As part of the s2 library program all pupils are asked to create a book trailer on a book of their choice in December each class watches their trailers and then vote for their favourites we have now whittled it down to the top 23 and pupils and staff will now vote for the best one!

You can view all the trailers  below using the pictures to go to each individual video or you can view them all in the playlist directly below.

Congratulation to our Young Consumers team who won the Edinburgh Final at Lothian Chambers on Thursday.

The team of senior pupils Jess (C) Calum, Clara, Henry and Maya beat stiff opposition form James Gillespie’s and Portobello to win the title. They will nopw take part in the Scottish final at the Parliament building in March (details to be finalised).

Thanks to Alex Jones, Education Office at Edinburgh Council who has done a great job selecting and training the team.

Well done to the 300 young performers who played and sang their hearts out to a ‘sold out’
Central Hall on Monday. Once again this highlight of the year was a massive success bringing the whole school community, past and present, together to celebrate and get into the Christmas spirit.
A big thank you to all the music teachers and instructors for all their hard work in putting this great show together.

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’.