Blogs and News - St George's School For Girls, Edinburgh

16 Jan 2020

Upper 4 NetballThe Upper 4 Netball team faced Holyrood RC High on Monday in the knock-out stages of the Scottish Cup. The girls won convincingly, and it was good for them to get back on the court after the winter break. In the next round, on Monday 2...

16 Jan 2020

Hockey

Scotland U18 v IrelandCongratulations to Georgie (Lower 6) who represented Scotland U18 for the first time during the holidays in matches against Ireland in Dublin. The games were closely contested, with Ireland winning two games narrowly and the oth...

16 Jan 2020

Positive Environmental News

Currently, the news is filled with stories of environmental disasters: flash floods, landslides, and wildfires, along with updates on the climate disaster and the problems with plastics. We feel it is important to spread some good cheer, so here are ...

16 Jan 2020

Coding 2020 Study

The Coding 2020 Study, is part of a Computer Science Ph.D. project at the University of Abertay, Dundee.This study is looking into the ways online automatic assessment assistants could help specifically students between the ages of 14 and 16 learning...

16 Jan 2020

Primary 6 Netball

On Monday 13th January, a Primary 6 team from St George’s took part in an ESSPA Netball Tournament for P6 pupils from Edinburgh. We left school at 9.15 and went to the Oriam facility at Heriot-Watt University.We played a round-robin against different...

Alex Hems' Blog

17 Jan 2020

Alex Hems: Head's Blog January 17 2020

The Rights and Wrongs of Mobile Phones at SchoolThere has been a great deal of discussion recently around the approaches that different schools take to the use of mobile phones. Some have expressed the view that banning phones has resulted in an impr...

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