Cup Win for Sporting Sciennes!

Congratulations to the Sciennes P6 & 7 girls on a fantastic cup win. A very sporting game against a talented Mary Erskine's team.

Great Game! Staff v Girls' Football Team

Thank you very much to coach Fiona MacLean, Mr McKenna, Mr Hutchison and Mr Howie for arranging the game and to coach Stuart Sheehan for refereeing a gripping end of season Staff v Girls Football Team match on Thursday 15th June on the Meadows. Thank you to all the staff and girls who took part and to everyone who came along to spectate and encourage. The staff played to win, but ultimately lost out to the superior skills of the P7 Girls 6-4.

Fiona Maclean's daughter Ellen is moving on to high school and so Fiona is now stepping down as coach. We wish to thank her for all her support for the school football teams over many years and it was a great testament to her efforts that the girls played such a strong game and have had so much competitive success throughout the year. Good luck on Saturday, girls!

Football P4 Dads v P7 Dads

Thank you to Greg Dimeck for this photograph of the victorious 7-a-side P4 dads who won a recent match 8-2 (with forlorn P7 dads in the background!) We are led to believe good cheer was restored at Summerhall...

Sciennes Football Club Newsletter #6

P2/3 AND P6/7 Girls Retain Meadows Autumn Cup!

 

Very well done to all the football teams, including three Sciennes teams, who took part in the Girls' Autumn Cup on a beautiful morning in the Meadows today, Saturday 8th October, and thank you to the many helpers who came along to support.

Lovely news that our P2/3 Girls Team and our P6/7 Girls Team retained the trophies from last year. Congratulations! Thank you to parent Jack Cadell for sharing these super photos.

Good Football Sports, Representing Sciennes Well

Sciennes P6 Football Team blues represented the school admirably today. Played fairly with a smile on their faces. W 2 D 2.

Thank you to parent, Mr Dougan, for Twitter news!

Sciennes Football – P1 Introductory Sessions

Sciennes Primary School Football Club would like to invite P1 girls and boys who may be interested in joining the Club after the summer to come along to free training taster sessions being run 11th and 18th June 2016 on The Meadows, 9:30-10:30. Children are welcome to join either or both days.

To express interest so we can get an idea of numbers and so the Club can provide further details, please drop an email to the Football Club Chairman at chairperson@sciennesfc.co.uk with the following information:

• Child’s name
• Current class
• Parent’s name
• Parent’s email address for correspondence
• Parent’s phone contact number.
• Availability: 11th, 18th, both, neither

P2/3 Winners of Spring Cup!

Sciennes P6/7s and P2/3s with the Spring Cup Winners' Trophy!

Saturday 14th May 2016, The Meadows, bright sunshine. Thirty girls' football teams from across nine Edinburgh schools competed in the Sciennes Spring Cup.

Around 2 hours and 135 goals after the first kick off, in what was an extremely closely fought competition, Sciennes P2/3 and P6/7 teams lifted the trophies for their year groups, with P4/5s only narrowly missing out from making it a clean sweep. An amazing performance all round.

All the girls gave their best and did themselves proud in an exciting and at times nail-biting morning's football. Congratulations all.

Daniel P7 Select Team Soccer Sevens Win the National Final!

Congratulations to P7 pupil, Daniel Hart, and the rest of the City of Edinburgh P7 Select Team for winning the national Soccer Sevens Final on Wednesday 18th May!

Daniel is wearing the medal he won playing for the Edinburgh Select Team. He plays in goal and helped his team win the Scottish Schools Inter-Association Sevens Tournament.

Daniel is the third best goalkeeper for his age group in Scotland.

 

The City of Edinburgh Council - Sports Development Team took the Edinburgh P7 select squad to their final tournament of the 2015/16 season last Wednesday. The squad finished 1^st with a huge 80 points total

There were 7 other regions competing over the last 3 tournament days including Glasgow, Aberdeen + Dundee! Finishing 1^st is a fantastic achievement for the Edinburgh P7 select squad.

Below is a list of the players and which schools they attend:

SCHOOL	NAME
Bonaly PS	Aaron Marcel-Waller
Bonaly PS	Ben Lamont
Bonaly PS	Sam Lovie
Bruntsfield PS	Torrance Bradford
Corstorphine PS	Lewis Foster
Cramond PS	Sean Burrell
Davidson Mains PS	Rui Black
Duddingston PS	Tom Angus
East Craigs PS	Patrick Ramage
George Watson's PS	Bruno Davidson
Gylemuir PS	Taylor Steven
Longstone PS	Jacksen Lynch
Parson's Green PS	Ben Bookbinder
Queensferry PS	Aaron Cameron
Sciennes PS	Daniel Hart
South Morningside PS	Murray Johnson
St Johns PS	Bailey Dall
St John's PS	Jack Egan
St. Mary's Leith Links PS	Jack Mason
Stenhouse PS	Brodie Devine
Trinity PS	Harvey Cummings

Thanks and Regards

Euan Morrice

The Sports Development Team.   

Sports and Outdoor Learning Unit, Children and Families, City of Edinburgh Council.

Sciennes' P7 Football Team Reach Semi-Finals of Inspectors' Cup!

Congratulations to Sciennes P7 football team who have reached the semi final stage of the Inspectors' Cup after qualifying from the second round on 11th May with two wins and two draws, conceding zero goals. The semi finals are two weeks from now on 25 May.

The squad involved in both rounds so far:

Stephen Tiplady (captain)
Ewan Hutchinson (gk)
Ciaran Cortes (gk)
Archie Mackintosh
Matthew Ross
Saul Sztor
Santosh Rowe
Matthew Caldwell
Alasdair Shirridan
Jonathan Ellen
Andrew Matrundola

Sciennes won the very first competition in 1893, a year after the school opened. And the whole school had a half day holiday! Good luck boys - but no holiday on offer if you bring home the trophy!

 Read more about the HISTORY OF SCIENNES.

The Sciennes’ School Football Team June 16th 1893 “In honour of the football team of this school having been successful in the first competition for the  H.M. Inspectors’ Cup the school was granted a half- day holiday.” The cup is in the Headteacher’s room. This photograph shows the stone staircases that originally led to the Boys’ and Girls’ entrance doors. You can still see the outline of the doorways if you look above the roofs of the extensions added to create our current Janitors' Office and Care Zone.

Thank you for all the teams that took part in the second round of The Inspectors Cup last Wednesday.

It was fantastically supported by parents, coaches and pupils.

The winners and runners up of each group were as follows:

 

Group A  Winners  Stewart Melville         Runners Up Davidson’s Mains

Group B  Winners  Blackhall                         Runners Up  Cramond

Group C  Winners  Bonaly                             Runners Up  Sciennes

Group D  Winners  Duddingston                Runners Up  Liberton

 

The next round will be on Wednesday 25^th May at Meggetland.  Coach to register their team by 5.30pm and games to start at 6pm

There will be two group of 4 teams with the winner of each group going through to the final on Wednesday 15^th 2016

 

The two groups for the Semi Final  will be

 

Group A

Stewarts Melville

Cramond

Bonaly

Liberton

 

Group B

Blackhall

Davidson’s Mains

Sciennes

Duddingston

 

 

Good luck to all the teams taking part in the next round.

 

Greg Dimeck

Headteacher

Gracemount Primary School

Sciennes - Boroughmuir Thistle Girls' Football Fundraising

 

Five P7 Sciennes girls (Manju, Eliza, Stella, Phoebe and Zoe) and one P6 girl (Rose) who are stalwarts of Sciennes Football Club, are hoping to travel with their other football club, Boroughmuir Thistle, to the Gothia Cup in Sweden, the world's biggest youth football tournament.

The parents of the Sciennes contingent have organised a movie night at the Dominion Cinema in early January to see Bend It Like Beckham, which seemed the most appropriate film we could find, as well as being a good fun night out.

Please come along and help us fill the cinema! 

Given that Christmas is only a couple of weeks away, you might want to consider giving Bend It Like Beckham tickets to family and friends. Or how about organising a girls' (or boys') night out with colleagues or friends? 

Tickets are only £10 (less than the normal Dominion price!) and include a glass of wine and nibbles. Please forward to friends and colleagues. Any support much appreciated!



Details of how to get tickets further down the email. Hope to see you there!
Clarissa (Manju's mum)



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As part of Boroughmuir Thistle's Gothia Cup fundraising efforts we are delighted to announce an exclusive screening at the Dominion of 

Bend It Like Beckham


Date: Monday 12 January

Time: Doors open 7:30, film starts 8:00


Tickets on Sale Now!


Tickets are £10, including a glass of wine/soft drink and a snack -  a better deal than the regular Dominion price of £10.95.


Please forward information to friends and colleagues. We have a big cinema to fill and we are aiming for a sold out show. 



How to buy tickets: 
email beckhamdominion@hotmail.com to book your tickets. We accept cash, cheques or BACS payments.




The small print: 
All money raised goes towards the BTFC trip to the Gothia Cup, the world's largest youth football tournament. Doors open at 7.30pm and the film will start at 8pm. Tickets must be purchased in advance and presented at the cinema prior to entry. The organisers reserve the right to refuse entry and cannot be responsible for lost or forgotten tickets. The film is rated 12A. Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult.

The Gothia Cup Organising Committee