History

DO YOU OR ANY OF YOUR FAMILY FEATURE IN THIS 500 PAGE ONLINE HISTORY BOOK OF SCIENNES? IT WAS CREATED IN 2012 TO MARK OUR 120th ANNIVERSARY.

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History of Sciennes Across A Dozen Decades

DOWNLOAD SIX INSTALMENTS OF SCIENNES’ HISTORY ACROSS A DOZEN DECADES ON YOUR iPAD TO OPEN in iTUNES or iBOOKS:

A Dozen Decades at Sciennes on iTUNES

Mr Howie’s Tour of the school building

120th Anniversary June 1st 2012

Sciennes Primary School opened in 1892 and celebrated its 120th Anniversary on June 1st 2012 with a birthday party for our current 640 pupils and their families. The street was closed and families were invited to bring their own picnic. An informal reunion for former staff on Thursday 31st May 6pm-8pm in the School Hall and it was wonderful to welcome back so many dear friends of the school. To commemorate the anniversary, an online history was created as well as six instalments of an eBook available in iTunes (see links above).

120th Anniversary History of Sciennes eBook : “A Dozen Decades at Sciennes”
Thank you to everyone who contributed to our online memories to celebrate our anniversary. The original text can still be accessed online in Google Docs:
ONLINE COLLABORATIVE HISTORY eBOOK
We still welcome memoirs and photographs which will continue to be added to our Google Doc Online eBook. Please contact lucy.gallagher@sciennes.edin.sch.uk with any contributions.

The text in the Google Doc has been restructured with interactive content – photographs, audio, video, animations – and is now available in six instalments for free download through iTunes and iBooks. Thank you to all former and current pupils, staff and friends of Sciennes for their contributions and to Sciennes’ parent and author Mary Turner Thomson for all her endeavours in bringing the school’s history to life in these digital publications. She has worked tirelessly on our behalf to reproduce all the material collated during our anniversary celebrations in interactive formats on the iPad and we hope you enjoy the timelines, quizzes and videos featuring Sciennes pupils. Thanks also to Andy Nagle from Apple for his suggestion to release in instalments.

Sciennes 120th Birthday from Sciennes Primary School on Vimeo.

Grateful thanks to our sponsor: The Big Lottery Fund through its City of Edinburgh “Growing Confidence” project.

Victorian Era Timeline for 120th Anniversary iBook from Sciennes Primary School on Vimeo.

P2 pupils narrate the first instalment of our eBook with Mary Turner Thomson. The Victorian Era section is available in iTunes and can be downloaded free. (Mary plays Scott Joplin at the beginning of the video.)