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.

Sciennes' Boys at Academic Parade

Thank you to parent (and former Sciennes colleague), Greg Dimeck who is now Headteacher at Gracemount Primary School for sending us these lovely photographs. Greg attended an annual Academic Parade on Sunday 30th October at the City Chambers and St Giles Cathedral representing Gracemount with some parents and pupils from his school and sons Ollie and Alfie, looking very smart in their Sciennes uniform in the parade!

The parade, service and civic reception form a traditional event for the city to say a big thank you to educators who make our city so academically successful. Primary schools, colleges and Universities were all represented and the Lord Provost and Director of Children and Families were also present at the event.

Catchment Primary Open Day November 2nd

Sciennes will hold a City of Edinburgh 'Catchment Primary School Open Day' on Wednesday 2nd November 2016  for our new intake of Primary One pupils in August 2017. Pupil led tour slots are available between 9.00am and 11.30am and then again between 1.30pm and 3.00pm.

P1 Registration for August 2017 is next week on Thursday 10th November between 9.30am and 3.30pm.

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20074/schools/1147/primary_schools_open_day 

Starting Primary School in City of Edinburgh
http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/info/20256/school_places/1372/start_primary_school 

Happy Diwali

Happy Diwali to all our families who are celebrating.

JGHS Open Morning Sat 5th November

James Gillespie's High School is holding an informal Open Morning on Saturday 5th November from 1000 - 1300 to celebrate its official opening last week.

This will be for the local community, families of pupils and staff and for primary pupils, staff and their families to have a look around the new campus.

Callum Skinner, former pupil and Olympic gold and silver medallist in track cycling, will formally open the new fitness suite at 1100 which will be named after him.

There will be refreshments available (soup and home baking) from 1000 - 1200 in the dining centre, and tours around the buildings by Pupil Voice reps.

There will also be photo slideshows and clips from school concerts and shows in the theatre.

The official flyer/poster (above) was designed by S6 pupil Naomi McGuire.

Poppies on Sale from Monday 31st October

P7 pupils will be selling poppies (stick-on rather than pin) from Monday 31st October and will accept any donation amount.

P3 Led Foodbank Harvest Appeal P1-3 Assembly

Thank you to all our families for such generous support of the P3 led whole school Central and North West Edinburgh Foodbank Harvest Appeal. Ewan Walker (Co-founder, Trustee and Operations Manager) gave a presentation to pupils at both the P1-3 and P4-7 Assemblies on Friday 28th October, explaining how the donations will make a real difference to families across Edinburgh.

P3 pupils, their teachers and Ms Anstruther are congratulated on a hugely successful project which allowed all the P3 pupils to plan, lead and organise the whole school event.

 

 Article 27

The right to have a good enough standard of living.

P3 Led Foodbank Appeal WE Scare Hunger Assembly

Sciennes WE Scare Hunger Foodbank Assembly 28.10.2016 from Sciennes Primary School

On Friday 28th October, Ewan from Edinburgh Central and Northwest Foodbank thanked all the pupils and families for their tremendous generosity in donating non perishable food items in response to the P3 led whole school Harvest Assembly. Ewan explained to the pupils how their donations will make a real difference to families across Edinburgh. P3 pupils, Ms Anstruther, Mr Scott and Mr Reid helped Ewan and his team load up their van at the end of Assemblies.

WE Free the Children is a charity sponsored by the Queen's Trust that we have been working with and the P3 Appeal linked very well with their 'WE Scare Hunger' Halloween Foodbank campaign.


Parent Kirstin Unger contacted us to let us know about the 'Carve A Heart' in a pumpkin campaign for Syria. Families wishing to take part can text HEART to 70060 to donate £3 and can use the hashtag #carveaheart to Tweet their support.



Pupils sang along to a Spanish song "Los Monstruos" suggested by Miss Stewardson and learned a new song about self belief by Will.i.am.






We were delighted to see that even more pupils have taken up the challenge of joining a library and we continue to aim for all our pupils to become library members as part of the First Minister's Reading Passport Challenge.

We shared exciting news that Google Expeditions will visit school on Wednesday 30th November with special Virtual Reality Google Goggles!

P7 will begin selling poppies to classes on Monday 31st October for the next two weeks and will accept any donations offered. (Our poppies have stickers rather than pins.) Mr Howie told everyone about white poppies and explained how money raised in our poppy appeal will help ex-service people, as well as showing that those who lost their lives in war are remembered.

Article 27

The right to have a good enough standard of living.

Carve a Pumpkin for Syria

International children’s charity World Vision is asking people across the country to ditch carving a scary face in their pumpkin this Halloween and carve a heart shape instead.

The charity wants people to  share a photograph of their pumpkins on social media using the #carveaheart hashtag and donate £3 to the charity by texting HEART to 70060.

The money raised will be used by the charity in war-torn Syria where millions of children are growing up knowing nothing but conflict.

Latest estimates show that over 2 million kids are out of school in the country with thousands facing violence, kidnap and malnutrition.

A spokesperson for the charity said the aim is to turn a “night of fear into a night of lasting hope”.

“As children across the UK prepare to head out for a night of ‘fun’ fear on 31 October, millions of children in Syria live in real fear every night of the year,” he said.

“Join us this Halloween to take one simple action. Carve a heart in your pumpkin as a symbol of hope for children living in fear. Then text HEART to 70060 to donate £3 to World Vision’s work, and turn a night of fear into a night of lasting hope.”

http://www.worldvision.org.uk/get-involved/carve-heart

http://thirdforcenews.org.uk/tfn-news/carve-a-pumpkin-for-syria-challenge-launched

P4-7 Foodbank Assembly

P4-7 Foodbank Assembly 14.10.2016 from Sciennes Primary School

On Friday 14th October Mrs Noble led the P4-7 Assembly and told everyone about the forthcoming P3 led whole school Foodbank Appeal. Our Harvest Assembly will take place on 28th October when representatives from the North West Edinburgh Foodbank will collect donations of non perishable food items.

Ms Owen was congratulated on her seconded appointment to City of Edinburgh's 1+2 Languages team and everyone wished Ms Gaffney well as she begins her maternity leave.

Safe and happy holidays to all our families and we will welcome pupils back to school on TUESDAY 25th OCTOBER.

Ski and Snowboard Instruction in the Highlands

 

http://www.free-ski.co.uk/

Ski and snowboard instruction in the Highlands

Free Ski is a small, friendly business formed around the concept of enjoying winter sports safely.
We work with fully qualified members of British Association of Snowsports Instructors so you can be assured of top quality at all times. We have experience, expertise and enthusiasm; fully committed to giving top quality instruction.
We offer tailor–made ski and snowboard lessons for individuals and groups with competitive prices available on request.
We are based in Aviemore, in the heart of the Cairngorms National Park but are happy to travel.

FREE-SKI Autumn Dry Slope Courses 2016

The popular Pre-Season Dry Slope Sessions will be run by FREE-SKI at Glenmore Lodge.

We are running several courses for various ages and abilities.

Primary School Skiing
November, over 4 x ½ day sessions and is open to primary age children.
Course dates are as follows: 5th/6th, 12th/13th, 19th/20th, 26th/27th
Sessions run 10:00 - 12:00 or 13:00 - 15:00.
Cost £99
Arrival no later than 30 minutes before session time to allow for kit fit up.

Primary School Snowboarding
November, over 4 x ½ day sessions and is open to children over 8.
Course dates are as follows: 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
Sessions run 10:00 - 12:00.
Cost £99
Arrival no later than 30 minutes before session time to allow for kit fit up.

Pre-School Skiing
November, over 4 x ½ day sessions.
There is only one course available so spaces will be limited.
Course dates are as follows: 6th, 13th, 20th and 27th
Sessions run 10:00 - 12:00.
Cost £99
Arrival no later than 30 minutes before session time to allow for kit fit up.

Adults
November, over 4 x 2 hour sessions and is open to adults.
Course dates are as follows: 10th, 17th, 24th and 1st December
Learn to Ski or Just Ski
Sessions run 19:00 - 21:00.
Cost £80
Arrival no later than 30 minutes before session time to allow for kit fit up.

COMEDY QUIZ NIGHT Fri 28th October 7-9 pm

Posted on October 6, 2016 by jsanthan

 

SCIENNES PARENT COUNCIL is proud to welcome back

A COMEDY QUIZ NIGHT
SCHOOL HALL from 7-9pm

Hosted by our very own Richard Melvin (of the Stand, BBC and hot from the Edinburgh Fringe ) and his dynamic Dads Stuart Sheehan, Ian Hogg and Jack Cadell!

Come and join us for a fun sociable quiz night with drinks and laughter!

Raffle prizes and plenty of surprises.

Bring Your Own Bottle (glasses provided)

Tickets £5 – book now on wisepay

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.

Christmas Cards - Order by 25th October

Once again Sciennes Parent Council is delighted to offer you the chance to buy unique Christmas Cards! Samples have been sent home this week of your child’s artwork. Please order your child’s Christmas Cards online in Wisepay. Prices start from £6.00 for 12 cards and £1.50 for 16 gift tags. 

Orders will be accepted until NOON on Tuesday 25th October. 

Please ensure you select the correct child’s account to order cards as once the order is placed in Wisepay, no further changes can be made. The Parent Council accepts no responsibility for errors made in the ordering process. 

If your child’s name is misspelled then please order as normal in Wisepay and return your card sample to the Parent Council with the correct spelling. These should be handed in at school reception by Tuesday 25th October. 

We can still accept cash/cheques if you do not have access to a computer. You can still use the on-line payment system by coming into school and accessing Wisepay from a computer in school. Please contact Angela Christie, Business Manager in the first instance. 

No orders will be accepted after above date via Wisepay or manually. 

All profits go to Sciennes Primary Parent Council.

Challenge Yourself! P4-7 Assembly 7.10.16

Sciennes P4-7 Challenge Yourself Assembly 7.10.16 from Sciennes Primary School

On Friday 7th October we issued the First Minister's Reading Challenge Passports to P4, P5 and P6 and reminded pupils what is involved in the Reading Challenge. P7 pupils have already received their passports and have begun using them.

One of the entries in the Reading Challenge Passport asks pupils to name their local library and librarian and we again encouraged all our pupils to join their local library. There are many free resources to pupils and families through the Library Service via the Overdrive app - eBooks, audiobooks, free Mathetics maths resources and games, language resources. Not signed up yet? A great challenge to complete in the Ocober holiday!

Ms French's Reading Challenge continues to be a great success with many more of her pupils achieving Gold awards for reading 15 books!

We congratulated many pupils on recent achievements and enjoyed a wonderful, confident performance on guitar from Kevin, Riley, Hannah and Eloise.

Our P3 whole school led Harvest Appeal for Foodbank launches next week and the P3 teams are busy organising. A collection will be made on Friday 28th October and ties in with international charity WE Free the Children's 'Scare Hunger' campaign. Free the Children will visit school in December and we are looking forward to welcoming them back again to help us with pupil led social action.

P7 will be at Lagganlia Outdoor Education Centre next week and we watched a video to help us think about how team work, belief and encouragement can help us achieve!




Class Teachers in P4-7 will inform pupils if and how their classes will celebrate Halloween this year.

Free Conflict Resolution training event for Parents and Carers of Teenagers

To access Parent and Carer Programmes, Activities and Groups Booklets in Localities across the city please click in this link and select the area you are looking for   www.edinburgh.gov.uk/pacs

Please also see information below regarding conflict resolution training for parents and carers of teenagers

Recognise, Reflect and Resolve

Free Conflict Resolution training event for Parents and Carers of Teenagers

Wednesday 9^th and 16th  November 2016,

6.30-8.30pm,

Southside Community Centre, 117 Nicolson Street, Edinburgh, EH8 9ER

We are delighted to be able to offer another Conflict Resolution Courses for parents and carers of pre teen and teenagers (11-18 years). Please find attached a posters for the 2 session course. The course which will be delivered by SCCR (Scottish Centre for Conflict Resolution) will provide an opportunity to reflect on what it’s like for teenagers growing up and the potential triggers of conflict in families. Discussions will help parents and carers to reflect on the different ways to resolve conflict in different situations.

If you would like to book a space please email me at  jillian.hart@edinburgh.gov.uk or call 07860 736129 and provide a name, contact telephone number and if possible an email address. Participants must be able to attend both sessions.

Kind regards

Helena Reid

October Multi-Sports Holiday

Former Pupil Saul is Tae Kwon Do World Champion - Again!

Saul is still World Champion!

Absolutely thrilled to hear of Saul's recent success in the Tae Kwon Do World Champion competition, held in Coventry with over 3000 competitors. What an inspiration and an excellent role model Saul continues to be! Saul is now in S1 at James Gillespie's High School and was Sports Captain at Sciennes. He retains his World Champion title in the Junior Boys' Green Belt, both in Individuals and Tag Team and is also current Scottish and UK Champion.


Saul's mum contacted us with this lovely message and fantastic photographs:

"Saul worked hard for it - training and mental positivity paid off. Without Sciennes' After School Programmes this may never have happened. 

Thanks for all the support you gave to Saul while he was at Sciennes."

Stefan Sztor

#globalgoalsweek P4-7 Assembly 23.9.16

Sciennes Primary Global Goals Week Assembly 23.9.16 from Sciennes Primary School
 

On Friday 23rd September 2016 at the P4-7 Assembly we reflected on the messages of Global Goals Week and how we can plan to take action together on the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030. Last year our main focus was on Goal 1 No Poverty and Goal 11 Reduced Inequalities. We also explored Goal 13 Climate Change and Goal 5 Gender Equality.




Pupils had been asked by The Children and Young People's Commissioner for Scotland, Tam Baillie, what they would wish for if he gave them a magic wand. He explained that their wishes were 'promises' already in place in the UNCRC. We looked at some of the children's suggestions and how the Global Goals for Sustainable Development can help achieve their wishes:




Each of our Pupil Groups - Pupil Council, Eco Group, JRSOs, P7 Captains and Digital Leaders - is making plans for the year and classes were encouraged to share their ideas with their Class Reps so that we can work together in school to take action.

P4 and P7 pupils Alba and Samara gave extraordinary performances on piano. Samara practises for many hours every day and Laila told us how she has worked hard to achieve so many Tae Kwon Do medals.

Mylo and Christopher confidently introduced our brand new iTeach Digital Leaders programme and explained how to get involved.

http://www.iteach-uk.com/dl/DigitalLeaderVideo(Primary).mp4

We celebrated lots of individual pupil achievements, including a recent win for P6 Team at Boroughmuir RFC and Pedal for Scotland medals for siblings Sam, Lizzy and Quinn.

Pupil Council Rights Ambassadors

Congratulations to our newly elected Pupil Council members who will be the voice of their classmates throughout the year and will also be our Rights Respecting Schools Ambassadors. Thank you very much to our Returning Officer, Pupil Support Assistant Mrs Sally Nowell.

P2
David
Evie
Hanna

P3
Emma
Lexie
Poppy

P4
Eva
Claude
Maliki

P5
Eilidh
Ivy
Sorla

P6
James
Iseabhail
Elsie

P7
Rui
Daniel
Quinn

Article 12 The right to an opinion and for it to be listened to and taken seriously.

Global Goals House Assemblies 16.6.16

Sciennes Global Goals House Assembly 16.9.16 from Sciennes Primary School

On Friday 16th September 2016 we held our first House Assemblies of the new session for P2-P7 and welcomed P2 pupils to their first ever House Assembly.

In May 2016, Sciennes became a Level One "Rights Respecting School" and we have already begun our journey towards Level Two accreditation. Our journey so far has been recorded on our Rights Respecting Sciennes blog. We reminded pupils what it means to be a Rights Respecting School and that it includes being a Global Citizen. We first introduced our pupils to the United Nations' Global Goals for Sustainable Development when they were launched last year in September 2015. By 2030 these aim to:

End extreme poverty
Fight inequality & injustice
Fix climate change




On September 25th 2015, 193 world leaders committed to the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs.) One year on, we watched a rap to help us understand all the goals better.


We thought about what we have already done in school to be Global Citizens. For example, last year the whole school took part in a City of Edinburgh pilot project to raise awareness of 1 in 5 Child Poverty (SDG1), P3 led a whole school project to raise money for 9 playgrounds for Syrian refugees (SDG10), P6 took part in Gender Equality workshops (SDG5) and our ECO Group campaigns took action on Climate Change (SDG15) and promoted Sustainable Consumption (SDG12).

We watched an animation written by Sir Ken Robinson, 'The World's Largest Lesson Part Two' which gave us ideas of what we might do next to help make a better world.


The World's Largest Lesson 2016 - with thanks to Sir Ken Robinson and Emma Watson from World's Largest Lesson on Vimeo.

Congratulations to our newly elected Pupil Council members who will be the voice of their classmates throughout the year and will also be our Rights Respecting Schools Ambassadors.

Communications at Sciennes

Have you checked out our Curriculum blogs on the right hand side of our website?

We currently send a Tweet each time a post is added to our website, Class Pages and many other school blogs which automatically updates our Twitter account. We also pass on information about local events and initiatives via Twitter. Follow us on Twitter to keep up to date.

We are always interested to hear any comments regarding our communications so please feel welcome to email admin@sciennes.edin.sch.uk with any feedback.

The Sciennes School Website comprises:

• The School Calendar - Diary Dates
• The Parent Council Website
• The Sciennes School Flyer - weekly online newsletter sent by email and published on the School website
• Sciennes Twitter 
• Sciennes Facebook
• Class Pages - blogs for each year group P1-P7
• Curricular blogs e.g. Health and Wellbeing, Rights Respecting Schools, ECO, Music, Reading
• Community Pages - e,g, Active Schools, Active Travel, Playground Improvement Group, Sciennes After School Care Scheme (SASCS)

Call Parents
The system we use to communicate directly with you via personal email and text.

Uniform
Online ordering using Image Scotland.

WisePay

Our online system for lunch, milk, trips, clubs and permissions. Sciennes was the first school in the city to adopt this system a few years ago and remains one of few to have implemented it, in Edinburgh and indeed in Scotland, thanks to the efforts of Angela Christie, Business Manager.

Please do contact us or your Parent Rep if you would be interested in receiving support with our online communications.

Roald Dahl at 100 P4-7 Assembly 9.9.16

Sciennes Roald Dahl at 100 P4-7 Assembly 7.9.16 from Sciennes Primary School

On Friday 9th September at the P4-7 Assembly we celebrated Roald Dahl's life, work and world of pure imagination, ahead of the forthcoming celebrations to mark the centenary of his birth on 13th September.

Roald Dahl faced many challenges in his life. He would not have recognised the phrase 'growth mindset' but our children do, thanks to the great work of our Infant Depute Headteacher, Ms Carolyn Anstruther, and Class Teachers. Dahl's resilience to change, his hard work and perseverance are reflected in his life story and also in his success. "I can't do it YET!" and seeing the positives in making mistakes are attitudes we are trying to cultivate in our learners.  We listened to "Up Grow the Roses" from the Dahl screenplay for "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" with its positive messages about learning from failures and to try, try again. We also asked the children which Dahl books they have 'not read YET'.





We are keen to encourage all Sciennes' pupils to join their local library as we continue to promote a love of Reading in our school and at home. P4-7 teachers have signed up their classes for The First Minister's Reading Challenge later this term and Ms Wendy French has been running her own 'Go For Gold' Reading Challenge in P5C since August. Eliza and Jaimee told everyone at Assembly what was involved. Pupils who read five books gain a Bronze Award, ten books brings a Silver Award and already many P5C pupils have been awarded with a Gold Medal and certificate for reading fifteen books!

We wished Happy Eid to all families celebrating and reminded everyone that MONDAY 19th SEPTEMBER is a holiday.

Pupil Council elections take place on Monday 12th September, with the results being announced on Thursday 15th September (International Day of Democracy).

"Up Grow The Roses" from Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Every bursted bubble has a glory!

Each abysmal failure makes a point!

Every glowing path that goes astray,

Shows you how to find a better way.

So every time you stumble never grumble.

Next time you'll bumble even less!

For up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success!

Grow the roses!

Grow the roses!

Grow the roses of success!

Oh yes!

Grow the roses!

Those rosy roses!

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success!

(spoken)Yes I know but he wants it to float. It will!

For every big mistake you make be grateful!

Here, here!

That mistake you'll never make again!

No sir!

Every shiny dream that fades and dies,

Generates the steam for two more tries!

(Oh) There's magic in the wake of a fiasco!

Correct!

It gives you that chance to second guess!

Oh yes!

Then up from the ashes, up from the ashes grow the roses of success!

Grow the roses!

Grow the roses!

Grow the roses of success!

Grow the roses!

Those rosy roses!

From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success!

Disaster didn't stymie Louis Pasteur!

No sir!

Edison took years to see the light!

Right!

Alexander Graham knew failure well; he took a lot of knocks to ring that

bell!

So when it gets distressing it's a blessing!

Onward and upward you must press!

Yes, Yes!

Till up from the ashes, up from the ashes grow the roses of success.

Grow the ro

Grow the ro

Grow the roses!

Grow the ro

Grow the ro

Grow the roses!

Grow the roses of success!

Grow the ro

Grow the ro

Grow the roses!

Those rosy ro

Those rosy ro

Those rosy roses!

From the ashes of disaster, grow the roses of success!

Start the engines!

Success!

Batten the hatches!

Success!

Man the shrouds!

Lift the anchor!

Success!

Judy Murray's Tennis on the Road

On Friday 2nd September P4B pupils had a fantastic opportunity to take part in a Tennis on the Road session at the Meadows Tennis Park, led by Kris Soutar and supported by our Tennis coach, Alex Harkins, and Tennis Scotland. Judy Murray was unfortunately unable to attend but the pupils had a terrific time. Thank you for such an exciting opportunity for the children.

TENNIS ON THE ROAD 
Judy Murray is aiming to give parents, coaches & teachers the tools needed to get kids active and to help further kick-start and develop tennis in Scotland.

 

Online Safety Advice from CYPCS

Thank you very much to P6 and P7 families who attended and engaged with our 'Right Click' digital safety workshop, sponsored by Unicef and BT, on Wednesday 29th August. We are very grateful to BT volunteers Mike Brown and Karen Halliday for leading the warmly presented and interactive event and to Zoey Ayling (Unicef's Programme Support Officer) for providing the opportunity.

Feedback was very positive and we aim to address inhouse the requests for additional sessions, for younger pupils and also a follow up parents only session.

Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People, Tam Baillie, visited Sciennes on Friday 2nd September and it is hoped families will find his team's advice on Online Safety useful in continuing dialogue with their children.

http://www.cypcs.org.uk/footer/online-safety

Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People, Tam Baillie

Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People, Tam Baillie

What would you wish for if you had a magic wand that could change the world?

We were honoured to welcome Scotland's Commissioner for Children and Young People, Tam Baillie, to speak to our children at both P1-3 and P4-7 Assemblies on Friday 2nd September 2016.

The Children and Young People's Commissioner in Scotland's job is to help children understand their rights and to make sure those rights are respected. His goal is to make sure all children and young people in Scotland are as safe and happy as possible.

Tam works towards his goal by:

• listening to children and young people
• asking people in power – like Members of the Scottish Parliament – to think about how new laws might affect children
• helping children learn more about their rights
• speaking out if children and young people are not getting a fair deal.

The Commissioner captivated our pupils with an engaging, child friendly explanation of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. We particularly liked his use of the term 'promises to children' and his invitation to everyone to think of what they would change if they had a magic wand. He explained that each idea the children then shared is already a 'promise' made to all children across the world, contained in the UNCRC. Tam also explained his role as Commissioner and we are delighted that our children had an opportunity to meet such an inspirational leader of positive change in our country who works tirelessly to promote the rights of all children. Tam was extremely generous and gracious with his time and we hope that we can carry on his good work in ensuring all adults and children understand the UNCRC and use it to build a better society.

We also introduced pupils to the First Minister's Reading Challenge, which launched on Thursday 1st September and features Janis Mackay, our Patron of Reading. All P4-7 pupils will soon receive their very own Reading Passport to record their reading journeys until May next year. Many of our pupils have completed the Summer Reading Challenge and Ms French reminded everyone that it closes on Sunday 3rd September, so pupils should claim their certificates and medals from their local library by that date.

Pupil Council elections will be held on Monday 12th September, with the result given on Thursday 15th September (International Day for Democracy). Mrs Sally Nowell will be Presiding Officer.

Tam Baillie at Sciennes Assemblies 1.9.16 from Sciennes Primary School

Article 42

All adults and children should know about the UNCRC.