St Matthew's English

Welcome to St Matthew's Academy English Dept. Follow us for news, information and pictures from our classrooms.

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Miss Parker’s class have been learning about the vanishing of the bees so to help out, they have been growing their own sunflowers. What a green-thumbed bunch!

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We celebrated World Book Day by inviting S1 and S2 pupils along to the library for some speed reading. After much delibersation, their recommendation is Young Dracula by Michael Lawrence. It was great to see the passion for reading on show. Well done everybody.

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Mr McKee is really looking forward to meeting some families for our twilight literacy sessions.

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Families of pupils in S1-3: come along to our informative Literacy Session in the school library @StMattEnglish Refreshments available. Children welcome too. Sign up by phoning the school, clicking the link or using the QR code below: https://t.co/xpeMT6RWuF

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Our S6 Literacy Ambassadors, Rebecca and Helyn, collected parents' and carers' views at our S2 parents' evening on Monday. Stay posted as we issue sign-ups for our Twilight Literacy Programme to support our learners and families which will take place in the New Year.

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Great work Blair and Dylan!

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How to …
Watch our latest video on “how to” answer a Higher English 5 Marker Question:

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S1-3 classes have their learning logs and have started filling in their feedback from their English teachers. Great work everyone.

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That’s us closed for another year. Your English teachers have loved having you all through our classrooms every day. Have a relaxing summer and we will see you in August!

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Mr Gardiner’s Higher class today we’re doing RUAE with a twist! They had to solve the clue, race to the hiding spot of the question to read it, and answer it in their groups.

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Mr Niven had a great time visiting @StMarysLargs and meeting some P7s. Well done to everybody for their effort and hard work!

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P7 having been taking part in a transition event with @StMattEnglish reading, ‘The Boy with the Butterfly Mind.’ They raised their own caterpillars then released the butterflies in to our school grounds.

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@St_Lukes_Pr Abosolutely fantastic work here! Can't wait to hear all about this from the P7s.

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Today is the day for our Higher English candidates. We wish you all the best of luck for the exam - it is time for all your hard work throughout the year to pay off!

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A huge well done to all of our National 5 candidates for completing their exam today. We are so proud of all of you.

Up next - Advanced Higher at 12:30! Good luck!

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What amazing work from Mr McKee’s S1 class. These two short films have really shown skills creativity and resilience. Well done, all!

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Tess in Mr McKee’s N5 Media Studies class has produced an outstanding storyboard for her horror film. Well done!

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The Higher and Advanced Higher candidates did not disappoint today with their positive attitude towards their practice exam. You have all worked so incredibly hard and your English teachers are very proud!

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We are so proud of our National 5 candidates during their practice exam today. You all demonstrated amazing levels of dedication and have achieved so much. Well done!

Highers and Advanced Highers - it’s your turn tomorrow!

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Well done to Miss Brown who won our Rights Bingo! Thank you to all staff who participated and made donations🌟

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Your English teachers had a wonderful day today! This term has been fantastic and we wish you all a merry and Holy Christmas.

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@kerrymckeown There was! Groups race around the board and are only allowed to move on if they got all marks available for that question.

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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!