Blogs and News - St George's School, Edinburgh
St George's celebrated Book Week Scotland in style this year with several activities and visits taking place. The week began with an X-Factor inspired assembly in Upper School where Mr Maciver managed to persuade Upper School students to vote for the 'Adventures of Huckleberry Finn' as the inaugural winner of St George’s ‘Book Factor’. At the same time in Lower School, Miss Barr was launching a competition encouraging Lower School girls to design a picture book suitable for students with additional support needs.
There was great excitement around school on Thursday when the global bestselling author R J Palacio visited St George’s as part of her international ‘World of Wonder’ tour. R J spoke to the girls in Lower School and Upper 4 about her book ‘Wonder’ and her new book ‘White Bird’ It was a real privilege to hear from such an inspirational author and we were delighted to be able to share this opportunity with pupils from Roseburn Primary, Cargillfield, and Merchiston Castle.
On Monday Remove girls were visited by the author Anna James. Anna is the writer of the book ‘Pages & Co.’ which all girls in Remove received a copy of as part of the ‘Remove Reading Challenge’. The girls were very excited to meet Anna and asked lots of great questions before she helped them to write their very own St George's fairy tale. Anna also judged the competitions that had formed part of the ‘Remove Reading Challenge’ and awarded 1st prize to Deepti for her bookshop poster with Ashmita winning 1st prize in the competition to design a ‘bookwandering’ guide.
The week ended with the traditional P1 Bookbug party. P1 girls and their parents were invited to a storytelling session to celebrate the Bookbug Picture Book Prize shortlisted books (which all P1 girls received a copy of in their Bookbug bag). The Prince and the Witch from the book ‘The Prince and the Witch and the Thief and the Bears’ who were telling the story did look suspiciously like Mr. Wright and Miss Barr…
Book Week Scotland was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate books and reading and we hope girls at St George’s have been inspired to get reading!
Mr Wright (Senior Librarian)
January
Careers Newsletter January 2022
Fencing medal for Alexia (Upper 4)
Rosie on Tour in Florida for Lacrosse World Cup Training
February
Primary 6 Project on Space Tourism
Spring Revision @ St George’s Online
Chinese New Year at Houldsworth 2022
Lunar New Year Celebrations in Primary 4
House Event in Junior School: PHOTO GALLERY
March
Connected Culture: Lower School Conference
Love and Kindness for Valentine's Day
Crafty outings with the Boarders
P6 Author Visit: Elle McNicoll
Deepti wins the National SSBU Secondary Junior U13 title
An Evening with Allistair McCaw
UKMT Intermediate Maths Challenge
International Women's Day - Junior School
Summer Sports Camps: 15-18 August 2022
Success for U11 Hockey at the Compass School Tournament
Young Enterprise Best Company Award Winners 2022
Success in Hockey and Lacrosse
April
May
National Representation in the Scotland Lacrosse Team
Sport Scotland event with Judy Murray and Allistair McCaw
Staff Fundraising Walk for Ukraine
Primary 3 Travel Back in Time to Stone Age Times
National Representation for Deepti at Badminton
Bea Competes at the National Schools Equestrian Association Event
Rosie Hazell Selected for the World Cup Lacrosse Squad
Target Ovarian Cancer Walk/Run
Rights Respecting Schools Bronze award
Primary 4 Visit The Birds of America
Scottish Mathematical Challenge Awards
Celebration for Upper 6 Boarders
Equestrian Club at Floors Castle
Inter-District Hockey Tournament
Miss Campbell selected for Wales Match
P6 Netball club had a ‘ball’ at EPSSA netball festival
Scottish Fencing Youth Development Series 2
u17 Edinburgh District Netball
A.F. Steadman visits the Junior School
Butterflies for Chelsea in Bloom
Emma-Louise Beeson visits Nursery
U4 Digital International Exchange Week
Primary 4 Learn about Electricity
June
Erasmus Exchange Hosting Visit
First Impressions of St George's
Theatre Visit to The Lion King
Work Experience at The Royal Highland Show
Festival of Chemistry at Heriot Watt
August
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