Saturday 20 December 2014

P5B Buddy Puppet Show

Mrs Cave and Mrs Maguire designed a very creative Buddy Puppet Show project. P5B pupils collaborated in groups to write, rehearse and perform playscripts using wooden spoon puppets. An ingenious, motivating and engaging project! P2 Buddies thoroughly enjoyed the Puppet Show performances!









Thursday 18 December 2014

Buddy Puppet Show in P5C

Mrs McVicker's class were joined by Ms Dodds' class for a wonderful end of term show on Thursday 18th December. Pupils in P5 have worked so hard together in groups to write playscripts - all with a twist on the Red Riding Hood story - create puppets of their characters then rehearse and perform to their P2 Buddies.  Such high quality work: in preparation, group work and performance. Outstanding! Encore!
The stage is set...

The audience is ready...
The actors know their lines...
And the performers take a well deserved bow to rapturous applause. Well done, P5!



Buddy mingling after the show





















Icing on the Cake

A hive of activity and creativity in P5A today - from icing homemade biscuits, to making puppets and designing puppet show back drops to decorating Christmas vases.




Saturday 6 December 2014

Book Recommendations from James

Avid reader James recommends Rick Riordan's "Heroes of Olympus" series. James is currently reading the third book in the series and is shown here with the first book "The Lost Hero." Thank you, James!

Sunday 30 November 2014

Varda Cycling Award

Varda loves to cycle and is very proud of an award she received from Cycling Scotland earlier this year.
 


P5 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.