Author: Miss Conlon

S3 Modern Studies pupils took part in a Police Scotland Cyber Crime seminar. This session outlined what Cyber Crime prevention is and discussed what areas they focus on such as email phishing, organised crime and hacking. The Cyber Crime representative explored two-factor-authorisation, shared iCloud hubs and sharing personal information on social media. The seminar stressed how easy personal details and images can be used against an individual through blackmail and fraud. At the end of the session, we had a Q&A session with Campus Cop PC Sarah about assessments before entering the police such as fitness, numeracy and language.

Students from Social Subjects within Taylor High School invited pupils from Our Lady’s High School Motherwell and Brannock High School and the THS Rights Respecting Schools Group enjoyed the opportunity to listen to the testimony of Holocaust survivor, Tomi Komoly.

Thanks to @HolocaustUK Tomi recounted his experiences living as Jew in Hungary during WW2.

S2 History came up with positives and negatives of both tightly packed and loosely packed slave ships. #THSSocialSubjects

A group of S5/6 Social Subjects pupils attended the NLC Sustainability Conference. They explored different stalls and technologies (including robots!) to see what is going on in North Lanarkshire to make us a more sustainable community.

S3 Geographers used their knowledge of shanty towns to build their own out of basic classroom materials. #THSSocialSubjects

On Wednesday this week, two more S1 classes went on a visit to Bannockburn. Pupils participated in a replica weapons handling session, a 3D battle re-enactment and an informative tour to the monument built on the site of Bruce’s camp.

On Monday, to mark Holocaust Memorial Day, S6 pupil Rachel delivered an excellent presentation about her visit to Auschwitz as part of the Lessons from Auschwitz Project to S4 Historians as part of their studies on Hitler and Nazi Germany. Well done Rachel!

Social Subjects classes 1.3 and 1.4 enjoyed a trip to Bannockburn last week after studying the Scottish Wars of Independence. Pupils participated in a replica weapons handling session, a 3D battle re-enactment and an informative tour to the monument built on the site of Bruce’s camp.

A great day was had by all!

S6 pupils Megan and Rachel submitted excellent essays on the why we should remember the Holocaust to be selected for the Lessons From Auschwitz project ran by the Holocaust Educational Trust. 

Well done girls!