4 School courses
Courses in first and second years
By the end of Primary 7, your child will already have met several teachers from Uddingston Grammar. These established links help to ensure a smooth transfer from primary to secondary.
Once at secondary school, all classes are arranged on a mixed-ability basis, grouped in houses and named accordingly:
1 Arran 1 Bute 1 Lewis 1 Mull 1 Orkney 1 Skye
Classes contain no more than 33 pupils, but for practical subject's class numbers are not more than 20, so pupils have to be grouped in a slightly different way for those subjects. All pupils follow the same course of study comprising...
Care is taken to ensure that all pupils are given an equal opportunity to participate in classes which were formerly, by tradition, associated with a single sex group, e.g. home economics and technical subjects.
Subject syllabuses have been structured so that the work undertaken by S1 pupils builds upon and articulates smoothly with the P7 curriculum. This ensures that all pupils can be helped to learn at their own pace and to work to their full capacity. Children with specific difficulties can also receive additional support from our specialist staff. Such support is arranged as needs are identified, e.g. visiting service by a teacher of the deaf or a language support service for bilingual pupils. Our more able pupils are encouraged and extended by the provision of more demanding work and by the use of in-class attainment groupings when appropriate; in recent sessions, broad band setting has been introduced in S2 Mathematics.
In March, S2 pupils choose from a wide range of certificate courses that are pursued in S3 and S4.
