With S4 Progress assessments beginning this week, here is a gentle reminder of the National 5 Maths & Applications of Maths dates and timings!
Wednesday, November 26th
National 5 Maths Paper 1 (Non-Calculator): 1.15 – 2.15
National 5 Applications of Maths Paper 1 (Non-Calculator): 1.15 – 2.05
Monday, December 1st
National 5 Maths Paper 2 (Calculator): 1.15 – 2.45
National 5 Applications of Maths Paper 2 (Calculator): 1.15 – 2.40
The very best of luck to all of you!
Dates for your Diary
S5/6 Higher Assessment: Tuesday, 30th September.
S5/6 Higher Apps of Maths Assessment: Thursday, 9th October.
S5/6 National 5 Maths Assessment: Monday, 6th October.
S5/6 National 5 Apps of Maths Assessment: Thursday, 9th October.
Maths Camp 25-26
Sign-ups are now live for this academic session’s Maths Camp trip for Higher and Advanced Higher pupils! This highly beneficial, immersive study weekend ran by the Maths Department staff will take place at Abernethy Barcaple Outdoor Activity Centre, Castle Douglas.
Dates: Thursday, 5th February – Saturday, 7th February.
Pupils will work through various tutorials across the weekend with a particular focus on past paper questions and exam technique, along with outdoor activities prepared by the onsite staff.
Please speak to your Maths teacher for the QR code to sign-up!
Supported Study
This year, the Maths Department have adopted a more topic-focused approach for supported sessions at both National 5 and Higher level. Below is a list of Tuesday dates for National 5 and Higher supported study.
Advanced Higher Maths will continue to be run alongside the course timeline every Tuesday and Friday after school.
Higher Applications of Maths will run alongside the course timeline every Friday after school.
Please find below all of our planned pupil learning for term 1.
As well as this, we will keep you informed of our activities around ‘Maths Week Scotland’ which is celebrated from 26th September – 2nd October!
We hope you have settled back into your new school year and we welcome all of our new S1 students!
Whether you are a pupil, parent or a member of the wider school community, this is where you will find out more about what is going on in the Maths department at Taylor High.
Stay tuned for departmental information, announcements, pupil achievements and termly updates of pupils’ planned learning.
Miss Clelland
PT Maths
Good luck to all of our National 5 Maths pupils with their exam tomorrow!!
A big thank you to author Kjartan Poskitt who sent our S1 pupils signed bookmarks after seeing their World Book Day 2022 activities inspired by his book series ‘Murderous Maths’. What a lovely surprise!
Our pi day staff coffee morning raised £157.12 for SCIAF! Thank you to all staff who participated and gave generously!
Miss Milligan and Miss McIntyre’s class created ‘pi chains’ where each colour represents a certain number. As well as posters and pi skylines (pi lines) where the height of each building represents a digit of pi!
Mr O’Donnell’s class practiced reciting pi to as many digits as possible whilst balancing a ‘pi pole’!
Miss Clelland’s class experimented with ‘light trail photography’ by drawing the digits of pi using torches. Activity inspired by Chris Smith @aap03102 on twitter!
