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
January Entrance Assessments 2019
Hockey - High School of Dundee
Lower School Welcomes New Students
Houldsworth Open House Evening
The Big Owls visit Houldsworth House
The Big Owls are looking for birds!
Remove Outdoor Education Week at Lagganlia
Germantown Friends School Students Arrive
Sixth Form Subject Choices Open Evening
A Voice of One’s Own - 130 Years of Women in Literature
Choral Concert at Greyfriars Kirk
February
Choral Concert at Greyfriars Kirk
Lower 4 Digital Exchange with Austria
Talent 2030 National Engineering Competition
European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad
Primary 1 Playground Development
March
St George’s Welcomed Deputy First Minister
Biology's British Biology Olympiad 2019
Junior School and Nursery Activity Open Morning
Primary Three Trip to the Royal Botanical Gardens
Under 13 Kilgraston Hockey Tournament
S1 East District Hockey Tournament
S2 East District Hockey Tournament
Primary 3 Trip to Murrayfield Church
Dickson Minto W.S 2nd XI Hockey Tournament
S3 East District Hockey Tournament
Save our Rainforests! Save the Orangutans!
International Women’s Day 2019
Oxford Schools Debating: Finals Day
April
Under 13 Scottish Schools Lacrosse Tournament
Under 14 Scottish Schools Lacrosse Tournament
Under 15 Scottish Schools Lacrosse Tournament
Edinburgh Primary School Sport Association Cross Country
Six Things We Love About Houldsworth
Ad Hoc Boarding at Houldsworth
Helping at Junior School Open Morning
Honey Pot Creative Cafe: Making Bath Bombs
The Magical World of Henri Rousseau
Tesco Bank Art Competition for Schools
Primary 5 Visit the Scottish Parliament
Big Owls Love Taking Part in ‘Loose Parts’ Play
Havergal College Exchange Students
Multilingual Debate at Heriot-Watt University
Lothian Area Team Young Enterprise Scotland Awards Evening
May
Merchiston's Friday Afternoon Club Experience
Primary 2 Visit the Glasgow Science Centre
Meetings of the Medics-to-be - MedSoc
Congratulations to Alice - European Girls' Mathematical Olympiad
Nursery Open Afternoon: Friday 31 May 1.30 - 3.00 pm
Primary 3 Visit Hopetoun House
The Remove Lunchtime Challenge
Germantown Friends School Exchange
Trinity Valley School, Fort Worth Exchange
June
New Housemistress Appointed at Houldsworth House
An invitation to our P5 - S1 (9 - 13 years) Open Afternoon: Friday 14 June 2.00 - 4.00 pm
Athletics versus George Watson’s College
High School of Glasgow Tennis Tournament
St George’s Primary 7 Netball Tournament
Using Technology for Learning and Teaching at St George's Information Evening
Lower 4 Outdoor Education Trip
Author, Justin Davies, visits Primary 4 and 5
Primary 1 Visit to Butterfly World and The Secret Garden
Big Owls Trip to the Secret Herb Garden
Lower 5 Geography Fieldtrip to Arran
National Galleries of Scotland Art Competition for Schools
Primary 3 Have A Taste of Victorian Education
August
Impressive Higher and Advanced Higher Exam Results 2019
My Cyber Security Work Experience
September
Interviews with new Lower School Girls
Welcome to new Lower School Students
Top Tips for Being a Shadow to new Girls
Lower School House & Form Captains
91% of our Upper Sixth Students Gained Admission to Their First Choice of University in 2019
Primary 3 Celebrate Roald Dahl Day
Lower 4 Games Evening at Merchiston
Hockey: Inter-district Tournament
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