Our Scottish heritage covers a wide and varied range of topics. It can be linked to our history, landscape, media, culture, transport, sport, politics, languages, food – just about anything, as long as it is specific to Scotland! This course will allow you to use IT to carry out  some independent research on a Scottish topic of your choice, after first exploring some specific examples of Scottish heritage.

This  course will often involve going outside for collection and survey trips, combined with follow-up and background work in the classroom. It is likely that we will also make displays to communicate the results of our studies to others in the school.

In addition, it is likely that the group will engage in the consideration of wider environmental issues, such as recycling and energy saving. We may perhaps become involved in the promotion of initiatives of this type across the school.

Ideally, the course will run all year, with the same committed and enthusiastic group. In the spring we may develop our activities into work towards the John Muir Award. This would be a project to ‘Discover, Explore, Conserve and Share a Wild Place.’

You will cover various aspects of forensics such as pathology, entomology, DNA matching, fingerprinting, ballistics, crime scene analysis and various other methods of chemical and biological analysis and detection.

It will include some theory on different forensic techniques with numerous practical based activities, including a full crime scene investigation.

Students will have the opportunity to work on their laboratory and problem solving skills.

You will develop your practical skills on keyboard, xylophone, guitar and ukulele and will work together in small bands to create performances.

You don’t need to be a musical genius, but you do need to be willing to join in and to try new things!