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Monday, 4 July 2016
Sunday, 3 July 2016
Can you help us win £25,000 for our pupils at Sciennes School?
Although our school holidays have just begun, we would be very grateful for your help in the next two weeks so that we can win £25,000 to support our technology project at Sciennes Primary School, which will benefit all our pupils.
You can help by voting online for our project between Monday 4 July and Wednesday 20 July. Voting is free and is open to anyone aged over 18 years old.
Our technology project has been nominated for a community award from the One Family Foundation. The funding would let us buy 124 tablet computers for four classes. It would build on our current work and would be a significant boost to the learning opportunities for our pupils, supporting a focus on digital safety, coding and careers in technology particularly.
We are one of 19 projects from across the UK in their schools and centres of education category who are seeking £25,000. The project that gets the most votes will receive the funding. If we can get a vote for every one of our 650 pupils, through the support of you, our parents, we believe we can achieve!
To play your part in helping us win £25,000 to fund technology equipment for your child and all our other pupils, just follow these steps:
1. Between Monday 4th and Wednesday 20th July visit our project website at:
2. Click the VOTE button, which will be in the top right of the page. You will then be asked to register with the Foundation website to be able to vote - just follow their instructions.
3. Once registered and logged into their website, click the blue VOTE button again. The vote count will increase and the button will change colour - this means your vote was successful and has gone through.
4. Please encourage any other adults you know, such as family, friends or work colleagues, to vote for our project. For example, you could forward this link to them to explain how to vote.
We will put voting updates on our school website.
We very much appreciate your help and support in trying to win £25,000 for technology equipment for your child and all the other pupils at our school.
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PLEASE REMEMBER TO VOTE BETWEEN MONDAY 4 AND WEDNESDAY 20 JULY AT
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Thank you and very grateful thanks to parent Colin Sim who has put together and submitted the funding bid on our behalf. Fingers crossed!
Friday, 1 July 2016
Happy Summer Holiday!
We look forward to welcoming pupils back to school on
WEDNESDAY 17th AUGUST
Best wishes from all at Sciennes for a safe and happy summer.
Where Is the P7 Class Page?
All Class Pages have been moved on a year for 2016-2017 and can be accessed from the CLASSES button on this website.
This year's P7 Page has become 'Class of 2009' and can be accessed from the side panel of this website.
This year's P7 Page has become 'Class of 2009' and can be accessed from the side panel of this website.
Mrs Noble Leads the End of Year Assembly 2016
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. We were delighted to welcome Parent Council representatives: outgoing Chair, Kristel Torokoff , and incoming Convenors Fundraising and Events, Jayamthi Sanahanam and Aileen Nimmo. Mrs Noble thanked Kristel and Charlotte Herthelius (outgoing Convenor PTA) for the huge contribution they have made to the school throughout the year, particularly in celebrating our cultural diversity at the International Summer Fair. We welcomed Phoebe Cochrane and Tim Pask who will take up their posts as Chair and Vice Chair of the Parent Council in August.
Ms French invited everyone to take part in the Tesco Bank Summer Reading Challenge taking place at libraries across the city, including Newington Library.
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| Ms French encouraged everyone to take the Summer Reading Challenge |
Mrs Noble led everyone in our fond farewells to staff and pupils who are moving on. Pupils sang "We Wish You Well" and watched a montage review of the year.
Sciennes Primary Schoool Review of 2015-16 from Sciennes Primary School on Vimeo.
Former parent, Mrs Susan McConville, was presented with flowers as a token of thanks for her marvellous contribution to ICT lessons with the children.
Our very best wishes to Miss Heather Richmond who was presented with thank you flowers at the Assembly. A very hard working, dedicated and flexible teacher, who has made many very good friends at Sciennes and will be missed.
The Sciennes Family wished Mrs Carol Brechin, our Support for Learning Specialist a very happy retirement after 18 years of tireless dedication at school. Mrs Noble acknowledged Mrs Brechin's superlative breadth and wealth of expertise which is so highly valued by all the staff and parents. Mrs Brechin's great care and attention have successfully built both confidence and skill in hundreds of pupils over the years and we dearly hope that we may coax her back to school to work with us again soon!
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| Mrs Brechin received a gift, presented by P7 pupils Leah and Liam |
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| Mrs Gibb and Mrs Kidd presented Miss McIntosh with a wedding gift |
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| Flowers and good wishes to Mrs Kidd and Mrs Watson, presented by Mrs Ford and Mrs Mahmood |
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| Mrs Noble presented P7 pupil Toby McIntosh with his prize for being runner up in the City of Edinburgh 20mph mascot competition |
Mrs McVicker accompanied everyone as we sang the school song, composed by her with lyrics by Mrs Ford.
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| Mrs Ruth McVicker playing our School Song |
We also wished fond farewell to our wonderful Primary Sevens, very proud of their confidence and readiness for the next steps to secondary school and beyond. Miss Stewardson, Mrs Barker and Ms French provided an end of term treat with their surprise video of staff dancing to Silento's "Watch Me." P7 invited everyone at Assembly to "Come On and Sing With Me" and later when they sang "You Can Count On Me" on the Top Landing the staff were very moved to see the whole year group spontaneously begin embracing one another.
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| We all joined P7 when they invited us to "Come on and SIng With Me" |
(Photographs of end of term events for P7 will appear in due course on the Class of 2009 page which can also be accessed from the side panel of the school website.)
Wishing all our families a safe, HAPPY and relaxing holiday. We look forward to welcoming pupils back to Sciennes on WEDNESDAY 17th AUGUST.
P6 Ailsa is Virgin Money EIF Fireworks Poster Winner!
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| Ailsa with her winning poster entry for the Virgin Money Fireworks Concert 2016 |
Ailsa very kindly brought in her special celebratory cake to share with her classmates.
The Prize
As well as seeing their designs throughout the city, winners will enjoy an exclusive behind-the-scenes tour of the Fireworks set-up site at Edinburgh Castle and win four tickets to see the concert in Princes St Gardens on Monday 29 August 2016.
The winners and other shortlisted entries will also be celebrated with an event at the Virgin Money Lounge in St Andrew’s Square, Edinburgh, taking place on Tuesday 28 June at 6pm. This is a special event at the Lounge for the winners and their families, where they will be joined by our Forth 1 judges and invited guests, hosted by Virgin Money with the Edinburgh International Festival and Scottish Chamber Orchestra.
The EIF Fireworks Concert featuring the Scottish Chamber Orchestra takes place on Monday 29 August at 9.30pm. All our P7 pupils, including Ailsa, have been invited to attend a special concert performance for schools at 11am at the Ross Bandstand on the same day, sponsored by Virgin Money.
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| Ailsa's prize winning Edinburgh International Festival Virgin Money Fireworks Concert poster |
Monday 29 August 2016 9.30pm
Ross Theatre and Princes St Gardens
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