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As part of our Junior Duke Award, some of us chose to do the puncture repair activity. For this, we had to remove a tyre from a bike, find the puncture, patch it up and put the bike together again. It sounded easy but it was actually quite hard – and very oily – thank goodness we had plastic gloves! Remy’s Dad, who owns Leith Cycle Co. and Caitlin’s Dad very kindly ran a workshop to teach us.
They showed us how to take the wheel off by turning the bike over and releasing the brake cable. Then we used a special tool to take out the inner tube. We checked if the thing that had made the puncture was still in the tyre rim – apparently lots of people get another puncture straight away if they haven’t done this! Then we pumped up the inner tube to find the hole where the air was escaping. This was quite easy because we could feel and hear the air coming out – and it stank of fish! To fix it, we were shown the glue and the patch, and we did this later on with Mrs. Sinclair.
Mr. Dowcett and Mr. Shields then taught us how to re-assemble the bike, connecting the tyre back to the forks. We are really grateful for Mr. Dowcett and Mr. Shields for the workshop and we now know what to do if we get a puncture! Another Bike Workshop will run this term for the next group of Junior Dukers.
Caitlin, Katia, Sophie, Niamh & Amber
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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