Blogs and News - St George's School For Girls, Edinburgh
Last session Mrs Heather-Hayes Primary 4 Drama classes used the wonderful Michael Morpugo story, Kensuke’s Kingdom to explore Drama and creativity.
In the story, Michael’s parents lose their jobs at the brickworks and decide to sail the seven seas on a boat they call the ‘Peggy Sue’. The class found an old boat in the fantastical forest and scrubbed it from stem to stern. They chose colours to paint the old vessel and here they took on the role of experts with knowledge and experience. They instructed each other on the building of the boat, how they might navigate and used new language as they researched how to make a log book to study the weather and look after the family’s mental and physical health on board the ship.
With the help of Mr Lamont and Kenny we added a seating area and at last raised our sails. We set sail on the Firth of Forth and onward to England, Africa, South America and Australia! Mrs Morrison in Music taught us Sea Shanties and we sang when the weather was bad to keep our spirits up. We used still image to capture dramatic moments and explore the difficulties the journey threw at us as we explored the world of the family navigating our way through the problems we had to solve.
January
The Big Owls Learn All About Emotions
Owls Swoop into Visit Primary 1!
Primary 5 Documentaries Premiere
Primary 6 Junior Duke Bike Workshop
Inspiring Digital Enterprise Award
Primary 3 Rainforest Explorers
Primary 5 Assembly Celebrating Burns Night
Easter Tennis Camps with the Judy Murray Foundation
Primary 4 Learn about Life as an Evacuee
U6 Ball – A Former Boarder’s Visit
Seeing Frozen 2 at Fountain Park
February
Careers News Round-up February 2020
St George's U15 Lacrosse Team win Loretto Tournament!
Author Ross MacKenzie Visits Junior School
Trip to the Surgeons’ Hall Museums
Honey Pot Creative Café – Ceramics Painting
Meet 12 Scottish Boarding Schools
Primary 2 Learn How to Care for Their Teeth
Raindrops Make Rainbows - Australian Wildfire Fundraising
Primary 4 Study Electrical Circuits With Makey Makeys
Young Engineers Visit a French Navy Frigate
March
Careers News Round-up March 2020
L4 East District Hockey Tournament
Lower 5 'A' Hockey - S3 Scottish Cup Semi-Final
Travelling Book Fair Visits Lower School
Independent Women Magazine - 2020 Moving Forward
World of Work Day - Forth Bridges Education Centre
World of Work Day - Home Store + More
World of Work Day - Sainsbury's
The TCS Oxford Computing Challenge
Primary 6 Robot Programming Competition
Primary 3 Visit the Rainforest
High School of Glasgow 7s Tournament
Boarding Trip to Deep Sea World
St George's Win Junior Schools Hockey Cup!
St George's Moves to Supported Home Learning
Teaching online with Distance Learning
'We're Better Prepared for Distance Learning Than Ever'
An Outstanding Achievement at the Big Bang Engineering Competition
April
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