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The Royal Scottish Geography Society are hosting online virtual lessons here: rsgs.org/chalk-talks

Lessons on Atmosphere and Hydrosphere.

 

Check them out to support your online learning!

Set up a free online student account to access resources at National 5 and Higher levels here:   http://www.letsachieve.co.uk

Mr Black will run an additional Modern Studies live lesson this week (week 2) for class 4D on Thursday 4th January at 10am.

Join in if you can!

Taylor HS Social Subjects Department is now on Twitter!

We’ll be updating on global events related to History, Modern Studies, Geography and Tourism as well as keeping you posted on what the department is doing to support remote learning.

Follow us @SocialSubTHS

Scottish Parliament elections are scheduled to take place on 6th May 2021. If you will be 16 years old by then, you may be eligible to vote.

You will need your National Insurance Number.

Make sure you register here:

https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote

 

 

27th January marks Holocaust Memorial Day

The Holocaust Memorial Day Trust (HMDT) encourages remembrance in a world scarred by genocide (mass murder of a particular group of people). They promote and support Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) – the international day on 27 January to remember the six million Jews murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi Persecution and in genocides that followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

The theme for Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) 2021 is Be the light in the darkness. It encourages everyone to reflect on the depths humanity can sink to, but also the ways individuals and communities resisted that darkness to ‘be the light’ before, during and after genocide.

Take a moment to reflect and learn more here:

Holocaust Memorial Day Service

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyFjlP9YgSo

https://www.hmd.org.uk/what-is-holocaust-memorial-day/this-years-theme/

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-55816309

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/holocaust-memorial-day-2021-how-many-people-died-ww2-genocide-and-how-are-they-being-remembered-3114158

 

 

Holocaust Memorial Day takes place on 27th January each year. This is a time to remember the millions of people murdered during the Holocaust, under Nazi Persecution and in the genocides which followed in Cambodia, Rwanda, Bosnia and Darfur.

Holocaust Memorial Day is a time when we seek to learn the lessons of the past and recognise that genocide does not just take place on its own – it’s a steady process which can begin if discrimination, racism and hatred are not checked and prevented.

Scotland’s Holocaust Memorial Day (HMD) Ceremony 2021 has been organised as a virtual ceremony. The ceremony will be premiered online at 2pm on 27 January 2021. The ceremony features testimonies from Holocaust survivor Mala Tribich, as well as the children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren of survivors from subsequent genocides in Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia and Cambodia. You can watch the Ceremony on YouTube or Vimeo:

• Watch on YouTube
• Watch on Vimeo

Be the light in the darkness.

The Social Subjects Department will run a series of subject specific online tutorials/drop in sessions/live lessons during the period of remote learning.

Tutorials and drop in sessions are not live lessons, but opportunities for you to login at specific times to speak to your teachers about your work and ask questions via a Microsoft Teams meeting. If your teacher is running a live lesson, it will say that next to the time allocated.

All will take place online at an agreed time with your teacher, when you would normally be timetabled for that class as follows:

Miss Stoutjesdyk’s  Classes

3D1 History (week 2 only) – Wednesdays 11-11.30am
4D History – Mondays – 1.30-2pm
4C History – Tuesdays – 1.30-2pm
5E History (Higher/N5) – Wednesdays – 1.30-2pm
5A History (Advanced Higher) – Thursdays – 11.00-11.30am

Miss Conlon’s Classes 

Week 1:
3H Modern Studies – Wednesdays – 11-11.30am

4E Modern Studies – Wednesdays –  1:30 to 2pm
4F Modern Studies – Thursdays –  9:30 to 10am

Week 2:
4E Modern Studies – Mondays – 2:30-3pm
3C2 History – Wednesdays – 10-10.30am

4F Modern Studies – Wednesdays – 11-11.30am

Miss Kane’s Classes 

4E History – Live Lesson – Tuesday – 10.30-11.30am – Week 1

4E History – Live Lesson – Mondays – 1.30-2.30pm – Week 2

3C2 History – Tutorial – Wednesdays – 10-10.30am – Week 2

5D History – Tutorial – Fridays each week

• National 5 11.30-12pm
• Higher 12-12.30pm

Mrs Connell’s Classes

Weekly Live Lessons

Monday
4D Modern Studies P5
5C Modern Studies P6+7

Thursday
4D Modern Studies 9.30-10.30am

Friday
5C Modern Studies 9.30-10.30am

Mr Dale’s Classes

Week 1

1.2 Social Subjects online live Drop in Session

Thursday 10-10.30am

Week 2

3D Geography Tutorial – Monday at 2.00-2.30pm

2.2 Geography Tutorial – Thursday at 11-11.30am

Weekly

5B Geography Live Lessons – Mondays:

• Higher 11am
• National 5  12pm

4D Geography Tutorial – Mondays – 1.30-2pm

Miss Hardie’s Classes

Week 1

4E Geography – Wednesdays – 1.30-2pm

Week 2

4E Geography – Mondays – 2-2.30pm

Mr McPake’s Classes

5A Modern Studies (Higher) – Thursdays – 11.30-12pm

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-55738564

 

22 year old Amanda Gorman became the youngest ever Inauguration poet yesterday as she recited her poem ‘The Hill we Climb’ at President Joe Biden’s inauguration cermony yesterday.

 

Quite the achievement!