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This afternoon all the classes were treated to an excellent performance of 'Wee Reid Ridin Hood' by Primary 5/6. The play, performed in Doric, retold the story of Little Red Riding Hood! They have been working on this since January along with their teacher Miss Cruden and the our Drama Specialist Mrs Potts-Viallettes!
After practising and rehearsing over the term the performance tookplace this afternoon. The four classes waited eagerly for it to start and were soon amazed by how well the children did. They had worked hard on so many different aspects of the performance - costumes, props, sound effects and of course learning their lines, and some of them had a lot to learn!
Everyone did a great job and they all performed their roles well. The pupils who played Red Riding Hood, Gran and the wolf all did excellently.
We hope to arrange a time next week when parents can come along and see the playalong with puils from the nursery.
Well done to everyone for utting on such a great production!
Pupils at Strichen School helped raise funds for Sport Relief on Friday 21st March. We took part in a special 'Sport Relief Mile' by having the whole school walk to Strichen Community Park and then split into groups and go on a scavenger hunt round the park.
We left after break time and headed up the park. Once there we paired everyone up with a pupil from a different class, the Pr 7 pupils working with their Pr 1 buddies, and used old ties to join them by the wrist in their pairs. We then split all the pupils into five mixed groups and set off on our walk round the park and the lake. Miss Cruden and Miss Clark had made up a scavenger hunt and each pair had to look for a variety of objects on their way round the park.
We had a great time and made it back just in time for lunch at 12.15. We would like to thank the parents who came along to help us and also to thank the Co-op who donated carrier bags so that each pair had a bag to put all their collected items as they went.
In the afternoon we had our weekly assembly which was about Sport Relief. The children saw three videos - one about a boy named Daniel who lives in Ghana and spends every Saturday and Sunday working in a mine digging for gold to try and help his family be able to buy food and clothes. We also watched two videos about the challenge set to Alan Shearer and Robbie Savage to sit on EVERY seat in Wembley Stadium.....90000 of them!
Once again the pupils and families have worked hard to raise funds for a good cause. The children had a good day and hopefully their money will be put to good use helping people here at home and abroad. We will post the amount raised once it is all counted. You can view Daniel's story by clicking on the link below.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS
We made our own Roman artefacts and buried them in the sand. Next we made a grid with string so we could plot our discoveries on a chart. It was really exciting to discover buried treasure.
YOUNG ENGINEERS
We had a visitor from SCORE UK in Peterhead, this week. Mr Bruce Buchan told the children about his job and how important it is to measure accurately. He encouraged the boys and girls to think about becoming engineers in the future. He demonstrated how engineers work to solve problems and ensure that their products are safe to use. Wer really enjoyed learning about the world of work and hope that he'll return to help us in some engineering in the class.
Towards the end of last year pupils in Pr 4/5, Pr 5/6 and Pr 7 took home a daffodil bulb they had planted. They had to look after it and take them back once they were flowering!
Primary 4/5 took advantage of this by drawing and painting the daffodils they grew at home. Here you can see the results of their hard work!
PRIMARY 4/5 Blog Entry
We have had a lovely display of daffodils which we have been growing at home since December. We asked our families and friends to sponsor us and we will be sending the money away to Marie Curie Cancer Support in the next 2 weeks. Thank you to all who have already donated.
On the daffodil theme, we drew and painted a daffodil as an art activity in observation. The results were super and we have a beautiful wall display of the finished paintings with photos of the children.
Here are some of the photos.
This week saw the annual 'World Book Day' event and as ever we did our best to mark the occasion. A great day was had by all and we held a number of events to encourage the joy of reading for pleasure both at school and at home.
Among the activities taking place were:
- Viewing the online 'World's Biggest Book Show' programme featuring authors and illustrators talking about their work.
- 'D.E.A.R. Sessions! - Drop Everything And Read! Twice over the day we all joined in the library and GP Room to have collective reading sessions! Thhis was a chance for everyone, including the staff, to stop and take a few minutes to read and enjoy a good book!
Each class had also 'decorated the class door' to look like the cover of a book! There willbe a prize for the best one..and this has proved tobe very competitive - especially amongst the staff!
The doors all look great and eachclass did a great job. Some had more than ONE page as part of their book while one almost looked like they had rebuilt their whole door and one even had lights!!! You can see the photos below.
The book titles were:
Nursery The very Hungry Catepillar
Pr 1/2 Fairy Tales
Pr 3/4 The Roman Bean Feast
Pr 4/5 The Simpsons in Egypt
Pr 5/6 An Elephant in the Garden
Pr 7 The Adventures of Primary 7
The Nursery
Primary 1/2
Primary 3/4
Primary 4/5
Primary 5/6
Primary 7
The winner will be announced at Assembly today!
we also had a 'find the book' hunt in the playground at breaktime. 30 little books were hidden round the playground for the pupils to find! A;; 30 were found and a few lucky 'books' carry a prize with them also!
We also organised a 'First read' competition - we offered the puils the chance to explain why they would like to be the FIRST to read the new books we had bought in especially. We had around 30 entries for the range of books we had. The 'First Readers' will get their book this afternoon at assembly! But..they need to return them to the library once finsihed!
Then finally the Primary 7 pupils organised a 'Second hand book sale' to raise funds for their 'Loch Insh Hoodie'! We had a very generous donation of books from everyone and the sale was very popular! The children all seemed happy withtheir purchases and we managed to sell most of the books! A huge thank you to everyone who donated books!
So...if after all this we have encouraged some to pick up a new book and read it then it will have all been worth it!
This weeks sees us celebrate World Book Day once again! (www.worldbookday.com)
We have a range of activities planned for the 'big day' to encourage the pupils to pick up a greatbook and enjoy some reading! Down load the school newsletter to find out what we will be up to!
We will post some photos over the week to show all the things we did to mark the event! Among the highlights should be the classes decorating their class door to LOOK LIKE a BOOK and our challenge to come up with a great reason why you should be the first one in the school allowed to read some of our new library books!
Miss Clark's Primary 7 pupils are also going to be holding a 'Second Hand Book Sale' to help raise some funds towards their 'Hoodie' fund for Loch Insh!!
It will be a busy day all round with plenty of prizes along the way!