The gymnastics team including  Katie  Lalita, Bethany  and Jen who won bronze as well as Emma Barton, Rachel Skillen and Lucy Hill.

  They all did themselves and the school proud and are now preparing for the Scottish Finals in Perth in March!

Tom Borley (S1) is starring in a radio play this festive season. Described as “like an audio version of Home Alone”, he plays the kidnapped son of a wealthy philanthropist. However, his bungling captors have met their match and may come to regret their decision… You can hear Tom in the play, which is from the Stanley Baxter Playhouse, on Radio 4 at 11.30am on Wednesday 23^rd December. Well done, Tom!

You can read more about it here

Two Desperate Men

Congratulations to Rachel and Ellie  on their success in winning the girls event at the Meadows Tennis Doubles Tournament on Sunday.  The girls overcame the opposition as well as the cold and damp conditions to take the top prize.  Well done, girls!

Twenty three students set off early on Friday to travel to London for the annual House of Lords Chamber debate. Boroughmuir represented Scotland’s schools in this years’ debate The debate motion was “How do we increase diversity in Parliament?” Arriving at King’s Cross off the 7.30 from Waverley, we got to the Houses of Parliament just in time to get final briefings and coaching on debating style, voice projection in the chamber. The debate was chaired by the Lord Speaker, one Baroness D’Souza, and lasted for almost two hours hearing a range of opinion from schools in London, Belfast and Manchester and Humanist, faith groups, post-faith groups and from the girl-guiding organisation. Described by the Lord Speaker as “one of the best chamber debates there had been”, it was viewed by all from Boroughmuir as a highly valuable experience. Only Storm Des spoiled things somewhat when the power lines on the East Coast were blown down and our arrival home was delayed by a couple of hours. Well done to everyone and remember, Boroughmuir Debating Club is there for you to benefit from the skill of speech and argument. All welcome!

You can view the video of the debate using this link here.

S6/7 pupils from Bruntsfield, South Morningside and Buckstone primary schools visited the Computing Science department to participate in the Global initiative ‘Hour Of Code’.

TEDx Bruntsfield is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. With a star lineup sharing experiences across a spectrum of topics it promises to be an amazing event.

Tickets are limited to 100.

And as a bonus, we are running an IGNITE lightning set of talks immediately after, which is run exclusively by the senior pupils at Boroughmuir.

TEDx Bruntsfield is now open for tickets!  Open link for more information.

What a dreich and dreary day it turned out to be at a wind swept and damp Hillend. For a few hours beforehand the howling gales could have put a stop to the morning’s race events !!! But lady luck was with us, and our three teams stormed the Boyd Anderson Race this year with 1st place to the Girl’s team, 1st place to the Boy’s team and 1st place to the fabulous Trophy Team.
A lot of happy racers indeed, and a well deserved mention to man of the ski match, Sam , who did two fabulous runs. He was storming he was 😊

Well done to all the racers, they thoroughly deserved it.

Thanks
Cheryl

Congratulations to a team of our S5/S6 pupils who yesterday won the East of Scotland heat in the BASE (Business, Accounting and Skills Education) competition.

Consisting of 49 UK heats and one National Final, BASE allows students of all abilities to; find out more about careers in accountancy, finance and business, compete in an exciting business challenge and network with professionals at a dedicated employer exhibition.

From the students point of view –

We sent a team of five of our S5/6, students to attend a heat at the Pollock Halls at Edinburgh University on 1 December 2015. It should have been six but we only had five as one team member was ill on the day so we had to work a bit harder than everyone else. We were able to put our Business Management and lots of other classroom learning into practice by acting as a team of ICAEW Chartered Accountants for the day. Supported by a professional mentor from the Royal Bank of Scotland, we were presented with a variety of business issues.

We had to provide innovative recommendations for the business. We had to analyse a huge amount of information and statistics on a business that had been offered a new contract. We had to arrive at a recommendation on whether to accept this new contract or not.

The judges said they were impressed with our team work, analytical skills, delegation and our natural style of delivery in front of a very large audience of accountants, schools and teachers. We were all a bit nervous but managed to do our best.

After presenting our advice to a panel of highly respected judges (and much to our delight) we were told we were the team with the best overall performance. There were lots of other good Edinburgh, Aberdeen and east coast schools competing. George Watsons were runners up. But we were crowned regional winners, given a trophy, and photos were taken. We are delighted to say that we have secured a place to compete against all 49 winning teams at the UK National Final in Birmingham in June. This could mean an overnight stay in a hotel and a winners ball.. And who could say no to that? We’ll keep you posted on how we do!