Blogs and News - St George's School For Girls, Edinburgh
The Big Owls and Little Owls teachers have been working very hard behind the scenes to deliver playful and creative learning experiences through our online Learning Journals. Each morning for the last two weeks, the teachers and Early Years Practitioners have been meeting virtually on the Microsoft Teams platform to discuss the weekly plan for activities, covering essential learning within the Curriculum for Excellence areas such as Literacy and English, Mathematics and Numeracy and Health and Well-being. Our activities build on previous learning, knowledge and responsive planning in which the girls and boys have contributed throughout this term in nursery. Our aim is to provide continuity of learning while at the same time encouraging the need for the freedom to play for our youngest learners.
As with any time of change, it is natural for children to feel a little lost or upset. We recommend that families gradually develop a new home routine that will provide reassurance to their children. A routine which includes some learning experiences interspersed with family time and imaginative, free play will be helpful. Building in time to talk to our children about how they are feeling and what they would like to learn about next is very important.
For the nursery team online, this week has been a week full of rainbow patterns, rhyming stories, and emotions. Our children have already responded to our videos enthusiastically and sharing their learning from home! It is lovely to still feel connected as a community even although we are apart for now. We wanted to send a big thank you to all the Big Owls and Little Owls parents for checking Learning Journals every day and supporting each other in such difficult times!
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
Physical Education Distance Learning in Action
Supported Distance Learning in Junior School
Careers News Round-up April 2020
Former Student Co-authors Ovarian Cancer Research Paper
Careers News Round-up April 2020
Caring for the Children of Key Workers Over Easter
Distance Learning and Critical Childcare Within Nursery and Junior School
May
U6 Graduation Recruitment School Virtual Event s
Careers News Round-up May 2020
Young Enterprise Awards - Collecti
U6 Graduate Recruitment Distance Learning Programme
Raising Money for 'Our Neighbours': Join us on a Virtual Trip From Edinburgh to Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
June
U4 North American Exchange Goes Digital
House Event: Race Across the World!
St George’s Library – Remote Learning
Update from the Public Relations Prefects
Primary 1’s Butterflies Have Flown
Online Life-Long Learning Conference, 8 June 2020
U6 Project: Perspectives on the Pandemic
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Day 10
Independent Women Magazine - Summer Issue 2020
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Day 11
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Day 12&13
Careers News Round-up June 2020
Edinburgh to Bulawayo - Final Day!
U6 Guest Speaker - Jane Turton
L.S. Lowry: Primary 3 Art Project
Ditching Shakespeare Would be a Real Tragedy
Upper 6 Leavers' Fortnight - Week 2
Will there also be singing? …Independent Women in Lockdown
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