The Breadwinner Bakery at P4-7 Assembly 4.11.16

Sciennes Breadwinner Bakery P4-7 Assembly 4.11.16 from Sciennes Primary School

Mrs Noble thanks The Breadwinner Bakery and Scotmid Co-operative

Mrs Noble welcomed back to Sciennes the family behind long established local artisan business "The Breadwinner Baker"  - Sean McVey, wife Lesley and son Kris  - to thank them for the extraordinary opportunity they provided for current P5B class last year.

Scotmid Co-operative and The Breadwinner Bakery generously donate proceeds of £607.50 to Sciennes

The McVeys and their team, generously supported and sponsored by Scotmid Co-operative, helped our pupils learn so much about baking and breadmaking, create their own loaves and muffins, advertise them then they actually sold winning team recipes in our local Scotmid Co-operative, with all proceeds to school!

The family returned to Sciennes on Friday 4th November and generously donated an incredible £607.50 to school! Thank you to all the Sciennes' families who supported the project in buying produce. Such an exciting, memorable and commendable project and Mrs Noble thanked all involved wholeheartedly on behalf of the school. Former teacher Lesley and pupil Nina Peden spoke to all the children about the project and Lesley noted that from a range of options each team of pupils had elected to use wholemeal flour in their own recipes.

Nina tells everyone about the amazing Breadwinner Bakery project

Lesley McVey from The Breadwinner Bakery

This is what The McVeys say about their company:

At The Breadwinner Bakery we’re passionate about baking. Since 1973 our master craftsmen bakers have been baking in Edinburgh – kneading and shaping dough by hand. We prefer to use traditional, simple methods and allow time to naturally enhance our products, rather than adding anything that would change the quality or flavour of our breads. We’re proud of our heritage – and work hard to supply breads, cakes and pastries that are locally made, freshly baked and full of flavour.

Sciennes' Muffins and Loaves went on sale on International Picnic Day and provided the perfect produce for Eco Schools' One Planet Picnic campaign.

You can read more about this extraordinary project partnership with The Breadwinner Bakery on the P5 Class Page of our website:

Breadwinner Loaves and Muffins on sale!
http://2012sciennes.blogspot.co.uk/2016/06/buying-bread.html
Breadwinner Bakery Session One
http://2012sciennes.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/breadwinners-bakery.html
Breadwinner Bakery Session Two
http://2012sciennes.blogspot.co.uk/2016/05/breadwinners-bakery-day-2.html

Mr Howie gave a presentation on forthcoming Remembrance Day and explained reasons why and how poppies are used as well as commenting on recent controversy around wearing poppies. P7 pupils will again be accepting donations for poppies this week until next Friday.

Mr Howie talks about Remembrance

P4 pupils Joseph, Molly, Scarlet, Cara and Rosie performed a dance they have choreographed themselves, extremely admirably given that an oversight led it to being without music! Well done to them all for carrying on and they will perform it again - this time with musical accompaniment! - at our next Assembly on Friday 25th November.

More P4 stars - Elsie, Suzanna, Cara and Petra - performed a clapping routine (for added danger, with eyes closed). We congratulated P6 pupil Arwen on achieving a gold medal in a recent Diving competition.

Messages from the Lothian Fire and Police Services about bonfire and fireworks safety were explained. Our P6 Junior Road Safety Officers (JRSOs) - Amelia, Declan and Josh - will take the lead at our next Assembly on 25th November.

Marie Curie Bake Sale Saturday 8th November

MARIE CURIE BAKE SALE 

Saturday 8th November

Marchmont St Giles Church

2pm-4.30pm

P6 families have been invited to contribute baking items for this Bake Sale and we hope that many of our families may also be able to attend this fundraiser on Saturday to purchase items. Some P6 pupils will be helping to man the homebaking stall as part of their Bronze JASS award.

If other families were also willing to contribute home baking, then please hand items in to the School Office on FRIDAY 7th NOVEMBER where they will be collected by Aileen Nimmo, Chair of the Parent Council Events and Fundraising Group. It would be great if items could be bagged, with ingredients listed and a a price marked. No nuts please.

Thank you for your support.

"Sciennes Scenes" Book Launched

 Published authors! Thanks Mary Turner Thomson! Angelita, Ben and Ciara read extracts from their book "Sciennes Scenes" and Jemima, Reda and Callum gave speeches at our Launch in the Hall.

 

 Celebratory cake all round in each class!

 Robyn Thomson was in P7 when her year group's book "On the Line" became our first book published with her mum, Mary. Today marked the publication of Sciennes' fourth book.

Callum impressed us all with his no notes speech. Fabulous!

Sciennes Scenes

The P7 pupils become published authors and will have their own book launch party on Thursday 28^th November when they will be given one copy of their book each. Many thanks to Mary Turner Thomson for guiding them through the entire process of planning, writing, editing, marketing and advertising through a series of workshops.

P7 Published Authors

The P7 pupils have had the opportunity this year to work with a published author and participate in workshops involving creating characters, setting the scene, developing storyline, illustrating, editing, publishing and marketing.  Through workshops led by Mary Turner Thomson they have produced and illustrated three stories which have been compiled into a charming book called ‘Sciennes Scenes’.  This is being published by WhiteWater Publishing Ltd and will be available for sale in bookshops.  

The pupils will have their own book launch party on Thursday 28^th November when they will be given one copy of their book each. Additional books will be available at a reduced price of £5 per book (after the launch the price will be £6.99) and would make a great Xmas present for friends and relatives!

Food Focus

The whole school has been filled with delicious aromas as Food Focus has taken hold at Sciennes. Here are some pictures taken in our new kitchen (partly funded by the PTA) showing what culinary delights the children have been creating. More photographs can be viewed on the Class Pages. Well done Ms Pearmain for driving forward this initiative and many thanks to all the families who came along to the PTA stall at Parent Consultations and so generously donated to the 'Kitchen Wedding List', raising an incredible £450 in donations!

P2 Baking Bonanza

Cupcakes galore!

Lots of parent helpers in P4 have been really appreciated

Yummy soup

Enjoying the soups of their labours

P5 cooking up sensational stovies

Great co-operation, following the recipe carefully and being careful with equipment

A welcome visitor to P1 - meet Charlotte!

Lots of learning about farming in P1 as part of Food Focus at Sciennes

"Fostering Hope" P7 Book Launched

Six children find themselves in a foster

home - three humans, an alien, an elf and a half-demon. As they get to know each other

they find the house is more magical than they could have imagined. It takes them

on adventures through time and space giving them the opportunity to learn how to work together and trust each other. They learn about life, obsession, discrimination, love, friendship, fear, acceptance, and most of all - hope.

Just being in the house challenges them to see the world in a different way. Can they learn to live together?

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This book of short stories was put together through the Pencilling Creative Ideas project. The characters, settings, storylines and conclusions were devised by an inspired group of
pre-teens from Sciennes
Primary School,
Edinburgh. 

Congratulations to our P7 published authors whose book "Fostering Hope" was officially launched today. Mary Turner Thomson has worked with the pupils for ten weeks, providing workshops which have helped them develop characters, settings and storylines and understand in depth the processes involved in producing a book.

If you haven't done so already, please log on to WisePay to pay for the workshops, launch party and book. 

Additional copies of the book can still be ordered at the discounted price of £5.00 each (RRP £6.99) from school, purchased at Blackwell's or ordered from Amazon.

P7 Book Published Next Week!

We are pleased to announce that the ‘Pencilling Creative Ideas’ project has been running again for its third year and the P7s will become published authors when their book "FOSTERING HOPE" is launched on 12th December 2012.

Their book is being professionally published by WhiteWater Publishing Ltd. Perfectly timed to make ideal Christmas presents for friends and family with all proceeds of pre-ordered books going back into the school for future projects.

If you want to pre-order your copy as gifts or to keep, please pay online via Wisepay on the school website.

• A great personal gift for friends, relatives, and colleagues!
• Takes pressure out of Xmas shopping
• A lovely momento of a great school project to keep
• Lower cost as pre-ordered books will be £5 each (cover price will be around £6.99 after launch)

"Fostering Hope" provides a rare and fascinating insight into the thoughts and interests of Primary Seven pupils and how they have begun to make sense of the world for themselves and develop their own values. Through the creation of this wonderful book, Mary Turner Thomson has given Sciennes' pupils a vehicle for passing on their own strong moral messages which will be of interest and benefit to many other children, as well as adults. A glorious celebration of what you can achieve if you believe.