Monday 2 – 5pm, Tuesday 2 – 6pm
Wing your way to the artists unit in Muirhouse Shopping Centre, have a look at the birdhouses designed by Craigroyston Community High School’s S2 students and vote for your favourite!
Roost is part of an artists residency, Arcadeum, linked to the North West Edinburgh Partnership Centre. This £12 million Centre, being built in Muirhouse, is a joint development between NHS Lothian and the City of Edinburgh Council, bringing increased health and social care services for the local community, including new GP accommodation and additional physiotherapy, podiatry, dentistry and child health services.
Arcadeum is based in the ‘satellite’ space in the shopping mall next to NEA. Artists Lindsay Perth and Hans Clausen have been leading the Arcadeum programme over the last 12 months.
Fight to keep the ‘community’ in Community High School
Craigroyston Community Centre, the adult education wing of Craigroyston Community High School, has appealed to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon for her support in retaining a full adult education service at the school. Continue reading Craigroyston’s adult learners in last ditch appeal
‘everyone around the table shared my desire to ensure Scottish education is the best it can be’ – Education Secretary John Swinney
Headteachers across Scotland will be provided with extra support to deliver excellence in schools and work to close the attainment gap, First Minister Nicola Sturgeon announced yesterday as she hosted a summit on raising attainment in Scotland’s schools. Continue reading Craigroyston summit: ‘a common focus to drive up standards’
STEM: That’s Science, Technology, Engineering, Maths – but you knew that, of course!
A team of employees from Edinburgh electronics company Leonardo (better known to us old-timers as Ferranti’s!) are planting a ‘STEM’ seed that could lead to improved career prospects for Craigroyston Community High School pupils. Continue reading Planting the STEM seed at Craigie
Craigroyston Community High School to lose adult education classes?
My name is Vanessa Cousins, Chairperson of Craigroyston Community Centre. I wish to draw your attention to the fact that we are LOSING our Community Centre and Day Time Adult Education Classes.
WE NEED YOUR HELP.
Steve Ross, has made it clear that we will not be able to run any daytime adult education classes in the Craigroyston Community High School from August 2016 as the school will be using all of the community rooms for pupil classes, during curriculum time.
He had a group from Council Asset Management inspect the school and they confirmed the community wing classrooms to be for pupil use only from August 2016. It is not clear if they were made aware of the regular community use.
We wish to meet with the Council Community Asset Management team. If the decisions are not made by Steve Ross then we need to know who does and be allowed to meet them to put our case forward.
We need to be advertising courses very shortly so we need clear information and confirmation that our community centre rooms will be available from August.
Info Points
‘Empowering communities is key to creating a more prosperous and fairer Scotland. It is the role of central and local government to work in partnership with communities and support them to lead change for themselves, to create thriving and sustainable places to live.’
(First sentence of the Community Empowerment Act (Scotland ) 2015 Asset Transfer section)
Vanessa Cousins
There’s a mighty team effort taking place in Muirhouse Avenue right now. Muirhouse Centipede Project are putting the land not currently being built on to good use and are now preparing the ground for a community amphitheatre and performance area.
It’s a lot of work – it’s a lot of space! – but volunteers from Craigroyston Community High School, Tomorrow’s People, Scottish Widows, Community Action North, Scottish Gas, the Haven Project’s Dad’s Group and North Edinburgh Arts are really getting stuck in!
You’ll already see an amazing difference … and today 130 tyres will arrive for the next stage of the operation! Get involved!
More pictures on our Facebook page
Free walking group at Craigroyston Community High School
Tuesdays 11am – 1pm
Hi
Please share with your friends – and come along on Tuesday next week for a free feelgood walk with a friendly and experienced tutor who can help you go from gentle exercise to feeling more feisty and ready to take on longer walks!
First Foot Forward is a new FREE Drop In Walking Group to go out walking using public transport to access lower level local walks, taken at a leisurely pace and lasting 45 minutes to 1.5 hours in walking time.
Please wear suitable outdoor clothing and flat comfortable shoes.
Interested? Come to Craigroyston Community High School community desk – 67 Pennywell Road, EH4 4NL
Fiona Henderson
Craigroyston Community High School’s adult learners are looking for a new home. Course organisers are urgently seeking temporary accomodation for mature students’ classes – and the courses start next week!
Continue reading Help! Craigie’s adult students are homeless!