Fond Farewell to Primary Seven

Our current Primary Seven pupils will spend their last day at Sciennes on Friday 29th June. Mrs Noble will ring the bell to lead them out from the top floor while all the pupils line the stairwells to wave them off and wish them well at 12pm. The Leavers' Dance on Wednesday night was a terrific success. Thank you to local Delicatessen Haddow's for providing the amazing mobile barbecue unit. 100 served up with burger rolls, chips, a drink and a choc ice in 15 minutes! Thanks also to Mr Howie for compering the ceilidh dancing, Mr Hewitt for DJ disc spinning and to all the staff who set up tables outside and decorated the sheds. The photo booth was an added attraction. The Graduation Performance and Ceremony on Monday reflected all the hard work and creativity by P7 pupils and their teachers Mr Howie, Miss Phillips and Ms Ross. Particular thanks to Dance Division Instructor Cat Perry for choreography and filming. Thank you to Mr Howie for this joyful photograph of a fabulous year group

We wish you well, P7. Shine on and keep in contact. We'll miss you!

JGHS Transition Festival Monday 18th June

JGHS pupils will travel by coach to Meggetland on Monday 18th June to participate in a full day of activities with fellow P7 pupils from each of our cluster primary schools - James Gillespie's Primary, Tollcross, Preston Street and Royal Mile. Pupils should bring a snack, drink, packed lunch, comfortable sports clothes and suncream, contained in a bag they can carry between the various activity stations. Thank you to Mr Jonathan Wallace for all his hard work in organising the event.

There is a parents' evening on Monday 18th June at JGHS at 7.00pm.

Boroughuir Transition Festival is also at Meggetland on Tuesday 19th June and pupils should make their own way there.

Pupils should make their own way to school on Tuesday 19th, Wednesday 20th and Thursday 21st June by 8.20am for the three day transition visit. Class lists will be posted on the windows at Reception and S6 pupils will carry signs to gather each class together before entering the Hall together.

There will be a dress rehearsal on Monday 25th June in the morning then parents and carers are invited to the Graduation Show at 1.45pm- 3.00pm in the Hall. Please note that due to space restrictions only two tickets are available per child.

Interscholastics at Meadowbank 28th May

Elena P6 receives silver medal for 80m sprint

Elena with event organiser Mrs Beth Walker

Well done to all our P6 and P7 athletes who competed today in the EPPSA (Edinburgh Primary Schools Sports Association) Interscholastics at Meadowbank. 30 P6 and P7 pupils took part in relay, cricket ball throw, 600m, 150m, 80m, high jump and long jump events. We moved position in the stands a couple of times to enjoy the glorious sunshine but also to cover up in the shade. Thanks very much to Mrs Sally Nowell for accompanying and to Flora's mum and dad and Jack's mum who came along to lend their support. It was good to see Mr Wallace and Miss Logan and very well done to Mrs Beth Walker, our PE Specialist, for co-ordinating the entire event for the city. Pupils achieved many healthy fourth place positions, in the heat and up against strong competition from the 40 schools who took part. P6 boys made the semi finals of the relay and P6 girls did very well to reach the finals of the relay. Congratulations are in order for P6 pupil Elena Santoyo-Brown who gained a silver medal for the 80m sprint event.

More photographs on the P6 and P7 pages Class Pages>Primary Six and Primary Seven published soon.

House Captains

Very well done to P7 House Captains Daniel and Emily H in Grange, Anouk and Angus in Lauder, Murrin and Milly in Sienna and Hazel and Abdul in Tantallon for their excellent presentations using iPads at House Assemblies on Friday 27th April.

This session we have been focusing on inspirational people such as Nelson Mandela, Helen Keller, Martin Luther King and Ernest Shackleton. At the start of the year our House Captains invited pupils to nominate inspirational people to be included in our Assemblies.

Our House Captains themselves inspired others, by creating and delivering excellent presentations on Winston Churchill, Ghandi, Barack Obama and John F Kennedy, which you can view on the House pages in the Community section of the school website or here:

Grange
Lauder
Sienna
Tantallon

Pupils in each House can add their own achievements to the online Achievement Walls on the House pages. (Comments are moderated so may take a little while to appear.)

Sciennes Swim Team

Congratulations to the P7 Relay Swim Team who won Silver in the Breastroke competition at Ainslie Park Wednesday 28th March. Luca, Flora, Emily H and Thomas received a silver medal each. The team also won an Overall Runners Up trophy for the Freestyle. Well done Laura, Flora, Olivia and Lewis. Ferdinand, Megan, Lewis and Taran came fourth in the Backstroke relay and all ten pupils were excellent ambassadors for the school. Special thanks to Mrs Beth Walker for superbly co-ordinating and running the entire event for city schools.

Sunshine and Friendship Bracelets in the Meadows

P7 pupils have been enjoying the unseasonably warm weather at lunch breaks in the Meadows. Yu-Ning in 7A made this beautiful and carefully crafted daisy friendship bracelet for Hannah in 7C today.

Cross Country Event at Meadows

Well done all our P6 and P7 runners. A great warm up event, organised by Mrs Beth Walker, in preparation for the EPSSA Cross Country Race at Duddingston Park on Monday 19th March. Letters will be issued tomorrow. Thank you to Mr Wallace and Ms Christie, too.