The Mystery of the Toxic Flea Dip

S4 are learning about cellular respiration. To do this they need to solve a mystery this means researching ATP, mitochondria, glycolysis and much more! Tomorrow we will solve the mystery.



















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Pen and ink

Lamorna has been working on the bird's eye view of a street scene using pen and ink - it is looking good!

Peak Flow

S3 are measuring lung function. They have measured vital capacity and peak flow.


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iThoughts

S4 art and computing joined together for a lesson on using iThoughts today. It is an excellent app for organising study and revision notes.

I can regularly select and read texts for enjoyment and interest and I can give reasons, with evidence, for my personal response. Lit 4-11a

This year in Standard Grade English we have started a new reading programme. To help imprive reading skills it is important to regularly read good quality journalism as this is the type of texts we analyse in close reading. Good quality journalism will stretch us to think about more complex issues and give us opportunities to see skilled writers use effective word choice and sentence structures to inform, entertain, persuade and challenge us.

Each week, a different pupil has to find an interesting article, email the link to the rest of the class and include two questions relating to the text. On a Monday, we spend the first few minutes of the lesson reading the article and then we discuss the questions as a class.

Nathan was the first to choose an article and he went for something that was relevant to his peer group and the fact that we were discussing it in and English class. Follow the link to read about school children's reading habits: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-14621621

One of the questions we discussed was if it matters if children don't read fiction as much as non-fiction, or as much as texts and emails.

Sister Suffragette!

Lamina is examining the changing role of women in the 20th Century. Today she is looking at how the Suffragette movement changed society's attitudes towards women in the workplace.




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The locomotive comes to Britian!

S3 are investigating the impact of the railways. They are preparing speeches to give to the Provisional Committee set up to safeguard the interests of the cities of Liverpool and Manchester. Each pupil is taking a different character and imagining their response to the proposal to build the world's first intercity rail line in 1830.

Today they are working on making their character's historicaly accurate and believable!