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There is a lovely free film opportunity from the Scottish Youth Film Festival this weekend.

They have shared with us the following message.

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We’d like to invite any
budding film makers to com along this weekend to the Edinburgh Centre
for Carbon Innovation to attend the 5th Annual SCOTTSH YOUTH FILM
FESTIVAL.  Would you be able to get this out to any schools in the area
or anybody 19 years and under who are interested in film making?  The
festival is FREE to attend.

VENUE: Edinburgh Centre for Carbon Innovation

DATES: SATURDAY 30th NOVEMBER & SUNDAY 1st DECEMBER 2019

TIMES: 10am – 4pm

TICKETS:
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/scottish-youth-film-festival-2019-tickets-82814958771

This fifth annual Scottish Youth Film Festival take place in Edinburgh
for the first time ever. The festival which started as a youth project
in West Lothian has spent the last two years in Glasgow.

Scott Mackay, a founder of the festival said;

“It was always our intention to move the festival around the country and
funding from Screen Scotland this year has allowed us to start doing
that.”

The festival holds an awards ceremony for films that have been made by
young people in Scotland and past winners have ranged in age from 5 to
19 yrs. The films are judged by a panel of young people in conjunction
with Into Film and they really get a buzz out of receiving their awards.
The charity is supported by Kevin Guthrie of Sunshine on Leith and Tommy
Gormley of Star Wars/ Star Trek and Mission Impossible amongst others,
but the entire aim of the festival is to get even more young people
interested in film; As co-founder David Barras says;

“SYFF’s aim is to enhance life chances for young scots through film and
Scotland has proved time and time again that the talent is here. So we
hold workshops, talks and activities that appeal to a range of young
people. There’s everything from make-up (Gillian Johnston who works on
the Crown) to how to build your own light sabre”

The event is FREE and a limited number of tickets can be booked on
Eventbrite. All events and activities will take place at the Edinburgh
Centre for Carbon Innovation between 10 am and 4pm on Saturday and
Sunday with Saturday being aimed at secondary school age and Sunday
aimed at the primary age group.

If you would like more information about the event then please do get in
touch at the telephone number and address above. Or directly email
scott@syff.scot

web: http://syff.scot/

P3a Constructing

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P3A have been busy developing their STEM skills. They had great fun experimenting with different construction materials. They co-operated well with their partners and used problem solving strategies to build their models. Great job P3A!

Chess Team Achivement

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The Lothian Junior Congress Chess Tournament took place over the weekend and there was more fabulous success for team Dalry.

Our team won second place!! The initial ranking for our team was 8th position, but they finished 2nd after 6 rounds of play.

Many thanks to our chess tutors, Mr Good and Mr Hynd, and to Mr Ashly for supplying the photos.

Massive Congratulations to our tournament team members Rishon, Thanish, Jeric and Ishaan!

Winter Weather

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Winter was most definitely upon us last week.

Can we take this opportunity to remind parents and to remind children to dress appropriately for the wet and cold conditions over the next few months.

Remember to wear coats and jumpers. Also please try to wear appropriate footwear if possible, along with scarves gloves, and hats as appropriate.

And please remember to wear them at playtime and take them home afterwards as, while we try to find all lost property, sometimes a piece can go unspotted for a few days and end up a bit chilly….

P7 Stem Trip to Edinburgh College

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P7 have been focusing on STEM topics this term and have had a fantastic trip to Edinburgh College to consolidate our learning about Forces and different types of Engineering and an opportunity for them to ask lots of STEM questions to the experts!

The whole class were really engaged in all the activities and did a fabulous job of representing our school!

P6 National Museum Trip

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Primary 6 went to the National Museum of Scotland for their space topic. They were the first school in Scotland to take part in the Space- Looking Out and Looking Back Workshop. They made a visual representation of the planets and how far away from the sun they were. They then handled meteorites and had to decide whether they were real or if they were rocks and learnt about how heat can return certain metals back to its  original shape.