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Santa Lucia Procession of Class 2 pupils, led by classical singer Salome wearing a crown of candles, visited each Class on Monday with lanterns and singing to celebrate the Scandinavian festival of light.
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School Calendar Dates
2021
2022
Click on any link above to learn more.
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College News is written this term by Alistair Pugh - Co-Chair of College. It is emailed out to all parents of enrolled children, as well as linked to here each week.
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Appointments can be booked during the above times through the School Office. Please give the Office Staff your details and when and how you would prefer to be contacted.
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To book school lunches, extra curricular clubs, Waldorf stationery, toddler groups, ESS hoodies and Advent craft workshops for parents. |
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Book Next Term's Activities & Lunches By Friday
The deadline to pre-order school lunches and re-book Extra Curricular Activities for the Spring Term is Friday, 17th December.
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Warm Winter Lunches
School lunches will be remaining the same, with organic, biodynamic and local ingredients from the School gardens used wherever the supply chain allows: edsteiner.org/lunch
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Clubs
Places are first offered to pupils continuing a Club from the Autumn Term.
Pupils new to the Club can book from Monday 20th December, with priority given to those on the waiting list over the weekend before: edsteiner.org/clubs
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Parent & Child
There are also a few spaces left for our Parent & Child Groups on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (morning and afternoon sessions available).
These sessions can be booked in half termly or termly blocks, as a gift to a toddler: edsteiner.org/toddler
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ESS Wraparound for Early Years & Classes 1 - 6
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Wraparound is currently offered by three Steiner Waldorf trainee teachers. Mar, who graduated from the Steiner Waldorf Teacher Training Course in 2020, looks after Seedlings and Kindergarten children. Marta is a third-year student and Silas - a qualified teacher - joined the course this academic year.
edsteiner.org/ess-wraparound
The booking system is now open for the Spring Term. This can be booked for the whole term as a block booking, or ad hoc for individual days that are required. All are £6/hour, and can be paid for through the online shop with a card, childcare vouchers or tax-free account.
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Class 1 to Class 6 pupils
1pm - 3:15pm / 3:15pm - 4:15pm / 4:15pm - 5.30pm
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Alumnus Credits Steiner Education In New Exhibit
Artist Daniel Mullen, a former pupil of Edinburgh Steiner School, shows with Elan Fine Art in Vancouver, B.C., and is currently working on “Future Monuments,” a series that attempts to assign visual corollaries to the
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amorphous experiences of sound, movement, light, and shadow.
"The visual language originates from my formative education at a Rudolf Steiner school, where I learned the technique of veil painting, which uses heavily diluted paint applied in rhythmical overlapping layers. In Steiner’s pedagogy, it is believed that this way of painting creates an atmosphere in which colour fields can permeate beyond the support surface. I utilize this technique as a way to create an ethereal effect."
Daniel Mullen
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Its hard to believe that winter is still a week away, what with the dark school mornings, snowfall and below zero degrees weather; however this flower, created by Class 5 pupils from the fallen Cherry Tree in front of the Avalon Building, is a beautiful symbol of Autumn on campus.
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Vivaldi Concert Gifted By Fellow Steiner School
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The United Hungarian Waldorf High School shared their Christmas gift with our Waldorf school:
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Petition Signed By Hundreds of Supporters
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Improve the original/current traffic calming measures at 60 Spylaw Road, Edinburgh, to make them fit for purpose for this 20mph school & kindergarten zone.
Thank you for helping Edinburgh Steiner School highlight the road safety dangers of Spylaw Road. In spite of many of our school community banned from signing the petition owing to having a postcode outside the EH vacinity, the petition has been signed by over 200 people. It will be considered by the next meeting of the Transport and Environment Committee on 27 January 2022, which Edinburgh Steiner School has been invited to attend.
If you have not yet done so, please do sign the petition. The stronger the numbers, the louder our message.
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Class 9 Perform 'Whose Life Is It Anyway' On Stage
Class 9 performed their play 'Whole Life Is It Anyway' by Brian Clark to Classes 11 and 12 and teachers yesterday in the School Hall.
A gallery of images of the production by Class Guardian, Hester Machin, can be viewed here.
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Class 4 Fashion & Pilot Corsi Cube Filter
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Class 4 pupils and their teacher, Bruce Houldsworth, have been trialling their Class-made ‘Corsi Cube’ filter in an effort to increase air filtration in their
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classroom as the colder days set in.
Mr Houldsworth is a regular viewer of indie_SAGE broadcasts each week, and has been trying out recommended measures based around ventilation and carbon dioxide measurement, supplemented with air filtration.
As it gets colder, the Class had been using less ventilation but switching on their Corsi Cube filter. This is about 1 foot in each dimension, consisting of four HEPA filter panels
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and a top-mounted square fan to pull the air through the filter set, plus lots of duct tape to hold it all together. The noise is not too bad...
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Santa Lucia Procession Visits Individual Classes
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Class 2 pupils, led by visiting student Salome as Santa Lucia, visited each Class on Monday, singing the traditional song, dressed in white silk gowns and smart red attire, with lanterns in hand.
Salome is a classical singer from Berlin. A recording of her singing solo will be shared soon on the Santa Lucia Procession event page, overlaid by images of the festival. A recording of Class 2 singing is to be shared as part of Friday's Seasonal Festival.
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Hundreds of Pounds Raised For Save The Children
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Every year around this time Edinburgh Steiner School pupils and teachers take part in Save The Children's Christmas Jumper Day.
For several years now, the School has stipulated the jumpers worn are eco-friendly, handmade or hand-decorated. Some choose to buy from a charity shop, whilst others reuse the same jumper each year, adding bespoke features to it.
Each person participating brought in £2 today, raising over £200 including Gift Aid this year.
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Classes Bring Together A Seasonal Festival Online
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Over the past week, pupils from Classes 1 - 8 as well as 11 & 12 have been performing songs, verses and music in front of a microphone to be shared with the school community on the last day of term to enjoy online.
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The programme of performances will be overlaid with art and images giving a glimpse of school life in the Autumn Term.
This will be hosted on ESSTalks.org on 17th December for the school community to view when they wish over the festive holidays.
Artwork (top, right and bottom by former pupils.
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Class 11 Advent Concert For Teachers & Pupils
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Tomorrow, Class 11 pupils will present a short informal concert to a 60-seat audience of teachers and peers in the School Hall over breaktime.
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Class 6 - Roman Marching Demonstration
Class 6 held two parent performances of their Marching Demonstrations last week, after the end of the school day and in the morning when pupils were in their Main Lessons .
"Many of us are aware that 9-year-olds start to seperate from parents and become more of an individual. Steiner's viewpoint on child development notes this separation goes on to age 14.
At this age, then when they have made first steps to see themselves as separate-- rather paradoxically we can start to help them engage with the process of more consciously being part of a larger whole.
We have just come through the lockdown and into a social context that is perhaps more atomized than before…I therefore see my job this year to move the consciousness of the pupils in the Class from single pebbles on the beach to an awareness of the other in space- as an extra gift —with that awareness comes the ability to construct connections through that space.
In our marching we see form emerge through the relationship of parts (an observation that is reinforced in other parts of the curriculum - the Chladni plate in Physics; crystals in Geology; lines in Geometry and movements in the sky in Astronomy.)
The outcome of efforts of conjoined individuals can be more significant than the sum of the parts. Marching is a quiet discipline that requires concentration and accepting the requirements of an external authority or rule. It is not possible to "improvise" without having a basis in what might appear to be tedious repetition; and one can't legitimately challenge a rule (or authority) unless one has a deep experience of its implications.
In a practical and historical sense, it provides some idea of how Roman soldiers moved safely around Scotland.
Words by Class 6 Teacher, Vivian Markovich
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BERA Manifesto, Steiner Waldorf & Cop26
SWSF welcomes the BERA manifesto for education for environmental sustainability. "It reminds us of how ground breaking is the Steiner Waldorf curriculum."
Read full article on SWSF website.
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Classes 1 & 12 Pupils Light Christmas Tree On Friday
The oldest and youngest pupils of the School will come together with their buddies on the last day of term to light the candles on the Christmas Tree, erected outside as part of the end of term assembly.
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This occasion is a tradition within the School, as part of the Buddy System that continues throughout the academic year, where Class 1 pupils are taken under the wing of a Class 12 pupil. They also do a handmade Christmas Card exchange.
Parents of Class 12 and 1 will also attend, socially distanced on the Avalon lawn.
The whole school will then come together to sing Christmas carol, 'The First Noel.'
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Free Adult Theatre Tickets To Christmas Dinner
The Royal Lyceum are offering parents the opportunity to take their children to the theatre between 14th - 19th December and only pay for the children's tickets. Using offer code: XMASSCHOOL online or by calling: 0131 248 4848, parents can receive their free adult ticket for every child ticket bought to the festive show, Christmas Dinner.
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Visiting Students Taken To Theatre On Monday
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As part of their cultural Edinburgh trips, all 13 overseas students visited the Royal Lyceum on Monday evening to watch their festive production, Christmas Dinner.
"The performing quality is very good" says teacher Karin Meys, who took the students, adding: "The story is for a bit older kids around Class 2 age upwards."
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6 days left To Nominate ESS for £1,000
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As part of Ecclesiastical's 12 days of giving they are awarding 60 not-for-profits £1,000 donations over the next 6 days. There’s still time to make a huge difference to our Growing Spaces Project by nominating Edinburgh Steiner School .
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Edinburgh Steiner School's social media pages for the School, Early Years, Growing Spaces, Teacher Training Course and Christmas Market can be found here.
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Putting An Advert In The Tuesday Notice
Edinburgh Steiner School’s weekly news ezine is sent out to over 800 subscribers’ inboxes every term-time Tuesday. (View the most recent Tuesday Notices here).
Anyone sharing a relationship with the School is welcome to submit a Notice for the upcoming edition(s) at £5 per edition (submitted and paid through the online school shop here). Submissions are up to 100 words and can include link(s) to an external website and/or social media page(s).
Steiner Waldorf education acknowledges pupils are profoundly affected by their built environment. All proceeds from Notices go towards the School’s Growing Spaces Project, benefiting all current and future ESS pupils.
Future publication dates for the Autumn Term 2021 are:
Dec 14th
Edinburgh Steiner School Session Dates
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Flat for rent near Meadows
Cheerful sunny 3 bed furnished flat for rent, 1st floor, Marchmont area, available now, rent £1100 p.m.
Tel Simon Vickers on: 0777 7340 4937
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Care Staff Vacancies
Garvald, West Linton are recruiting for Care Staff. If you are interested in improving the lives of people with a learning disability, providing a caring and nurturing environment whilst supporting our residents to take part in our on-site Workshop activities and leisure/social activities, please phone Donna Chisholm on 01968 682211 for an informal chat and further information.
For more information on the work that we do at Garvald and to apply online, please visit our website. Alternatively e-mail to request an application pack and job description.
Please feel free to share this information to anyone you think may be interested.
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Calendar By Former ESS Scholar
I have just released my 2022 Calendars, featuring 12 of my favourite photos taken over the last year from Scotland and England.
Every calendar is hand printed on high quality gloss paper in Leith, Edinburgh and is wire bound ready to be hung up. Each picture can be cut out and kept as a print at the end of the year. Every purchase helps me out massively and allows me to keep travelling and creating content!
Calendars can be purchased from my website: www.jacobmurray.co.uk/shop. They will begin shipping during the first week of November and should arrive with plenty of time before Christmas. Shipping is £2.50 to the UK and £7.99 worldwide. See pdf
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Peripatetic Guitar Lessons On Campus
From a teacher with a huge amount of experience, both teaching and performing (as well as a parent of the School, and PVG registered).
Classical: Advanced Certificate LRSM
Flamenco: 4 years study, concerts and TV appearances in Spain
Electric: Guitar Institute Certificate, London
Mobile: 07425388992
Email douglasanderson0602@yahoo.com
30 min lessons (£15)
Classical: Advanced Certificate LRSM
Flamenco: 4 years study, concerts and TV appearances in Spain
Electric: Guitar Institute Certificate, London
From October 27th there will be the opportunity to change to a time slot during the School day on campus (with appropriate lesson time discussed with pupil's Class Teacher ahead of booking). Flyer |
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Sarah Miller works alongside Alistair Pugh (Co-Chair of College), and Trustee Layla Tree.
The Tuesday Notice is produced by the Communications Team and edited by Helen Newton - School Coordinator and Alistair Pugh.
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Tel: 0131 337 3410 Ext 3
Email: communications@edinburghsteinerschool.org.uk
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