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The environment is designed to be pedagogically and spiritually enabling, rich in natural resources that have multiple, flexible uses. This employs a child’s imagination. Our new Early Years building is taking shape.
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School Calendar Dates
2022
- 28th February - Classes 9 - 12 Racism & Micro-aggression Workshop
- 7th - 15th March - Prelims
- 11th March - Class 7 play, Eleanor of Aquitaine
- 14th March - Classes 6 - 8 Racism & Micro-aggression Workshop
- 24th & 25th March - Class 8 play Romeo & Juliet [Updated dates]
- 31st March - Defer Entry To P1 application deadline
- 31st March - deadline to order Summer Term school lunches
- 5th May - ESS 83rd Anniversary
- 21st May - Spring Fair with Raffle
- 1st - 5th August - Summer Camp (Week 1)
- 8th - 12th August - Summer Camp (Week 2)
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 linked to here each week. These reports will resume next 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, ESS Wraparound, Waldorf stationery, toddler groups and ESS hoodies: edsteiner.org/shop |
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Seedlings Building Prepares To Open Its Doors
Seedings for children aged two and above is growing at our school. In preparation for the two Seedlings Groups to move into the newly renovated West Coach House, many people are busy behind the scenes gathering and hand-making the furniture and play things for the little ones, to create the homely atmosphere that is true to the Waldorf early years environment worldwide.
Teacher Nick Brett worked during school holidays with pupils and alumni to strip out the building. Teacher Rachel Craig has worked tirelessly throughout the build as the project manager, with child-friendly architecture at the heart of the design decisions. Class 10 pupils whittled and sanded the tactile door handles from wood collected on campus for the kitchen units. A parent donated a large wooden kitchen suitable for several small children to play around and a till.
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Former Kindergarten teacher and current Trustee, Corinna Tebbutt, has been tailoring curtains and veils for open-ended play and repurposing outgrown clothes from her grandchildren, who both attended the Kindergarten themselves, to make attire for the Waldorf dolls; and current Seedlings parent Petra Catechis has crocheted beautiful animals!
Our Parent & Child Leader, Yifat Leibner, has been providing a rare opportunity during the pandemic for toddlers to make the first steps away from their parent towards Seedlings, learn how to share, take turns, and generally get along with other children through the Parent & Child Groups off-campus; whilst Kindergarten Coordinator, Susie Musgrave, has been liaising with families looking to join the waiting list; and Seedling Leaders, Leilani Taneus-Miller and Synnove Frankel have focused their efforts on collating new resources, including furniture, kitchen equipment, toys and playframes, whilst liaising with the architect on colours and materials.
The Seedlings children will move into their new space by Easter.
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We Say Farewell To Our School Bursar
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Lesley Chari, the School's Bursar, will be moving on to pastures new at the end of this week. Lesley has been with the school for the past five years, most recently leading the Finance Department through the choppy waters of the pandemic; as well as managing the new Early Years 1,140 Hours ELC Funding, sitting on the Growing Spaces Project Group, managing our Bursary Schemes each year, and
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liaising with families who are investing in a Waldorf education for their children.
Our new Interim Bursar, Amanda Leishman, FCCA, joins us from abrdn, where she has worked since 2000, most recently as their Revenue Manager.
The School wishes Lesley well in her new role.
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Growing Spaces Project Receives £12,000 Donation
ESS has received a further £12k from the literary royalties of former teacher, Charles Kovacs.
Mr Kovacs died in 2001. His books continue to sell well through Floris Books, an Edinburgh-based publishers founded by a former pupil of the School, Christian Maclean. Some have even been translated into other languages including Chinese, Korean and Latvian.
Charles's generosity is ongoing, gifting 100% of the royalties from future sales of his titles as a tribute to the many years both he and his wife dedicated to the School, which so far totals £83,000. This legacy will be felt by the children of today’s Classes, the generations to come; and the wider communities we help.
The West Coach House renovation by Hutton & Reed will wrap next week.
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Edinburgh Steiner Music Teacher Premiers At RSNO
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Carlijn Metselaar, a Dutch composer and teacher, performed to an almost sell-out audience at the Royal Scottish National Orchestra with her piece
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Into The Living Mountain this month.
The title and the inspiration came from Nan Shepherd’s book, written in the 1940s, about climbing in the Cairngorms. The piece, performed both in Edinburgh and Glasgow's Royal Concert Hall the following evening, was written as part of the prestigious 2019-20 RSNO Composers Hub for emerging composers, where Carlijn was announced as the overall winner.
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"Imagining new orchestral music is one skill but learning how to write this music as effectively as possible for an orchestra to play is another, which can only be learned hands on," says Carlijn of the RSNO programme.
Pupils and ESS alumni attended the concert at the Usher Hall on Friday evening, conducted by Søndergård and also featuring violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja (read Sunday Times and The Scotsman reviews).
Teacher, Nick Brett's impressions:
Was I going to go? I’d been reminded that morning, could I really get up off the cosy sofa and cycle across town in this wild weather? Within twenty minutes and just in the nick of time I was sitting in the front row of the Usher Hall - excited, eager to hear and listen to what Carlijn was going to bring to our ears.
The announcer gave a brief introduction to Rachmaninov's 2nd, the happiness of the Stravinsky dances and then - Into the Living Mountain by Carlijn Metselaar. I had no idea it was based on a book and the Cairngorms, a place of outstanding beauty and depth.
The conductor poises ready, baton in hand asks for the orchestra's attention, lifts his baton and then begins. Not too far in there is a wonderful deep rich passage from the wind section asking you to travel deep into the valleys and mountains of imagination. Another part where the strings section using ‘col legno battuto’ strike their strings with the back of their bows, was this hail, rain, a rockfall echoing or the running of feet. From time to time a flair of sound rising upwards, crescendoing to the very heights then tempered by quiet passages of thought and stillness.
What I found so intriguing about the concert in its entirety was that Carlijn's piece appeared as a forward-facing mirror to the whole concert. From the light-footed dances of Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto to the deep romantic searching of Rachmaninov, this piece had it all. I was hooked, thank you Carlijn.
Through lockdowns, she composed Lift for BBC NOW violist Laura Sinnerton’s solo CD Inner Voices (NMC Recordings). In 2021, BBC Now performed Carlijn's Time for your walk (watch here)
Her new piece Forest Bathing written for UPROAR’s Scenes From A Street tour, lies at the heart of the large ensemble. It will be performed in Cardiff, Aberystwyth and Abergavenny in the upcoming two months; and was also broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Saturday.
Carlijn joined our school at the beginning of the academic year as the new Music Teacher, following the retirement of long-serving Iain Maclean. You can read more of Carlijn's bio here.
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Bursary Application Process Now Open
It has long been an ambition of the School that access to a Steiner education should not depend solely on the ability to pay fees. As well as other financial support listed on our website, Bursaries are available to help fund up to 40% of tuition fees for qualifying families.
Trustees allocate 5% of this financial year’s net fee income for the forthcoming session 2022/23. Almost £105k will be made available.
Application forms and bursary criteria was ent out to all families by email on Monday; and can be downloaded from our website here.
Closing date: 29th April, 2022
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No Face Masks In Classroom From Next Week
Class 7 upwards will no longer be required to wear facemasks in the classroom from Monday 28th February. They remain mandatory in all communal spaces on campus.
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Bikeability Restarts This Week
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Our School is on the National Cycle Route 754, accessed from the Union Canal, providing a great route in and out of Edinburgh.
Bikeability will resume after the half term for Classes 1 - 8 with a minimum 13 pupils and a maximum of 16 per Club with two instructors.
This Club requires pupils to bring their own bike and helmet; and includes both on and off road, learning cycle proficiency. This Club will run until the end of the academic year; and there are spaces to join.
Tuesdays 1:45pm - 2:45pm: Classes 1 - 3 Bikeability Club (with bespoke C1 - C3 Bikeability Wraparound add-on).
Fridays 1:45pm - 2:45pm: Classes 4 - 5 Bikeability Club (with bespoke C4 - C5 Bikeability Wraparound add-on)
at 3.15pm - 4.15pm on Fridays, Classes 6 - 8 Bikeability Club can now accept up to 16 pupils.
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Edinburgh's cycle and quiet routes can be viewed on the Council's interactive map.
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Extra Curricular Clubs - Join
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There are a few spaces remaining to join the current extra curricular clubs after the half term, all offered at £6 per session:
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Reduce Childcare Costs By A Fifth
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Eligible parents of a child aged twelve and under can use a TFC account to reduce the cost of Seedlings, ESS Wraparound and Extra Curricular Clubs by 20%. (Tuition fees are not eligible to be paid through this account).
See if you are eligible here: Tax Free Childcare Account
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Pre-order Summer Term School Lunches
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Please note, Kindergarten and Seedlings children will no longer be part of the School Lunches system. All Early Years children staying on in the afternoon will be provided with a warm lunch.
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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 Spring Term 2022 are:
March 1st, 8th, 15th, 22nd, 29th
Edinburgh Steiner School Session Dates
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Easter holiday house swap in the Cotswolds
We are a family of four from Stroud, Gloucestershire. We are heading to the Edinburgh Harp Festival (we make harps), and are seeking a home exchange covering 6th to 13th April for up to 2 weeks (flexible). We have a lovely 3 bed bungalow with a co-sleeping bedroom set up in one room. We are on the Cotswold Way and on the edge of the lovely market town of Stroud. The area is great for cycling, hiking, the arts and live music. Please contact us for photos and details. Creag and Morwenna Email Mobile: 07961 512428
| Address: 3, Eros Close, Stroud, Gloucestershire, GL5 3TP, United Kingdom |
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Guitar/Song-writing Tutor
Guitar/song writing lessons in your own home. £25 hour class
20 years experience of working with young people (PVG registered.) I am a professional songwriter and you’ll recognise me from playing ceilidhs with Roland Fraser ! I teach guitar and help and support with song writing and kids’ bands, from composing to recording.
Music is sometimes taught in a very dry and classical way that doesn’t excite young people. I focus on the individual: writing and recording original songs and learning material they like. Neil S Barber Contact: Mobile 07986 183977 website Email |
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Flat for rent
Looking for a furnished 2-3-bedroom apartment from 25th April until 8th July 2022, possibly near ESS.
Kind family (parents, two children, 14 and 16 years, living in Coburg/Germany) would like to spend the summer term 2022 in Edinburgh. Our children will attend ESS.
Please contact: christof_bock@yahoo.de
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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)
Lessons can be taught on campus, during the school day. 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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