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.
In room 13 we decided to make individual collages to illustrate what we get up to on a weekly basis. As you can see we are a busy lot and love a photo opportunity!
To celebrate Save The Children’s Christmas jumper day, the pupil council challenged classes to make real Christmas jumpers using as many recycled or sustainable materials as possible. Room 12 used it as a learning opportunity to “respect other people’s choices”. And I’m sure you will agree the results are fabulous.
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 13
For today’s advent treat, join some of our pupils as they participate in some festive dancing with our instructor, Katie.
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 12
We hope that you are enjoying our festive advent calendar. To continue the celebrations, Room 17 bring you their special version of a classic Christmas song!
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 9
Welcome back for another festive treat.
Today the pupils and staff in Howes Hoose get ready to join in the fun with a favourite festive song from Shakin’ Stevens.
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 8
Today we bring you another festive treat. Join the pupils and staff in Room 16 as they show you some of their favourite activities.
Orchard Brae Advent Calendar: Day 5
Welcome back and we hope that you enjoy today’s festive treat.
Today the pupils from Room 18 invite you to get your party outfit ready and join them dancing the night away!
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Room 16 have been preparing their up-cycled Christmas jumper for Christmas Jumper Day next week. We made a Christmas tree template and stuck it onto our jumper then used our hands to paint on with green for the tree, red and yellow for the baubles and lights then we used a pom-pom to bad some gold sparkly paint for the star on top. When we peeled off the template we could see our beautiful tree! It gave us the opportunity to practise turn taking as we had to work one at a time on our jumper. We are excited to display it for all our friends to see and to see the other classes creativity with their eco-friendly jumpers.
We had a lot of fun at Orchard Brae today, the Book Fairy visited us leaving copies of ‘A Boy called Christmas’ by Matt Haig around the school. The book is part of a nationwide book-drop to coincide with the film coming out today!
Lots of our classes had fun searching for the books, here are some of the ones we found!
Thank you Book Fairy (and Matt Haig), we will really enjoy reading the book during our school Winter Festival.
Room 15 have been learning about time by exploring when special events occur as part of our ASDAN (mathematics) work recently. We used symbol information to work out when different special events take place, including Fireworks night, St Andrews Day and Christmas, as well our class birthdays, and added this information to our calendars.
We’re now extending this with our ASDAN ICT project to use ICT to prepare for a special occasion – we’re filming our Christmas video! (Too early?!?)
We voted for our preferred song choice on the interactive board and we’re exploring different ways to share communication relating to the song – through signing, using our AAC, through our actions – and recording this together. We’ll also be using technology in our video, switching on Christmas lights and using a camera.
We’ve had lots of fun going through our Christmas resources too, lots of fabulous sensory opportunities with tinsel, hats, baubles and more!
