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Girls prove Health 4 U Programme is a success!
Mel Coutts, Acting Principal Officer for Sports and Outdoor Education, gives an update on the success of the Health 4 U programme. Health 4 U is an innovative Health and Wellbeing programme funded by...
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Education, Children and Families Committee – 21 May 2013
A report by John Heywood (Departmental Assistant to Cllr Paul Godzik, Convener of Education, Children and Families Committee) following the Committee meeting on 21 May 2013. Further details about each...
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Round up Friday 31 May
Art exhibition celebrates children’s rights Pupils show off their artwork On Monday, a beautiful display of artwork opened at the East Neighbourhood Office, as Carla Hay (Modern Apprentice Creative...
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Director’s Update – school and establishment visits, Froebel conference,...
Director of Children and Families Gillian Tee A regular update from Gillian Tee, the Director of Children and Families, on recent meetings, visits and events. In this update, Gillian reports from a...
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Round up Friday 13 September 2013
This week we featured an update from Gillian Tee on recent visits, events and other meetings she has attended. We reported some good news for creative learning in Edinburgh with the announcement of...
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Round up Friday 29 November 2013
This week we reported on research showing the potential of mobile tech for learning in Edinburgh’s schools and we heard about a new service which is helping families to find their strengths and tackle...
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Round up Friday 13 December 2013
We’ve had a bumper crop of stories this week including a campaign to raise awareness of private fostering, a health and social care academy pilot, a pioneering outdoor learning partnership, a report on...
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Director’s Update – Fanfare concert, CCwP, school visits, Children’s...
Director of Children and Families Gillian Tee In this regular update from Gillian Tee, Director of Children and Families, we hear about recent events such as the Fanfare Concert and Creative...
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Building better futures for pupils and communities
On Thursday 27 March, ten students from Castlebrae, St Augustine’s and Boroughmuir high schools received an award for their work in a recent construction project in Craigmiller. The students attended a...
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Castlebrae High excels at sports day
On 13 June the Castlebrae Community High School PE department hosted their first official sports day since 2008. Pupils from S1-5 from the two houses – Blackford and Pentland – were split in to 14...
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Sport and fitness achievements and plans
Perhaps its the lingering sun of summer or the inspiration from the Commonwealth Games, but fitness has been high on the agenda in our schools recently. Here’s a run down of some of the achievements of...
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Round up 3 April 2015
This week we brought you reports on the Youth Equalities Conference by pupils from Currie Community High School news of our work to promote German in schools being recognised in the Time’s Educational...
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Round up 24 April 2015
This week we brought you an opportunity for young people to get involved in an urban music project news of Children and Families being shortlisted for a Business Continuity Award news of Sciennes...
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Round up 15 May 2015
This week we brought you the news of Prospect Bank School’s workshops with young sculptor Calvin McCluskie a report from Liberton Nursery’s creative project with author Vivian French and the ECA a...
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Round up 5 June 2015
This week we brought you news of Boroughmuir’s poetic pupil Rory’s representing Scotland in a Young Writers competition. the announcement of our foster care Facebook Q&A to launch Foster Care...
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Round up 10 July 2015
This week we brought you news of centres due to get solar panels as part of our pioneering renewable energy project an announcement that Playday 2015 will take place on 29 July a note of the sports and...
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Winter Windows exhibition lights up the city
Click the image to enlarge At the start of the month we reported on the launch of Winter Windows, an exhibition of the best festive artwork by pupils from our primary, secondary and special schools...
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Active Schools Awards: Most improved coach of the year
Over the past week Jude Salmon, Active Schools Manager, has been running through the nominees for the coach category of the Active Schools Awards. This post covers the nominees for the most improved...
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Education, Children and Families Committee – 1 March 2016
The committee on 1 March 2016 received 17 reports: 10 executive decision reports and seven routine decision reports. This is a summary of the of the executive reports presented to the committee and...
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Edinburgh students celebrate Career Ready graduation
Lorna Macdonald, Principal Officer for Creative Learning, reports from the Scottish Career Ready graduation event, which saw S6 students from across the country gather with their mentors at Perth...
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