PLHS - Support for Learning

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 will be investigating the range of foods grown in this East African country. We will also be looking at climate in the country - and its implications for food production. See ELP Social Studies for the full lesson outline.

Science

In Science we will be continuing to look at the human body, concentrating on the skeleton - and dem bones! We will be continuing to build our own model of a skeleton and using Bill (the class skeleton) to help us identify some of the 206 important bones in our body. What is the special name we give to the “head bone”, for example?

Full details of our skeleton lessons can be found in the ELP Science section of this site.

Maths

This week we will be continuing our consolidation of time and money with some of the pupils. The rest of the group will progress with their simple “equations” as they did very well last week and seemed to have gained a decent grasp of the concept of adding like terms (a+ a= 2a).

English

All of the children will be continuing to work at their own pace on their own individual reading and writing plans. Reading homework is a very important part of this and we would like to thank parents for their help in ensuring the children get a chance to practise their reading at home. We can really see the difference in class when the child has done their reading at home with an adult.

Gardening

This week we will be making our own prickly garden! See ELP Gardening on this site for more jaggy details!

Home Economics

In Home Economics last week we learned how to boil an egg and make a slice of toast. We enjoyed eating these with a great glass of orange juice. We sat at the table and had our breakfast - it was really tasty. Next time we see Ms Angus we will be making some lovely chicken noodle soup. It is something people might have for their lunch…

S1 Photographs

Just a short reminder to ELP parents that S1 pupils had their school photograph taken on Thursday August 28th. Sample photos will be distributed through register teachers.