Preston Lodge HS - SfL goes Global
making-a-prickly-garden
This week in gardening we will be making a different kind of garden…a prickly garden!
The attached work sheet and instructions lead us through the lessons on creating a cactus garden in the classroom - giving us an indoor green space of an unusual nature! ELP gardening is not simply going to be about weeding and [...]
This week on the ELP programme we will be undertaking a great number of exciting tasks and learning about some pretty exotic places…
Social Studies
In Social Studies, as part of our project looking at food production, sustainable and organic foodstuffs, we will be transporting ourselves to Kenya. Using the internet, books, newspapers and our imaginations, we [...]
kenyan-home-grown-foods-and-crops
Kenya is a country in East Africa. We have in previous lessons discovered that food such as bananas and coffee beans are grown there. In this lesson we will be looking at this in more detail and investigating what other food supplies may originate in Kenya - and what they need to grow healthily.
The linked [...]
where-does-our-food-come-from
In this series of lessons we will be looking at where our food comes from. The children were introduced to the idea that food stuffs come from different places (and often more than one place) on the planet using the attached worksheet.
Examples of the food stuffs were brought in for them to look at, smell [...]
This year in Social Studies the pupils will be undertaking a project called The Garden for Life. In this project we will be covering a wide range of issues and will be tying them back in to the work we did last year in Science (The life of plants) and our Gardening lessons this year.
We [...]
This is going to be a very busy week on the ELP programme - so many things to do and see!
Maths
In maths we will be continuing to recap the things we hope to remember from last year - 7 weeks holiday is a long time and it takes a few lessons to get back up to [...]
the-garden-treasure-hunt
This week we are going on a Treasure Hunt!
On returning to school last week, we spent our Gardening lessons getting the Science Garden back into shape by weeding the flower beds and trimming the bushes. It was hard work! (However, Ms Angus kindly donated some fruit juice and healthy flapjacks for the workers - it [...]
name-that-body-part
the-thigh-bone-is-connected-to-the-hip-bone
This year in Science the ELP pupils will be looking at The Body!
As part of an extensive project exploring concepts in physiology, health and fitness, they will be investigating and learning about some of the following:
body structure and the skeleton
major organs
sight and sound
teeth
digestion
respiration
movement
health
fitness
growth
reproduction
In providing an overview and investigating pupils’ prior knowledge we will be undertaking [...]
This week it is back to school time! Amy, Steven and Dale will continue their S2 journey joined by our new S1 pupil, Melissa. We all welcome Melissa into our group and hope she is going to enjoy her time at Preston Lodge!
New timetables are being negotiated, new teachers are to be met and some [...]
Welcome back to Preston Lodge - we hope that you all had a great summer doing fun things and relaxing! The summer holidays always seem to pass quickly but we are sure that we will all be looking forward to catching up with one another again on Monday morning.
Everyone should report to their register teacher [...]
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