We had our Christmas buffet lunch in the department today as well as #SecretSanta 🎅 This year we decided to buy each other books which is definitely a tradition that will stick! Lots of happy faces in the St Margaret's RC Academy English department with our beautiful books 📚

New Edwin Morgan Scottish Set Text resource from Conduit - Connecting Knowledge and Skills For use as a revision/retrieval resource for the Critical Reading exam. This one focuses on Morgan’s exploration of theme in his poetry #scottishsettext #national5english #conduit #revision #retrieval #edutwitter

Cognitive Load Theory - a short guide for teachers. Use our new sketchnote to reduce the cognitive load for your learners & accelerate their progress. Please RT & share with your colleagues 💭💡👍🏻

Now permanently free. twinkl.co.uk/l/he6nr #scottishschools #secondaryteacher #scottishsecondaryteacher #teachersoftwitter #teachscotland #edutwitter #teachertwitter #CfE #seniorphase #nat5 #higher #TeamEnglish Miss Cochrane’s English Class Edwin Morgan Trust English and Literacy Scotland

Self-marking retrieval quiz on Stand By Me today. Pupils took the quiz, self-corrected by comparing work against marking scheme, then I double checked/gave whole class feedback. Great tool and time saver! #carousellearning #learnerautonomy #retrieval #edutwitter Carousel

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A happy Burns Day to you from all the wee, sleekit, cowrin tim'rous beasties in our English department #robertburns #rabbieburns #burnsnight #scottishliterature #thebard

We've put together a reading list for senior phase learners and parents this summer. If you are looking for a good book for holiday, there is someone for everyone here 📚 ☀️ ✈️

The importance of teaching reading and promoting the love of books from P1! WL Literacy

Summer reading recommendation from our very own Mr Boyle: Christine by Stephen King. You’ll never look at a car the same way again! #horror #stephenking #christine #summerreading #buildingareadingculture

EXCITING NEWS! Tune in to our Instagram (instagram.com/conduit_connec…) on Tuesday (5th September at 7.30pm) for a LIVE discussion with @mathsweekscot! We will be launching our partnership resources and, this year, we have resources for Secondary Schools! #Maths #mathsweekscotland

Study Skills Webinar for Parents Educational researcher, Kate Jones, is leading a FREE webinar to help parents support their children with study skills. It is on 21st September from 7-8pm. It is a virtual event. You can sign up at the following link: lnkd.in/eHbZWt3w.

Happy #nationalpoetryday 2023! The year’s theme is #refuge Mr Boyle’s S3 class have created this thoughtful class poem on the topic - very well done! St Margaret's RC Academy 👏📝🙏

Many thanks to #alanbissett for delivering an excellent (and entertaining!) creative writing workshop to our #advancedhigherenglish class today ✍️📝👏

Annual Mitchell Library trip with #advancedhigherenglish

This year’s “Letters To The Elderly” project all packed up and ready to be delivered to our local care homes across West Lothian. Well done to all of our BGE pupils for their efforts in making a small difference to others this Christmas. Merry Christmas, everyone ♥️🕊️🎄

Excerpts from our first three pedagogy newsletters as we launch issue 4 this week. Our Feb focus is on using digital tech to facilitate retrieval practice and embed learning St Margaret's RC Academy #teachingandlearning #pedagogy #digitaltoolsforlewrning #retrieval

Issue 5 of our teaching and learning newsletter is out today. A brilliant collaboration with staff in Science and English about their use of digital learning platforms #digitaltoolsforlearning #pedagogy #teachingandlearning ThingLink Padlet

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New #higherruae practice paper complete with marking scheme just released from Conduit - Connecting Knowledge and Skills on the topic of brain-to-brain interface #higherenglish #edutwitter #readingforunderstandinganalysisandevaluation #ruae #literacy