Sciennes Respect Yourself Launch Assembly 31.8.18
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This document discusses building resilience in children. It describes a story about a character named Skipper who feels down because he keeps getting caught while playing hide and seek. It encourages children to recognize their unique strengths and qualities rather than focusing on what they are not good at. It promotes treating oneself with respect by taking care of one's mind and body. It includes lyrics to the song "Be Yourself" which encourages children to accept themselves for who they are rather than wishing to be someone else.
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On Friday 4th May we continued with our current HWB topic 'Take A Moment' from City of Edinburgh's 'Be Resilient' programme. We reminded pupils of key messages and practised the Fischy Music song "Bad Times Won't Last" in the lead up to our whole school Mental Health Week 14th-18th May. (Please look out for Flyers from Ms Anstruther and the Parent Council Health and Wellbeing and Communications Groups that were sent home in schoolbags on Friday.)
At next week's Assembly, pupils have been invited to share strategies they use to cope with life's ups and downs.
The Gender Equality Group explained the 'UN Day of the Girl' and shared their own inspirational female role models. We have been fortunate to discover from their surveys and campaigns that Sciennes' pupils are very gender neutral in their outlook. The group responded to concerns that have been raised by some of our P7 boys that they were creating an imbalance by focusing on female equality issues. Rather, their intention is to raise awareness of global inequalities that exist beyond our school gates. Also in response to concerns raised, the group of four P7 girls designed their own application forms, interviewed 10 out of more that 50 P6 applications to continue their work next year and sought to appoint two boys and two girls. The new pupils were introduced at Assembly and were articulate in explaining why they had applied to join.
P6 and P7 pupils have been asked to 'Take A Moment' to reflect on all their achievements this year in order to complete their Bronze and Silver Award applications in eJASS (Junior Award Scheme for Schools. They have also been asked to give a five minute talk to their classmates on how they achieved the award by the end of May. FoTA (Friends of the Duke of Edinburgh Award) have contacted recently to invite selected Sciennes' pupils to contribute to a Case Study in early June and there may be press interest.
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Sciennes Year of Green Action P4-7 Assembly 18.1.19
The document outlines goals for an assembly on setting goals, including connecting, protecting, and enhancing locally, nationally, and globally. It discusses setting realistic goals to motivate achievement and building resilience through celebrating successes and learning from mistakes. Various student goals and activities are presented, such as reducing litter and increasing reuse of water bottles. The document encourages students to believe in themselves and aim high.
*Sciennes Assembly Challenge Yourself 8.9.17
On Friday 8th September we explored 'Challenge Your Mindset' which is one of ten strategies in City of Edinburgh's Health and Wellbeing programme for "Building Resilience."
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Miss McGrouther's P6B class has created a display with inspiring quotes on self belief entitled "Believe in Your #Selfie." Ivy and Alba researched leadership quotes for homework, working hard to impress their teacher with their extra efforts and shared these at Assembly.
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Sciennes P4-7 Resilience Role Models Assembly 1.9.17
On Friday 1st September 2017, Mr Howie led the P4-7 Assembly, continuing our 'Building Resilience' Health and Wellbeing focus by exploring Resilience Role Models. Mr Howie particularly focused on Teddy Roosevelt, engagingly telling the story of his fascinating, inspiring life and how he strove to overcome adversity and take on personal challenges. Mr Howie also highlighted links with some of the ten 'Be Resilient' toolkit strategies (from a City of Edinburgh HWB programme) that we will be exploring further this year.
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In preparation for Mental Health Week next week, we focused on the importance of sleep at both Assemblies. P7 Captains shared their hints and tips for getting a good night's sleep and we watched a short video to re-enforce key messages, also shared by Mr Howie.
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Sciennes JRSO Road Safety and Legacy Assembly 24.11.17
On Friday 17th November our three P6 Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) encouraged everyone to be bright and be seen this winter and showed a video to explain why 20mph speed limits make roads safer. Mrs Gibb and P4C received reflective prizes for being the most brightly dressed. The Pupil Council is leading a consultation on a proposal to extend the playground and everyone in the Hall was asked to signal with a show of hands if they were in favour. Pupil Council reps from P2-P7 are also debating this proposal in class and collecting feedback comments for Mrs Noble.
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P6 and P7 pupils have been asked to 'Take A Moment' to reflect on all their achievements this year in order to complete their Bronze and Silver Award applications in eJASS (Junior Award Scheme for Schools. They have also been asked to give a five minute talk to their classmates on how they achieved the award by the end of May. FoTA (Friends of the Duke of Edinburgh Award) have contacted recently to invite selected Sciennes' pupils to contribute to a Case Study in early June and there may be press interest.
Pupils were reminded school is closed on Monday and Tuesday. P5 pupils should bring PE kit to wear underneath costumes at their Scottish Opera performance on Wednesday 9th May at 2.15pm in the Hall.
Sciennes Year of Green Action P4-7 Assembly 18.1.19
The document outlines goals for an assembly on setting goals, including connecting, protecting, and enhancing locally, nationally, and globally. It discusses setting realistic goals to motivate achievement and building resilience through celebrating successes and learning from mistakes. Various student goals and activities are presented, such as reducing litter and increasing reuse of water bottles. The document encourages students to believe in themselves and aim high.
*Sciennes Assembly Challenge Yourself 8.9.17
On Friday 8th September we explored 'Challenge Your Mindset' which is one of ten strategies in City of Edinburgh's Health and Wellbeing programme for "Building Resilience."
Pupils were encouraged to have a Growth Mindset and realise that their abilities are not fixed. Believing that achievement is possible is important, but lots of effort and being open to make and learn from mistakes are also keys to success. We watched videos from Class Dojo and Sport Scotland to encourage us to keep challenging ourselves and keep persevering in our efforts.
Miss McGrouther's P6B class has created a display with inspiring quotes on self belief entitled "Believe in Your #Selfie." Ivy and Alba researched leadership quotes for homework, working hard to impress their teacher with their extra efforts and shared these at Assembly.
The first Maths Week Scotland takes place next week and Ms Mackintosh is leading many maths events and activities in school. Some classes are also taking part in a national Sumdog competition, in school, at home or both.
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Sciennes Be Kind 9.3.18
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Emily and friends in P7 told everyone about their Sport Relief Bake Sale on Friday 16th March at 12pm in the playground and P7 Sports Captains will continue to sell wristbands for £1.
Alice, Niamh and Margret talked about International Women's Day and updated everyone on their P1 and P2 survey about gender equality. P2 pupils and Girl Guides Penny and Catriona were congratulated on their launch of the Citizen Girl campaign.
P6 pupils Rory, Isla, Ellie and Evie promoted their annual Easter Egg Foodbank Appeal running from 12th - 23rd March. There will be an opportunity to donate eggs at Parent Consultations on Tuesday 20th and Thursday 22nd March.
What a wonderful P6/7 Disco!
P6/7 Cross Country were congratulated on their participation in the recent EPSSA event at the Meadows where P6 Anna and P6 Dylan both received a 4th place medal.
Huge congratulations to Sean, Evie, Katharine and Tomos on their outstanding success at the recent Edinburgh Semi Final of Euroquiz, as Runners Up, only one point behind eventual winners Stewart Melville's after an unprecedented TWO tie breaking sudden death rounds. Congratulations to Stewart Melville's who will now progress to the Final at Parliament.
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On Friday 1st September 2017, Mr Howie led the P4-7 Assembly, continuing our 'Building Resilience' Health and Wellbeing focus by exploring Resilience Role Models. Mr Howie particularly focused on Teddy Roosevelt, engagingly telling the story of his fascinating, inspiring life and how he strove to overcome adversity and take on personal challenges. Mr Howie also highlighted links with some of the ten 'Be Resilient' toolkit strategies (from a City of Edinburgh HWB programme) that we will be exploring further this year.
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Primary Seven pupils from P7B helped introduce ten strategies that we will focus on throughout the year to help our pupils build resilience to support good mental health. We all got on our feet to sing 'Stronger' and considered Kid President's message that things in life may not always be 'awesome', but our response can be. Pupils were invited to research 'Resilience Role Models' at home and create a poster. A selection will be shared at next week's Assembly.
We congratulated our two Fringe Festival actresses Hannah and Faye who have had rave reviews on stage. Zoe in P4A wowed us with her Spanish language skills and we celebrated Aiden and Louis' tremendous achievements competing in an international mathematics competition in Beijing over the summer holiday.
Pupils were reminded that Pupil Council and ECO rep elections will soon take place and to prepare speeches if they wish to stand for election.
Sciennes Sharing Take a Moment Assembly 11.5.18
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In preparation for Mental Health Week next week, we focused on the importance of sleep at both Assemblies. P7 Captains shared their hints and tips for getting a good night's sleep and we watched a short video to re-enforce key messages, also shared by Mr Howie.
We sang the Fischy Music song "Bad Times Won't Last" and Took A Moment to reflect on previous and new achievements. We celebrated the weekend success of P7 Boroughmuir Rugby FC players Fraser, Henry, Will, Fraser and Innes who alongwith former pupil Jo-Jo Robertson were undefeated in a Yorkshire tournament, despite being 6 months to a year younger than fellow participants.
We also took another opportunity to heap praise on wonderful P5 for all their hard work in preparing for Scottish Opera's "Dragons of the Western Sea" which resulted in a sensational, confident and exuberant performance on Wednesday 9th May.
Sciennes JRSO Road Safety and Legacy Assembly 24.11.17
On Friday 17th November our three P6 Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) encouraged everyone to be bright and be seen this winter and showed a video to explain why 20mph speed limits make roads safer. Mrs Gibb and P4C received reflective prizes for being the most brightly dressed. The Pupil Council is leading a consultation on a proposal to extend the playground and everyone in the Hall was asked to signal with a show of hands if they were in favour. Pupil Council reps from P2-P7 are also debating this proposal in class and collecting feedback comments for Mrs Noble.
Mr Howie led an inspirational presentation, designed to help pupils realise how they can take the lead to work individually and as a team to create and leave a lasting legacy, using the New Zealand All Blacks rugby team's philosophies as a theme.
P7 Sports Captains congratulated pupils on recent achievements and issued certificates to P7 Sportshall Athletics Finalists.
Sciennes Sport Relief Be Kind to Others 23.3.18
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.
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Sciennes P4-7 Aim High Assembly 18.8.17
On Friday 18th August we welcomed Primary Four pupils and all new pupils to their first upper school assembly. We also welcomed Miss Jennifer Ferguson and Miss Sophie Mitchell to the Primary Five team.
This year, we are revisiting our school vision and values so pupils were invited to think about what is most important to us in the Sciennes Family. We are extremely grateful to parent Emma Kirk (CEO User Vision and Convenor of the Parent Council Communications Group) who recently led an excellent session to help the whole staff revisit and reflect on our vision and values. Pupil Council leaders will soon be elected, one from each class P2-P7, who will then be able to join in on discussions and support the process.
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Sciennes Take a Moment Launch Assembly 27.4.18
On Friday 27th April 2018 we introduced pupils to the latest CEC HWB programme topic 'Take A Moment' which we will focus on over the next three weeks in the lead up to Mental Health Week 14th-18th May. Pupils were asked what strategies they use to cope with life's ups and downs and one P4 pupil suggested Music and Singing were great ways to weather a storm.
This led nicely into a fabulous performance of two songs by our Glee Club, led by Miss Dougal and Miss Rogerson and supported by Mrs Yaseen. Truly spreading glee and joy throughout the entire Hall! Sensational!
Our P7 House and Sports Captains updated everyone on the recent Swimathon and Meadows Mayhem fundraisers and received a lovely message of commendation from Ms Christie, read to them by Mr Howie, congratulating them on their outstanding work in redesigning and running the P5-7 fundraiser this year.
P7 pupils Niamh, Alice, Stella and Margret organised interviews this week for ten out of more than fifty P6 applicants to carry on their Equalities work. They announced the four successful candidates - Tomos, Natalia, Nina and Ben M - and will link with them to help them continue their work on gender equality into next session.
P7s Melissa and Iseabhail had approached the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Class Teachers about raising awareness of LGBT equality and gave a remarkable, very carefully considered and appropriately pitched presentation at Assembly. They impressed all with their positive messages and their eloquence. Both will work with SLT to produce a child friendly version of our Equalities Policy. Wonderful to see so many of our pupils taking the lead and making a difference.
Sciennes Send a Cow P3 Harvest Appeal 29.9.17
On Friday 29th September 2017 at Assembly, a group of P3 pupils joined Send A Cow Ambassador, Robert Stephens, in presenting how they are taking action as global citizens in support of four of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Our three Primary Three classes are again leading the whole school Harvest Appeal with their Class Teachers and DHT Ms Anstruther, which this year is in support of the Send a Cow charity.
Each child in P3 is producing hand drawn collection envelopes which will be distributed to each of our families. If all our families contribute £1 we will reach a goal of £640 and be able to gift a cow to a family in Africa. Primary Three pupils are taking on different young workforce lead roles for their appeal campaign, such as Communications, Publicity and Finance.
Send a Cow Ambassador, Robert Stephens, spoke with passion and eloquence to explain to the children how the charity works with families in Africa to provide training in not only animal husbandry but also in sanitation, irrigation and keyhole farming. He relayed the story of Jennifer whom he had visited in Uganda and saw first hand the huge difference the project had made to her life and that of her family. Jennifer was able not only to provide milk and vegetables for her own family, but could sell surplus at market to pay for tools, medicine and schooling. Perhaps most telling was Robert's final slide which showed that Jennifer had reached such a self-sufficient stage that she was able to purchase an ornamental vase, merely because she 'liked it.'
Primary Three invited everyone to help Make A Difference by supporting their appeal with donations in the envelopes and also contributing to their planned bake sale on Friday 13th October. We wish them great success in their endeavours and thank Robert for his gracious time supporting the children.
Sciennes Year of Young People 6.10.17 #YOYP2018
On Friday 6th October we promoted Primary Three's Harvest Appeal and celebrated the many other ways that Sciennes' pupils are taking the lead in school events. We encouraged everyone to think about they can get involved in making a difference in The Year of Young People 2018.
Sciennes End of Term Assembly 2017
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.
Sciennes Think Global, Act Local Assembly 2.2.18
On Friday 2nd February we were delighted to welcome a delegation of eight teachers and staff from Laugarnesskóli Primary School in Reykjavik. Laugarnesskóli is the first Icelandic school to gain a Silver Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Award and we welcomed the opportunity to share practice and ideas. After a tour of the school and classrooms, the Headteacher very kindly spoke at Assembly and gifted a beautiful book about Iceland for our Library. We are really looking forward to establishing a new International partnership between our schools.
As global citizens, pupils were encourage to participate in this year's #showthelove climate action campaign, by noticing and recording evidence of climate change over the next few weeks.
We concluded Week Three of our City of Edinburgh 'Be Resilient' Health and Wellbeing topic 'Have a Goal' by sharing pupil examples of goals they have recently set as a family.
Sciennes Global Goals Week 22.9.17
On Friday 22nd September we celebrated Global Goals Week with a look at what action is already taking place at Sciennes to support the Sustainable Development Global Goals (SDGs). We invited the children to design their own Global Goals glasses to reflect the world they want to see by 2030 and asked them to think about which actions they could take this year to be Global #Goalkeepers.
Our three P3 classes are taking action on SDG1, SDG2 and SDG3 by leading a whole school Harvest Appeal in support of the charity 'Send A Cow to Africa' and a speaker will address both Assemblies next week.
This week, in Scottish Climate Week, P7 have been taking action on SDG13 (Climate Action) by presenting 17 000 consultation responses to the Scottish Government's forthcoming Climate Bill with Stop Climate Chaos Scotland and Friends of the Earth. Eco Schools Scotland invited Faye, Sorley and Lucy to participate as a direct result of P7A's work on air pollution last year with Mr Hutchison, Mr McKenna, Ms Christie and SEPA. The pupils cycled to Parliament from school to hand over the responses to Roseanna Cunningham, Cabinet Secretary for the Environment.
Newly elected P6 Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) Lyall, Essie and Anna shared details about their invitation to a training session at City Chambers, designed to support them in their lead role this year. Lyall explained that there had been workshops and one was on air quality, as a direct result of P7A's involvement with SEPA last year. Essie updated everyone on the Hands Up Scotland Travel Survey they organised and that baseline information has been added to our Living Streets Travel Tracker. Anna shared that the JRSOs will work with classes to help them use the Travel Tracker again this year to track active travel.
Supporting the world's plan for sustainable development using the Global Goals will help us all stand up for rights and P7C pupils this week articulately explained their understanding of the UNCRC to the Minister for Young People, Mark MacDonald, at a special celebratory event arranged by Together Scotland. Many thanks to Juliet Harris and Liz Millerfield for organising a very special 'picnic' lunch for the children, in recognition of all their hard work with artists Joanna, Yonnie and Lyver in creating fabulous UNCRC artwork on panels destined for the Scottish Parliament.
There was recognition for Ms MacKintosh in successfully leading engagement with Maths Week Scotland and for Ms Christie in leading a uniquely innovative and adventurous programme of cycling for P6.
P4A showed their wonderful 'Resilience Role Model' posters and Anjalie in P4 was also congratulated on her terrific Mindset poster.
We reminded pupils that to stay safe they should come back into the School Office if the person coming to pick them up is delayed.
We look forward to hearing pupils' ideas for making a difference, at Sciennes, in the local community and beyond.
Sciennes Easter Assembly March 2018
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.
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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.
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The document discusses an assembly at Sciennes Primary School about health and wellbeing. It promotes the school values of respect, honesty, equality and kindness. It highlights children's rights to feel safe, learn and be healthy. It describes an upcoming performance by Hopscotch Theatre and announcements about upcoming events like World Book Day and a school disco. It closes by asking students how they would use £250 to make a difference and sharing songs about children's rights and empowerment.
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The document is a song about children's rights composed by Raymond Burke. It contains lyrics that list different rights that children have such as the right to their opinions, good nutrition, play, education, care and comfort. The chorus repeats that "I got the right, she got the right, he got the right, we got the right". The song encourages children to let people know about their rights and to show their rights.
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On Friday 13th January we learned about the life of Dr Martin Luther King Junior and how his peaceful actions and brave dedication to equal rights for all led to change. We asked pupils what they could do in 2017 to make change happen and make a difference for others. P7 pupil Nicky raised almost £500 with his Save the Children Christmas Jumper campaign and P6 pupil Catherine spoke at Assembly to explain how she is being sponsored to donate a length of hair to the Little Princess Trust to help a child suffering hair loss due to cancer treatment.
We celebrated Sciennes' parent, Mr Colin Sim, who took action to make a huge difference to learning and teaching for our pupils by submitting two grant funding applications for the school. One to Aviva Life Assurance was awarded £500 and one to the OneFamily Foundation was awarded an incredible £5000! Thank you to all the Sciennes Family for voting. The money will be used to purchase a year group set of iPads.
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Set yourself up for success by focusing on your unique strengths and talents. Do not label yourself or believe limitations others have placed on you. Instead, be your own biggest supporter and create positive self-talk to overcome challenges from your past. Reconnect with your sense of wonder and belief in yourself from childhood to help you achieve your goals.
Sciennes Make A Difference and Sport Relief Assembly 18.3.16
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!
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This document contains questions on a wide range of topics including first impressions, food, favorites, success and failure, animals, conspiracies, tourism, science, NASA, holidays, journalism, junk food, productivity, jobs, remedies, environmental problems, art, hotels, New Year's traditions, TV/movies, restaurants, architecture, gift giving, aging, language learning, super heroes, communication, party planning, appearance, books, weather, public speaking, museums, and cities. The questions are intended to generate discussion on personal experiences and opinions related to these various subjects.
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Jamaica wrote her name on a birthday card she gave to her mother. She had previously tried writing her name on the sidewalk and on her hand, but the writing was washed away by rain and soap. However, she knew the writing on the birthday card would stay because her mother never throws anything of hers away. The short story is told from Jamaica's perspective and uses descriptive details to convey her excitement about giving the birthday card to her mother.
Conversation Questions
The document contains questions about various topics in a person's life including family, hometown, English studies, trips, hobbies, routine, likes and dislikes, internet use, friends, pets, and work. It asks about family size and parents' jobs, where they live, hobbies and how often they are practiced, favorite TV shows and music, how internet is used, details about best friends, pets owned, current job and how long they have worked. The questions provide insight into key aspects of a person's personal and professional life.
Some interesting questions
The document contains 51 questions asked by someone to get to know another person better. The questions cover a wide range of topics including favorite colors and subjects, career aspirations, travel interests, food preferences, relationships, personal habits, dreams, adventures and more. The person is asking for the responses to be sent to their email address.
P is for purple cow
This document is a book created by the Woodsters class of 2012-2013. It captures what it means to be a Woodster and how they live each day. The book contains letters from A to Z that describe positive attributes like being awesome, having energy, keeping an open mind, asking questions, and working together. It encourages the students to strive to be remarkable in all that they do.
What God Gives Us
The document discusses how God answers prayers and requests in unexpected but beneficial ways. It states that when people ask God for things like strength, wisdom, prosperity, courage, love, or favor, God may provide difficulties, problems, obligations to work, obstacles, troubled people to help, or opportunities instead of the exact things requested. This is because God gives people what they need rather than necessarily what they want. The document encourages remembering concepts like consciousness, gratitude, positive attitude, goodness, forgiveness, willpower, vision, patience, calmness, and bravery to help cope with challenges. It asserts that God is always there to give people chances to overcome hardships on their own feet.
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Sciennes Sport Relief Be Kind to Others 23.3.18
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.
Sciennes Have A Goal House Assembly 15.1.18 #YOYP2018
On Monday 15th January we welcomed back pupils by holding our first House Assemblies of the new year for Grange, Lauder, Sienna and Tantallon. House and Sports Captains explained 'The Year of Young People', reflected on goals already achieved, shared their own goals for the coming year and asked pupils to think about their own goals.
Great to see almost all of our pupils in school uniform, and we appreciate parental support in continuing to encourage this. Warm, hooded jackets with hats, gloves and scarves at the ready, please, for the colder weather.
Sciennes P4-7 Aim High Assembly 18.8.17
On Friday 18th August we welcomed Primary Four pupils and all new pupils to their first upper school assembly. We also welcomed Miss Jennifer Ferguson and Miss Sophie Mitchell to the Primary Five team.
This year, we are revisiting our school vision and values so pupils were invited to think about what is most important to us in the Sciennes Family. We are extremely grateful to parent Emma Kirk (CEO User Vision and Convenor of the Parent Council Communications Group) who recently led an excellent session to help the whole staff revisit and reflect on our vision and values. Pupil Council leaders will soon be elected, one from each class P2-P7, who will then be able to join in on discussions and support the process.
We explored ways to respect everyone's right to be safe and right to learn at Sciennes. Primary Seven pupils helped explain what 'The Golden Rule' means. Showing respect universally unites us all: in the classroom, in the school and beyond, as global citizens. Brad Montague's moving film ' Smuggling Hope' was shown to help us all continue to believe that we all can make a difference by upholding our values.
Sciennes Take a Moment Launch Assembly 27.4.18
On Friday 27th April 2018 we introduced pupils to the latest CEC HWB programme topic 'Take A Moment' which we will focus on over the next three weeks in the lead up to Mental Health Week 14th-18th May. Pupils were asked what strategies they use to cope with life's ups and downs and one P4 pupil suggested Music and Singing were great ways to weather a storm.
This led nicely into a fabulous performance of two songs by our Glee Club, led by Miss Dougal and Miss Rogerson and supported by Mrs Yaseen. Truly spreading glee and joy throughout the entire Hall! Sensational!
Our P7 House and Sports Captains updated everyone on the recent Swimathon and Meadows Mayhem fundraisers and received a lovely message of commendation from Ms Christie, read to them by Mr Howie, congratulating them on their outstanding work in redesigning and running the P5-7 fundraiser this year.
P7 pupils Niamh, Alice, Stella and Margret organised interviews this week for ten out of more than fifty P6 applicants to carry on their Equalities work. They announced the four successful candidates - Tomos, Natalia, Nina and Ben M - and will link with them to help them continue their work on gender equality into next session.
P7s Melissa and Iseabhail had approached the Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and Class Teachers about raising awareness of LGBT equality and gave a remarkable, very carefully considered and appropriately pitched presentation at Assembly. They impressed all with their positive messages and their eloquence. Both will work with SLT to produce a child friendly version of our Equalities Policy. Wonderful to see so many of our pupils taking the lead and making a difference.
Sciennes Send a Cow P3 Harvest Appeal 29.9.17
On Friday 29th September 2017 at Assembly, a group of P3 pupils joined Send A Cow Ambassador, Robert Stephens, in presenting how they are taking action as global citizens in support of four of the Sustainable Development Goals.
Our three Primary Three classes are again leading the whole school Harvest Appeal with their Class Teachers and DHT Ms Anstruther, which this year is in support of the Send a Cow charity.
Each child in P3 is producing hand drawn collection envelopes which will be distributed to each of our families. If all our families contribute £1 we will reach a goal of £640 and be able to gift a cow to a family in Africa. Primary Three pupils are taking on different young workforce lead roles for their appeal campaign, such as Communications, Publicity and Finance.
Send a Cow Ambassador, Robert Stephens, spoke with passion and eloquence to explain to the children how the charity works with families in Africa to provide training in not only animal husbandry but also in sanitation, irrigation and keyhole farming. He relayed the story of Jennifer whom he had visited in Uganda and saw first hand the huge difference the project had made to her life and that of her family. Jennifer was able not only to provide milk and vegetables for her own family, but could sell surplus at market to pay for tools, medicine and schooling. Perhaps most telling was Robert's final slide which showed that Jennifer had reached such a self-sufficient stage that she was able to purchase an ornamental vase, merely because she 'liked it.'
Primary Three invited everyone to help Make A Difference by supporting their appeal with donations in the envelopes and also contributing to their planned bake sale on Friday 13th October. We wish them great success in their endeavours and thank Robert for his gracious time supporting the children.
Sciennes Year of Young People 6.10.17 #YOYP2018
On Friday 6th October we promoted Primary Three's Harvest Appeal and celebrated the many other ways that Sciennes' pupils are taking the lead in school events. We encouraged everyone to think about they can get involved in making a difference in The Year of Young People 2018.
Sciennes End of Term Assembly 2017
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.
Sciennes Think Global, Act Local Assembly 2.2.18
On Friday 2nd February we were delighted to welcome a delegation of eight teachers and staff from Laugarnesskóli Primary School in Reykjavik. Laugarnesskóli is the first Icelandic school to gain a Silver Unicef Rights Respecting Schools Award and we welcomed the opportunity to share practice and ideas. After a tour of the school and classrooms, the Headteacher very kindly spoke at Assembly and gifted a beautiful book about Iceland for our Library. We are really looking forward to establishing a new International partnership between our schools.
As global citizens, pupils were encourage to participate in this year's #showthelove climate action campaign, by noticing and recording evidence of climate change over the next few weeks.
We concluded Week Three of our City of Edinburgh 'Be Resilient' Health and Wellbeing topic 'Have a Goal' by sharing pupil examples of goals they have recently set as a family.
Sciennes Global Goals Week 22.9.17
On Friday 22nd September we celebrated Global Goals Week with a look at what action is already taking place at Sciennes to support the Sustainable Development Global Goals (SDGs). We invited the children to design their own Global Goals glasses to reflect the world they want to see by 2030 and asked them to think about which actions they could take this year to be Global #Goalkeepers.
Our three P3 classes are taking action on SDG1, SDG2 and SDG3 by leading a whole school Harvest Appeal in support of the charity 'Send A Cow to Africa' and a speaker will address both Assemblies next week.
This week, in Scottish Climate Week, P7 have been taking action on SDG13 (Climate Action) by presenting 17 000 consultation responses to the Scottish Government's forthcoming Climate Bill with Stop Climate Chaos Scotland and Friends of the Earth. Eco Schools Scotland invited Faye, Sorley and Lucy to participate as a direct result of P7A's work on air pollution last year with Mr Hutchison, Mr McKenna, Ms Christie and SEPA. The pupils cycled to Parliament from school to hand over the responses to Roseanna Cunningham, Cabinet Secretary for the Environment.
Newly elected P6 Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) Lyall, Essie and Anna shared details about their invitation to a training session at City Chambers, designed to support them in their lead role this year. Lyall explained that there had been workshops and one was on air quality, as a direct result of P7A's involvement with SEPA last year. Essie updated everyone on the Hands Up Scotland Travel Survey they organised and that baseline information has been added to our Living Streets Travel Tracker. Anna shared that the JRSOs will work with classes to help them use the Travel Tracker again this year to track active travel.
Supporting the world's plan for sustainable development using the Global Goals will help us all stand up for rights and P7C pupils this week articulately explained their understanding of the UNCRC to the Minister for Young People, Mark MacDonald, at a special celebratory event arranged by Together Scotland. Many thanks to Juliet Harris and Liz Millerfield for organising a very special 'picnic' lunch for the children, in recognition of all their hard work with artists Joanna, Yonnie and Lyver in creating fabulous UNCRC artwork on panels destined for the Scottish Parliament.
There was recognition for Ms MacKintosh in successfully leading engagement with Maths Week Scotland and for Ms Christie in leading a uniquely innovative and adventurous programme of cycling for P6.
P4A showed their wonderful 'Resilience Role Model' posters and Anjalie in P4 was also congratulated on her terrific Mindset poster.
We reminded pupils that to stay safe they should come back into the School Office if the person coming to pick them up is delayed.
We look forward to hearing pupils' ideas for making a difference, at Sciennes, in the local community and beyond.
Sciennes Easter Assembly March 2018
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.
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Sciennes SHANARRI P4-7 Assembly 25.2.16
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Sciennes MLK P4-7 Assembly 13.1.17
On Friday 13th January we learned about the life of Dr Martin Luther King Junior and how his peaceful actions and brave dedication to equal rights for all led to change. We asked pupils what they could do in 2017 to make change happen and make a difference for others. P7 pupil Nicky raised almost £500 with his Save the Children Christmas Jumper campaign and P6 pupil Catherine spoke at Assembly to explain how she is being sponsored to donate a length of hair to the Little Princess Trust to help a child suffering hair loss due to cancer treatment.
We celebrated Sciennes' parent, Mr Colin Sim, who took action to make a huge difference to learning and teaching for our pupils by submitting two grant funding applications for the school. One to Aviva Life Assurance was awarded £500 and one to the OneFamily Foundation was awarded an incredible £5000! Thank you to all the Sciennes Family for voting. The money will be used to purchase a year group set of iPads.
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Sciennes Make A Difference and Sport Relief Assembly 18.3.16
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!
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This document contains questions on a wide range of topics including first impressions, food, favorites, success and failure, animals, conspiracies, tourism, science, NASA, holidays, journalism, junk food, productivity, jobs, remedies, environmental problems, art, hotels, New Year's traditions, TV/movies, restaurants, architecture, gift giving, aging, language learning, super heroes, communication, party planning, appearance, books, weather, public speaking, museums, and cities. The questions are intended to generate discussion on personal experiences and opinions related to these various subjects.
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Jamaica wrote her name on a birthday card she gave to her mother. She had previously tried writing her name on the sidewalk and on her hand, but the writing was washed away by rain and soap. However, she knew the writing on the birthday card would stay because her mother never throws anything of hers away. The short story is told from Jamaica's perspective and uses descriptive details to convey her excitement about giving the birthday card to her mother.
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- 1. Respect Yourself Assembly 31st August 2018
- 3. Building Resilience • There is no one quite like me • Everyone has different strengths • I treat myself with respect Respect Yourself In this unit we will cover:
- 4. Building Resilience Skipper is feeling down Ask yourself… Can you think of a time you wished you were like someone else? Skipper has been playing hide and seek with his friends but he keeps being the first to be caught. He has decided there is no point playing. He is fed up. Being orange means he is easily spotted. Most of all, he wishes he was tall like Buddy so he could reach the high hiding places. Wish I was tall and blue like Buddy
- 5. Building Resilience There is no one quite like me
- 6. Building Resilience You are a miracle 1 in 400 trillion Quiz question: What are the chances of you being born?
- 7. Building Resilience Everybody is unique Your fingerprints, heart beat, tongue and the irises in your eyes are all completely unique! Quiz question: There are 7.2 billion people on this planet, but what do you have that is different to everybody else?
- 9. Building Resilience Everyone has special talents and qualities Instead of thinking about what he is not good at, Skipper needs to learn to be proud of his strengths and who he is. I am good at skipping fast
- 10. Building Resilience Which of these do you think make up you? We all have different character strengths
- 11. Building Resilience Skipper is very caring. He looks after his friends and the world around him. Our strengths make us who we are What are your strengths?
- 12. Building Resilience When he takes time to think about things, Skipper realises that the good thing about being small is that he is able to move around the boat much easier than his friends. He also realises that the good thing about being orange is that he will stand out against the blue river if he is ever in need of rescuing! Play to your strengths Remember to play to your strengths
- 13. Building Resilience I treat myself with respect
- 14. Building Resilience We need to look after ourselves If you respect yourself, your mind and your body, this will help you to feel better. Tell your shoulder partner… What do you do to look after your mind and body?
- 15. Building Resilience Family Activity Create a picture of yourself and fill your picture with all the great things about you, your strengths and your achievements.
- 16. Building Resilience READY TO SING! Be Yourself
- 17. Building Resilience Be Yourself by Stephen Fischbacher I’m looking in the mirror, and checking out my hair I’m looking in my wardrobe, for something good to wear I’m looking at my friends, and people in my school I’m looking in my magazines, and how she looks so cool Sometimes I’d rather be, somebody else…
- 18. Building Resilience (you were made to) Be yourself You don’t have to be like anybody else (come on and) Be yourself You don’t have to be like anybody else Just be yourself!
- 19. Building Resilience I’m wishing I was this way, I’m wishing I was that I’m wishing I was on TV, I wish I had a cat I’m wishing I was famous, I’m wishing I could fly I’m wishing I was more than just an ordinary guy (or a girl!!) Sometimes I’d rather be, somebody else…
- 20. Building Resilience (you were made to) Be yourself You don’t have to be like anybody else (come on and) Be yourself You don’t have to be like anybody else Just be yourself!
- 21. Building Resilience I sometimes feel so lonely, like I’m the only one I sometimes feel if I was him/her then life would be more fun I sometimes feel like I’m not sure of who I want to be I sometimes feel like I’m not sure if this is really me. Sometimes I’d rather be, somebody else….
- 22. Building Resilience (you were made to) Be yourself You don’t have to be like anybody else (come on and) Be yourself You don’t have to be like anybody else Just be yourself!
- 24. ActsofKindness Do something kind for a friend. Do something kind for a stranger. Do something kind for someone who won’t even know you’ve done something.
- 25. A‘kindness’hero
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- 27. Time to Rethink? What do YOU think?
- 28. What have you done today that makes YOU feel proud? Essie and Mr Hunter’s idea for new name PLAY RITE
- 30. Cycle to School Day Friday 31st August Thanks Miss McGrouther!
- 31. What have you done today that makes YOU feel proud? Sustrans Pupil Designed Bike Repair Station The Wee Hub
- 32. What have you done today that makes YOU feel proud? Mathew Under 11 Stone Skimming Champion!
- 33. What have you done today that makes YOU feel proud? Elizabeth Stone Skimming Bronze Medal!
- 34. What have you done today that makes YOU feel proud? P7 and Jess filming with UNICEF for UK Clean Air OutRight Campaign
- 35. Mon 3rd P7 JASS Conference Dance clothes Mon 3rd P6C Cycling Tues 4th P6A Cycling Wed 5th P6B Cycling Fri 7th P4 Chess ICT Suite 10th Sept Maths Week Scotland Mon 17th Sept HOLIDAY 18th Sept Outdoor Learning Week Friday 21st Sept Hopscotch Theatre Show in Hall
- 36. BELIEVE • ACHIEVE If what I am is what's in me Then I'll stay strong - that's who I'll be And I will always be the best Me that I can be There's only one me, I am it Have a dream I'll follow it It's up to me to try Chorus Oh! I’m a keep my head up high (high) Keep on reaching high (high) Never gonna quit I'll keep getting stronger And nothing's gonna bring me down (no!) Never gonna stop, gotta go (go) Because I know I'll keep getting stronger “What I Am Is..” by Will.i.am
- 37. BELIEVE • ACHIEVE And what I am is - thoughtful And what I am is - musical And what I am is - smart And what I am is - brave And what I am is - helpful And what I am is - special There's nothing I can't achieve because in myself I believe and... Chorus Oh! Gonna keep our heads up high (high) Keep on reaching high (high) Never gonna quit Just keep getting stronger And nothing's gonna bring us down (no!) Never giving up, gotta go (go) Because I know I'll keep getting stronger “What I Am Is..” by Will.i.am
- 38. BELIEVE • ACHIEVE What I am is - super What I am is - proud What I am is - friendly What I am is - grouchy What you are is – magical And what you are is – special There's nothing I can't achieve because in myself I believe and... Chorus Oh! Gonna hold my head up high (high) Keep on reaching high (high) I'm never gonna stop I'll keep getting stronger Nothing's gonna bring me down Never give it up gotta go, oh... yeah... I'll keep getting strong-er “What I Am Is..” by Will.i.am
Editor's Notes
- Introduce our second tool ‘Respect Yourself’
- Introduce Buddy ….
- Effectively Zero Possibility that you should have been born.... (details below) Facts what’s the odds of you being you – slide about each http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dr-ali-binazir/probability-being-born_b_877853.html The chance of your ancestors having stayed alive over the past 200, 000 and had children is 1 in 45 million The chance of mother and father meeting out of 7 billion people is 1 in 20,000 The chance of you being being born is 1 in 400 trillion!!!
- Everyone has special talents and qualities. These talents and qualities are part of what makes us unique. Skipper knows he is really good at skipping fast. This is one of the things that makes him unique. If we can recognise our own strengths, it gives us something to focus on when we feel down
- Mention some of them…
- What do we mean by strengths? Strengths can be described in lots of different ways. Here, we are talking about strengths of character. Your character is what makes you the person you are. It is about how you relate to other people and the world around you. When you are using your true strengths, you feel full of energy. Character strengths are different from skills or knowledge. So you could have wonderful talents like playing football or cooking, but that is not what we are talking about here. You may also have passed a lot of exams or be a highly skilled nurse or teacher but that is not what we are talking about here either. Sometimes we talk about character as if it’s just one thing – we may say someone has good character or that they don’t. But character is actually made up of lots of different strengths and everyone has a different profile of strengths. Character strengths are things like curiosity, bravery, kindness, humour, hope and modesty, and lots more. Recent evidence suggests that recognising our own strengths and using them in our daily lives can help us build happier, more meaningful lives
- e.g. Relax -Go for a walk, watch an enjoyable DVD, read a favourite book, listen to music Have fun - Get active – try cycling, swimming or even rollerblading Be creative – try something new, make music, write, act, paint or join a new club Get enough sleep, water and food
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- Build Up: Fischy music Build Up CD
- Build Up: Fischy music Build Up CD