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In Memory Of Hayley McMillan
17 May, 2012
Former member of staff Lynsey Allan, who taught P.E. at St George's for four years (from 2004 to 2008) is running The Loch Ness marathon on 29 September 2012.

Lynsey is running to raise money for The Brain Foundation, in memory of close friend and colleague Hayley McMillan. As you may be aware, Hayley died suddenly in 2007 as a result of a brain haemorrhage.

Lynsey would be most grateful if you could lend your support to this charity and donate at the following link...

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The Great 2012 - 1812 Experience
17 May, 2012
The year 2012 marks all sorts of anniversaries - The Diamond Jubilee, the Centenary of Boarding at St George's School for Girls and most important of all, The Battle of Borodino and hence Tchaikovsky's great 1812 Overture.

To try to celebrate as many of these as possible, the Music Faculty is happy to announce a once in a lifetime event, "The Great 2012 - 1812 Experience".

We invite parents, former students, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, neighbours, and friends, to join us for a day of music making which will culminate in a performance of the 1812 Overture in the marquee in the school grounds.
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Latest Newsletter Available
11 May, 2012
The latest edition of the school newsletter, @StGeorge's number 406 is now available, and can be downloaded from the secure Parent Area. This latest edition includes:

• New Eco Area On Website
• Eco Schools Scotland
• Eco Clubs and Committees
• Eco-Rap
• Lower School Eco Activities
• Kazakhstan
• Junior School Eco Warriors
• Walk to School Week

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Walk To School Week
11 May, 2012
With Walk to School Week starting on the 21 May, we are hoping that everyone will take the 'Smart Pledge' and reduce their carbon footprint on their journey to school.

Whether it be walking, cycling, taking the bus or even parking the car a little further away from the school gates, every little helps - together, we can make a difference!

The Living Streets Walk to School campaign helps over 1.6 million children walk to school. They run schemes in primary and secondary schools, and offer a range of helpful classroom resources in their online shop.
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Scottish Schools’ Equestrian Extravaganza
11 May, 2012
On Sunday 6 May Anna, Ailsa, Olivia and Louise in Remove and Katie in Upper 4 competed for the school in the Scottish Schools’ Equestrian Extravaganza at the Ingliston Equestrian Centre in Glasgow.

Ailsa, Louise and Olivia are to be congratulated on the confidence and skill they demonstrated, competing with unknown ponies they had hired for the day from Ingliston. They were all awarded rosettes for their achievements, Olivia being placed first in the Young Handlers Class.
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Ciao, Ragazzi! - Italy Trip 2012
11 May, 2012
If there was one expression we learnt whilst away, it must have been this. It translates as "Hi, everyone!" but is especially used amongst young people (and those who are young at heart).

Where do they say this? In Italy! The exchange trip to Italy was one of the U4 Outreach activities which saw 18 St George's girls and two members of staff spend five days in Padua. After Bologna, Padua is the oldest university town in Italy (situated in the North of Italy) and is where Galileo taught and carried out many experiments (much to the consternation of the Church at that time). It was also renowned for research in medicine ...
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Lower School Eco Activities
11 May, 2012
Recently, Edinburgh Council and Eco-Schools launched a competition related to the Olympic Games called "Grow your country in a basket". Each school was given a country represented in this year's Olympic Games.

Our Primary 6s were given Kazakhstan, so we have been researching plants that grow there. Last week, we planted carrots and spinach, as Kazakhstan grows lots of vegetables. We also have some lilies, as they are the unofficial flower of Kazakhstan.

Lower School Eco-Schools committee thought this competition was such a good idea that they have launched their own "Grow your country in a planter" for the whole school ...
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Thank You From The Nursery
11 May, 2012
Once again nursery staff are delighted with the response to our appeal for clothes for Belarusan children. The generosity of parents is much appreciated by us all. Similarly a big thank you to all the parents who give toys and books to the nursery from time to time.

The Lawrie family brought some of their wonderful toys to us last week and the children in the Hedgehogs and Owls groups have had great fun playing with the dolls' house and the pirate ship.

We are very grateful to all of you who take an interest in the "learning through play curriculum" and donate such imaginative resources for our use.
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Bronze DofE Expeditions
7 May, 2012
The Bronze DofE girls were out for their practice expedition this weekend and all did very well despite the extremes of weather! The first group had sunshine with a couple of hail showers and no problems with visibility, so therefore very few navigational issues.

The second half of the weekend had everything except sunshine! Low cloud, fog, rain and bitter winds gave them a much harder time on expedition and, as a result we adjusted their routes to low level routes. The girls did very well indeed and should find their final expedition much easier in comparison.
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Kazakhstan
7 May, 2012
We are learning about Kazakhstan because we are doing an eco-schools Edinburgh competition called "Grow your country in a basket." We are going to have to try to find out which plants grow in Kazakhstan.

We had a talk with the P5s on Tuesday 1 May from Mr Iliyas Kurman from Kazakhstan. He told us about the history, traditions, houses, instruments, jewellery, games and lots more about Kazakhstan. He told us the two national musical instruments are called the Dombra and the Kobyz.

He showed us a picture of the country's flag, which has a sun in the middle and an eagle flying below it.
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5k Sponsored Walk
4 May, 2012
In conjunction with the Futures Group, which aims to raise funds to pay for extras for the school, we are planning a fundraising activity, which will be associated with the Queen's Diamond Jubilee.

We are organising a 5k sponsored walk for all students (from P5-L5) and their teachers and support staff. Younger children will be invited to complete shorter distances at the same time, on the school site, during the morning of Monday 28 May.

At the end of the walk, we shall have some inter-house fun runs and all the children and staff will be presented with a special memento of the Diamond Jubilee.
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The New Junior School Hall
30 April, 2012
There has been much excitement about the unveiling of the new Junior School Hall. On Tuesday morning parents and girls couldn't wait to see what it actually looked like. It seems funny to think that for over a year so much went on behind the partitions and that we had really no idea what was being taken down or rebuilt. I have to say the hall looks fantastic and it is great to have this space back again in the Junior School.

The girls have been most impressed with the hall and from what I have heard they can't wait to use the climbing frame and the rock climbing wall. They particularly like the fact that there is a lot of space with some good equipment for them to play on ...
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Latest Newsletter Available
27 April, 2012
The latest edition of the school newsletter, @StGeorge's number 405 is now available, and can be downloaded from the secure Parent Area. This latest edition includes:

• Lunchtime Challenge 2012
• Lunchtime Challenge Thanks
• Competition Sponsors
• Competition Judges
• The Finalists' Dishes
• From Young Girls in Scotland to ...

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Lunchtime Challenge 2012
27 April, 2012
On Saturday 21 April the following finalists met up in the lower school kitchen to do some hard core cooking… Bella, Charlie, Natasha, Catherine, Anna, Mirren, Anna and Anna were to take part. All of us were extremely nervous, but very excited.

One of the competition sponsors was the butcher John Brash, who supplied all our meat, and the other was the Edinburgh Wholesale Fruit Market, who supplied our aprons, which we are extremely grateful for.

The two Chefs that came to judge our food were Jim Mullen and Gordon Leitch.
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The Remove Antarctica Group
27 April, 2012
Just before the Easter break we had a Skype call with physicist, Alison McClure, who is the national officer for the Institute of Physics and had been into school earlier in the term to speak to us about her work in Antarctica.

These were some of the questions we asked her:

Q. How was the travel you took different to those methods used by Captain Scott? ...
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The Times Spelling Bee 2012
27 April, 2012
On 19 March the St George's L4 Spelling Bee team took part in our first online spelling bee heat. This online heat was harder than we thought!

We first watched a short video with instructions about how the challenge would work. It was quite a complicated format so we had to pay close attention and follow the steps carefully. We found out that we were not allowed to use the backspace key, which would make things very difficult! For the first three words we could make mistakes but after the third word if we made one mistake there was no going back.
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