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Anne Everest - Head's Message 14-05
14 May, 2012
At our Open Evening last week our visitors had an opportunity to look around both the Junior and Lower School sites. Our own Primary 5 girls and their parents were particularly keen to see Lower School, where their Primary 6 classrooms, as well as their own library, playground, labs and hall, will be waiting for them in August.

Lower School provides for the three years from Primary 6 to Secondary 1 (Lower 4) and it offers a friendly and welcoming group of buildings which are designed to make the most of these formative years of childhood. Free from the pressures of external examinations, but with a slightly more grown-up approach ...
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Anne Everest - Head's Message 01-05
1 May, 2012
Next week we shall have the formal opening of our new junior school hall. Local mountaineer, Di Gilbert, will address girls and their parents at our Open Evening next Tuesday 8 May, and we hope that she will tell the girls inspiring stories about the satisfaction of facing and meeting challenges, whether physical, academic or personal. While exhorting the girls to think big and aim high, she may even be persuaded to meet the challenge presented by our newly installed transverse climbing wall!

Prospective parents and their daughters are invited to join us for an evening on the junior and Lansdowne school sites as we open up the classrooms, labs, music centre, art studio and sports facilities which we provide for our younger students
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Anne Everest - Head's Message 25-04
25 April, 2012
When St George's was founded as a school over 100 years ago, the women behind its foundation were intent on providing an excellent education for girls; they wished it to rival the education already enjoyed by boys in the city of Edinburgh. As well as educating women "of independent mind", our founders wanted also to educate women as teachers. This twin aim of educating the young and of educating teachers has remained an aspiration at St George's.

Although we are no longer a training college, we take our role of supporting student teachers very seriously and each term our Student Regent and heads of faculty put their experience and expertise at the disposal of the next generation of teachers ...
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Anne Everest - Head's Message 17-04
17 April, 2012
At the end of last term, as we bathed in a March sunshine and heat-wave that promised so much for the Easter holiday, but delivered so little, we concluded weeks of focused hard work with ceremony and celebration. At our end of term assemblies we congratulated members of the school community who had made their mark in sports, entrepreneurship, music and science, and awarded the Scott Cup for service to the school and to others. At our Easter services we celebrated the most solemn and serious festival of the Christian calendar. During a sunny afternoon we held House competitions and activities for girls throughout the whole school. Coming together in this way, in song, in remembrance and in play, we are reminded emphatically that we are all one school, with an ethos that informs every area of this school ...
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Anne Everest - Head's Message 21-03
21 March, 2012
This year sees many special anniversaries. It is a hundred years since the sinking of the Titanic and a century too since Captain Scott (whose wife, Kathleen Bruce, was a St George's girl from 1889-1893) made his ill-fated journey to the South Pole. On a more positive note for us, it is a hundred years ago that St George's opened its boarding house.

In 1912 the boarding students had yet to see the opening of the new school building on Garscube Terrace: the school was still housed in Melville Street and the new building would not be ready until 1914. Among our 1912 boarders was one Helen Lindsay, an eleven year old girl who kept a diary of boarding school life at that time. She stayed at the school until the end of sixth form, and her diaries therefore cover the duration of the First World War ...
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Anne Everest - Head's Message 13-03
13 March, 2012
The musical life of St George's is rich indeed, as was proved last week at our annual spring concert. Our audience enjoyed ensemble playing from every stage of the school, with junior recorder players setting the standard very early on in the programme. Lower School girls also demonstrated their considerable musical skills in a variety of groupings, with Senior Strings, Concert Band, woodwind and guitar groups providing a platform for our gifted older students.

With so many young people playing in last week's concert, there was not room in the programme for all of the school's musicians to perform ...
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Anne Everest - Head's Message 29-02
29 February, 2012
The season must surely be on the turn when it becomes a pleasure to stand outside and watch a hockey match rather than a test of endurance. Each Saturday until Easter St George's fields many hockey teams - and they are supported by impressive numbers of parents, especially for home matches. While the dug-outs around the all-weather pitch provide a welcome respite from wind and rain, parents need to be fairly hardy when providing side-line advice for play on the grass pitches. It is a reflection of the resilience of students, staff - and parents - that they turn out in such numbers every week.

On Tuesday, there were even more parents in evidence, in the Robertson Music Centre (RMC) ...
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Anne Everest - Head's Message 17-02
17 February, 2012
Snowdrops in the gardens and the gradually lengthening hours of daylight are clear indicators of the advent of spring. This is the time to look ahead, plan holidays and consider options for the future.

Having completed their mock examinations, our older girls, from Upper Four upwards, will soon be making decisions about their education that have the potential to affect the direction of their careers - and therefore their lives. After three years of a broad secondary education, our Upper Four students now have to make a choice of subjects to take to examination level. By now, of course, they have a good idea of where their strengths lie - and we would always advise them to go with their strengths.
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Anne Everest - Head's Message 06-02
6 February, 2012
This week marks sixty years since Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth, acceded to the throne. Her father, George VI, died on 6 February 1952, while his 25 year old daughter, and heir to the throne, was away in Kenya. As is the British custom, there was no gap between reigns: although Elizabeth would not be crowned until June 1953, she became Queen of the United Kingdom the moment her father died.

This year then, we celebrate the Diamond Jubilee. We have an extra holiday to mark the occasion and it seems right that we should look back and admire a long-lived monarch who has put her country - and her duty to that country and its people - first, for sixty years.
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