Feeling so grateful for the years at St Kent’s. Overwhelmed by the kindness and generosity from pupils and staff. Inspired every day by the young people I’ve been lucky to teach. Thank you for everything 💚🖤 Excited for a new adventure as PT of English at Sinclair Academy!

Best of luck to all Qualifications Scotland candidates getting results tomorrow. A gentle reminder that, whilst I hope you get the results you’ve worked for, results will not define you! You are much more than a piece of paper. 🍀

Higher pupils are off to a flying start, getting to grips with Act One, Scene One of ‘Men Should Weep’. 🔗 They’ve worked collaboratively to come up with the eight key moments. 💰 👵🏼 😷 #SST #SQA

Keep an eye out for these icons selling sweet treats on a Friday, to raise funds for the school trip to Poland. Looking forward to having a cup of tea and this sweet treat later!

I can already tell I’m going to have some fun with my new telescopic teacher pointer. Thanks to my lovely assistant for demonstrating one of its uses. 😂

Our new Pupil Parliament sign up form is live! If you want to have your voice heard, make positive change in our school and gain leadership opportunities too, then sign up to be part of our Pupil Parliament. Information on our Parent Parliament coming soon.

Pupils reading ‘Looking for J.J.’ were tasked with writing a diary entry from the protagonist’s POV. They had to include lots of imagery. Here’s an example of one (though I could have picked any!) that is riddled with images, which are woven through the text. #creativewriting ✍🏼

Just when you thought you were ‘done’? Naw, ye arenas! New display coming on a treat. We are never ‘done’ with our learning! #fastfinisher #BGE #Senior

Amazing work today with every pupil in school partaking in #restartaheartlive2025 Here’s my lovely higher class going through the DR ABC process. ❤️ 🚑 A very worthy and important course!

S3 pupils did a great job yesterday morning. They worked on their discussion skills, and their empathy on the lead up to writing their CE (on a character they sympathise with). Particularly hard task as some of these characters are hard to sympathise with!Some examples below. 👮

Study support for your pupils ⬇️ e-Sgoil #EnglishScotland

A nice wee task to make persuasive (and creative) writing relevant to pupils. Pupils had to respond to the statement from Desmond Dempsey, from the perspective of Brendan Rodgers. Fantastic responses from S2! 👏🏼 ⚽️ ✍🏼 #Celtic Celtic Football Club

Every time I see this, I repost it. 🤌🏼

Tally’s Blood structure for N5 pupils 🤝🏼

Is Daddy Pig a bad role model? #folioinspo telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/3…

2025 Christmas Quiz available to download for free. Two 5 star reviews already. Variety of different rounds. Answers included. 🤝 #EduTwitter tes.com/teaching-resou…

Details for our final week of Study Support webinars for 2025 are now available. The webinars will resume in the New Year from Monday 5th January. Find out what's on and sign up here e-sgoil.com/senior-phase/s… #NeLO #StudySupport

A huge thank you to author Matthew Fitt for donating a class set of ‘Harry Potter and the Philosoher’s Stane’, his Scots translation of the famous JK Rowling novel. We can’t wait to teach it! #Scots #HarryPotter

S2 have been studying ‘The Boxer’ by Emma Payne, specifically looking at how she uses similes, metaphors and word choice. They’ve created their own poems on different jobs, filled with poetic techniques. Brilliant work, S2! 👏🏼

A media unit on Netflix’s ‘Wednesday’ (series one, episode one) is available to download for free, here. Made by Mrs Moroney ⬇️ #freeresources tes.com/teaching-resou…