Watch this space for updates. “A full survey of all our schools, including Liberton High School, was carried out in 2012-13 and no concerns with this wall were identified. The report from an inspection of the school carried out for the council’s education, children and families committee last year listed the old gym as requiring electrical improvements and the school as a whole requiring “significant levels of investment” to bring it up to acceptable standards. Until we have a little more light in the evenings, football training will take place in the school hall on Tuesdays from 3.30-4.15. On Monday, Primary 3A, 3B and 3C went to visit farms as part of our food and farming topic. sharp.

Visited school in December – thoughts today with family, pupils and staff.”. The pupil, who has been named locally as Keane Wallis-Bennet, was in the first year at Liberton High School in Edinburgh. Soon after, a steady stream of parents began arriving at the school gates to collect their children. We were all delighted when we were able to make our bulbs light! Check out the photos from our trip here: Primary 3 on the farm. However, as a precaution, specialist council building services staff will be surveying all similar walls. We have a new page on our website for our fantastic Liberton Lightning Team. Andy Gray, head of schools and community services at the council, said: “Our thoughts and prayers are with the family and friends of our pupil at this tragic time. Pupils at the school belong to one of four houses: George Heriot's School has a wide range of extra-curricular activities in which pupils participate. The Big Lottery – Awards for All Scotland have awarded us £904 to spend on establishing our team and having our own equipment. [2] It was established in 1628 as George Heriot's Hospital, by bequest of the royal goldsmith George Heriot,[3] and opened in 1659. The main building was the first large building to be constructed outside the Edinburgh city walls. Better Behaviour Better Learning at Liberton Primary, Follow Liberton Primary School on WordPress.com. Please take a look at the P5A page to find out about what they’ve been up to recently. We all had our own mini pizza to take back to school and enjoy – yum! This is obviously a very distressing time for all pupils, staff and the community here at Liberton High School. The roll at the census in September 2012 was 637. “We are offering welfare support to anyone who needs it and we will be co-operating fully with Police Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive to establish what’s happened.”, Asked if the council knew of concerns about the wall prior to today’s incident, Mr Gray said: “We are not aware of that at this stage.”. A 1922 granite war memorial, by James Dunn, is dedicated to the school's former pupils and teachers who died in World War I. Our focus now is on providing emotional support to those affected by the incident and we will, of course, be working closely with Police Scotland and the Health and Safety Executive to establish the cause.”, Ministers and youth workers from a number of local churches offered their support to the school community today. Education Liberton High pupil dies in school wall collapse A 12-YEAR-OLD girl died at school today after a wall inside a gym building collapsed on top of her. The children worked with staff from the home to plant many bulbs into the embankment next to the school, as did some children from Liberton High School. It formed Heriot-Watt College, a technical college that developed by 1966 into what is known as Heriot-Watt University.

The chapel interior (1837) is by James Gillespie Graham, who is likely to have been assisted by Augustus Pugin. Keane’s death is the second tragedy to affect the school in recent months. The George Heriot's School Combined Cadet Force is headed by Lieutenant Colonel Bain, and around 60 pupils participate in weekly activities and summer camps. We did a fantastic job of making an electric circuit using a bulb, battery and wires.

[11] Its leavers (graduates) attended the country's most selective and prestigious universities, including St Andrews (31), Glasgow (26) and Edinburgh (14) in Scotland; and Oxford (2), Cambridge (4), Bristol (4) and King's College London (3) in England.[12]. The bulb was still able to light up proving that paper clips, or metal objects, are good conductors of electricity! It is not due to reopen until after the Easter break, which begins on Friday. (It now serves as a Salvation Army hostel). We are the Legendary Liberton Rugby Club. His design, for the central tower of the north façade, was eventually executed in 1693.[8]. Liberton and Prestonfield. The incident comes just weeks after the City of Edinburgh Council was fined £8,000 for a health and safety breach after a girl was seriously injured when she fell 16ft down a lift shaft at the same school. In every class at Liberton, we use an approach called Emotion Works.