PLHS - Support for Learning

In the month of November our ELP group will be working on a special cross curricular activity during Period 3 on a Friday (the last lesson of the week).

The lesson will be something of a literacy-meets-numeracy-meets-arts-meets-RME-meets-enterprise extravaganza!

The overall theme of this group of lessons will be “Our Christmas”.

Our Christmas will be part of the ELP umbrella theme “On our doorstep - life in East Lothian (and the River Forth)”. It will encourage our pupils to undertake a number of creative tasks which focus on how we build up to Christmas in our school, our families and our area. The pupils will be encouraged to enhance literacy and numeracy skills in every practical activity we undertake, in addition to having the opportunity to express themselves through art. A component part of the project will also include enhancing enterprise skills.

The activities we undertake will be included on this page over the month of November - we hope to include both photographic and written examples of our work. We will also plot our progress as a mini-diary - with the children dictating what gets written in it, not the staff!

A general outline of areas we hope to include:

• Numeracy - a “count down” to Christmas (Christmas and numbers)

• the month of December (dates and calenders - literacy/numeracy)

• planning how to run our own PL Christmas Shop (enterprise, money, teamwork)

• planning what to sell in our PL Christmas Shop (enterprise, teamwork, creative arts)

• producing the goods for the shop (team work, creative arts)

• marketing our venture to the rest of the school (enterprise)

• operating our venture in the month of December (enterprise, money, literacy)

• assessing how well we did (the need for reflection)

We will also look at how others in the school and community are preparing for Christmas.

This might include:

• Taking part in the whole school Christmas Lunch
• Observing or contributing to whole school Christmas performances
• Going to the school carol concert for the local pensioners
• Observing or helping out with other school Christmas enterprise initiatives
• Christmas in the community (Prestonpans Christmas lights etc)
• A trip to the Christmas Market in Edinburgh
• A trip to Winter Wonderland in Edinburgh
• A trip to the pantomime in Musselburgh