Interesting facts about Scotland – Danielle Docherty

Number 1= Scotland is approx 275 miles (440km) long.
25 miles (40km) wide at it’s narrowest between the river cylde and River Forth.
Number 2 = 155 miles (250km) wide between Its furthest points. Geography Scotland mass is 30,028 sq miles which equates to 31% of United Kingdom but population is less than 9% of UK total.
Number 3 = Geography Highest mountain in Scotland, also UK record. Ben Nevis at 4406 feet.

Number 4= Most famous loch. Loch Ness home of the legendary Loch Ness Monster

Number 5 = Population Glasgow 629,501

Number 6 = Graham Thomas 1805-1869.
Born Glasgow.
Inventor. Most notable. Invented first dialysis machine (kidney)

Interesting facts about Scotland – By Nicole Connor

1.Scotland has some 790 islands, 130 of which are inhabited.
2.The most infamous Scottish dish is haggis, normally made
With sheep’s pluck heart, liver and lungs, minced with onion
Oatmeal, suet, spices and salt.
3.Scotland is famous for clans, kilts, and medieval castles as well as poetry and songs of Robert Burns.
4.Ben Nevis is the Highest mountain in Scotland and also
UK record.
5.The population of:

Ayr=46,431
Aberdeen=184,788
Dundee=154,674
Eastkilbride=73,796
Edinburgh=430,082
Glasgow=629,501
Hamilton=48,546
Kirkcaldy=46,912
Livingston=50,826
Paisley=74,170
Cumbernauld=49,644

Mr McGivern’s S1 Modern Studies Classes – Crime Survey

As part of our S1 “Crime” unit you should take part in our Crime Survey. All you need to do is to click on the phrase below and the survey will appear. Just click the buttons that apply to you and press the button and that’s it!

Click here to take the test

Mr McGivern’s S1 Social Subjects Classes

Posted here is the first couple of lessons from the Crime Unit. Posted here is the Homework sheet from the first lesson.

COMING SOON – Watch out for LINKS that you can use for your own private research.

Some good answers on Site & Situation

Jade Lowrie 1.5 wrote:
In Glasgow there is the River Clyde. You can see it from the town and can travel over it on a boat etc. When you fly over it you realise how big it is. We don’t have any mountains or lakes. We have been told we have some of the best schools in the UK such as St. Paul’s and a primary school in Paisley.
Anthony Carlin 1.5 wrote:
The site and situation of Glasgow are next to the River Clyde and hills called the Campsies, art gallerys and museums Kelvin grove art gallery, Kelvin hall, Queens Park Bell Houston Park and Kelvin Grove Park.

S1 Homework on Glasgow – Site & Situation

S1 Homework on Glasgow – Site & Situation

In order to do this Homework which involves you writing a paragraph describing the site and situation of Glasgow, the following resources have been posted here to help you.
If you click on this link – for help on Situation
Then follow this link – Link for help on SITE

Some Homework Help

Some pupils have been given an element of the Glasgow Coat of Arms to explain for their teacher for next week.

The coat of arms always shows the fish with a ring held in its mouth. This is because a King of Strathclyde had given his wife a ring as a present. But the Queen gave it to a knight who promptly lost it. Some versions of the story say that the King took the ring while the knight was asleep and threw it in the river. The King then demanded to see the ring – threatening death to the Queen if she could not do so. The knight confessed to St Mungo who sent a monk to catch a fish in the river Clyde. When this was brought back (presumably catching salmon in the Clyde in those days was a lot easier then!) St Mungo cut open the fish and found the ring. When the Bishop of Glasgow was designing his own seal around 1271, he used the illustration of a salmon with a fish in its mouth and this has come down to us in today’s coat of arms.

Our Trip To The GFT! by Bethany Gale

On Tuesday the 20th of February S1 went to the GFT to see a film about what Glasgow was like in the past. The film showed us that children who did not have enough money went to a holiday camp that was paid by the council.

The film was named “Tam Truckles Troubles”. Tam Truckle was a father of two boys who wanted to go on holiday but they had no money. So their father sent them to a camp paid by the council, which the boys spotted in the paper. The film showed us what happened at the camp. The camp was just for boys and later we saw a camp for girls.

The camp the boys went to was very different from the girl’s. They both did fitness exercises but the boys did exercises and running and the girls did dancing. At both camps there was singing but only the boys got to go on swimming trips. At the end of the film when the two boys went home they told their father all about their trip and we saw how different it was to holidays we go on!

S1 Trip to Glasgow Film Theatre

80 S1 Social Subjects pupils were taken on a trip to the Glasgow Film Theatre