2B History Homework

Here are some of the best Cuban Missile Crisis posters from Mr Shearer's S2 class

Election fever at Kirkwall Grammar School

The Social Subjects Department will be running a whole school election to mirror the Scottish Parliament elections on May 3rd. Any pupils who want to be candidates (S1 to S3) should see Mr Ewing ASAP. Closing date for candidates entering election is March 12th.

1R Death Penalty vote

Here are the results from 1R Death Penalty vote

Should Scotland have the Death Penalty?

NO 65%
Yes 30%
Spoiled papers 5%

History cheque for charity

A cheque for £401 has been presented to Orkney MS society. Here is the Advanced Higher History class - minus Jonathon - who all put a huge amount of time and effort into the event.

Check out Mr Shearer's blog

kgsuppie.blogspot.com

History Fancy dress day photos.

Late last year we ran a History fancy dress day in order to Raise money for the MS society in Orkney. The event was a great success and over 400 pounds were raised. Here are some photos from the day.

1SSP Death Penalty Vote

As part of our USA unit S1 Modern Studies unit the class held a Referendum on "Should Scotland have the Death Penalty"
The Result was as follows

19 voters
Turn out 100%

No votes 13 or 68%
Yes votes 6 or 32%

After watching the news tonight about the snow in England I remembered the snow we got last year in Orkney. This is a view of the road up to my house. The road is under 3 feet of snow! So far in 2007 there has only been a few snow showers up here but the snow will come yet!

History, Geography and Modern Studies in Kirkwall Grammar School

Welcome to the Social Subjects in Kirkwall Grammar School blog. The idea is to have an area where staff and pupils at KGS can show some of the work they have been doing and swap good ideas, websites, essays etc with other schools in Scotland. I will also put on any other info about what affects life in Orkney such as the weather.