A wonderful opportunity for our children to participate in this showcase event, in a prestigious venue, celebrating young people's talents in music, drama and dance with schools from across the city. Our pupils were expertly prepared for the Resonate: Studio to Stage concert at the Queen's Hall on Monday 30th March by Mrs Campbell and they all made us truly proud, rising admirably to the occasion by performing one of the BBC Ten Pieces: Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King." Pupils also performed "Greensleeves" and thoroughly deserved their rousing applause.
Many thanks to Lucy Vaughan (Principal Officer Creative Learning) and Carla Hay (Youth Music Initiative Projects Assistant) for inviting us to take part and to the huge behind-the-scenes team who provided such high quality sound and lighting, making everything run so smoothly. Thank you to Mrs Samanda Campbell who led and conducted the orchestra superbly, accompanied by Mrs Ruth McVicker on piano. Thanks also to Mrs Katherine Peace for escorting and playing alongside the pupils and to all the families who came along to support and celebrate the children's hard work and achievement. A lovely way to end the term and we look forward to hearing the Orchestra and other musical ensembles perform on May 13th at a showcase organised by the Parent Council.
Orchestra members with Lucy Vaughan, CEC Principal Officer Creative Learning
Sean in one of our plush red Reserved seats
Lucy Vaughan introduced proceedings and has been a great supporter of our BBC Ten Pieces projects
The
Sciennes School Orchestra, conducted by Mrs Samanda Campbell, has been
invited to perform at the Queen’s Hall on Monday 30th March. Resonate:
Studio to Stage is an annual, highly regarded, event celebrating
Expressive Arts in our city schools. Children will be seated in the
audience until it is their turn to perform at approximately 8.00pm, but N.B. they do not require a ticket.
Pupils
require to wear full school uniform: white shirt and tie, dark trousers
and dark shoes and should make their way to the Green Room in the Queen's Hall
at 5.45pm (or by 6pm at the very latest) to collect their instruments then sit in the red seats, as shown at the rehearsal this afternoon.
Tickets for the event can be purchased at £4.00 each (£2.00 concessions) from the Queen’s Hall Box Office:
The
Sciennes School Orchestra, conducted by Mrs Samanda Campbell, has been
invited to perform at the Queen’s Hall on Monday 30th March. Resonate:
Studio to Stage is an annual, highly regarded, event celebrating
Expressive Arts in our city schools. Children will be seated in the
audience until it is their turn to perform at approximately 8.00pm.
Pupils
require to wear full school uniform: white shirt and tie, dark trousers
and dark shoes and should meet Mrs Campbell and Ms Gallagher at the rear entrance of the Queen's Hall
at 5.45pm (or by 6pm at the very latest). The children will attend a
rehearsal from 2pm until 2.30pm on Monday, and we expect to return to
school by the end of the day but please be aware that there may be
delays in rehearsing the programme.
Tickets for the event can be purchased at £4.00 each (£2.00 concessions) from the Queen’s Hall Box Office:
Have you checked out our Vimeo Videos? Our children have been engaging with the innovative BBC Ten Pieces classical music initiative in many ways throughout the year and here are a few video examples of some of their class work. (Alternatively, click on the VIDEOS button on our school website.)
At the P4-7 Believe • Achieve Assembly on Friday 27th March we celebrated P6 pupil Milenka's fantastic achievement at a recent International Fencing competition in Poland where she came 26th out of 128 participants in her age group. She was the highest ranked girl from Scotland and the second highest ranking from Britain. Milenka gave a confident and engaging presentation and was roundly congratulated by all.
Milenka, far right
Pupils had an opportunity to share their learning and achievements at Parents' Consultations this week and it was wonderful to welcome families into school. We really value our ongoing partnership with families. Well done also to all the staff who have worked so hard to display their pupils' work to such great effect and we hoped you enjoyed visiting classrooms. A favourite haunt was the 'Evacuee's Waiting Room' on the top landing, complete with suitcases and gas mask boxes!
Each P6 class performed their fabulous BBC Ten Pieces dances at Assembly last week and this week they were able to see the video of their Year Group performance of Anna Meredith's 'Connect It' dance. We think Mr Howie's 'Sciennes' animated logo is super cool!
JASS AWARDS in P6 and P7
We aim to allocate about six months to the Junior Award Scheme Scotland (JASS) awards at Bronze (P6) and Silver (P7) Levels and we include as many holidays within that time as possible - from the beginning of the October holiday until the end of the Easter holiday - to help pupils achieve their goals. Next term, pupils have been asked to give a short talk explaining how they have achieved either 8 (Bronze) or 12 (Silver) hours in each of the four categories: Get Active, Stay Active; Adventure; My Interests; Me and My World. At Assembly we highlighted the numerous Easter holiday activities available to help any pupils make up additional hours still required to achieve the award (see slideshow and website or Sciennes Twitter feed and Facebook Page for details). Individual log in accounts have now been created so we hope to begin our pilot eJASS programme with some of our P7 pupils before the end of term.
ME AND MY WORLD JASS
Luke and Toby gave details of their innovating idea to achieve their 'Me and My World' certificate by running a Bake Sale in the Meadows during football practice tomorrow morning Saturday 28th March from 9.30am. All items £1.00 and all proceeds to the Playground Fund. It never ceases to amaze that a third of our school population - 215 pupils! - take part in the Sciennes Football Club. Testament indeed to the great enthusiasm and dedication of so many of our parents and supporters.
Me and My World Ideas:
This year, our pupils have generously supported local and national charity fundraisers: Food Bank, Children in Need, Comic Relief, as well as taking part in Playground Fundraising events at school including Camera Obscura Family evening, Christmas Fair and the forthcoming Swimathon. Participation in these events counts towards the 'Me and My World' JASS award, as does making a difference at home such as helping neighbours or gardening. Pupils have been asked to show support on Saturday 28th March for WWF's Earth Hour by switching off lights at 8.30pm - 9.30pm, which would count as an hour towards the award. Pupils might also consider preparing and delivering a Talk about a charitable organisation, or deciding to give their time in some way to help others.
The Science Festival is about to begin and to highlight the exciting opportunities on offer we showed the 'Scientific Method Rap.' Mr McKenna has posters and leaflets in his Science Lab and invited pupils to come and ask him about some of the activities on offer during the holiday. (See website and Sciennes Twitter feed or Facebook Page.)
We also practised "It's A Wonderful World", ready to sing it at our Easter Assemblies next week on Thursday morning, led by Mrs Noble.
Please note that term ends on THURSDAY 2nd APRIL at 3.20pm, normal time, and we look forward to welcoming pupils back to school on TUESDAY 21st APRIL.
Outstanding, polished performances from our three excellent Primary Six classes at P4-7 Assembly on Friday 20th March to three of the ten BBC Ten Pieces of classical music:
P6A Grieg's "In the Hall of the Mountain King"
P6B Mozart's "Horn Concerto"
P6C Beethoven's "Symphony No. 5"
Many thanks to Vanessa from Dance Division for developing the dances with the children this term, assisting with yesterday's filmed performance in the playground (including the P6 Year Group performance of Edinburgh composer Anna Meredith's "Connect It") then rehearsing and leading them through today's Assembly. Video footage to follow!
Well done also to Daniel and Christie from P5B on their Internet Safety
presentation, reminding us all to stay safe online. All pupils were also
reminded that they may only take photographs with their teacher's permission and that all mobile phones must be switched off before school until the end of the school day.
Thank you to S6 students Caitlin and Monica from James Gillespie's High School for their excellent presentation about their forthcoming trip to South Africa and for explaining how we can help by donating gym shoes, sports gear and dresses.
The focus for the P4-7 Assembly on Friday 16th January was Music at Sciennes and how the BBC Ten Pieces project provides opportunities to get creative with classical music, as well as opportunities to perform.
Our School Orchestra will perform at the Queen's Hall on March 30th as part of City of Edinburgh's "Ten Minutes for Ten Pieces", alongside P6 pupils who wish to perform the Ten Pieces dance they have been learning with Dance Division's Cat Perry.
On Tuesday May 5th our pupils will have a chance to showcase their musical talents at the Sciennes Parent Council Music Showcase, also with a Ten Pieces theme, at the Queen's Hall.
Inspired by Anna Meredith's Ten Pieces Connect It Dance, P7B created and performed their own versions of the Haka, using Scots words, as part of their Scotland Week project.
Tomlin from Creative Scotland's Bainbridge Youth Orchestra, based in Leith, came along to the Assembly to perform a song on acoustic guitar and tell P6 and P7 about an exciting free ten week music making workshop beginning on Friday 23rd January. Places are now very limited so contact Chris as soon as possible with your name, age, instrument and rough level of ability if you wish to be considered for a place:
P6 and P7 pupils at Sciennes have been given an exciting opportunity to attend a free screening of BBC's "Ten Pieces"on Tuesday 7th October at the Filmhouse. The film is designed to engage primary pupils with classical music and creativity through story telling which features high quality musical performance and visuals. Details available soon on WisePay.
Grateful thanks to Lucy Vaughan, Principal Officer Creative Learning (Performing Arts), and Frances Baker, Drama Development Officer, from City of Edinburgh's Arts and Creative Learning Team, for providing this opportunity for our pupils.
P6
and P7 pupils have been given an exciting free opportunity to attend a
screening of BBC's Ten Pieces, a film designed to engage primary pupils
with classical music through high
quality visual performance and story telling. Further information will be published soon on Wisepay.
