Mr Niven

Secondary English teacher in North Ayrshire 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 | Aldous Huxley | J.M. Barrie | RRS 🌍| #EnglishScotland

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

S1 have been focussing on Scots language and poetry for a few weeks now. This poem was submitted today and it is absolutely fantastic.

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[St Matthew's English @StMattEnglish]

Mr Niven’s National 5 class have been running the RUAE-lay Race over the past two days to consolidate and revise core RUAE skills before next week’s assessment. There has been fantastic work from everybody! Well done to our winners!

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

@Mrs_Sloan15 @massolit I love it.

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[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

It was amazing working with P6 pupils from our associated primaries today! I can’t wait to see how they get on throughout P7 during even more translation events.

[St. Winning's Primary School @StWinnings]

@StMattsP7 Our pupils had a wonderful time at St Matthew’s today - we look forward to taking part in more events next session. Thank you @NAC_Education

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[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

@Nici54459930 I don’t have any yet 😂 I’m making it just now, but I can share when I’m finished!

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

I’m so impressed with my S1s’ thoughts on such a complex question. Great discussion today before we started our film.

[St Matthew's English @StMattEnglish]

Mr Niven’s S1 are starting their media study of Free Guy and were posed this big thinking question. Some very mature responses which will be carried throughout their work on the unit.

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

Who said RUAE can’t be competitive?

[St Matthew's English @StMattEnglish]

Mr Niven’s National 5 pupils took part in an RUAE-lay race today. First group to finish the paper with 100% wins. Great effort shown by everybody!

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

It was great to speak to some of our new S1 pupils. What a great effort from everybody talking about how we can use our school values to fight any fears we might have coming up to secondary school.

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

@Miss_ODonnell_ You can never have too many mugs as a teacher!

[St Matthew's English @StMattEnglish]

Mr Niven’s @BookWeekScot recommendation is the book that made him love reading: The Recruit. Which teen wouldn’t want to be a spy recruited to save the world? This book has a sense of realism which makes for a truly believable, can’t-put-down read.

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

I loved seeing my S4’s interpretation of a monster. It’s a shame the monster in our story isn’t as fanciful.

[St Matthew's English @StMattEnglish]

Mr Niven’s National 5 class drew some monsters in preparation of their studying of Agnes Owens’ The Lighthouse… I wonder if anybody got it right 🤔

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

@navangovender1 @shearer_mr @MissSinclairEng @AmyBromley1990 It was such a pleasure! I hope everybody has a wonderful time on placement.

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

So excited to be a part of this with the #StrathPGDE students. My pupils are looking forward to their first meeting this week!

[St Matthew's English @StMattEnglish]

Mr Niven’s class had a great time last week learning about the different genre of books they can choose from for their Keep the Heid and Read programme! @NAC_Literacy @StMattsLib

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

I don’t know how to react to the drawing of me with devil horns though…

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

These monsters are a great piece of work from my S2s!

[St Matthew's English @StMattEnglish]

Mr Niven’s S2 class have watched Edward Scissorhands and were challenged to create a new monster with an object which replaces a body part. Absolutely wonderful creativity shown by all.

[Mr Niven @MrNivenEng]

@navangovender1 A Streetcar Named Desire, Edward Scissorhands, All Summer in a Day, The Lighthouse, various Gothic extracts, On the Sidewalk Bleeding, Black Panther, Death of Marilyn Monroe… the list goes on!