| Title |
Short description |
Related curricular areas |
Age group |
| A letter from America |
Applying knowledge gained in Social Studies, pupils 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 pupils 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 |
Pupils 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 |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
| Artwork – 150 years of River Clyde |
Through investigating artistic images of the Clyde over the last 150 years, pupils 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 |
Pupils 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 |
Pupils 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 |
Upper Primary, Lower Secondary |
| Clyde communities exhibition |
Pupils 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 |
Pupils 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 |
Upper 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 |
Pupils 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 |
Pupils 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 |
Pupils 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 pupils 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 |
Upper Secondary |
| Making a difference this Christmas |
Pupils 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, Lower Secondary, Upper 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 |
| 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, Lower Secondary, Upper 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 |
Pupils 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, pupils will produce a poster that will be judged by a panel of marketing experts. |
Expressive Arts, Languages, Social Studies, Technologies |
Lower Secondary |
| Scottish café |
Pupils 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 |
Lower Secondary, Upper Secondary |
| Scottish Christians |
Pupils 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 |
Upper Primary |
| Senior citizen concert |
Pupils 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 |
Pupils 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 |
Pupils 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 |
Pupils 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 |
Pupils 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 |
