Preston Lodge HS - SfL goes Global
This week sees the start of the big build up to Christmas!
The children have already made their own tree shaped classroom advent calendar and there will be THREE pockets to empty on Monday when they come in…the bonus of December starting on a Saturday!
In our classes this week we will be…
Science
In Science this week we [...]
St Andrews Day-ThanksGiving Activity
In America, over the last week, people have been celebrating THANKSGIVING.
Thanksgiving, or Thanksgiving Day, is a traditional North American holiday to give thanks for the things that people have at the end of the harvest season. Thanksgiving is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on [...]
This week we will be celebrating St Andrew’s Day - a day to think about Scotland’s national patron saint and all the wonderful things we know about our country. We also will be having a special visit from Education Convener, Cllr Peter McKenzie, on Tuesday afternoon. He is interested in seeing what is going on at [...]
A special visitor came into Science this week to help us learn more about food chains - in particular food chains that originate in the sea.
Mr Frost, who is a Super Scientist by day and keen angler in his free time, came along to our lesson to show us how to catch, gut, process and [...]
As we have recorded previously in the article “Improvisation maths at the restaurant, hairdresser and cinema…” role play has become an important part of our lessons in ELP maths.
Many of the topics we are covering with the children are designed to give them essential life skills that will stand them in good stead [...]
This week we will be moving home…
Last Friday, sadly, Mrs Simpson retired from working as a teacher at Preston Lodge - and she will be greatly missed by us all. However, as a parting gift to the ELP children, she has asked them to “look after my room for me”. As of Monday, the ELP [...]
In Science we have been awarding the Scientist of the Week Award to the ELP pupil who has demonstrated the most enthusiasm, contributed a great idea or wonderful insight into the lessons we do each week.
The pupil is awarded our mainstream Science Positive Referral Certificate, amended for the purpose of the ELP programme. Please click [...]
This week we are learning how to use a special computer package called Powerpoint. The reason we want to find out what this special programme can do, is that we would like to tell our American friends in Akron, Ohio all about our lives in East Lothian.
At first we thought that we could maybe send [...]
This week in school we will be undertaking a number of exciting things! This will culminate on Friday with our annual Children in Need Fundraiser.
Parents should note that this Friday will be a DRESS DOWN DAY. Children will be expected to contribute £1 to the school Children in Need fund raising via their register teacher, [...]
Today we received an email from the school in Ohio that we are forging links with. It came from the classroom teacher whose idea it was to make contact with Preston Lodge - and she answered some of the many questions OUR students had about life in an Akron school.
Our pupils were very excited to [...]
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