Category: Classwork

Inter-disciplinary learning in action

19/3/2018

SAMBA
For two months Mrs Ledingham’s S3 French pupils worked on an interdisciplinary project based on the French movie “Samba”. They investigated the issues that migrants face when arriving in a new country, and what it means to be a “sans papier”. In addition to discussing prejudice against migrants, in French, our pupils have looked at the history of migrants with Miss Ball (History Department) and made comparisons with the modern world. Miss Owens (School Librarian) ran a workshop on the portrayal of migrants in the media, whilst another highlight of the project was the recording of a rap, organised by Miss Walker (Music Department), to address the issues of the Calais Jungle as highlighted by “The Calais Sessions” album. To complete the project the pupils produced fake twitter pages, in French, describing the experiences of a migrant arriving in the Calais Jungle – this work will contribute to the achievement of our Silver Award as a “Rights Respecting School”.

Festive news - slightly delayed

5/2/2018

Special Delivery!

Our S3 Administration class worked on a festive project in conjunction with Troon Primary and Santa in December 2017. The class produced personalised letters from Santa to Primary 3 students, as we all know how busy Santa is during December.

The P3 classes worked hard on writing their letters to Santa - telling him a bit about their siblings, pets, what they want for Christmas etc. They made a lovely job of decorating their envelopes! In return our S3 Administration students used their Word Processing and Access database skills to complete a mail merge - producing a personalised letter for each Troon Primary student. These were delivered in festive envelopes with a Santa sticker enclosed for each child. The class were even trying to convince Miss Wyllie to let them hand deliver the letters dressed as elves! A big thank you to Mrs Roan from Troon Primary for her help coordinating the project.

(Apologies from the newsdesk - this feature should have been reported in December.)

Active Presentations in History

6/12/2017

S1 Historians have recently been taking part in active presentations about the Battle of the Somme. As well as excellent powerpoint presentations to the class, students have been creative in selecting new and interesting ways to present their knowledge. Here is a selection of work on the Battle, including: a trench cake, a model trench, a 3D lego poster, cupcake battle, a poem from the trenches, and poppy cakes complete with fact flags.

Celebrating Scottish Book Week

4/12/2017

Last week was Book Week Scotland and some of our S2 pupils joined in the celebrations. The theme this year was 'nourish' and our librarian, Miss Owens, asked pupils to share information about a book that means a lot to them, a book that has nourished them over time. Below you can read a selection of their responses, you might even get an idea for a present for Christmas! They then had some fun re-creating book titles with a food theme. Continue reading for a giggle at some of these.

Poppy Cat

Ottoline and the Yellow Cat

When I was younger this book was very special to me because every night before bed my mum would read it to me. If I didn't get it read to me I wouldn't want to go to bed. If I lost it she read it that often that she would read it to me without the book. I still have it today.

Pirates!

This book means a lot to me because it's hard to understand all her problems at first, but as you read it your understand what she's going through.

The Blitz

My favourite book is "My Story: The Blitz" as it was the first chapter book I have ever finished by myself. It has short chapters and isn't very long.

Guess How Much I Love You

I got this book read to me every night when I was younger with my mum, dad and sisters. My little sister still gets it read to her and sometimes I listen in too. It brings back memories from when I was younger.

Winnie the Pooh

The book that is really important to me is Winnie the Pooh because my Auntie read it to me before she moved to a different country and I don't see her anymore. It is my favourite because I used to love it and read it all the time and never read any other book except that one. My favourite character is Tigger because he is really energetic and talkative like me.

This book is special to me because I used to read it as a child all the time. It's about this girl called Ottoline solving mysteries and robberies. All the crimes are done by the yellow cat. I will always love this book as it is a memory.

Hunger Games

This is my favourite book because it is very exciting, fast moving, and it always make sense. (Its not confusing to understand) It improved my vocabulary and I love the movie too.

The big book of Christmas

This is my favourite because it was the only book that was at my grans and we would read it, even though it was only April.

RatBurger

It's a special book to me because when I was younger my mum would read a bit and so would I. I struggled in reading so when I was able to read Ratburger I managed to read other books, now I read so many different books.

Skullduggery Pleasant

My favourite book is Skullduggery Pleasant. I enjoyed the first book which is a mystery. At the start the protagonists uncle dies and at the funeral a mysterious man in a coat, scarf, hat and sunglasses arrives, who appears to be her uncles best friend. I love this book as there are loads of cliff hangers which keeps you on edge. I also love the story behind it as there are many stories which at the end all eventually link up with Skullduggery Pleasant.

Food Themed Book Titles

Pie of Mist
Of Mice and Melons
A Christmas Crumble
The Twix

A Christmas Carrot
Haribo Potter
The Hungry Games: Catching Fish
Harry and his bucketful of KFC

Peter Pancake
Where the KitKats Are
Harry Poptarts
The Famous Pies

Art meets history in the classroom.

1/11/2017

Our S1 students have been learning about WW1 in history:

S1 Historians have been studying WW1 and we have been learning about the importance of propaganda during the war. Our task was to create our own propaganda posters to try and persuade men to join the army. We have done this by looking at different themes such as making them feel proud of their country, making them feel guilty for not fighting, showing the army to be a fun adventure, and asking women to step up during the war. Here are some of our posters.(Written by class 1W)

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