Ingham McGhie, PE Department, St Margaret’s Academy.
I, alongside other members of the St Margaret’s Academy PE department, attended the PE network meeting on Friday 10th January at Broxburn Academy. Each secondary school in West Lothian was well represented giving a rich and meaningful meeting. The focus of the meeting was to give a set of pupils a practical grade for National 5 (badminton) as a type of moderation process. Continue reading PE Network – National 5 performance grading
Philip Harrison – English
Independent writing skills are useful in any subject, but especially in English. To develop these skills in S1 I decided to use group work strategies to encourage learners to construct their own understanding of a novel. I hoped this would enable them to work with greater independence when it came to writing an essay. They would own their work and rely much less on writing frames and teacher support.
I was confident to encourage their independent writing because I was had read some of their work from P7. These essays demonstrated that they were already capable of extended writing with support. So I devised a series of lessons which would replace teacher support with peer support. They planned their own essays and searched for quotations to support their ideas. Then they wrote up their essays individually with minimal teacher support. The results were good and this will be good preparation for critical writing throughout the junior phase.
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