Blogs and News - St George's School For Girls, Edinburgh
This edition of the Chronicle is a record of our 2019 - 2020 year. Although the period of ‘lockdown’ and supported home learning dominated the latter part of our experiences of the school year, there was so much more to remember than that.
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
August
September
U6 Enrichment Programme: 26 August
The First Houldsworth House Meeting of Term
First Weekend Back at Houldsworth
Lower School Welcomes New Students
Our First Week Back at Nursery
Careers News Round-up August/September 2020
Silver DofE Practice Expedition
Primary 5 House Captains and Vice Captains
Our First Week back in Primary 4
U6 Enrichment Programme: Life After St George’s
Advertising Opportunity: St George’s Annual Magazine - The Chronicle
U6 Enrichment Programme: 9 September
Careers News Round-up September 2020
October
Boarders Bronze DofE Expedition
P6 Volcanoes Augmented Reality
St George's Nursery Rated Amongst the top 20 Recommended Nurseries in Scotland
Primary 3 Celebrate Roald Dahl Day
Dyslexia Awareness Week 5-11 October
Royal Society of Biology’s Nancy Rothwell Award
Lower School Harvest Collection
Junior School Harvest Celebration
Talented Student Engineers an Electric Violin During Lockdown to Support Her Passion for Music
St George’s School Experience Lower School Virtual Online Event
November
Pumpkin Seeds and Autumn Leaves!
Primary 2 Walk Along the River Almond Walkway
Primary 3 and 4 Walk Up Corstorphine Hill
Virtual Event: Looking Ahead to Primary 1
Virtual Event: Experience Lower School
December
August
Impressive Higher and Advanced Higher Exam Results 2019
My Cyber Security Work Experience
September
Interviews with new Lower School Girls
Welcome to new Lower School Students
Top Tips for Being a Shadow to new Girls
Lower School House & Form Captains
91% of our Upper Sixth Students Gained Admission to Their First Choice of University in 2019
Primary 3 Celebrate Roald Dahl Day
Lower 4 Games Evening at Merchiston
Hockey: Inter-district Tournament
Netball: Inter-district Tournament
Artwork of the Week: Life Drawing Classes
October
Choose your Favourite Fruit and Vegetable!
Science Club Explore the Phases of the Moon
Music Trip to the Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Grandparents’ and Parents’ Tea Party
Lower School European Day of Languages
Young Enterprise Training Event
European Day of Languages in Upper school
The Honey Pot Creative Café – Soap Making
Champions Bowl Tennis Tournament
November
Kids Lit Quiz - East Scotland UK 2019
P6 Visit Dynamic Earth & Arthur's Seat
The Inaugural Model UN Conference
Top Tips for Reducing Single-Use Plastic
Experience Lower School Afternoon
Glasgow Drinks Reception with Merchiston Castle School
Empowering Future Generations of Women Leaders
The SQA Star Award for Academic Excellence
Remove Trip to the Risk Factory
Junior School Charities Committee
Pupil Council lead Junior School Assembly
A Story from our Tibetan Hosts
Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge
Young Musician Competition Final
12 Days Of Eco-Friendly Christmas
December
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