Holy Rood English

🔔 A thread of important dates for English🔔 Please click below to see some dates for National 5/Higher Folio Writing … 👇🏼

🚨Easter holidays tweet🚨 We had a massive turnout for our Supported study sessions yesterday: N5 with Ms Donald - 46 pupils Higher with Mr Flannigan - 34 pupils Well done all on your commitment and thanks to Ms Donald and Mr Flannigan for the support during your holidays!👏

Mrs McGowan’s Nat 5 class have been flexing their MacCaig knowledge in this carousel revision task. Great effort by all the pairs to complete these common 8-marker questions.

Ms Morton’s Higher class have been revising key themes from Duffy poems in preparation for the 10-mark question. Special thanks to Adan for leading an engaging segment of the lesson!

S4 National 5s mastering the 8-marker! 📚👏 Peer teaching in full swing, tackling Paper 2 of the Scottish Set Text exam. Top marks all round for teamwork and revision skills! 💪 #N5English #ScottishSetText

Our school librarian Ms McCabe was absolutely cheesing about helping to present the awards ☺️.

Carmel & Fabio pleased as punch after being awarded 1st & 3rd prize in the John Stanton Creative Writing Awards 2026. They were chosen from 75 entries after writing standout stories on the theme of music.

Ms. Donald’s S2 class have been completing posters explaining the importance of Theme in a play. They have been looking at the theme of Fame in the play ‘Fast’ by David Grant. In the play, the media and the character’s hunger for celebrity status can distort a person’s reality.

2P showed their knowledge of “Wonder” by making and playing character Top Trumps cards.

Ms. Donald’s S4 National 5 class are creating role-play scenes, based on the events of their novel, I’m the King of the Castle. Their focus is on creating: - A clear understanding of character - facial expressions, gestures and movement. - Tone of voice to represent emotion.

And @bbboatclub followed through! What a guy. Thanks bud. Mr Flannigan is giddy with your replies!

Mr. Flannigan's Higher Class finished a wall display for their critical essay text- 'Pistils of the Dandelions'. Contacted the author, Blindboy Boatclub, and he replied to their work!

Ms Morton’s N5 class has been designing posters to represent characters from ‘Animal Farm’ which is their critical essay text.

Thanks to Daria in S4 for helping put together a display of posters on Mid Term Break by 2P!

The Scottish Tale meets modern pop culture 🤝 Well done, Isla and Aliza 🔥

The importance of redrafting 🙌 S4-6 take note as folio redrafting season is in full swing!

Ms. Donald’s Nat 5 class pictured putting Psychologist Lev Vygotsky’s ‘Social Learning Theory’ and the ‘Zone of Proximal Development’ into practice. Students played Quiz, Quiz, Trade - supporting each other with poetry questions about their Nat 5 Scottish Set Text - Jackie Kay

S1 parents and guardians: a reminder of the Sway document shared tonight to help support your young ones in S1. 📚✏️

Tonight’s P6/7 Parents’ Information Evening slides from English are available at this link: dropbox.com/scl/fi/szw9oub… Thanks to all parents, guardians and young people for attending, engaging and asking some great questions! Hopefully, we see you again soon. 🧑‍🎓👩‍🎓

Thanks to Zuzanna and Nicole for putting together this amazing “The Lottery” display, made from a Higher class’ posters!

Tonight’s Sway for Higher Parents and Pupils: sway.cloud.microsoft/12TqsgJGCCzaZY…