Easter Revision Programme 11 March 2010

S3 Exams 2010 v3

Preston Lodge High School is 85 years old!

Help us celebrate by coming to our 85th Anniversary

BIRTHDAY TEA!

If you’ve ever went to PLHS, since it’s creation in 1924 right up until 2010, come along to the school itself on

Thursday June 10th 2010

5:00pm - 8:00pm

Meet up with all your old classmates, admire old school photos, talk with past teachers (if they can face turning up!), explore the school in all its glory!

NOTE: This birthday tea is for EVERYONE that has EVER went to Preston Lodge High School, and not just those who were in the Class of 1985!

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It’s been 3 years to the day since PrestonLodge.net was first registered on Edubuzz.org, the East Lothian educational blogging community. And what a long way we’ve come!

Starting with just two main sites - the main PrestonLodge.net site, and ‘Today @ PLHS’ - the daily notices for use in school, we now have around 30 contributing sites from subject sites, to yearbooks, to pupil web jotters, PrestonLodge.net is a vast network of contributors from around the school. By far the largest portion of Edubuzz.org, PrestonLodge.net has over 120 teachers, pupils and office staff adding to the site almost daily.

Consistently top of the web traffic hits across the community, PrestonLodge.net is beating the likes of Don Ledingham’s Learning Log, North Berwick High School (and all the other High Schools in the area), and is currently sitting at 1580 email subscribers consisting of parents, pupils and alumni. News from the school is now frequent and more easily accessible than most others!

Debuting new web technologies to the education scene in East Lothian has been PrestonLodge.net’s specialty - from RSS feeds to newsletters, embedded forms and calendars, interactive magazines and documents, to widgets and discussions - PrestonLodge.net is making web publishing available to the many, and not exclusive to the technically able few. It just goes to show how quickly new technologies arise in just a few short years - who knows what features will be around in the next few years?!

So thank you to all our avid readers, contributors, editors and technical helpers, and Well Done and Happy Birthday to PrestonLodge.net!

Visit Home Economics to find out what they have been up to lately.

National Farmhouse Breakfast  week- Brunch event for Staff

Rotary Cookery Competition

Primary 3’s cooking with S3 pupils

The serialisation of our historical Log Book continues

2^nd March 1925

Quarterly examinations began this week.  In Classes 1, 2, & 3 the examinations are being held in the periods usually devoted to instruction in the various subjects - no alteration has been made in the time-table of those classes.  In class 4 examinations have been of 1½ hours duration, 9-10.30am & 1.30-.pm daily.  The usual time-table has been set aside during these hours, Monday to Thursday inclusive.

4^th March 1925

12 chairs received from Messrs. J. D. Bennet Ltd, Glasgow

13^th March 1925

Suggested Curricula for the various Courses given in Preston Lodge were to-day sent to the Executive Officer to be forwarded to the Scottish Education Dept.  In connection with the proposal to close Preston Lodge School for the Summer. Vacation before the completion of 400 openings, the following letter was received from the Scottish Education Department.

“Adverting to your letter of 23^rd alto, I am directed to state that, in all the circumstances, the Department would not raise objection to the closing of the above-named school for the Summer Vacation on 10^th July next”

Mr Martin’s services terminated at 3.45 today.

20^th March 1925

Mr James Alexander Reid M.A. (33107) joined the staff on Monday 16^th March as temporary assistant teacher of classics and English.

23^rd March 1925

Classes 1C, 1D, and 1A & 1B were combined for Singing from To-day.  From to-day inclusive Mr Allat will attend Preston Lodge Monday 9-11am & Wednesday 1.30 - 3.45 - 4¼ hours weekly.

25^th March 1925

Miss McIntyre took up duty as Gymnastic mistress from to-day.  She is to attend at Preston Lodge two days per week viz Tuesday & Wednesday.

26^th March 1925

Mr Lambie H.M.I. visited this school today to examine the Candidates for the Day School Certificate (Higher) in Science and Art.  He examined the whole of class 3 in Science, and inspected the drawings of the Art Classes and the finished models of the Handwork classes.

A copy can also be found on our Publications Page

6th February

Mr William Reid, assistant in English and Classics left Preston Lodge to-day, having been appointed Classical Master at Royal Academy, Tain. The following entry in Fly-leaf No 2 to form 69T in respect of Mr Reid was today sent to Mr D E Philip H.M. Chief Inspector;

“Mr Reid has had complete charge of the Latin class of 2nd 3rd & 4th years of the secondary course, has commenced the study of Greek with one pupil in the fourth year and has assisted in the teaching of English & History to the first and second years. His work has been characterised by thoroughness, sound method and careful preparation. He has at all times maintained excellent discipline and his classes have made good progress under unusually difficult conditions.”

Mr Reid had rendered invaluable service to the school by supervising the boys’ rugby club.

13th February

During the past week Miss Ritchie had been doing the formerly carried out by Mr Reid, viz. teaching Latin & English.

16th February

This morning the whole of the Technical Block was occupied by the classes of the school. Our occupation of the U.F. Hall ceased completely on Friday evening, and now all classes are being held in the Technical Block of Preston Lodge with the following exception:-

Handwork - for boys in the Army Hut in Kirk Street, for girls in the Cookery Room at Prestonpans P.S.

Music and Singing - in Parish Church Hall

Science - in the Science Laboratory, Prestonpans P.S. whenever it is not required for the pupils of that school. All the science work of classes 3 & 4 is carried out in this laboratory, and the work of class 2 is done partly in this laboratory, and partly in the room in the Technical Block which is being used as a science room, but small methylated spirit burners are proving a very good substitute for Bunsen burners.

23rd February

Form E14 for Day School Certificate Highers was sent to Executive Officer Mr A.J. Martin M.A. B.Sc took up duty as assistant teacher of Classics and English in succession to Mr William Reid. In the interval between Mr Reid’s departure and Mr Martin’s arrival, Miss Ritchie has been teaching Latin and History. Miss Ritchie has now assumed duty as assistant Mathematics and English, taking the place that will be occupied by Mr A. Ross who is being transferred from Prestonpans Public School to Preston Lodge at an early date.

At the beginning of this week all sewing classes were transferred from the Public School to Preston Lodge. The only classes now held in the Cookery Room at P.pans Public School are Cookery & Dressmaking classes.

25th February

Science apparatus to the value of £19.6/- was to-day received from Baird & Tatlock. Mr Martin was absent from duty to-day, as he had to proceed to Glasgow for an interview by the Argyllshire Education Authority.

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