Blogs and News - St George's School For Girls, Edinburgh
This year, 18 of us from Upper 4 had the opportunity to visit another school in North America and have a girl from over there come and stay with us. However, due to the current pandemic we were unable to go. We were obviously very disappointed, but we were very excited and happy when Miss Strachan said that we would be taking part in a digital version of the exchange until we are able to travel again.
There are four exchanges in total, to schools in Philadelphia, Texas and Toronto. Each exchange has a secure Padlet page meaning that everyone can stay in touch with their partner schools.
Although the digital exchange is new to everyone, it is very exciting. Our first activity was to post about our favourite rooms in our houses and it was really exciting to see part of the house that we will be staying in when we can travel again. This task was very fun, and it was good to get to know our exchange partners even more.
One of the things that we like about the digital exchange is that it is letting us get to know about the other exchangers in our group and not just our exchange partner. We didn’t think about this beforehand but when we travel, we will spend a lot of time with all the girls and not just our partner and so it is really cool that we can get to know them a little bit as well.
One of our tasks asked us to find a news article that wasn’t about COVID-19. Through this we learned about different things in the news like that JK Rowling wrote part of Harry Potter in a café in Edinburgh. We also learned fun things in the news in North America that our exchange partners shared with us. It is really good to learn about another country as that is one of the reasons we joined the exchange in the first place.
As well as learning about our exchange partners and the areas they are from, we have learnt how to use Padlet and improved our technical skills. We have also learned that even though things didn’t go as they were originally planned, we can still do activities as a group.
We have really enjoyed the digital exchange because it has meant we are still able to do something different and new – and it has stopped us getting bored in lockdown! We are looking forward to learning from our most recent task about the different healthcare in Edinburgh and North America. We are really happy that we can still connect with our partners and their schools and can’t wait for more.
Upper 4 Exchange Team
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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