This week, pupils are practising their Reading, Writing and Listening Skills on the topic of describing people.
Higher English
Mrs Nelson’s class will undertake a specimen Jekyll and Hyde exam paper and also the 2018 RUAE exam paper.
Miss MacPhail’s class are moving onto chapter 10 of ‘Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. They will be continuing their work on exam strategy in their tutorial on Tuesday.
Ms MacDonald’s class will work on answering questions on the Scottish Set Text element of the Critical Reading paper.
S5/6 N5 English
This week pupils are continuing with ‘The Lighthouse’. They will look at setting, then will focus on consolidating everything they have learned before planning a critical essay.
S4 N5 English
Miss MacPhail’s class will spend their double period looking at how to answer the 8 mark questions in the Scottish Text section of the Critical Reading exam.
Ms MacDonald’s class will continue with Sailmaker Act Two and will look at past paper questions during our live lesson on Tuesday.
Miss Sullivan’s class will look at the 2018 SQA RUAE past paper on Tuesday’s tutorial so should read the paper in preparation.
S4 N4 English
This week, pupils will continue working on persuasive techniques. This week they are gaining practice in using alliteration.
S3 English
S3 will be writing PEA paragraphs about how Roald Dahl builds tension in ‘Lamb to the Slaughter. They will also think about the narrative perspective and how Dahl encourages the reader to feel sympathy for the central character, Mary Maloney.
S2 English
This week, S2 will be learning more about media techniques by studying the film “Jurassic Park”. They will learn about camera angles, sound, mis en scene and more.
S1 English
This week classes 1.1-1.3 will begin their study of Pixar’s brilliant film ‘Up’ by looking at and analysing film posters.
Classes 1.4-1.6 will continue their work on ‘Up’ by evaluating the trailer and summarising key points of the film.
Masked Reader Winners
Well done to everyone who took part in our Masked Reader Competition to celebrate World Book Day. Thanks to all the staff who took time to record their story behind the mask ! Congratulations to the Sausage Dog a.k.a. Mrs Meharry who won the popular vote.
Well done to Zara Menzies and Cale McFeely in S1 who were joint winners and Owen Murphy is S2. You can collect your prize from Nessie when we return !
Live Lessons/Tutorials – Week Beginning 8th March 2021
Monday | P2 | 5AH1 | Higher English | MJ Burton | Tutorial |
P3&4 | 4G | N5 Spanish | S Jackson | Tutorial | |
Tuesday | 9.30am | 4A4 | N5 English | K MacDonald | Live Lesson |
P1 | 4A1 | N5 English | R MacPhail | Tutorial | |
P1 & P2 | 4A3 | N5 English | C Sullivan | Tutorial | |
P1 | 4A2 | N5 English | MJ Burton | Live Lesson | |
10am | 2.4 Spanish | BGE Spanish | S Bell | Tutorial | |
11am | 4E | N5 Spanish | S Bell | Tutorial | |
2.00pm | 1.3 Spanish | BGE Spanish | S Bell | Tutorial | |
P7 | 5HC2 | H English | R MacPhail | Tutorial | |
Wednesday | P1 &2 | 4G Spanish | N5 Spanish | S Jackson | Tutorial |
P3& 4 | 5CN5 | N5 English | C Sullivan | Tutorial | |
P3 &4 | 5CH1 | H English | Mrs Nelson | Live Lesson | |
11am | 1.6 Spanish | BGE Spanish | S Bell | Tutorial | |
11am | 5CH2 | H English | K MacDonald | Live Lesson | |
Thursday | P1&2 | 4F | N5 Spanish | T Campbell | Tutorial |
P3 &4 | 5AH1 | Higher English | Mrs Burton | Live Lesson | |
P3 & 4 | 5AN5 | N5 English | Miss McKenna | Tutorial | |
P6&7 | 4G Spanish | N5 Spanish | Mrs Jackson | Tutorial | |
Friday | 9.00am | 5CH2 | H English | K MacDonald | Live Lesson |
P3&4 | 4F Spanish | N5 Spanish | T Campbell | Tutorial |