Sciennes, fielding four teams, made an excellent start in the first event of the new season, Lothian League Day One, run by Lothian Junior Chess at Wester Hailes Education Centre on 24th November. The season started with the highest number of teams entered for this event for six years and the Sciennes' teams performed extremely well.P5 … Continue reading Chess Success
Category: Class of 2010
Blaze Girls’ Basketball Tournament
14 girls from Sciennes took up the invitation from Blaze Basketball to attend a Round Robin Tournament at the Crags Sports Centre with 4 girls from St Peter's on Friday 28th November 4pm-6pm. Thank you very much to Sarah Murphy from Blaze for organising. The Tuesday and Thursday taster session clubs were a fantastic success … Continue reading Blaze Girls’ Basketball Tournament
Blaze P5-P7 Girls’ Basketball Tournament
 Next week is the last week for the lunchtime Active Schools P5-P7 Girls' Basketball club sessions, which have been a great success. Blaze coaches Sarah and Eoghann have very kindly invited ALL the girls, as many as can come along, to a tournament at the nearby Crags Centre on Friday 28th November, 4-6pm.
Musical Instrument Museum Workshops
Sarah Deters, Edinburgh University Musical Instrument MuseumWe cannot thank Sarah Deters from Edinburgh University's Museum of Musical Instruments enough! Sarah, a primary school teacher in America and now head of Outreach for the Museum, had such a lovely manner with the children when she provided an amazing six workshops this week - all three Primary … Continue reading Musical Instrument Museum Workshops
Thank You EUMS!
What a fabulous musical presentation on Wednesday 12th November by Edinburgh University Music Society in the Reid Concert Hall! Grateful thanks to Ben Crabbe and Amanda MacLeod, President of EUMS, and all the talented musicians for such a lively, informative and inspiring presentation. Our children from P4A, P5A, P5B, P5C, P6A, P6C and P7B learned … Continue reading Thank You EUMS!
P5 Learning about Energy with Mr McKenna
Family Fundraising for the Playground
Active Schools Lunchtime Girls’ Basketball
Blaze Basketball Club, based at the Crags, launched their fabulous new Active Schools lunchtime club today for P5-7 girls in Sciennes Hall. However, it would be fair to say that there was a good deal of confusion over who had registered to participate and for that we apologise. The paper consent form did request an … Continue reading Active Schools Lunchtime Girls’ Basketball
Active Schools Lunchtime Girls’ Basketball Club
Blaze Basketball Club, based at the Crags, launch their new Active Schools lunchtime club tomorrow for P5-7 girls in Sciennes Hall. It will run on Tuesdays between 12.40pm-1.10pm over the next five weeks. All twenty places were quickly snapped up on Wisepay and if there is enough interest, Sarah Murphy and Eoghann Dover from Blaze … Continue reading Active Schools Lunchtime Girls’ Basketball Club
JGHS Free Chanter and Pipe Band Drumming Taster Sessions for P5-7
Thursday 30th October from 3.45-4.45pm P5-7 pupils at Sciennes have been sent an email about an exciting opportunity to take part in chanter and pipe band drumming taster sessions at James Gillepsie's High School. Any pupils who are keen to continue will have an opportunity to take part in further classes beginning Thursday 6th November at a … Continue reading JGHS Free Chanter and Pipe Band Drumming Taster Sessions for P5-7
World Autism Awareness Day 2nd April
P4B Sumdog Challenge
Mr Kearton's and Mrs Maguire's Primary 4B class represented Sciennes in a citywide online maths challenge this week - and came a remarkable 8th place.Competing against 33 schools from across the City, 4B took part in a wide range of mental maths games on the Sumdog website, developing their accuracy and speed as they went.Edinburgh's … Continue reading P4B Sumdog Challenge
Bold Buccaneers on Stage
P3 Cycle Lessons
Congratulations to all our P3 cyclists who took part in cycle training led by Angela Christie and Chris Hill. Thank you to Darren and all the volunteers.At House Assemblies on Friday 17th May, to celebrate P1 cyclists' achievements in learning to cycle, Lauder House watched this video of a child sharing his feelings about riding … Continue reading P3 Cycle Lessons
Sciennes Builds A Farm Harvest Appeal
This year Primary Three pupils will again lead our Harvest Fundraising Appeal. The charity chosen is Send A Cow to Africa. P3 pupils in Mrs Young's class have created posters showing how money raised can be spent in helping people in Africa to build farms. For example a chicken is £6.00, a fruit tree is … Continue reading Sciennes Builds A Farm Harvest Appeal
P2/3 Girls’ Football Team
The P2/3 Girls football team played in the first ever Brunstfield P2/3 football competition on Saturday 24th March, and they won!They played with a super attitude against South Morningside, Bruntsfied and James Gillespies and had really good fun with all the other teams. The girls were presented with a trophy which they have been allowed … Continue reading P2/3 Girls’ Football Team
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