Blogs and News - St George's School, Edinburgh
As we are approaching the end of another busy term in preschool we wanted to share with you the highlights of our learning. At the end of February, the children came back having spent a substantial time of the year away from the nursery. Thus, when we opened our doors again we focused on supporting their transition back to nursery. The children's emotional well-being was and continues to be our main area of focus.
We based all our health and well-being activities on the story of "The Colour Monster". The story helped us understand that how we feel is a big mix of emotions which we can identify and talk about. Building our emotional vocabulary was very important! Drawings of our families helped us visualise the people who we love and will always be there for us. The children themselves started creating pictures of their homes - the homes that kept them safe and house their families. We learnt that home is not always a 'place' and as with the rest of our emotions it can be an emotion too. We feel safe in the nursery, our friends are here, and we are all a big family! This was our motto.
Along with our learning on how to express our feelings we worked through games and playful learning on number recognition, understanding quantities and comparing amounts using measurement language. Food handling played a big part in this as the girls had to follow recipes and count lemons and oranges for our messy cooking. Spontaneously all girls developed a huge interest in mark making which led to an early introduction of sounds and letters. Our self-registration was based on identifying the different letters of our names, clipboards were used everywhere, letters and cards were written to friends every day. Recipe books, rhyming stories, shop registers and many many more literacy rich experiences and mark making opportunities played their role in developing the girls' understanding of how sounds work together to create what we read and write!
The staff were involved in a course for professional development delivered by Virtual Nature School. Inspired by our learning we introduced new outdoor activities based on the possibilities of looking down, up, through and in! These experiences weaved in nicely with our photography project as all girls used the iPads to take their own photos of the things they can see up, down and through in the forest! The photography project and Virtual Nature School activities will continue throughout next term and we will finish with a photography exhibition!
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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