 19th April 2021 and we can move towards some kind of normality !
S3 English
This week pupils will be starting a new Literacy block on Portfolio Writing Skills unit in class, focusing on Personal Reflective/Creative Writing.
For home learning, they should complete tasks 1-3 (slides 7-10) on the ‘Literacy Block’ PowerPoint, in the Literacy Block folder on MS Teams.
S2 English
This week S2 pupils will be developing RAUE skills. They will do a practice paper in class and then they will complete a second practice paper at home, “Cream of the Crop”.
With the exception of 2A, 2B, 2C, who will have one extra period in school, with Modern Languages. They will start the work in school and finish at home.
