MerchiAcademic @MerchiAcademic
Keep up to date with the highlights from Academic departments and teaching staff. Joined January 2020-
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Congratulations! Halcyon - Scotland winner, translation from German Adam - Commendation, translation from French The Anthea Bell Prize for Young Translators saw 16,000 participants this year. Danke, merci @TranslationExch @QueensCollegeOx
J4/J5 artwork inspired by St. Basil's cathedral and their learning about Ivan the Terrible! @nazipova @MerchiJuniors #languages #mfltwitterati
Last week, we held our annual #GCSE subject choice discussion with the IV Form pupils and Academic Leadership Team to talk through the many exciting options available to students. Discover our approach to teaching here: ow.ly/veur50Rvycy
A group of lucky VI Formers had the opportunity to see Guo Degang, one of China's best known comedians last Friday evening 🤣 Even on weekend leave, the opportunities continue...! Many thanks to all who made this possible 😄😄😄 @chinacgedi
Sunday Times bestselling author of the Skandar fantasy series, A.F. Steadman, is coming to Merchiston 📚 @annabelwriter will be visiting our very own Spawforth Library on 1 May to unveil her latest novel in front of students from several schools across Edinburgh. 📖
Today in the Maths Department we celebrated Pi Day, including a collaborative pi paper chain and some excellent pi shortbread!
Tomorrow the Chinese Lantern Festival marks the end of Chinese new year. Boys have had a range of celebrations: Chinese Rice Cake taster, lantern and dragon making and a dinner with St George’s. Hope Year of the Dragon brings you joy and prosperity! @CISSStrathclyde @chinacgedi
Maths + DT = investigating answers! First Form take a break from whittling to estimate who has the oldest tree section. @MerchiJuniors @MerchiNews @MerchiStem
IV Form finished off their sweet dispensers in DT this week! 🍬 😋 🍭 🤤🍿 We look forward to reading your Evaluations to see how you got on with them over the holidays!
On Saturday six of our Lower @MerchiSixthForm participated in their first Model United Nations event. They did us proud - #ReadyAyReady to step out of their comfort zone! Many thanks to @stgeorgesedin for hosting. #stgemun2023
Yesterday saw Lower Sixth Spanish and German learners join other schools for an Immersion Day. Many thanks to @StrathallanSchl for hosting - and for the warm hospitality! #learnspanish #learngerman @GermanAmbUK
Looking forward to welcoming Kayleigh Parker for our first Careers Café of the term at 7pm on Thursday 23rd November. She will present to the boys on her career and role working for SSE.
Shell boys have been engrossed in code-breaking challenges with @GCHQ National Language Competition this week. 'Kind blushing angelfish' has been the leading Merchiston team - will this change before 5pm today...? #GCHQNLC #languages
The Rugby World Cup 🏉has been inspiring IV Form French! Congratulations to Finlay for best poster and to Orhan, Kiran, Roland, Finn and Alex for the best presentation. Merci à notre juge M. De Luca et à Campbell, French prefect. @MerchiRugby @ifecosse
Vielen Dank Elaine, Miguel, @louiseglen4 and @GI_Glasgow !
It's been a fantastic and very informative day for German teachers. Thank you so much to @louiseglen4 for a lovely introduction, and to Miguel Rezzani for such inspiring training sessions.
Just-in-time production methods aka setting out clear instructions/teamwork/systems thinking aka making a morning cuppa tea in DT(ea)! @MerchiNews @MerchiSixthForm
IV Form Mandarin pupils visited a Chinese supermarket, using their language skills to write their list, ask the shop assistant questions and pay their bill. They then enjoyed a traditional hotpot, with chopsticks! 🥢 @SCEN_official @CISSStrathclyde @chinacgedi
IV Form Spanish pupils enjoyed a trip to @NatGalleriesSco last week. Pupils discovered the works of Picasso, Dalí and Miró before trying their hand at recreating some masterpieces, relying on their partner’s descriptions in Spanish 👨🏻🎨 Topped off with some Pintxos in the park!
J4/J5 responding in style to their Russian colouring task - after the challenge of a Russian cultural quiz… Proud of our young learners’ curiosity and enthusiasm! 💙 #languages @merchijuniors
When you’ve spent time designing and prototyping new pizza cutters there’s only one thing for it… 🍕 LVI A-Level DT enjoying pizza cut by their very own pizza cutters while learning all about prototyping, testing, quality control and… pizza? 😋
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