PLHS - Support for Learning

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 new classes are in our curriculum but we have much to look forward to this week and in the weeks to come.

Miss Strachan has joined the Learning Support teaching staff and will be working with us on a Monday and Tuesday in RE and when we work on our Asdan projects. Welcome to Miss Strachan!

Elsewhere this week we will be…

Maths

Consolidating what we can remember from last term - 7 weeks is such a long time away from the classroom and we need to find out what we can remember, what we have retained and how we can use it. To this end there we will be revisiting a number of concepts to assess where we are before moving on.

Science

In science we will be making a start on our new topic The Body. We want to know if the knee bone is connected to the thigh bone, the thigh bone connected to the hip bone or the neck bone connected to the “head bone”! We will be finding out how our body works, what it can do, how to look after it and reproduction of life. It is certain to be great fun!

Our sunflowers from last session’s PL Plants project in Science are now so tall that they have reached Dr Voge’s window sill - and we have had great fun measuring them with our metre sticks!

Gardening

In the garden we will be very busy! So many weeds have grown in our plot, there are bushes to be tended, nutrients to be applied and planning of our new wishing well construction to be made. Oh…and there will also be Mr Cruickshank’s inpromptu auditions for X Factor to be endu…enjoyed :o)

Proposed Industrial Action on Wednesday August 20th

All parents have been contacted by Mrs Hoban to inform you of the Learning Support department plans for the day. Any changes will be updated by telephone, letter and on the website.