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