Category: Secondary Department

Welcome to the Secondary Department

The secondary department has 8 classes and pupils follow the principles of Curriculum for Excellence: a broad general education in S1-S3 and the Senior Phase in S4- S6.   The curriculum is varied, relevant, challenging, enjoyable and adapted to meet our pupil’s individual needs.  Pupils also visit a range of specialists, have access to relevant therapeutic inputs and participate in wider community events.

Keeping Busy In Room 18

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In room 18 we have participating in lots of varied activities outside and inside the school.

We have been going on nature walks in the vicinity of the school and encountered a couple of young deer grazing in a field.

We have also been experimenting with light shows in different classes. The students especially liked participating and interacting with the “Magic Carpet”.

Exploring using Google Earth

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Howes Hoose pupils have been having great fun using the website Google Earth. We have been learning about our homes as part of our ASDAN work so thought we’d share with each other what our homes look like. We used street view to navigate up and down our streets. Lots of us were very excited when we saw our homes. One pupil wanted to find the horses in the field nearby to his home so started taking us on adventure up the street! The next day we were shown two pictures of different homes and identified which was ours – we all did really well in this task!

Parachutin’ n Bubblin’ in Room 15

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Room 15 have had a great (and busy) start to the term. We’ve been playing lots of games with the parachute and had blown lots of bubbles! We’ve been creative and arty by painting on a huge piece of paper. We’ve done some experiments with some colourful results (lots of food colouring involved!). We’ve had a lot of fun and laughter as we’ve built new relationships within the class.

This week, we have been having lots of fun and getting a bit messy! We took off our socks and shoes and covered our hands and feet in paint before taking a walk around the classroom! The paint felt really cold and slippery between our toes and fingers! It was all worth it though as the end result looks awesome and shows us all taking steps together in our learning!`

Float or Sink? With Room16

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We are looking at “Heavy and Light” in Numeracy through “Floating and Sinking”.

We took some classroom objects, predicted whether they would float or sink and plonked them into our basin of water. We then glued the results on to our worksheet.

Like Robin Hood in Room 17

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Room 17 have been practicing their archery skills.  Some of us were better at it than others but we all tried really hard and had lots of fun. We thought it was great fun to knock down the castle with our arrows.  We also enjoyed target practice with lights – when we hit the target there were some sensory lights came on in our classroom.

Room 19 Life Skills

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As the term progresses all pupils have had a chance to try out different work experience tasks in school.  They are becoming more comfortable with their roles and responsibilities and are clearly concentrating on their tasks. 

Music With Scott

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We play music with Scott, experimenting with different instruments and the sounds they make. One of our pupils is really fond of the drum sounds what this drum machine makes. We practice to identify emotions and how to recognise them. This will help us to better understand how others and we feel.

We are ordering the numbers from one to ten to practice our numeracy skills. 

Settling in to Howes Hoose

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Howes Hoose are settling fantastically in their new ‘classroom’. We have been having great fun doing Boccia in the  living room. Boccia from  sofa’s has proved to be a winner! We are focusing at the moment on colour matching using the bean bags with nets, blocks, hoops and the parachute. We are all very impressed with the aim of our pupils and the proof is in the pictures! 

Welcome back to Room 19!

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Room 19

We’re only 2 weeks into the term and we are concentrating on establishing relationships and getting reacquainted with school life.  It can be quite busy in school so we have made sure to make time for relaxation too.  A particular hit for pupils and staff has been sensory massage songs.  These can be found on youtube, if you have 5 minutes and want to relax.  We Don’t Talk About Bruno, Sensory Massage Song

Our next focus will be to establish work experience roles for all pupils in class.  We’re starting with trying out different roles before appointing them.  The positions will include but are not limited to: 

  • Organising weekly CFINE food bank bags
  • Looking after the house plants in class and offices
  • Food waste recycling
  • Representing the class at assembly
  • Collecting and delivering messages