Title |
Short description |
Related curricular areas |
Age group |
A
letter from America |
Applying knowledge gained in Social Studies, learners
research emigration, past and present, from the Clyde area -
factors and impact - and produce a presentation of knowledge for
parents and community. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies |
Upper Primary |
Advertising Clydeside
living |
As an estate agent asks learners to create an advert
which profiles the housing stock built as part of the regeneration
of the Clyde |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Technologies |
Upper Primary |
Anti-smoking campaign |
Learners will research and organise an anti-smoking
campaign in the school, creating a variety of resources which will
reinforce the anti-smoking message |
Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages,
Mathematics, Technologies |
Artwork - 150 years of
River Clyde |
Through investigating artistic images of the Clyde over
the last 150 years, learners will create an exhibition of their own
artwork images of the Clyde today. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Technologies |
Upper Primary |
Brochure of
Clydeside visitor attractions |
Analyse availability of tourism and leisure facilities in
order to produce a brochure for use by Glasgow's
tourists/residents |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Technologies |
Upper Primary |
Capital punishment: the
big debate |
Learners will prepare a speech which will convince people
to vote for them to be the next American president on the argument
for and against capital punishment. |
Languages, Religious and Moral Education |
Lower Secondary |
Changes in land use on the
Clyde |
Learners make a map of modern Clydeside with new
developments highlighted and supporting information on how they
will affect the local communities. |
Expressive Arts, Social Studies, Technologies |
Clyde communities
exhibition |
Learners plan, organise, publicise and host a 'Clyde
communities' exhibition for invited guests. |
Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Mathematics, Religious
and Moral Education, Science, Social Studies |
Upper Primary |
Community focused
reporting |
Write a newspaper article on the developments of the
Clyde Waterfront regeneration community. |
Languages, Social Studies |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
Create a
study guide for the Five Pillars of Islam |
Young people will work in teams to research the Five
Pillars of Islam and produce a study guide on the
topic. |
Languages, Religious and Moral Education, Social
Studies |
Upper Secondary |
CSI
Glasgow |
Learners will be members of the 'CSI Glasgow' team,
taking part in a set up investigation and provide a report for the
police. |
Expressive Arts, Science, Social Studies |
Lower Secondary |
Design a community
housing project |
Plan an 'ideal' housing redevelopment project, based on
subject learning and survey of their own community needs, and
present to a panel of local community planning experts. |
Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Social
Studies, Technologies |
Lower Secondary |
Design a
kite |
Using 3D design processes and inspiration from Clyde
waterfront, pupils will design and produce a 'windy city kite'
which will be used as focus for a buddy challenge at primary
induction day. |
Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages,
Science, Social Studies, Technologies |
Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary |
Designing an allotment |
Applying knowledge and understanding of geometry and
finance in a project to design an allotment as landscaping
companies with the task of designing an allotment in or nearby
their school. |
Health and Wellbeing, Mathematics, Science, Social
Studies, Technologies |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
Employment changes in
the Clyde area |
Leanerrs chart links their family has with Clyde related
industries, now and in the past and then present their findings at
parents' evening. |
Social Studies |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
Exhibition of
buildings for the 21st century |
Learners will critically evaluate new Clyde building
designs and compare and contrast with buildings in their local
community to produce a display/exhibition of their work on River
Clyde buildings |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Technologies |
Upper Primary |
Exhibition
on Glasgow's connections with the slave trade |
Pupils will create an art installation based on the theme
of the slave trade for an exhibition to peers and local
community. |
Expressive Arts, Religious and Moral Education, Social
Studies |
Lower Secondary |
Exhibition on the
Clydeside blitz |
The class will work individually and in groups to
research, produce and present a display on the Clydeside blitz for
an audience of parents and local community. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies |
Upper Primary |
Improving communities |
Learners will use their writing skills to make
recommendations on how to improve local community to local MSP by
letter. |
Languages, Social Studies |
Lower Secondary |
Leisure
fact file |
Produce a fact file on local area leisure facilities for
use by other learners and their families using an enterprising
approach in the project. |
Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages,
Technologies |
Upper Primary |
Local employment
opportunities |
Research on job opportunities and preparation for mock
interview with external 'panel members' which will culminate in
developing an advice pack for school leavers to prepare them for
the world of work. |
Health and Wellbeing, Languages, Social
Studies |
Lower/Middle Scondary |
Making a difference this
Christmas |
Learners consider the true meaning of Christmas and the
concept of giving by promoting a campaign to raise awareness and
gathering resources for one of their choice. |
Languages, Religious and Moral Education, Social
Studies |
Upper Primary, All Secondary |
Making a
music CD and putting on a performance |
To apply both historical and musical knowledge in order
to compose and record a piece of music which will be performed in
the local community and a CD sold to fund raise |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies,
Technologies |
Upper Primary |
Model
making |
Learners study developments/regeneration in the city with
input from developers, and present on how the changes will affect
them and their communities. |
Expressive Arts, Social Studies, Technologies |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
New
Scots |
Exhibition on immigration patterns and influences for
over 100 years on the areas surrounding the River
Clyde. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Religious and
Moral Education, Social Studies, Technologies |
Upper Primary, All Secondary |
Our
community |
Finding out about our local community and what this means
for us now and in the future. Presentations from groups and display
of work for community. |
Languages, Mathematics, Social Studies,
Technologies |
Lower Secondary |
Our local community
around the Clyde |
Learners chart the changes in their local area through
investigation by engaging with the local community and collate work
to present at a community event |
Languages, Social Studies |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
Photographs of River
Clyde 1858 - 2008 |
Investigate photographic images of the Clyde over the
last 150 years. Create an exhibition of children's own images of
the Clyde today. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Technologies |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
Raising awareness
of Clyde regeneration |
By using k/u of 2D design process to promote Clyde
regeneration and taking inspiration from Clyde architecture,
learners will produce a poster that will be judged by a panel of
marketing experts. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies,
Technologies |
Lower/Middle Scondary |
Scottish
café |
Learners will apply their learning about local foods and
traditional Scottish dishes and their ingredients, by serving
traditional Scottish fayre in a Scottish-themed café
event. |
Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages,
Mathematics, Science, Technologies |
All Secondary |
Scottish Christians |
Learners will work together as a whole class to organise
and hold a fundraising event, in an attempt to contribute to
continuing the valuable work of inspirational Scottish
Christians. |
Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages,
Mathematics, Religious and Moral Education, Social
Studies |
Middle Primary |
Senior citizen concert |
Learners will learn how to perform and choose musical
repertoire as part of content of the concert as well as project
manage the event for local senior citizens involving cross
curricular areas. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies |
Upper Secondary |
Shipbuilding: a drama
performance |
Learners will produce a performance based on the rise and
fall of shipbuilding in the Clyde. The performance will use music,
drama and dance to convey powerful images of shipbuilding on the
Clyde. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies |
Upper Primary |
Soup kitchen:
helping others less fortunate |
Provide a service to benefit the community by creating,
preparing and serving a nutritious soup, for which they seek
sponsorship from supermarkets to make the soup, for homeless people
near the Clydeside. |
Health and Wellbeing, Religious and Moral Education,
Social Studies |
Upper Secondary |
Starting a Clydeside
business |
Learners will identify a business idea and develop a
business plan, including marketing strategies, in response to local
housing demographic, and present these at a 'Dragon's Den' style
finale. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
Story telling
on history of local community |
Collaborative writing to tell a story about a set of
characters based on images of Clydeside communities. |
Expressive Arts, Health and Wellbeing, Languages,
Science, Social Studies, Technologies |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
Team building skills
development |
Develop effective teams by setting a 'build a bridge'
team building challenge - to enable effective teams to facilitate
the primary induction day. |
Expressive Arts, Religious and Moral Education,
Technologies |
Lower Secondary |
The Tobacco Lords legacy |
Learners work in groups to find out how history has
affected where we are today by looking at the legacy of the tobacco
lords and present this as a display of work for
parents. |
Social Studies |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
Waterfront
regeneration and the economy |
Learners write an article for their school newspaper and
website from their research in a social context into the local
economy and how it affects people in the area. |
Languages, Social Studies |
Lower Secondary |
You choose - it's your
future! |
Pupils choose which career to pursue, where to live and
what schools their children should attend. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Mathematics, Social
Studies |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |