New Zealand Maths Development

Today we are holding a big Inservice training for our primary staff on implementing the New Zealand Maths strategy in our primary school.

The scheme is recognised as a world leader in developing numeracy and number skills and Mr Creighton and Mr Atkinson have just visited a primary school near Aberdeen that are enjoying great success in developing numeracy using this method.

Today was spent getting to grips with the method and planning for implementing this exciting development in Cedars School to increase numeracy across our primary school.


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London here we come!

Watch the middle school blog this week to keep up to date with our trip to London.

The weather looks promising:




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Drama

Drama students were looking at the role of the director this week. They each had to chose from a selection short, ambiguous texts and then interpret their choice theatrically in terms of character, setting, era, genre, etc.  Everyone really enjoyed it and there were some very creative interpretations!

Once they had completed their theatrical interpretation, they then had direct their peers in the drama they had created:

Cedars Video Goes Live!

After being almost a year in production, we are now proud to announce that the small movie made about how we use the iPad has now gone live on the Apple Education website.
We're really proud of the results.

You can view the movie here

Pupils plan the Health Fayre

Pupils in middle school and S3 are using the Health and Wellbeing outcomes to plan the school Health Fayre.













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Keep Scotland Tidy!

Our school Eco Committee have organised a playground tidy this morning as part of the national drive to raise awareness of environmental issues The whole school got involved- and our playground is looking much tidier. We are an Eco School!

Getting ready:














The great Tidy:




































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