Flyer

Access the weekly Sciennes Flyer by clicking on the NEWS FLYER button above or here:

http://sciennesps.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/flyer-wb-22nd-april-2013.html

Cycle to School Day on Friday 26th April

Check out the route for Friday's Cycle to School.

Leaving King's Buildings 8.20am

(Thanks to Chris Hill for webbery!)

KB2Sciennes

http://www.sciennes.ik.org/p_Active_Travel.ikml

http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=KB2Sciennes&s=rec

http://www.flickr.com/photos/chdot/8682145527/in/photostream

Sciennes Really Big Cycle, last year

Congratulations Isla in P4C!

Extremely well done Isla for being selected for the Scottish Gymnastics Squad!
An outstanding achievement!

Scottish Cross Country - Runaway Success!

Congratulations to our P6 and P7 pupils who took part in the Scottish Schools Athletics Association Primary Cross Country Championships at Kirkcaldy High School on Saturday 20th April.

http://www.ssaa.co.uk/

1300 pupils from 167 schools across the country took part and we are delighted that our pupils competed so successfully.

P6 Girls 6th place
P6 Boys 4th place
P7 Girls 4th place
P7 Boys 11th place

Thank you to all the families who accompanied and supported, particularly Callum's mum and Lucia's dad for being lead adults on the day.

Lucia came third in her race and fourth overall in the very close P6 Girls race with a time of 6.48 (1st 6.41, 2nd 6.45, 3rd 6.47.) Bea also ran extremely well, placed 13th with a time of 7.08.

Tom was 18th and Callum 19th in their race, contributing very well to the overall 4th place of the P6 Boys team.  

Elena came joint 4th in her race with a time of 6.40 (1st place 6.17, 2nd place 6.24, 3rd place 6.34) helping the P7 Girls secure fourth place.

With only three members in their team, instead of five, the P7 Boys still managed a fantastic combined team score to achieve 11th place. 

Superb results!  Full Results here

FINA World Diving Competition at RCP

On Friday 19th April P7 pupils Esther, Eve and Kirsty were able to take advantage of Diving Coach Jenny Lemming's generous and kind offer of a few free tickets to the FINA World Diving competitions being held at the Royal Commonwealth Pool over the weekend. Not only did they have the opportunity to see world class divers, they were also given some lovely freebies including towels and caps.

The FINA/Midea World Series is an annual, invitation-only event where the world's diving elite go head-to-head six times in the space of three months.

The 2013 Series is the seventh running of the event and takes place over six legs in Beijing (15-17 March), Dubai (March 21-23), Edinburgh (April 19-21), Moscow (April 26-28), Guadalajara (May 17-19) and Mexico City (May 24-26).

The diving programme at the World Series mimics that of the Olympic Games, featuring 3m Springboard, 10m Platform, 3m Synchro and 10m Synchro for both men and women.

FINA's official website.

Kirsty came back to school for her Gymnastics club sporting her 'Commonwealth Clyde' mascot sticker and gave the event a resounding thumbs up. Good luck at the Cross Country Championships on Saturday, Kirsty! A very busy, sporting weekend!

Sciennes' Swim Team 2013

Photographs from the Edinburgh Primary Schools Sports Association (EPSSA) Swim and Dive Gala at the Royal Commonwealth Pool, held in March, have been published:

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/swimanddive

Here are photographs of our wonderful team:

Esther in P7C shows how to accept a medal in style!

Third place in the Diving competition - well done, Esther!

Clyde, the Commonwealth Games mascot, was on hand with applause.

Thank you to Mrs Beth Walker, our wonderful PE Specialist, for organising the entire event for all city primary schools and arranging so many celebrity Olympic, Paralympic and Commonwealth swimmers to demonstrate their skills. It was a welcome return to the refurbished RCP and a thoroughly enjoyable event. Thank you to all the families who lent their support and cheered on the team.

ComputerXplorers After School Clubs

Our popular ComputerXplorers Club, run by Lynne Kerr, will be back this term, starting 23rd April for P5 - P7. We will also be starting our first ComputerXplorers Club for P1 - P4 as well. The Junior Club will start on Monday 22nd April.

In both clubs pupils will be creating their very own robots from Lego and then programming them to react...chirping birds, snapping crocodiles and drumming monkeys!

http://www.sescotland.computerxplorers.co.uk

Giant Chess Board in Meadows

Jason Kouchak enjoys a game of chess with Sciennes Primary pupils Tom and Abi Hossell and members of the school Chess Club. Picture: Greg Macvean 

Grateful thanks to Mike Shields, Community Parks Officer, who approached us about launching a giant outdoor chess board set, generously donated by Jason Kouchak. Pupils from Sciennes' highly successful Chess Club were delighted to take part and to feature in this Evening News story. Scottish Grand Master Colin McNab was on hand to assist.

The weather-proof chess pieces, which were made in Scotland, will be kept in the park warden’s store room overnight and will be set out each morning from April to October.

 

Scottish Schools' Athletic Association Cross Country

We wish our P6 and P7 pupils who are competing in the Scottish Schools Athletics Association Primary Cross Country Championships at Kirkcaldy High School on Saturday 20th April good luck!
 
http://www.ssaa.co.uk/

TIMES

Races 1 and 2 Primary Six Girls 1:30pm and 1:45pm

Races 3 and 4 Primary Six Boys 2:00pm and 2:15pm

Races 5 and 6 Primary Seven Girls 2:30pm and 2:45pm

Races 7 and 8 Primary Seven Boys 3:00pm and 3:15pm  AWARDS 4:00pm

Times are only approximate. Each Race will follow on from the completion of the previous one.

AWARDS Runners in the first, second and third teams in each race will receive an SSAA medal. The winning team in each race will receive a trophy, to be kept for one year.

 

Diving Workshops

Grateful thanks to Diving Coach Jenny Lemming and her team from the Edinburgh Diving Club based at the Royal Commonwealth Pool in Edinburgh for providing diving taster workshops and talent spotting for P2-P5 last week.

Mrs Watson has published photographs of her class, P4C, on the P4 Class Page:

http://2009sciennes.blogspot.co.uk/

Evening News P7 Class Photographs

Primary Seven pupils in P7A, P7B and P7C had class photographs taken in the amphitheatre by press photographer Scott Loudon on Thursday 11th April. You will shortly be able to pre-order a copy of a special edition of the newspaper which will then be delivered to school on the day of publication. A letter will also be issued in due course with details of how you can order a print of the class photograph, should you wish.

ECO - Plant for the Planet

CLICK ON THIS LINK TO VIEW PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE EVENT 

On Wednesday 10th April, Eco Teachers Alison Mackintosh, Sandra Gregson and Iain Kearton with nine Eco Pupil reps from P5-P7 and pupils from P5B welcomed 4 Eco pupil reps from Tollcross, James Gillespie's, Preston Street and Bruntsfield Primary schools to a Plant for the Planet event at Sciennes. Sebastian Hemmann and his team of three assistants (Sjoerd, Theodora and Dagmar) led a day of activities for the children, designed to raise awareness of climate change, which culminated in the planting of cherry, rowan and birch saplings in our Wildlife Garden, opposite the playground.

Each participant was issued with a t-shirt, book and certificate. The project began five years ago and was initiated by a child called Felix. It has since grown into a global movement, supported by major world figures and organisations, with the aim of planting a billion trees in each country that gets involved. Children are empowered as ambassadors for change and tasked with spreading the message on how to combat climate change by taking practical steps. The initiative is supported by City of Edinburgh Council and has been endorsed by the Lord Provost. The first event in Edinburgh was held at Davidson's Mains Primary in March 2012, the second at Duddingston Primaryand the third at Sciennes Primary. The intention is that schools who send 3-5 pupil participants will in turn offer to host their own event so that the initiative expands throughout the city.

The saplings we used were generously provided for free by the Woodland Trust as part of their initiative to plant 6 million trees for the Queen's Jubilee. Trees can be planted between November and April.

Many thanks to the P4P Team and to the schools who released staff and pupils to be involved.

http://www.plant-for-the-planet.org/en/academy

http://www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/en/jubilee-woods/what-you-can-do/schools/free-schools-packs/Pages/school-tree-packs.aspx#.UPb3dOhw2jU

http://issuu.com/Plant-for-the-Planet/docs/tree_by_tree_20120117_issue/1

Please note that there are still places available for the very successful afterschool club "Earth Calling" run by Angus Egan and Sebastien on Thursdays. Contact school for more information.

Primary 4 take to the slopes

School Resumes Monday 8th April

Sharpened pencils at the ready for returning to school on Monday 8th April. We hope all our families have had a great holiday and we look forward to an exciting new term.

N.B. A reminder that Monday 15th April is a holiday.