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Pumpkin Carving Competition held on Friday by Class 12 as fundraiser for trip.
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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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Christmas Market Called Off In Favour Of Spring Fair
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The news article announcing Class 4's decision regarding a 2021 Christmas Market was published on the School website on 13th October. It can be read here: Christmas Market Called Off In Favour Of Spring Fair
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Since then, Saturday 21st May has been confirmed as the date of the Spring Fair. Updates about this event will be available to read by visiting the School Calendar: Spring Fair
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Class 4 parents are welcoming raffle prizes from Scotland-based businesses who share the School’s ethos of supporting sustainable, organic/biodynamic, local, fair trade, socially aware and environmentally kind ways of producing and trading; including the many and wonderful ventures run by families in our school community.
All raffle prizes will be displayed on the School website here as they come in: Spring Fair Raffle Prizes. Please email if your would like to donate a prize.
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Calendar By Former ESS Scholar
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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.
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Beauty of Living & Working Your Truth
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One of our freshest-faced alumni, Oliza Howeison, has recently been working for Model Team Scotland. The fashion industry is increasingly moving towards becoming gender fluid to be inclusive, celebrating non-binary and trans models.
Oliza is modelling in the SR:D Fashion Festival 2021 (17th - 21st November) - an eclectic and engaging series of fashion & music events from some of Scotland's hottest independent fashion brands focusing on Equality, Technology and Sustainability.
Oliza will feature in the Scottish Design Exhibition at the iconic V&A Museum in Dundee later this year, which this year is hosting the opening Runway Show.
Oliza joined ESS in Kindergarten, formerly known as Ollie. In June of last year, whilst in Class 12, she officially and preferably changed her gender pronoun and name to Oliza. She is currently studying Fashion at Glasgow School of Art (GSA).
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Creative Halloween Carving From Classes 1 - 11
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Spirits remained undampened by the heavy rain on Friday, as several dozen pumpkins (and melons) lined the School wall on Friday for Class 12's Pumpkin Carving Competition.
The winners were decided by the Class 12 judges, and the voting was far from unanimous, such was the range of ingenuity exhibited in the Halloween designs.
A gallery of all the pumpkins and the winners can be viewed on the school website, under news.
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After School Basketball Clubs Almost Full
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Just a couple of spaces left in Monday's on-campus Basketball Clubs in the school hall for Classes 6 - 8 at 3:15pm - 4:15pm and Upper School at 4:15pm - 5:15pm, which started this week.
It is not too late to join. Book online through the School's shop, by following the relevant link above.
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First ESS Pupils To Be Awarded IE Qualification
Pupils in Class 10 received their Integrated Education Certificates on Monday - the first to be awarded full accreditation in Scotland.
Edinburgh Steiner School (ESS) is a centre for the delivery of the suite of IE qualifications, which are portfolio-based and on the OfQual register at RQF Level 2 (equivalent to National 5) and Level 3 (equivalent to Advanced Higher) - providing an alternative educational passport to exam assessment for pupils aged 14+.
Although almost all our pupils take and sit exams, with results comparable to other independent schools (and listed in the top 15 independent Scottish schools taking highers by Best Schools), we have always believed that these forms of assessment are quite one-dimensional and sometimes ill-suited to the core values of our education.
Beginning in 2015, our school sought to redress the balance by taking part in a multinational project known as ACTS (Acknowledging Creative Thinking Skills), which was generously funded by the European Union via Erasmus+. It attracted a Nobel Laureate (himself a Waldorf graduate) as its patron.
The development of a suite of unique, truly interdisciplinary ‘portfolio’ qualifications, known as Integrated Education, derived from this collaborative, international 3-year project.
Graded at Pass, Merit and Distinction, the qualifications are issued by awarding body, Crossfields Institute. Half of the ten graduates of the IE Certificate achieved a Distinction. These ten pupils - Jenna, Amiya, Himika, Tristan, Emily, Rory, Harvey, Benedetto, Quinn and Carolina - now have the option to study the Diploma, equivalent to two A Levels, in Classes 11 - 12.
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These Certificates come in the wake of the OECD’s review of Curriculum for Excellence in June, and the prospect of changes at all levels of Scottish education in the coming years. Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) regards Scotland as a “pioneer” in curriculum reform, praising CfE for its “bold, aspirational, value-driven and future-oriented approach”, underlining that the “basic ideas of CfE are still valid” and “inspiring”; yet found ‘misalignment' between qualifications system and wider goals of Curriculum for Excellence (CfE).
ESS is in full support of any reforms which deliver, in a more meaningful way, on the promise of CfE, or which introduce greater choice and differentiation (including alternative methodologies) into the way senior pupils are assessed. Our school has a progressive ethos which does not select pupils on the basis of ability; we do not formally assess our pupils before the age of 15; and we are deeply committed to developing new and innovative approaches to meeting our pupils’ wide range of needs.
Pioneering these IE qualifications, ESS hopes to share what we have learned in the course of developing and introducing Integrated Education as part of the forthcoming conversation about the future of post-16 learning and assessment in Scotland in a similar way when we were asked to advise mainstream schools on aspects of CfE implementation a decade ago.
IE Award
Many in Class 9 also received an IE Award, in recognition of the first Independent Project Module of the full accreditation. 14 pupils - Freya, Sally, Riley, Lily-Rose, Noah, Billy, Luca, Seyed, Dylan, Theordore, Bella, Sula, James and Camil - opted for their Class 8 Projects to provide the backbone of the portfolio required for this first module of the IE Certificate.
The high standard of work was recognised by Crossfields Institute, who were very impressed by the projects (See Class 8 projects in 2021 and 2020). Some Class 9 pupils are this year continuing on to the Creative Thinking Skills module with Alistair Pugh and Hester Machin, after which they will gain the full accreditation of the Integrated Education Certificate Level 2.
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Class 8 Projects
All of the pupils are a whole year younger than the specified age for this qualification and level of study, such is their capacity for focused, self-directed activity.
This year's Class 8 pupils, aged 13 and 14, work on an extended project of their choosing from the beginning of the academic year - a part of the curriculum since 1996 in ESS. They will exhibit these projects in April, do a presentation on their research; and for those who choose to, submit it as an IE Independent Project, making sure to journal the process of this body of work. It is not only the final project which is important in the IE Certificate first module, but the thinking and doing process that leads to the result.
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Bikeability Continues In The Next Two Terms
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Bikeability was introduced to the School's Extra Curricular Programme at the beginning of the academic year, and has been a popular Club from the offset.
With just two sessions left before it stops for the wintery months, the next block is now available to sign up to, coached again by Scott and Ross. Links for booking below:
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Foreign Language Newspapers Wanted
If you have any spare newspapers or magazines that are written in a language other than English I would be very grateful if you could send them in with your child to hand into the School Office. This is for a project that Class 9 are undertaking. Thank you. Anne Jardine
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Food Bank Thanks
I would just like to send a huge and belated thank you for all your generous donations for the Food Bank. An unprecedented amount of food and toiletries was sent in and the North West Edinburgh Foodbank was extremely grateful.
Thank you for your community spirit and your generosity in providing a much needed service. When we know what weight of food we raised we will let you know. Anne Jardine
The total donated food over the last four Michaelmases totalled 565kg. This year, Kindergarten families joined the rest of the school in the collection.
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How Many Languages In Our School Community?
In 2019 Upper School pupils surveyed the school community, looking into how many languages were spoken as a first, second or third language in the home; and the findings were published in the magazine, produced by the Modern Studies pupils.
There were 33 languages spoken in the school at that time, 20 languages other than English that were a first language.
Since this survey was carried out, new families have joined the School. It would be wonderful to show the international character of our school community with an updated survey.
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Private Music Lessons Have Returned On Campus
Lessons can be taught during the school day, following a discussion with the pupil's Class Teacher about appropriate lesson time and depending on Music Teacher's availability.
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Guitar Lessons - see Douglas Anderson's advert below.
Flute Lessons - Catriona Crosby
Cello Lessons - see Helen Duncan's advert below.
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Seeking Violin, Singing & Piano Teachers
Many of the music teachers that have previously taught ESS pupils have now retired. The School is seeking a violin, singing and piano teachers.
If you would like to offer your services to ESS pupils and hold a current PVG, please get in touch with our Music Teacher, Carlijn Metselaar giving details of your experience.
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Lunchtime Clubs For Pupils in Class 8 Upwards
The School Hall is open to pupils in the Upper School and Class 8 at lunchtime to participate in the below self-organised activities:
Tuesdays: Basketball & Table Tennis
Fridays: Volleyball & Table Tennis
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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 720 recipients’ 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 (paid through the online school shop here), ordered in first-come-first-appears. 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.
Submission Forms are downloaded here. Once completed, this can be emailed back to communications@edinburghsteinerschool.org.uk by Friday noon before the first edition you would like your Notice to appear in.
Future publication dates for the Autumn Term 2021 are:
November 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th
Dec 7th, 14th
Edinburgh Steiner School Session Dates
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The Mulberry Bush Festive Offerings
We here at The Mulberry Bush would like to let you know about all the wonderful Advent and Christmas things we have in stock at our shop at 77 Morningside Road. Hand dipped beeswax candles, Weleda products and Floris Books (sold all year round) are available. Just arrived in traditional German advent calendars and our ever popular range of seasonal felted fairy folk. We also stock a huge range of one off handcrafted products from our Garvald workshops for sale. You can visit us in store or at:
garvaldmakers.com Facebook Instagram garvaldedinburgh.org.uk
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Cello Teacher On Campus
I am very much looking forward to meeting some new cello pupils! I have been teaching cello at the School for 15 years and have become increasingly interested in the many ways that learning to play a musical instrument nurtures our whole beings. Learning to quieten our minds and listen to the innate wisdom of our bodies is one such way. The cello is particularly rewarding instrument as it produces such wonderful vibrations and resonances.
I am happy to meet with interested pupils aged 7 or older and will help to find a suitable instrument for renting or buying. Lessons are weekly during term time and cost £16 for 30 minutes. Please email or call to talk further.
Contact details:
Helen Duncan 07914 909 553
helen@belfordmews.co.uk
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Seeking Room To Rent Near School
I am looking for a room to rent ( longer term is preferable) from March onwards. I have a small dog. I can pay up to five hundred pounds a month. In commuting distance to the school required.
Please contact the School Office if you have any questions.
Many thanks, Alba.
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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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Trampoline For Sale
Springfree trampoline, medium oval, fine condition, bought new in Spring 2020, for sale, please see link for product details. Springfree trampolines are built with safety in mind as springs underneath and away from children jumping, high netting, strong, balanced bounce.
Please send any queries or offers to Mobile no: 07507883535
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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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