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When you discover the Captain flying your return flight from Belfast to Edinburgh is a former
@AlloaAcademy
Higher Modern Studies pupil. An absolute privilege to catch up with Stuart after we landed❤️
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Been some great work in Modern Studies so far this term. Looking forward to acknowledging the efforts of our young people in class through my Superstar scratch cards ⭐️ thanks to Twittersphere for the inspiration
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Shout out to Marco who completes S6 having achieved 💯% in every assessment S4-S6 in Modern Studies. Congratulations on your achievement! 🌟 good luck in your next chapter studying Law
@EdinburghUni
👨🏻🎓
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This has been a labour of love tonight! But the formatting wasn’t going to beat me 😂 Our Modern Studies learning journey is complete 🗺
@AlvaModStuds
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Today’s job was thinking ahead to courses after Easter. Thanks to Twitterinspiration - some handy guides for those coming back to Mod Studs & Politics next year
📺suggested viewing
📖suggested reading
💻online learning articles
@AlvaModStuds
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Normally at this time of year I am SQA marking and don’t have time to lift my head after work/marking. Tonight I sat out here with a coffee and watched my lights come on 💡
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The first in our series of ‘Inside the Classroom’
@AlvaAcademy
showing you the environment our young people learn in and some of the exciting projects we have coming up!
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Street party fun at Clacks hub today to celebrate
#VEDay75
Our young people decorated empire biscuits, made bunting, cracked the enigma codes & even tried out some jitterbug moves 💪🏻
@MrsMcKennaHT
@allisonlj06
@ClacksEducation
@lorrainesanda
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There’s been a murder in Modern Studies! S4 are using their detective skills to review the evidence at each station to reach a verdict. Thanks to
@missmillarmods
for the lesson inspiration last year. Biggest question was - which member of the faculty was my body? 🔍📝great work!
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A massive shout out to the team this week who completed our
@AlvaUSA2023
experience. Being willing to give up your week & be away from your families is a huge ask but hugely appreciated 🖤 what a team!
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T/morrow is going to be a hard day saying goodbye to our fab S6 😢 when I left Alloa I was nervous I wouldn’t have the same pupil relationships again but these guys bought into me on day 1 & have helped grow
@AlvaModStuds
to where it is today 🖤 5 years, 45 months, 912 periods
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Congratulations to the winner of our Euan Houston trophy for his charitable work and 6 YEARS 100% attendance throughout his time
@AlvaAcademy
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Continuing our ‘Inside the Classroom’
@AlvaAcademy
- tonight Mrs Clifford & Miss Cumming
@AlvaHistory
showcasing our History department 🌺📝
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When your group send you this ❤️🇺🇸📜 my heart is bursting with how much the kids have enjoyed today.
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A test of how closely Higher Politics were listening to me today! Constitution Bingo! When I say the words throughout the lesson - score it off and shout Obama for a full house! Great work guys 👏🏻📜
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Higher Modern Studies are all about the source handling skills this week 🔍 these handy technique bookmarks are being issued to all students this week to help them complete source questions 🔖
@AlvaModStuds
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Today has been outstanding so far - taking in the sites of Paestum. Our group have been an absolute credit in 33°
@AlvaItaly
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Our final performance this evening is dedicated to a former
@AlvaAcademy
pupil - Corbin Ward
‘The Greatest Gift’ - give the gift of music to those not here 🎼
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When
@AlvaAcademy
does book week, we do it properly! 💛 Social Subjects & RMPS do Wizard of Oz! Thanks to
@AlvaEnglishDept
for organising our Great Gatsby Speakeasy at break time 🍾🎼
@AlvaModStuds
@AlvaRmps
@AlvaHistory
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Excited to be embarking on the next phase of my Clacks career tomorrow - starting at the authority one day a week. Looking forward to working with the team and got my notepads ready 📝
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Advanced Higher were up and running this afternoon getting to grips with their first task & their new books. Looking forward to exploring this with them 💛
@ForbesMaginnis
date for your diary 25th October!
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It’s a wrap! Farewell to
@MrWadkinsHist
and congratulations on a successful probation year from us all
@AlvaAcademy
🎓🥳
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Are you interested in joining a Faculty that is forward thinking, creative and supportive? Looking forward to seeing who my new subject colleague will be! ⬇️
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Next year we have a class of 21 for Advanced Higher so today’s job has been updating resources & preparing for new timetable. Excited to see them all again for their final year in Modern Studies 👏🏻
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As snacks go, bringing out the big guns. Krispy Kreme Big Apple doughnut 🍩🍎
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Senior Modern Studies are kicking off our Social Issues topic exploring the SIMD map and creating our own Clackmannanshire Monopoly. Great discussions taking place throughout the groups about the key indicators 🚗🏢💼💴⚖️🩺
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A powerful and thought provoking session with
@AlvaAcademy
Advanced Higher Modern Studies &
@G_Armstrong21
this afternoon exploring causes of crime & The Young Team influence on society. Thank you for your time and input - was a valuable experience 🖤
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As a single household it’s lovely to have this little dude back in my bubble 😎
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Won’t lie this took me far longer than I thought it would 🙈 New home learning takeaway menus for when we return in August
☕️personalisation & choice
🥤supports blended learning
🍶positive reward system
@AlvaModStuds
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Thanks to Twittersphere for the idea 💡 Higher Politics completed their own Definition Dots for the start of our first unit to create our glossary for after summer
@AlvaModStuds
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Another year, another Advanced Higher class flying the nest 👩🏼🎓 Won’t lie, I was feeling the stress with them today as we took the dissertations to the wire but all done & ready for collection!
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Turning 3️⃣6️⃣ on a 7 period day has been made special thanks to my lovely colleagues and my common room group 🥳 feeling the birthday love 💕
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Productive day getting all organised for the new Higher Politics class next year. Excited to get started 👏🏻 onto creating my Hamilton lesson now 🙈
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All set for the 12.30am alarm clock
to take 48 young people & 4 staff to Sorrento & Amalfi tomorrow for our
@AlvaGeography
trip 🇮🇹
Passport ✔️
Credit card ✔️
Trusty itinerary folder ✔️
Factor 50+++++ ✔️
@AlvaItaly
See you in 8 hours!
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Double Higher on a Friday afternoon wasn’t the graveyard shift with 5B. Great teamwork as we revised our first China sub topic with ‘Roll it Recap’ 🎲 they can’t wait to start their essays next week 😂
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Staff team are still standing despite the heat! Finally getting an Italian coffee ☕️
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Take 60 pupils half across the world on a school trip, no problem. Be responsible for 1 nephew from Glasgow international to Euro Disney = the fear.
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January is brighter with a birthday 🎉 happy birthday
@AlvaRmps
Enjoy your Colin the caterpillar cake 🐛
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Busy day in Politics today exploring the political spectrum & compass 🧭 thanks to
@mrfitzhist
for sharing your initial slides on the PM quiz last year on twitter & giving me inspiration to add some questions in! Great chat re what PM the students are!
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Today we say cheerio,good luck & happy birthday
@MissBoydMS
who has been with us for the past 12 weeks. It has been a privilege to have a former pupil join our Faculty as a valued colleague. Thank you so much for all your efforts & the contribution you have made to our pupils☺️💕
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The world had other plans for our trip in 2020, but we said America would wait for us and it has. All staff packs and hoodies have been issued and in 3 days
@AlvaUSA2023
will be underway.
6️⃣0️⃣ pupils
5️⃣ staff
America, here we come! ✈️🗽🇺🇸
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Today is my 4 year Alva-nniversary since I got the FPT job. Time flies when you are having fun! Lots more to come!
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Waiting to take off for our final leg to Edinburgh & just been handed these. Need to save them for home so I don’t cry 😭🗽🇺🇸🏙️🌉
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Two years ago today, I got the call from
@AlvaAcademy
offering me the job of Faculty PT. What a quick two years! Lots of memories, friendships and relationships created with the staff & our young people
#teamalva
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Advanced higher are such troopers! Not only did they have a double period of me 5&6 today, they came back for a dissertation supported study 📚 and still smiling!
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Pulled up at the drive thru window this morning to pay for my coffee & the girl said it had already been paid for. Woman in car in front wearing NHS uniform asked if she could pay for the car behind’s coffee. Such a lovely gesture ☺️☕️ I shall repay the kindness next time 🖤
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One of my new Politics lessons is ‘Play it like a Politician’ - the gathering of these monopoly boards has been a Freeland family effort 😂 I’ve had mum & dad in every charity shop across Cumbernauld & Kirkintilloch fulfilling my search criteria 🎲 but I’m ready!
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Super first day in Naples despite the stifling heat. Currently 32° 🥵 kids have done so well and have been great company despite the heat!
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I’m an organised person but with 21 for AH Mods next year, I’ve had to up my game! June lessons all prepped, labelled and ready for handout.
⚖️ course notes
⚖️ Glossary
⚖️ suggested reading
⚖️ dissertation handout
All I need now are my Mods superstars ⭐️
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If anyone is looking for me this weekend, I’ll be inside updating my political PowerPoints and resources 😂
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Farewell to S6 from some of our members of staff 😢 don’t forget to tag
@AlvaAcademy
and show us how you are watching this evening!
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Today I made sure I switched the laptop off at a decent time and got outside for some fresh air 🌿💐
#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek2020
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View from the office today 🏛️ Live Supreme Court protests. Modern Studies participation in action 🪧
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Our Modern Studies S5
@AlvaModStuds
subject prize winner 🏆 congratulations Olivia, it’s been a pleasure to teach you 💛
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Spent yesterday updating my egg challenge capsules ready for revision. Higher & Nat 5 have their own capsules enabling them to practice different parts of the course, skills & examples. From easy peasey to challenge yourself! 🐣 🥚💪🏻
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Congratulations to some of our Advanced Higher Modern Studies pupils who submitted their dissertations this morning. It’s been a slog but full credit to you for persevering 📄👏🏻
@AlvaModStuds
@AlvaAcademy
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Came back from covering a class elsewhere in the school and found this little beauty on my desk 😂
Happy holidays from the Obama’s ❤️
Genuinely made me laugh out loud. We have the best pupils 🖤
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We officially opened our UN classroom in the Social Subjects Faculty today with our S3 General Assembly debate on climate change, mirgrant crisis & nuclear weapons. Some aspiring world leaders in action today! 🇺🇳 📜
@AlvaModStuds
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Our biggest advanced higher class to date
@AlvaAcademy
have finally submitted their Modern Studied dissertations!
I think we can all agree it’s tested our limits this week but we’ve made it and I’m super proud of them 🎓🖤
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Had my 1st dental appointment this morning since 2019. Receptionist said I had a new dentist. No problem.Walk in & girl who sat next to me for 6years in Registration, who always said she was going to be a dentist is the new practice owner. Lovely to see her & a girl boss moment!
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Tonight it’s my turn to raise money for an amazing cause
@AlvaMacmillan
All set for my bingo/music night at Condorrat social club with Mr Clifford performing the role of bingo caller 💚
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How wonderful do our young people look? Representing
@AlvaAcademy
at the Mock Trial event in Edinburgh this evening with
@MissMitchellMS
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Tonight was all about staff health and well-being. Thank you Miss Manzoor
@HE_AlvaAcademy
for showing us how to make a Christmas gonk! 🎅🏻
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Thank you ‘front table’ for my birthday costa voucher. Treated myself tonight while I mark your essays ☺️
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22 in an advanced higher class means a lot of dissertation marking. Bringing out the big guns tonight .
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Fourth time I’ve been here but every time it gets me. Been wonderful to see our young people engaging with the exhibitions and asking questions. 🇺🇸
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When your mum is on invigilator duty today and she brings her cake A- game to the faculty 🦌
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We’ve missed seeing our pupils faces so today
@AlvaRmps
and I completed a secret mission to get out & surprise some
@AlvaAcademy
S4s to thank them for their hard work online. Was lovely to see you all & if we didn’t manage to see you today, keep an eye on the post! 📮
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Something exciting is happening
@AlvaAcademy
today…our Options choice fayre to assist learners with their subject choices. Social subjects faculty looking pretty fine!
@AlvaHistory
@AlvaGeography
@AlvaModStuds
@AlvaRmps
@AlvaClassics
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Looking forward to welcoming Higher Modern Studies, Higher Politics & Advanced Higher to Easter Study today 🐣
🐥 targeted revision eggs
🐥 Focused skills practice
🐥 Retrieval Practice
🐥 Beat the Egg knowledge revision
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Tonight we should have been preparing to take pupils on the trip of a lifetime but safety first 🗽 the world will wait for us 🚖 but I’m wearing my New York hoody today & using my Obama mug just to feel a little closer 🇺🇸
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It’s the end of an era with this year’s AH class.Disappointed not to be with you tmrw for your last day 🎓 We shared our first year together in 2018 & grew into
@AlvaAcademy
together over the last 6 years. Thank you for all the memories & best of luck for the next chapter🎓 🌟
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For the past 6 months I’ve been getting 2 or 3 headaches a week. Some so bad I have to go bed as soon I get home.Optician suggested I give up my job 😅 We compromised on new glasses, stronger prescription, an anti glare coating & max 3 ☕️ a day. Day 6 in a row of no headaches 🤞🏻
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Today was our last full day in Italy and a lovely moment to share with our group in the Pertosa caves. Our young people have been an absolute credit & we have laughed so much the last few days. Each of them were issued with a copy of the group photo bought for them as a memento
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So lovely to see the support online tonight for our young people waiting on results tomorrow 🤍 whatever tomorrow brings; you should be proud 🥹 first year to sit formal exams during a pandemic 👏🏻
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I’m frequently asked ‘but what jobs can you do with Modern Studies?’
Well, let me show you just SOME of the jobs you can do using the skills and knowledge gained in Modern Studies 👊🏻
@AlvaDyw
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Advanced Higher - I’ve created our first video lesson and shared it by email/edmodo using google drive.
It’s a trial run! Won’t lie - taken me over an hour 😂 don’t judge the living room decor! Feedback welcome & I’ll see if it works for other classes!
@Alva_AcademyDL
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My revision egg capsules are back! Higher Politics are cracking on with their revision this morning
🥚 each coloured egg assesses a different aspect of the course
🐣 challenge yourself questions accessing QR codes linked to
@west_os
revision materials
🍫 sweet treat incentive
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Time to rejoin the working world. 18th teaching year incoming so treated myself to a new work bag & notepad 💚🌿
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Schools officially out of summer! Picked this little dude up for auntie/nephew date. 17 years teaching & p1 over!
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Been a super day exploring the Amalfi coast. Our young people have been such great company. Currently watching them all play in the pool together with a Coca Cola 🥤feeling pretty lucky to be their teacher 🖤
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Three years ago today I got the call from Mr McEwan offering me the job of Faculty PT. Celebrating my Alva anniversary with my old Faculty PT
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Double period of Higher p5/6 today was anything but a slog! Taking charge of their own revision creating challenge grids for someone else to complete on Tuesday. Marking checklists & scale of difficulty included! ✅
@AlvaModStuds
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Thanks to fellow Modern Studies teachers for the recommendation. Can’t wait to start using some of these ideas with classes 📕
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We had planned to have a faculty street party today for VE Day, but we weren’t deterred & met virtually instead!
40s fashion, music, tea & cakes! We can’t wait to see
@AlvaAcademy
pupil efforts tomorrow! 🇬🇧☕️🧁🎼
@AlvaModStuds
@MissDonnelly8
@AlvaRmps
@AlvaHistory
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Great lesson developed by
@AlvaHistory
today exploring the conditions of Jewish ghettos in Poland. Pupils discussing the number of calories Jews had to live on per day through a visual representation. Could you guess which ones are 184 calories?
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We are getting ready for S5/6 January Prelims this week
@AlvaModStuds
Each senior pupil will be issued with their own Advent Calendar revision pack to help them manage their time and revision throughout December 📅 🎄
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A real contender for the Faculty prize?!
The History dept’s themed Christmas door display is ready! Mrs Clifford & Miss Cumming have taken full advantage of having doors side by side!
#Christmastruce
#ChristmassyChallenge
#Festivedoors
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Taking my new bag for a stroll today in sunny Glasgow. A freebie from one of the stall sellers in Wall Street. Think he thought we were mad on a school trip with 60 pupils and needed a little something 🗽
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Last year I had the pleasure of mentoring
@AlvaClassics
as they undertook the
@ClacksEducation
Preparing for Middle Leadership programme & this year I’m delighted to be joining the team to support this year’s new cohorts. Great 1st information session tonight 👏🏻
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Kicked off with our new advanced higher class today. Another large class this year so organisation is going to be key! Folders issued with reading list & tasks. Going to be a great year! 🤓
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Our first Pop Up shop opening today was a massive success! Over 50 pupils & staff visited to purchase or reserve an item 👗🧥
Great work by Megan & Iona who managed our shop today & were our cashiers 🛍
We are back open again on Thursday lunchtime with new stock!
@AlvaAcademy
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