Here’s an exciting new way we are encouraging people from North Edinburgh to get outdoors and connect more with the place they call home.
Our ‘Wild Places and Open Spaces’ booklet is a helpful and attractive new resource highlighting some of the lovely outdoor spaces there are in the area.
On Tuesday (11th Dec) at 11am the booklet will be officially launched with the first of 10 ‘Storytelling Walks’. We have two P5 classes coming along to hear the story of the Giants Causeway as they walk around a local park. There will also be festive snacks and hot chocolate.
This event will begin at Finn MacCool’s Footprint- a sculpture on West Pilton Park.
Leith-based project Multi-Cultural Family Base marked its 20th anniversary with an event at the Scottish Parliament named Transitions into Primary School last month.
The event, hosted by Angela Constance MSP, was an opportunity to hear about the experiences of migrant and refugee children starting school as well as showcase MCFB’s work in a new documentary film called “Dreaming, Perseverance, Resilience – the story of Multi-Cultural Family Base”, created by film company duo, Written In Film.Continue reading News from Multi-Cultural Family Base
A series of Christmas card designs by Edinburgh school pupils are brightening up Princes Street this festive season by being displayed on all the street’s digital bus shelter screens.
Eleven designs will be shown on the screens, with three of them – chosen by Education Convener Councillor Ian Perry, Vice Convener Councillor Alison Dickie and Executive Director Alistair Gaw as their official Christmas cards – unveiled at a special event on Friday.
They were designed by Jack Thomson (Oaklands School), Halle Jacobs (Sighthill Primary School), and Joshua O’Brien (Woodlands School).
The Christmas card competition is an annual event and for the fourth year JCDecaux offered the added incentive of 11 lucky pupils having their designs shown on their digital bus shelter screens in Princes Street.
Cllr Perry said: “It was really difficult picking the winning designs for the bus shelters as the quality of the entries once again was really high. I’m delighted we’ve got three winners for our Christmas cards with Jack, Halle and Joshua’s festive designs.”
Cllr Dickie added: “It was great to see how excited the pupils were this morning when their cards came up on the digital bus shelters. All the entries deserve special mention and thanks must go to JCDecaux for having the designs displayed until Christmas Day.”
Danielle Jeffrey, Partnership Manager at JCDecaux said, “For the fourth year, JCDecaux and the City of Edinburgh council have worked together to display some of the fantastic Christmas cards on the digital screens in Princes Street. We’re always delighted to be part of this project that showcases the beautiful artwork created by talented pupils at local schools.”
The designs will be displayed throughout December until Christmas Day on all the digital screens on Princes Street.
A UK instrument has captured the first sounds ever recorded directly from Mars.
The NASA InSight lander, which is supported by the UK Space Agency, has recorded a haunting, low rumble caused by vibrations from the wind. These vibrations were detected by an ultra-sensitive seismometer, developed in the UK, and an air pressure sensor sitting on the lander’s deck.Continue reading The song of Mars: sounds from The Red Planet
Edinburgh Integrated Joint Board have reported an overspend of 4.7m for the period to the end of July 2018, and that this is projected to rise to £11.9m by the end of the financial year. Scottish Conservatives are urging the Scottish Government to step in ease the pressure on Edinburgh’s IJB. Continue reading Edinburgh faces social care financial crisis
