Believe•Achieve is our motto at Sciennes Primary School and at the P4-7 Assembly on Friday 27th March we celebrated Milenka's international Fencing success and looked opportunities to take part in activities in Edinburgh this Easter,
On Friday 29th March 2019 we welcomed Stuart Irvin from St Catherine's Argyle Church to both P1-3 and P4-7 Assemblies. The children enjoyed spotting ways Stuart had changed his identity as he told the story of the Road to Emmaus. Mr Hunter led the P1-3 Assembly in Ms Anstruther's absence and thoroughly enjoyed receiving a Birthday badge! We celebrated pupil achievements and sang the Spring Chicken song.
On Friday 22nd April, we celebrated Earth Day and the 400th Anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare (23rd April 1616). House Captains congratulated fellow pupils on recent achievements and reminded everyone about our annual Swimathon, taking place next week.
Mr Howie led the P4-7 Equal Rights Assembly on Friday 29th April. He explored a definition of 'prejudice' with the pupils and asked them to consider how they can play a part in making sure everyone is included. P7 Sports Captains announced how well each House had done in our fantastic Swimathon this week, swimming the equivalent of Sciennes to Benmore! Sports Captains also congratulated pupils on recent achievements and Yash - who won both Racquet tournaments last year - presented the EPSSA Badminton trophy to this year's winner, Ellen. Well done to Erin who came runner up in both Badminton AND Tennis tournaments.
On Friday 29th March 2019 we welcomed Stuart Irvin from St Catherine's Argyle Church to both P1-3 and P4-7 Assemblies. The children enjoyed spotting ways Stuart had changed his identity as he told the story of the Road to Emmaus. Mr Hunter led the P1-3 Assembly in Ms Anstruther's absence and thoroughly enjoyed receiving a Birthday badge! We celebrated pupil achievements and sang the Spring Chicken song.
On Friday 22nd April, we celebrated Earth Day and the 400th Anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare (23rd April 1616). House Captains congratulated fellow pupils on recent achievements and reminded everyone about our annual Swimathon, taking place next week.
Mr Howie led the P4-7 Equal Rights Assembly on Friday 29th April. He explored a definition of 'prejudice' with the pupils and asked them to consider how they can play a part in making sure everyone is included. P7 Sports Captains announced how well each House had done in our fantastic Swimathon this week, swimming the equivalent of Sciennes to Benmore! Sports Captains also congratulated pupils on recent achievements and Yash - who won both Racquet tournaments last year - presented the EPSSA Badminton trophy to this year's winner, Ellen. Well done to Erin who came runner up in both Badminton AND Tennis tournaments.
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Mrs Noble led the P1-3 and the P4-7 Easter Assemblies in the Hall on the last day of term Thursday 24th March and wished everyone a safe and happy Easter holiday. Jane, Minister from St Catherine's of Argyll Church, talked about the symbol of the cross and what Easter means to Christians and Miss Dougal led the School Choir in a rousing rendtion of pupil penned "Come On and Sing With Me." P5 Play Squad pupils explained the new Small Play materials and how to look after them in the playground. P2 pupils Emma and Bella were congratulated on their £250 Make a Difference award winning dressing up box idea to tackle 1 in 5 Child Poverty. House Captains congratulated pupils on recent achievements and we gave a fond farewell to P7B pupil Alexandra who returns to Australia. Mrs Noble wished everyone a safe and happy holiday.
We look forward to welcoming everyone back on MONDAY 11th APRIL.
Jennifer Oliphant is a Sunshine Coast wedding photographer and portrait photographer. Her services include wedding photography and portrait photography of babies, children, couples, families and pregnancy.
Mrs Noble led the P1-3 and the P4-7 Easter Assemblies in the Hall on the last day of term Thursday 24th March and wished everyone a safe and happy Easter holiday. Jane, Minister from St Catherine's of Argyll Church, talked about the symbol of the cross and what Easter means to Christians and Miss Dougal led the School Choir in a rousing rendtion of pupil penned "Come On and Sing With Me." P5 Play Squad pupils explained the new Small Play materials and how to look after them in the playground. P2 pupils Emma and Bella were congratulated on their £250 Make a Difference award winning dressing up box idea to tackle 1 in 5 Child Poverty. House Captains congratulated pupils on recent achievements and we gave a fond farewell to P7B pupil Alexandra who returns to Australia. Mrs Noble wished everyone a safe and happy holiday.
We look forward to welcoming everyone back on MONDAY 11th APRIL.
Mrs Noble led the end of term Easter Assemblies and Stuart Irvin, Minister at St Catherine's of Argyll, told everyone about Palm Sunday. Will you take part in the Community Easter Egg Hunt?
Mrs Noble led the end of term Easter Assemblies and Stuart Irvin, Minister at St Catherine's of Argyll, told everyone about Palm Sunday. Will you take part in the Community Easter Egg Hunt?
Sciennes Primary School is participating in City of Edinburgh's 1 in 5 Child Poverty Awareness campaign. Sciennes' Pupil Council is taking the lead in encouraging fellow pupils, classes, staff and parents to submit ideas of how they would use the award money to help make a difference to children and families living on or below the poverty line in our school community. The three best ideas will be considered for a £250 award.
Pattie Santelices, City of Edinburgh Principal Officer Health and Wellbeing, joined the P4-7 Assembly on Friday 18th March to share information about City of Edinburgh's 1 in 5 Child Poverty Awareness project. Ms Anstruther accompanied 5 Sciennes Pupil Council members to the Scottish Parliament on Wednesday 14th March and she announced that two of our P2 pupils have won an award for their idea to 'Make a Difference!' They cleverly suggested that school could keep a 'dressing up' box of costumes for pupils to borrow and their idea was awarded £250! Ms Anstruther invited everyone to donate any unused costumes to school to add to the collection for borrowing. We were absolutely delighted when Pattie announced that P6B pupil Asma's poster, highlighting 1 in 5 Child Poverty, has been selected as overall winner and will be used in campaign literature throughout Edinburgh! Pattie presented Asma with a framed copy of her artwork and a certificate. Runner up P6C pupil Samara also received a framed copy of her artwork. All the children who entered the competition received special highlighter pens for their contribution in highlighting 1 in 5 child poverty.
All the pupils were congratulated for helping to Make a Difference by dressing up in sports gear and P.E. kit and donating to Sport Relief. Our end of day total was £450! Congratulations to Isla, Ailsa and Sarah for showing great initiative in organising their own bake sale and raising £14. Very well done to P7A and P5C girls who raised an incredible total of more than £400 rollerskating across the Forth Road Bridge! We look forward to hearing about any personal fundraising efforts from our pupils since many are taking part in local run, swim or cycle events this weekend.
Sports Captains congratulated pupils for their achievements this week and led everyone in singing the Sport Relief song. Special commendation to Alex, Rory and Alex for their initiative in Making a Difference by organising a school collection of Easter eggs for Foodbank. Outstanding citizens!
On Friday 25th February 2016, House Captains helped explain SHANARRI and what we all need to be healthy and well. Pupils learned a 'SHANARRI' song, ready for our visit from Hopscotch Theatre on Thursday 10th March with their production "The Rights of the Child."
Thank you to P7 pupils Luke and Lena and to Ms Kennedy (Support for Learning Specialist and Reading Co-ordinator) for their presentation about the exciting launch of our new Playground Reading Shed on World Book Day, Thursday 3rd March.
Once a year we all come together in the Hall - twenty two classes from Primary 1 to Primary 7 - for our End of Year Assembly, led by Headteacher Mrs Alison Noble.
On Friday 27th November 2015, Sciennes' Patron of Reading - celebrated author Janis Mackay - led both P1-3 and P4-7 Scottish Book Week Assemblies. Thank you to Ms Bethan Owen for leading our school wide Book Week celebrations so successfully. Sciennes' Pupil Council thanked everyone for supporting City of Edinburgh's 1:5 Child Poverty Awareness project throughout Scottish Book Week by donating preloved, much loved and gift condition books to a child via Foodbank and other organisations.
Sciennes Primary School Parent Council Annual General Meeting (AGM) 16th June 2016, chaired by Kristel Torokoff and including updates of sub groups of Parent Council
On Friday 4th March, Arleen from ChangeWorks challenged P4-7 pupils to think about how we can reduce waste by recycling and re-using and how to make sure our playground and school are Grade A Litter Free. Our ECO team will meet next week (Waste Week) to discus and decide how to take forward improvements. House Captains helped celebrate the launch of our new Playground Reading Shed and recognise pupils' achievements.
Yes you can! You are the master of your fate and the captain of your soul. Mr Howie led the P4-7 Assembly at Sciennes Primary School on Friday 15th January and encouraged everyone to recognise what we can and cannot control then take charge of what we know we CAN change.
On Friday 14th October Mrs Noble led the P4-7 Assembly and told everyone about the forthcoming P3 led whole school Foodbank Appeal. Our Harvest Assembly will take place on 28th October when representatives from the North West Edinburgh Foodbank will collect donations of non perishable food items.
Ms Owen was congratulated on her seconded appointment to City of Edinburgh's 1+2 Languages team and everyone wished Ms Gaffney well as she begins her maternity leave.
Safe and happy holidays to all our families and we will welcome pupils back to school on TUESDAY 25th OCTOBER.
On 23rd September 2016 we reflected on the messages of Global Goals Week and how we can take action together on the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Each of our Pupil Groups - Pupil Council, Eco Group, JRSOs, P7 Captains and Digital Leaders - are making plans for the year and classes were encouraged to share their ideas with their Class Reps so that we can work together in school to take action.
P4 and P7 pupils Alba and Samara gave extraordinary performances on piano. Samara practises for many hours every day and Laila told us how she has worked hard to achieve so many Tae Kwon Do medals.
Mylo and Christopher confidently introduced our brand new iTeach Digital Leaders programme and explained how to get involved. We celebrated lots of individual pupil achievements, including a recent win for P6 Team at Boroughmuir RFC and Pedal for Scotland medals for siblings Sam, Lizzy and Quinn.
On Friday 28th April we explored Shakespeare's legacy to commemorate the anniversary of his birth and death on 23rd April. Our three P7 classes have just begun preparations for their end of year show which this year will be a musical entitled "Shakespeare Rocks!"
Our P7 House Captains thanked pupils and staff for leading numeracy sessions for families on Thursday evening so successfully, and thanked Ms Anstruther for co-ordinating and inviting Head of Maths Faculty Mr Ben Lewis to give presentations to parents. They congratulated pupils on recent achievements, which included a Princess Diana Award certificate for P5 pupils Rory, Isla and Ella in recognition of their efforts in donating hundreds of Easter eggs to Foodbank on National Kindness Day. Swim and Dive team pupils also received EPSSA certificates.
House Assemblies will take place next week led by P7 House and Sports Captains, Mrs Noble (Tantallon), Ms Anstruther (Grange), Ms Gallagher (Lauder) and Mr McKenna (Sienna).
Janis Mackay, celebrated and award winning children's author was invited by Ms Bethan Owen to become Sciennes' Patron of Reading and we are all thrilled that Janis has accepted this role. She will work with the school over the next three years and gave inspiring, masterclass presentations to both P1-3 and P4-7 Assemblies on Friday 1st May 2015.
Diana Dalton, parent of Joe in P7A, kindly provided an excellent presentation about the work of the Department for International Development. Sports Captains presented Swimathon awards and we discovered our annual fundraising event has this year so far raised a staggering £11,119! Thank you!
On Friday 25th May, we were delighted to welcome Paula from NSPCC to deliver a talk on Speaking Out to Stay Safe. Paula asked pupils what might cause worries and filled a bag with 'worry blocks' for each one mentioned. She then shared some of the ways that children might be unsafe, such as neglect or emotional, physical or sexual abuse. Children were asked to identify trusted adults (parents, grandparents, teachers) they could talk to about worries and for each one given, she removed a 'worry block', The ChildLine helpline telephone number was given as another source of help and videos were shown of possible scenarios where it might help to talk to ChildLine. Paula will return on Tuesday to deliver NSPCC workshops for P6 and P7 pupils next week.
The theme for the Assembly was 'Your Voice Matters' and there have been several occasions recently when pupil views and ideas have been listened to at a high level: Living Streets UK CEO Joe Irvin and Rebecca Simpson Living Streets Scotland meeting with pupils last Friday; Walk to School Week supported by Living Streets; and an amazing day of NHS consultation workshops for P7 delivered by the team from Royal College of Paediatricians and Child Health (RCPCH) and consultant paediatricians from The Royal Hospital for Sick Children. RCPCH flew from London and were extremely impressed by our young people's engagement, creativity and effort. P6 have also been invited to participate in an exciting event to mark National Clean Air Day 2018 with the Transport Minister on 21st June and all of these wonderful opportunities are encouraging and empowering our pupils to speak up and speak out to make a difference.
Chiara and Amelia announced their bake sale for Amnesty International raised an incredible £320 and P5 pupils promoted the activities they are leading with P4 at Saturday's Year of Young People Summer Fair.
We congratulated P7 on another example of excellent conduct at East Fortune this week and P6 on excellent sporting attitudes at the Active Schools Games at the Hub event where we retained the Cricket trophy!
On Thursday 29th March, Headteacher Mrs Alison Noble led the whole school Easter Assembly. Mrs Ruth McVicker played the Sciennes School Song, and it was lovely to be joined by recently retired co-composer Mrs Claire Ford. Stuart Irvin joined us from St Catherine's of Argyll and retold the Easter story. Congratulations to P6 pupils Rory, Isla, Ella and Evie who collected an amazing 310 Easter eggs in their Foodbank Appeal.
Mrs Noble then wished staff well, first thanking Edinburgh University Volunteer Language students Lucas and Tycho for their support this term to classes in Spanish and French and then passing on all our best wishes to Miss Kirsty Gallagher who is getting married in the Easter holidays, to Mrs Emma Kidd who is expecting her new baby soon and to Ms Chantelle Hall who is heading off on new adventures in London.
Mrs Jennie Waters has been an outstanding, devoted and much loved teacher at Sciennes for fourteen years and Mrs Noble spoke for everyone in thanking her sincerely and wishing her well in her new post at Dunbar Primary School. She will be sorely missed but hope she will keep in touch with all her friends at Sciennes.
The special whole school Assembly also marked the retirement of our incomparable and dynamic Business Manager, Ms Angela Christie, who has worked tirelessly throughout her career at Sciennes to provide the best possible experiences and learning for generations of our pupils. Her talents and capabilities are countless and the impact she has had at Sciennes is staggering.
A former Sciennes parent herself, Ms Christie has always worked indefatigably in close partnership with the Friends of Sciennes School Charity Trust and all the many Parent Council subgroups over many years. We were joined at the Assembly by several parent representatives, including Sue Lewis, Emma Kirk and Phoebe Cochrane who presented her with a gift and a banner of messages made in secret by all the pupils.
Mrs Noble and pupil Oscar presented Ms Christie with a beautiful floorbook which Ms Anstruther had arranged to be filled with lovely and creative messages from each class in school. Mrs Noble celebrated some of Ms Christie's outstanding achievements: arranging innovative cycling programmes for P1-P7, promoting sustainability, Active Travel and Spanish, introducing online payments, driving improvements in digital learning, championing outdoor learning and our wonderful playground and ever striving to light the flame of learning in all she does. And all this on top of and far beyond her Business Manager remit, where she also excels! Truly, a Sciennes Legend and thoroughly deserving of now being able to timetable some time for herself. We wish Angela a very happy retirement, with deep love and grateful respect.
After School News, the whole school sang the 'Spring Chicken' song and Mrs Noble wished all our families a safe and happy Easter holiday. School resumes on TUESDAY 17th April.
On Friday 23rd February P7 pupils again led everyone in the 'Step It Up' Sport Relief song with everyone in the Hall joining in the dance. P7 Sports Captains led Assembly by thanking those who had dressed up and purchased wrist bands and explaining why we were fundraising and how the money would be used in the UK and abroad. P7 pupils Emily, Eilidh and friends announced they raised a fabulous £150 last Friday with their Sport Relief Bake Sale, completely selling out of a huge array of home baking within twenty minutes. Thank you to P7 pupils who have been selling wrist bands over the last few weeks and P7 Louis announced that an amazing £274 had been raised!
P7 Isaac and his brother Reuben continue with their 'Marathon in a Month' campaign and we are fortunate to have made contact, with their mum's help, with representatives from Asthma UK who will visit school next term to celebrate the boys' achievement and raise awareness of asthma.
Sports Captain Eilidh presented Cross Country certificates to P6 pupils (with P7 certificates to follow) and Louis congratulated P6 Dylan on 4th place and P7 Sam on his Bronze medal in the Lothian Schools Cross Country League. Grateful thanks to Mrs Kitchen and all the families who have supported P6 and P7 participation throughout the year.
P6 pupils Rory, Isla, Ella and Evie thanked everyone for the tremendous generosity of families in donating Easter eggs to their Foodbank appeal. The big count took place at the end of the day and is in excess of 300 eggs!
Three of our ECO Reps, P7 pupils Alejandro, Camille and Rachel told everyone about Earth Hour on Saturday 24th March 8.30pm-9.30pm and encouraged pupils to take part in switching off lights during the hour. They also explained ways we can live more sustainably, beyond Earth Hour, including walking and cycling to school.
What a truly wonderful Cycle to School event this morning, in honour of our truly wonderful Business Manager Ms Angela Christie who retires next week. Thank you to all the secret organisers who managed to keep it a complete surprise and to the spectacular masses of parents, pupils and staff who turned out in force to meet at King's Buildings at 8.15am and escort her in style en route to school. Ms Christie has been fundamental in Sciennes' Active Travel movement, providing innovative cycle training programmes for all age groups over many years and developing generations of cyclists. It was a perfect tribute and show of respect and thanks to truly remarkable, inspirational and much loved Angela.
Next week, Mrs Noble will lead a whole school Easter Assembly on Thursday 29th March at 1.30pm and we will be joined by Stuart Irvin, Minister at St Catherine of Argyll's Church. In preparation, P4-7 pupils practised the 'Spring Chicken' song.
Term ends next week at 3.20pm on THURSDAY 29th March and all resume on TUESDAY 17th April.
Due to staff absence, this week’s Assembly on Friday 18 June was emailed to classes. The focus was on Clean Air Day and marked five years of Sciennes’ support for the campaign. We had been pencilled in for a visit from the new Environment Minister, Mairi McAllan, yesterday but unfortunately she had conflicting engagements. Our P7 Captains were presented with a Clean Air Day bag from John Bynorth at Environmental Protection Scotland as a thank you for their contribution to the successful campaign launch in May. Mr Hutchison’s P4A class received colouring books in recognition of his support since we launched the first Clean Air Day at Sciennes with former Environment Minister Roseanne Cunningham. The children have campaigned for clean air in surrounding streets and for closure of Sciennes Road outside the school through the Living Streets initiative, as well as learning about how air pollution can affect everyone’s health both here and abroad. P3 pupils Poppy, Makeda and Ella gave a presentation on how they are helping the Homeless and how they want to change the world!
On Friday 11 June 2021 we focused on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and how our ECO Team is working to support these goals in school. P6C had a chance to hold their own United Nations session this week, role playing and debating to help them understand how representatives from 193 member states across the globe are working together to tackle poverty, reduce inequalities and tackle climate change. P6C came up with some amazing ideas to support refugees and help countries deal with COVID-19.
This year, our ECO Team has been focusing on three main topics: Litter, Life Below Water and Climate Action. P4 reps are currently following up on their recent fact-finding mission with Mr Scott. They have decided to make signs to help us all recycle using the correct bags and bins. Today, P7 Rosa Mellanby gave a rousing call to action in reducing single use plastic (which can end up in the oceans). She asked everyone to boycott plastic straws – in school and at home. P6 pupils Ellie Napier, Vatanda McColl and Gracie Kirk prepared a presentation on Palm Oil. Vatanda was absent today so Ellie and Gracie broadcast live at both Assemblies. They were so knowledgeable, articulate and passionate about raising awareness of the problems of palm oil use and making suggestions for change. Thank you to all our ECO Reps for working so hard this year with Miss Wittland and Ms Gallagher and thank you to Ellie, Grace and Rosa for presenting so well today.
On Friday 14 May 2021 our Assemblies focused on Alan Turing, not only to raise awareness about his inspirational achievements as the father of the modern computer and the role he played in cracking the Enigma machine code during the Second World War (hastening its end and thereby saving millions of lives) but also to raise awareness of LGBT+ Equalities.
On Friday 7 May 2021 our Assemblies focused on Deaf Awareness Week and we are extremely grateful to parent Aicha Reid for providing signing videos which we have used in class each day. Our P4 and P7 Equalities Advisors produced their own signing videos to share at Assembly. Unfortunately, we experienced technical difficulties which forced us to abandon the live P1-3 Assembly broadcast which was hugely disappointing. We managed to get operational for the P4-7 Assembly and gave some information about deafness and hearing impairment and shared the story of Helen Keller’s life and amazing achievements. We will broadcast the Assembly to P1-3 on Monday and will first make sure all is working well in cyberland!
On Friday 30 April 2021 both our Assemblies focused on pupils and our school community not only participating but also taking the lead. We celebrated the Friends of Sciennes School’ Seven Hills Challenge and shared details of how many pupils took part. It was wonderful to see so many of our families taking to the hills! We showed a slideshow of happy, smiling children enjoying days out across the city. Mr Armstrong and our Digital Leaders shared how they have been supporting teachers and pupils with using technologies for teaching and learning.
Well done Eve Buckeridge and Kathleen Hunt who under their ‘own steam’ decided to clear up rubbish at Portobello beach on Saturday followed by a Bake Sale for World Wildlife Fund & raised over £25! We are so very proud of them!
Congratulations to P5 pupil Rosemary Reid who received a Green Pencil Award with her poem “Nature in Lockdown.” All the children watched a video of her reciting her winning poem at Assembly. Well done, Rosemary!
Stuart Irvin, the Minister from St Catherine’s Argyll Church joined us on Thursday 1 April 2021 for the live broadcast of our Easter Assemblies to P1-3 pupils and then to P4-P7 pupils. Stuart told the story of Maundy Thursday and Mr Hunter focused on Spring and Spring cleaning! Our three P4 ECO Reps, Stanley, Abby and Sara, demonstrated their interviewing skills by asking Mr Neil Scott (our janitor) about Recycling at Sciennes and how we can all help make it better. Mr Scott asked them for their ideas on reducing, reusing and recycling. What are yours? Tell your ECO Rep. Thank you to both of our wonderful janitors Mr Scott and Mr Reid for working so hard for all of us, recycling 400 milk cartons as well as paper and card every single day. Mr Hunter read “Sonny’s Wonderful Wellies” by Lisa Stubbs to P1-P3.
On World Children's Day 20th November 2020 and the final day of #iwillweekScotland, our P7 #iwill Champions - Serena, Lexie and Sofia - presented at both P1-3 and P4-7 Assemblies. The girls shared how they set up their own social action group when they were in P5 to raise awareness of Child Labour. Ms French certainly inspired them! They continued campaiging for #iwill4nature and were invited in P6 by Jenni Snell to present at the Scottish Learning Festival in the SECC in Glasgow last year. This year in P7 they have renamed themselves the M.ake A. D.ifference group and are focusing on Mental Heatlh. Inspiring excamples of the #powerofyouth!
On World Children's Day 20th November 2020 and the final day of #iwillweekScotland, our P7 #iwill Champions - Serena, Lexie and Sofia - presented at both P1-3 and P4-7 Assemblies. The girls shared how they set up their own social action group when they were in P5 to raise awareness of Child Labour. Ms French certainly inspired them! They continued campaiging for #iwill4nature and were invited in P6 by Jenni Snell to present at the Scottish Learning Festival in the SECC in Glasgow last year. This year in P7 they have renamed themselves the M.ake A. D.ifference group and are focusing on Mental Heatlh. Inspiring excamples of the #powerofyouth!
Assemblies on Friday 13th november 2020 related to our values of Teamwork and Respect through Learner Participation. P7 Sports Captains Josh, Cyrus, Finn and Callum introduced themselves and shared their own inspirational sportsmen to mark the upcoming International Boys and Men in Sport Day on 17th November. Many thanks to P5 pupil Alfie for drawing this date to our attention. All sixteen of our P7 Junior Leadership Team members have now introduced themselves at our weekly online Assemblies, broadcast live to the school. Our P6 Junior Road Safety Officers Eilidh, Amy and Rory again took the lead, this time in launching Road Safety Week. The theme this year is ‘No Need for Speed’ and they invited pupils to take part in designing their own Road Safety poster next week as well as encouraging everyone to ‘Be Bright and Be Seen.’ Mr hunter read a short story to P1-3 called “Bright is Right” from Think Education about the importance of being seen in the dark.
One of our Values is Teamwork and this was incorporated into our Assemblies on Friday 6th November 2020. At the P1-3 Assembly Clara, Emily, Isla, Tiana and Carla from P7C gave a presentation on water pollution affecting our oceans. Mr Hunter followed this up by reading "Tickly Octopus" by Ruth Galloway. At the P4-7 Assembly the focus was on Learner Participation teams at Sciennes. The P7 Captains, as part of the Junior Leadership Team, were introduced at both Assemblies.
One of our Values is Teamwork and this was incorporated into our Assemblies on Friday 6th November 2020. At the P1-3 Assembly Clara, Emily, Isla, Tiana and Carla from P7C gave a presentation on water pollution affecting our oceans. Mr Hunter followed this up by reading "Tickly Octopus" by Ruth Galloway. At the P4-7 Assembly the focus was on Learner Participation teams at Sciennes. The P7 Captains, as part of the Junior Leadership Team, were introduced at both Assemblies.
On Friday 25th September we looked back at previous Clean Air Day campaigns in preparation for Clean Air Day 2020 on Thursday 8th October. Let's make every day a clean air day by supporting safe, active travel and clean air spaces for our community.
On Friday 21st August 2020 we held our second live Assembly, broadcast to P1-P7 classrooms via Microsoft Teams. This week the focus was on Learner Participation. Mr Hunter explained to the children that we want to hear their ideas to help us improve our school. At the Upper Assembly, children heard about the many different areas for leadership and participation. We have had a few technical issues in some classes but we are getting better at everyone being online together.
ART COMPETITION
Design a new avatar for ONE of the TEN Building Resilience tools that has most meaning for you but it must be your own work. Do not use other people’s images and make sure there are no words in the picture.
Look through this slideshow to remind yourself of the building Resilience programme we have used for the last three years
On Friday 3rd April we shared this virtual Easter Assembly PowerPoint with children, families and staff so that we can all be in together in cyberspace! Stay safe everyone and happy holidays.
On Friday 4th October 2019, we launched our Junior Award Scheme for Schools (JASS) for P6 and P7 pupils. JASS is a Duke of Edinburgh style award for 10-14 year olds and stemmed from an original idea by Sciennes staff! Today it is an international programme, recognising young people's personal achievements. Pupils can gain Bronze in P6 and Silver in P7 (with Gold achievable by the end of S2). All our pupils attending Lagganlia next week will gain accreditation for one quarter of the award, the 'Adventure' element. P7A Lauder pupils shared their memories of Benmore and what they are looking forward to at Lagganlia.
P3 pupils gave a presentation on their Harvest Appeal for Foodbank and reminded everyone that donations can be handed in to Class Teachers until Friday 11th October. P3 pupils will come and collect. Local Minister Stuart Irvin from St Catherine's of Argyll and a representative from Foodbank will join us for a Harvest Assembly next Friday.
Elika in P5 shared her amazing experience at the launch of the Sir David Attenborough Polar Research Vessel and P7 Rebecca announced this year's ECO Reps. It was a very difficult choice with over 150 out of 375 pupils showing interest in the 12 P4-P7 places. An indication of how important environmental issues are to our young people. Congratulations to Elizabeth who retains her World Stone Skimming Champion title and to all the girls who performed in an amazing ballet production of Cinderella by the Grange School of Ballet at the Churchill Theatre. P7A Lauder pupils led the singing superbly this week!
On Friday 27th September 2019, P6 pupils Serena, Lexia, Sofia and Bella confidently shared their experiences presenting at the Scottish Learning Festival on Wednesday 25th September with Jenni Snell (Youthlink Scotland) and Rachael Hatfield (MSYP).
Pupils from Grange in P7A capably took their turn in presenting the P4-7 Assembly and in leading the singing. P3A pupils Laura and Michael were roundly applauded for their clear and confident launch of this year’s P3 led Harvest Appeal for Foodbank. Non-perishable food items can be handed into class from Monday until Friday 11th October. P3 pupils will come to classes to collect.
To celebrate the fourth anniversary of the launch of the UN Global Goals (which have their base in human rights) we watched a video - “Just A Kid” - and invited pupils to keep thinking about how they might make a difference to others this year.
This was the last week for sharing Resilience Role Model posters and Ms Gallagher was genuinely touched that a group of P4C girls made a lovely poster about her! Heather’s poster about her Grandad, Anaya’s about her Dad and Anjalie’s poster about Evelyn Glennie were really well presented as well.
On Friday 13th September 2019, Primary Seven pupils helped introduce our Learner Particiipation Groups for the year. Last year. seeking to expand participation, we replaced our Pupil Council with six pupil groups. Following consultation with pupils and staff, this year pupils will contribute to school improvement priorities within their four House Groups, from P2-P7. We reminded everyone about our competition to design new House logos, which can be handed in to House Leaders on a piece of paper with name and class on the reverse.
Primary Sevens congratulated everyone on their Swimathon and fundraising efforts and thanked all the parent organisers, especially Catherine McCormack, for a fantastic event.
On Friday 23rd August we revisited our School Values of Respect, Inclusion, Teamwork and Effort and gave reminders of our school rules.
Our dear and wonderful friend, comedian Patrick Monahan, had hoped to be able to join us briefly at Assembly but his schedule was extremely busy. One of the UK's hardest working and talented comedians, we wish him well and thank him for kindly thinking of us. Act quickly try to catch his show #goals at the Gilded Balloon at 8pm this weekend!
Great to welcome P4 to their first upper school Assembly and Mr Hunter encouraged everyone to show respect for all the major improvements to school property.
Pupils were reminded to share their achievements with us so we can share them at future assemblies.
Mr Hunter asked pupils to remind families about the road closure at drop off and pick up times. We look forward to our first Cycle to School Day of the year next Friday 30th August and thank P7 Class Teacher Miss McGrouther for organising.
Once a year we all come together in the Hall - twenty two classes from Primary 1 to Primary 7 - for our End of Year Assembly, led for the first time this year by Headteacher Mr Andrew Hunter.
A particularly busy year at Sciennes Primary School has seen significant improvements to facilties and we are grateful that everyone in the community has supported one another to manage the challenges of extensive builiding works. Very well done to our pupils, staff and families for all their efforts, working so hard together to make 2018-2019 such a successful year, rounded off with a stunning musical "The Adventures of Super Stan" by our marvellous Primary Seven. All good wishes and fond farewell to Mrs Hogan, Miss Ross, Ms Pearmain and Mrs Gibb and we wish everyone a restful and happy summer.
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2024.06.01 Introducing a competency framework for languag learning materials ...Sandy Millin
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Published classroom materials form the basis of syllabuses, drive teacher professional development, and have a potentially huge influence on learners, teachers and education systems. All teachers also create their own materials, whether a few sentences on a blackboard, a highly-structured fully-realised online course, or anything in between. Despite this, the knowledge and skills needed to create effective language learning materials are rarely part of teacher training, and are mostly learnt by trial and error.
Knowledge and skills frameworks, generally called competency frameworks, for ELT teachers, trainers and managers have existed for a few years now. However, until I created one for my MA dissertation, there wasn’t one drawing together what we need to know and do to be able to effectively produce language learning materials.
This webinar will introduce you to my framework, highlighting the key competencies I identified from my research. It will also show how anybody involved in language teaching (any language, not just English!), teacher training, managing schools or developing language learning materials can benefit from using the framework.
Embracing GenAI - A Strategic ImperativePeter Windle
Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies such as Generative AI, Image Generators and Large Language Models have had a dramatic impact on teaching, learning and assessment over the past 18 months. The most immediate threat AI posed was to Academic Integrity with Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) focusing their efforts on combating the use of GenAI in assessment. Guidelines were developed for staff and students, policies put in place too. Innovative educators have forged paths in the use of Generative AI for teaching, learning and assessments leading to pockets of transformation springing up across HEIs, often with little or no top-down guidance, support or direction.
This Gasta posits a strategic approach to integrating AI into HEIs to prepare staff, students and the curriculum for an evolving world and workplace. We will highlight the advantages of working with these technologies beyond the realm of teaching, learning and assessment by considering prompt engineering skills, industry impact, curriculum changes, and the need for staff upskilling. In contrast, not engaging strategically with Generative AI poses risks, including falling behind peers, missed opportunities and failing to ensure our graduates remain employable. The rapid evolution of AI technologies necessitates a proactive and strategic approach if we are to remain relevant.
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Macroeconomics- Movie Location
This will be used as part of your Personal Professional Portfolio once graded.
Objective:
Prepare a presentation or a paper using research, basic comparative analysis, data organization and application of economic information. You will make an informed assessment of an economic climate outside of the United States to accomplish an entertainment industry objective.
Acetabularia Information For Class 9 .docxvaibhavrinwa19
Acetabularia acetabulum is a single-celled green alga that in its vegetative state is morphologically differentiated into a basal rhizoid and an axially elongated stalk, which bears whorls of branching hairs. The single diploid nucleus resides in the rhizoid.
Introduction to AI for Nonprofits with Tapp NetworkTechSoup
Dive into the world of AI! Experts Jon Hill and Tareq Monaur will guide you through AI's role in enhancing nonprofit websites and basic marketing strategies, making it easy to understand and apply.
How to Make a Field invisible in Odoo 17Celine George
It is possible to hide or invisible some fields in odoo. Commonly using “invisible” attribute in the field definition to invisible the fields. This slide will show how to make a field invisible in odoo 17.
23. JASS Awards Next Term
5 minute Talk on how you
achieved Bronze or Silver
24. JASS Awards
Me and My World
Luke, Toby, Archie M, Ewan,
Matthew R, Santosh, Tom
25. What have you done today that makes
YOU feel proud?
Milenka 26th in International
Fencing Competition,
1st in Scotland, 2nd in UK!
26. What have you done today that makes
YOU feel proud?
Isobel Curling Award
27. What have you done today that makes
YOU feel proud?
Boys’ Cricket Success
28. School Song
BELIEVE • ACHIEVE
In the year of 1892
Our school first opened its doors
And the girls and boys from all around
They arrived in hordes and hordes
CHORUS
Aim high – let your ambitions fly
Always be the best you can be
Believe. Achieve in all you do
And happy you will be
29. BELIEVE • ACHIEVE
From slates and chalks and inks and nibs
To whiteboards, computers and pens.
You never know what your future will bring
But friends will still be friends.
CHORUS
Our school it is a happy one
For kids and adults too
And so it will continue
As each person begins anew.
Words by Mrs Ford
Music by Mrs McVicker
38. BOOK FAIR WEEK
Mon 30th P5 Mandarin Workshops
Orchestra – Queen’s Hall
Wed 1st Swim and Dive Gala
Thurs 2nd Easter Assemblies
Term Ends 3.20pm
BACK TO SCHOOL TUESDAY 21st April