P7 Basketball Team in Inter-Area Final

Well done to our P7 Basketball Team on reaching the Inter-Area Basketball Final held at Dean Park Community High School on Wednesday 20th May. It was such an achievement to go through to this stage of the competition - a first for Sciennes! - and everyone played really well against very stiff competition. Congratulations to Law Primary School from North Berwick who won overall. We were most fortunate to have both Mikey Macdonald, Active Schools Basketball coach, and Sarah Murphy, Blaze Basketball coach, accompany and support the team. Thank you to Sarah for the team photograph.

Great sporting attitudes from all the team, particularly Lawson, and we hope that all the players will take up the invitation from Sarah to come along to the open sessions at Blaze Basketball,  joining Dylan, Joe and Maxwell who already attend.

Blaze Basketball Easter Camps

Great picture of P7 pupil Annie in Blaze's leaflet about Easter holiday basketball camps.

More information here:

http://cragsedinburgh.com/primary-camp

New block begins next term on 
Apr 21/23/25 to June 23/25/27 (10 weeks) £30
Casual rate: £3.50 on the day

Contact:

Activities Coordinator: Eoghann Dover  
Email: activities@cragssports.com
Phone: 0131 667 3334 (daytime)

Blaze Basketball Friday 27th March

Blaze Basketball has organised an U12 girls game against Edinburgh Lions Basketball Club from 3-4pm at the Crags on Friday 27th March, just before the primary school cluster league. Sarah, Eoghann and Sheila have given a special invitation to the girls at Sciennes who have been attending the lunchtime club. They will receive a free t-shirt if they can attend the event!

Developing Girls' Basketball

Silver EPSSA Basketball!

We are delighted to report the terrific success of the P7 team who represented Sciennes in the Edinburgh Primary Schools Sports Association (EPSSA) Basketball Final, held on Monday 9th March at Meadowbank. The team achieved a fantastic Second Place and each of the twelve players was awarded a Silver EPSSA medal. The top two placed teams now progress to the Lothians Basketball Final in May. Some of the pupils take part in the Active Schools Basketball Club, some are involved with Blaze at the Crags and some are in the Netball team, but as a group they have not played together outwith the EPSSA games, so it was a remarkable result. We are indebted to Ms Anstruther for setting up our links with Blaze to develop Girls' Basketball throughout this year and were able to field six girls at the tournament. (Last year we could not even take part because we needed at least two girls on court to participate and had been unable to recruit any girls.)  Thank you to our superb Active Schools Basketball coach Mikey, to Ms Christie who transported the children by minibus and to Mrs Walker for organising the entire event for the city.

Good Luck in the Basketball Final, P7!

A team of girls and boys from P7 was successful in the first round of the EPSSA Basketball tournament and have secured a place in the Final on Monday, 9th March at Meadowbank.
Good luck, P7!

Blaze Basketball Tournaments Friday 27th Feb

Our links with Blaze Basketball at the Crags go from strength to strength thanks to the support of Sarah and Eoghann.

There will be an all girls primary school tournament Friday 27th February at the Crags from 3-4pm which will be followed by a mixed tournament from 4-6pm.
P5 - P7 pupils all welcome - the more the merrier!

P5-7 Blaze Basketball Fri 19th December

Sarah Murphy from Blaze Basketball has invited Sciennes P5-P7 pupils to the Crags on Friday 19th December 1.30-4.00pm for a Basketball Game Day. Cost £2.00.

Below is a post from Blaze's website on 2nd December about the growing success of Girls' Basketball in the South Central Area:

Blaze Girls Basketball Beginning to Burn Brightly

This weekend was great for Blaze Basketball Club. The newly formed under 12 and under 14 Blaze Girls Clubs showed up in numbers to play.

On Friday evening The Crags hosted the first ever girls only fixtures in the South Central Primary School Basketball League. There were four Girls teams overall, which included a mix of St Peters, Sciennes Primary School and Blaze Under 12 Development Girls.

Under 12 and 14 Girls coach Sarah Murphy spoke of her joy at seeing so many girls come get involved in the League.

‘It was great to see the girls come along and give it a try today. For many of them it was their first ever competitive match, but everyone did really well. There was examples of really good sportsmanship, teamwork and a high level of energy from start to finish. All the girls that came along today definitely have what it takes to have a great future in basketball and there is a lot of potential in the South Central Area.’


P7 EPSSA BASKETBALL 
P7 Basketball Club players (6 girls and 6 boys) will receive a letter next week inviting them to participate in an Edinburgh Primary Schools Sports Association (EPSSA) Basketball Tournament at Meadowbank on Monday 12th January 10am-12pm. The success of Sarah and Eoghann's lunchtime Basketball clubs for girls has enabled us to enter the competition for the first time in many years, since rules dictate that at least five girls must form the team and previously we did not have sufficient numbers of girls keen to participate. Thank you to Ms Anstruther for suggesting a Girls' Basketball Club and thank you Sarah and Eoghann!

Blaze Girls' Basketball Tournament

14 girls from Sciennes took up the invitation from Blaze Basketball to attend a Round Robin Tournament at the Crags Sports Centre with 4 girls from St Peter's on Friday 28th November 4pm-6pm. Thank you very much to Sarah Murphy from Blaze for organising. The Tuesday and Thursday taster session clubs were a fantastic success and have now ended, however, we are looking into the possibility of running another lunchtime Active Schools Basketball Club on Thursdays next year and hope that many of our pupils - girls and boys - will take up the fantastic weekly coaching and playing opportunities always on offer from Blaze at the Crags.