Sciennes Primary School: Class of 2008

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Tuesday, 30 June 2015

Where Is The P7 Class Page?

All Class Pages have been moved on a year for 2015-2016 and can be accessed from the CLASSES button on this website.

This year's P7 Page has become 'Class of 2008' and can be accessed from either of the LINKS buttons on this website:

http://2008sciennes.blogspot.co.uk

P7 Leavers' Dance

What a fabulous P7 Leavers' Dance on Wednesday 24th June! Thank you to Ms Christie and all the Pupil Support Assistants for the superb Dining Hall decorations, table settings, Photo Booth and balloons. Mr Howie led the ceilidh dancing and span the iPod discs to get the Hall jumping. It was joyful to see everyone joining in with the Graduation dancing.

Haddows Delicatessen set up their magnificent mobile barbecue van, serving 100 people burgers, chips and juice with ice cream to follow. Thank you to all the staff who came along to support and to all the families who enjoyed the photo call at Mrs Nowell's Photo Booth as much as we did.Wonderful to welcome back Mrs Linda Young and Mrs Morag Crolla to join in the fun.

More photographs of the Leavers' Dance on the Class of 2008 page (which can also be accessed from the LINKS button on the school website).

http://2008sciennes.blogspot.co.uk/

Thank You, P7 House and Sports Captains!

Thank you House and Sports Captains for Grange, Lauder, Sienna and Tanatllon.

Well done to Lauder House for achieving most House Points throughout the year.

Our P7 House and Sports Captains have been excellent role models and ambassadors for Sciennes throughout the year. Indeed all our P7 pupils have been admirable role models, setting high standards for themselves and younger pupils by the way they have conducted themselves. An excellent year group who can be justly proud!

Alika's eJASS Logo

Alika's illustration has been adopted as the inspiration for the new logo for eJASS. Alika received an Amazon voucher, kindly donated by Ian Forder, JASS Director at Friends of the Award (FOTA). Thank you to software developer Steve Moore, who has worked with pupil focus groups and P7 classes throughout the year to pilot his online version of the Junior Award Scheme for Schools - JASS (formerly know as the Junior Award Scheme Scotland but now is used throughout the UK).

Saturday, 27 June 2015

End of Year Assembly 2015

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, Claire Wheeler, new Chair Kristel Torokoff, outgoing Convener Fundraising and Events, Aileen Nimmo, as well as Fiona Denvir, Clubs. Mrs Noble thanked Claire and Aileen for the huge contribution they have made to the school throughout the year, in an extraordinary year of fundraising and events.

Headteacher, Mrs Alison Noble, led the End of Year Assembly

Thank you to outgoing Chair of Parent Council Claire Wheeler for her huge contribution to the life of the school. Claire now joins the national body SPTC (Scottish Parent Teacher Council) who will certainly benefit from her expertise and talent.

Thank you to outgoing Parent Council Fundraising and Event Convener Aileen Nimmo for her dedication and commitment in supporting school developments, which have led to an extraordinary year of fundraising and activities for the whole school community.

Team Sciennes

Mrs Noble thanked the entire Parent Council as well as families, pupils and staff who have successfully worked together to achieve our ambitious plans to improve the playground. Mrs Noble was able to announce that work begins on Monday 29th June! Thank you to SportScotland for match funding and to City of Edinburgh Council for pulling out all the stops to progress playground improvements so that we can maximise the window of seven weeks' summer holiday.

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.

Ms French invited everyone to take part in her 'Extreme Reading Challenge' over the summer holiday by emailing a photograph of reading in an unusual place to P6astore@hotmail.co.uk so that they can be posted on the P7 Book Review Blog. There is a book token prize for the best photograph from each class. Mrs Noble reminded everyone of the Tesco Summer Reading Challenge taking place at libraries across the city, including Newington Library.

Ms Wendy French explained the Sciennes Extreme Reading Challenge

Mrs Noble reminded pupils about the Tesco Summer Reading Challenge - sign up at your local library.

Miss Dougal led the School Choir in an uplifting medley, sung beautifully.

Miss Dougal leads Sciennes School Choir

Our best wishes to Nikolina, Anna and Phoebe as well as all our other pupils who are moving on from Sciennes this year.

Sciennes End of Year Assembly 2015 from SciennesPS

Mr Terry Anthony

Our very best wishes to Mr Terry Anthony who has taken up a new post as Class Teacher at Gylemuir Primary School. Mr Anthony was unfortunately unable to attend the Assembly, but met with staff the previous evening. He was thanked in his absence by Ms Gaffney and Ms Gallagher for his huge contribution to Sciennes, working with classes throughout the entire school this year. A very cultured, knowledgeable, versatile and charming teacher, we are very grateful to Mr Anthony and will miss him as a close colleague and friend.

Mr Jonathan Wallace

It was with a heavy heart, but all our very best wishes, that we bade fond farewell to Mr Jonathan Wallace, our Active Schools Co-ordinator for James Gillespie's High School Cluster, who takes on an exciting new role, with additional responsibilities, in the Royal High School Cluster.

Mr Wallace has been a crucial member of our staff: facilitating and co-ordinating all the morning, lunchtime and after school Active Schools Clubs based at Sciennes and various venues; providing curricular coaches and activities for classes throughout the year; supporting JASS in school and all EPSSA sporting events; assisting with trials for EPSSA events; accompanying us to Benmore and Lagganlia; working with Ms Kennedy to provide activities for Fun and Frolics and running the highly successful P7 Cluster Transition Days at Meadowbank over the last four and a half years. Based at James Gillespie's High School, Mr Wallace has also provided sterling support to all six cluster primary schools: Sciennes, Tollcross, James Gillespie's Primary, Preston Street, Royal Mile and Taobh na Pairce.

The Active Schools programme is highly prized and the Active Schools Cluster Co-ordinator is a very demanding role: we are indebted to Mr Wallace for his commitment and expertise and will miss him very much. We are certain he will make as much of an impact in his new post and we wish him continued success in his career.

Pupils presented Mr Wallace with a Memory Book capturing some of the highlights from his time with us at Sciennes. Keep in touch, Mr Wallace!

Sciennes Memory Book for Mr Wallace, with new Chair of School Council Kristel seated to the right.

Euan Morrice – Sports Development Officer with the City of Edinburgh Council Sports and Outdoor Education Unit - presented P6 pupil Yash with two engraved trophies which he can keep for a year for winning first place in BOTH Badminton and Table Tennis tournaments this year.

Euan Morrice, CEC Sports Unit

Yash won First Place trophies for both EPSSA Badminton and Racquet tournaments earlier this year.

Magnificent Sevens

We also wished fond farewell to our magnificent Primary Sevens, so proud of their confidence and readiness for the next steps to secondary school and beyond. Mr Howie, Mrs Barker, Ms Sellar and Mr McKenna provided an end of term treat with their surprise video of staff dancing to "Walking on Sunshine". It was lovely to watch the Primary Seven pupils perform "You Can Count on Me" at Assembly and we truly have been able to count on them as magnificent role models for the rest of the school.

Always able to count on P7.

Mr Howie thanked our Magnificent Sevens pupils and Ms Gallagher thanked our Magnificent Sevens staff: Mr Howie, Ms Sellar, Mr McKenna, Mrs Barker and Mrs Nowell.

Mrs Noble rang the bell and led them out in procession as the other classes lined the stairwell on the last day of term. Keep in touch, Primary Seven! Remember to save the date of your special invitation back to Sciennes to see the new playground - "S1 The Return" on Friday 28th August 1pm.

(Photographs of end of term events for P7 will appear on the Class of 2008 page which can also be accessed from the LINKS button on the school website.)

Wishing all our families a safe, HAPPY and relaxing holiday. We look forward to welcoming pupils back to Sciennes on MONDAY 17th AUGUST.

Staff are less likely to boogie for our end of term surprise video if we publish online, so here is the next best thing: Pharell Williams' "Happy."Keep smiling!

Monday, 22 June 2015

Stunning P7 Graduation Show 2015!

P7 Dream Team

What a stunning Graduation show on Monday 22nd June from our Magnificent Sevens! The pupils' confidence and joy in performing shone through and we were all so proud of them. Mr Howie, Ms Sellar, Mr McKenna and Mrs Barker worked as a close knit team to plan, rehearse and produce a remarkable show and we are grateful to Cat Perry, Director of Dance Division, and Vanessa Robertson for providing fantastic choreography. Thank you to Mrs Barker for all her musical input and accompaniment, to Mr Howie for technical wizardy and video editing and to Ms Sellar and Mr McKenna for tight direction and high production values. Thank you to former parent Lorna Irvine for superb input to the pupils' poetry - in her writing workshops and in polishing their performance. Photographs and video of the show will appear in due course. We also recognise and value the support of all the parents and carers who have worked with us throughout the last seven years. We pass on every best wish to all our families and hope to hear news of the pupils' continued success. Keep in touch!

Photographs on the Class of 2008 Page.

http://2008sciennes.blogspot.co.uk

P6/7 Girls v Staff Football

Thank you to Mr Forrest Howie for arranging, to the P6 and P7 Girls Football Teams and all staff who participated as well as everyone who came to cheer along the joyful - though very competitively fought! - staff v pupils football game in glorious sunshine on Wednesday 10th June. Thanks also to our Sciennes Team football coaches for refereeing.

More photographs will be posted soon on the P7 Class Page.

Tuesday, 16 June 2015

P7 Girls v Staff Netball

Thank you to Mr Forrest Howie for arranging, to the P7 Girls Netball Team and all staff who participated as well as everyone who came to cheer along the joyful - though very competitively fought! - staff v pupils netball game in the sunshine on Tuesday 9th June. Thanks also to our lovely netball coach Emmy Lou Ferry for refereeing. Emmy has coached the netball team superbly for the past four years and this was her last coaching session as she got a new job on Friday and is soon off to Zambia for six months. Our best wishes and thanks to you, Emmy!

More photographs on the P7 Class Page.

Monday, 15 June 2015

P6/7 Interscholastics

Tuesday 2nd June - a cold, very windy day - P6 and P7 pupils took part in the annual Edinburgh Primary Schools (EPSSA) Interscholastics event at Meadowbank. Thank you to Mrs Beth Walker, our P.E. Specialist for organising the citywide event, Mrs Nowell for escorting, to Headteacher and EPSSA President Mr Willie French for compering and to families who came to cheer on. Congratulations to all our athletes, who all competed particularly well in the Heats, qualifying for the Finals in most events, and were great sporting ambassadors for Sciennes. Very well done to Cerys for achieving a Silver medal in the Long Jump, to Archie M, Stephen, Boris and Saul for achieving Silver in the P6 Boys' Relay and to Phoebe who, despite a stumble, still managed to achieve a Bronze medal in the Girls' 600m race.