S1 LCHS simile poems part 2: this time we were healthier - eating the beautiful tropical fruit papaya and using "like" to build our figures of speech. #learningshouldbefun

Some of LCHS S1 pupils enjoying ice cream before they learned about similes and wrote their own simile poems about everyone's favourite food! #learningshouldbefun

Great night last night for Lochend's information session for P7s and their parents. Lots of interest in the stuff we do in English, especially the creative writing and contemporary thrilling texts.

S1 Pupils ready to make the world a nicer place with their 21 day kindness journals. #kindness #letsbenice #noplaceforunkindwordsoractions

Hunterian museum/art gallery at Glasgow Uni are delivering a presentation to writing students tomorrow: how art can inspire creative writing. So proud that Lorraine McEnroe and Savannah Ross are having poems they wrote about a painting used as examples of excellence in this field

@LHS_English and History activity with some pop art thrown in too! S2 pupils read an authentic 1828 Edinburgh newspaper report about a man trying to sell his wife in the Grassmarket (thankfully we've come a long way!) and turn it into a news item for TV. Hopefully videos to come.

S2 learners have been creating collage poems for Roethke's "Child on top of a Greenhouse" to improve understanding and develop vocabulary.

Greek vocabulary builder: "giasou" (pronounced "yasou") which means hello.

Persian vocabulary builder: "Salam" which means Hello.

S2 pupils making collages to develop understanding of George Hardie's poem Glasgow Slums about conditions that led to the regeneration of Glasgow in the 1970s and onwards.