Three Swimming Medals for Esther!

Congratulations, Esther, on being awarded two Silver medals and one Bronze medal for Swimming from Warrender Swim Club.

P6 Chess Success

Sciennes, fielding four teams, made an excellent start in the first event of the new season, Lothian League Day One, run by Lothian Junior Chess at Wester Hailes Education Centre on 24th November. The season started with the highest number of teams entered for this event for six years and the Sciennes' teams performed extremely well.

P5 & Under A League

Sciennes A FIRST PLACE

P5 & Under B League

Sciennes B SECOND PLACE

 P6/7  A League

Sciennes A SECOND PLACE 

P6/7  B League

Sciennes B SIXTH PLACE 

Congratulations to our P5 pupils who played extremely well.

P5 & Under Graded

1st Place        Aidan Davis       

P5 & Under Ungraded

3rd Place        Cole Turnbull                3.5 on tie break

Sara Ghafoor also scored  3.5 points and was awarded a medallion.

Fedor Chetsov (P6) came top in this section but was ineligible for the first place trophy so instead he received a special trophy.

Thank you to Bill Platts and all the parents who helped with organisation, transport and supervision. 

Designing Games

Over the last 5 weeks or so we have been learning a range of games.  Today, in the gym hall, we began working in groups to design a game that would practise a skill or skills needed for a team game.  Next week we will try out each other's games and make adjustments based on feedback.  

Numbers for Benmore 2015

Thank you to all families that have returned the middle (light green) double page of the Benmore booklets. Please note:

Benmore has asked us for numbers and we will be sending this information to them on Monday 24th November. If you have not made a payment by that date, or contacted us, we will assume your child will not be attending.

The total cost is £260 but if your child is in receipt of free school meals the Parent Council have committed to paying half this amount. If you have any questions regarding payment then please email angela.christie@sciennes.edin.sch.uk

Blue Peter Badge

 

Quite a few of our pupils are sporting Blue Peter badges. Information on how to apply for one is available here:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbbc/topics/blue-peter-badges

We've still to find out how Mrs Noble got her Blue Peter badge!

P6 Children in Need Superheroes

Esther's Ski Mastery!

Congratulations, Esther, on achiveing your Mountain Master Ski Certificate from Midlothian Sports Centre!

Winter Trees Display

Our new Hall display is taking shape! The theme is 'Winter Trees' and this is P6A's fabulous contribution. Thank you to Ms Anstruther for co-ordinating the display.

P6B at Edinburgh Zoo 06/11/14

BBC Ten Pieces - Holst: "Mars" from "The Planets"

English composer, Gustav Holst, wrote "Mars" 100 years ago,  just before the start of the First World War, but the music was not performed to a large audience until after the war. What do you think the first people who listened to "Mars" thought about it? What did the music make you think about, P6? Maybe it made you think of things from your Space project? Or did it make you think of something else?

Spooky Chemistry

Earlier in the week, we were exploring some spooky science.  We carried out a couple of chemistry experiments and used our observational skills to look at what was happening.  We noticed in both the experiments that there were several signs that a chemical reaction had happened: changes of temperature, new materials, fizzing and non-reversible changes.  Have a look at us in action.

Want to try the experiment at home?  See the link below.

http://www.sciencebob.com/experiments/toothpaste.php

Zoo Visit - Lifecycles

Today we were at the zoo learning about animal life cycles. We learnt lots including: that gibbons have unique family songs; that Rock Hopper male penguins try to bond with a female by bringing her stones so she can make a nest and that an elephant pregnancy lasts 22 months.