STRICHEN SCHOOL BLOG

Children in Need 2014

We had a great day today celebrating Children In Need day! The school raisded £135 to put towards the total for the whole country! Thanks to everyone for your support.

Everyone came dressed up for the occasion - and many went with the Super Hero theme! Everyone had their photos taken for their 2015 calendar. This year we took individual and family photos so that you will have more of a choice for your calendars! Order forms will go out next week.

The Pupil Council members planned, organised and ran 'fun activities' for the classes in the hall. Well done to them for their hard work and organisation.

In the afternoon we had an assembly with a Children In Need theme and they were shown a video of the original 'Do they know its Christmas' video as a new version is being recorded this weekend! We then finished off with a disco - which was a real noisy event!

So....the photos will be up on display next week for you to see and help you decide which ones you want to order for calendars!

But to finish....here are some of the staff.....Supergirl, The Teletubbies and Bananas in Pyjamas!

I dont think we need to say anything more!

Pr 4/5 Buchan Science Festival Workshop

The children were given the task to write a report for the school Blog.
Here is Anona’s report .

 The Science Festival

On Wednesday 29^th of October Liz from the Science festival took us upstairs and told us we were making band rollers.

        She introduced herself.  After that she showed us wind-up toys.  There was a penguin and a caterpillar.  She also told us the instructions.

        We found groups and got to a table.  I had Ellie and Emilie in my group.  We also had cards on the tables.  One had lengths of sticks and the other had shapes of wheels.  My group had the lengths of sticks and I had the small ones.  The instructions were: you get the wheels and a ruler.  Draw one line across the wheels and one up and down.  Next you draw your own design.  After that we drew little lines on the big lines. Then you got eight drawing pins and put four on the little lines and four on the other.  Get four little bits of wood and stick them on each drawing pin.  Next get an elastic band and slip it through the little hole in the wheel.  But don’t put it all in because you’re going to put half a match stick in the loop now.  After you’ve done that you keep pulling it through.  When you have pulled it all you find a washer and a bead.  When you’ve got that you put the washer on the elastic band.  After that you put on a bead and get a lollipop stick and put it through the loop.

        After we did that we went to the hall to have a race.  First we had a group race.  Next we had a class race!  Matthew was first, Glen was second and Alina was third.  It was the best thing I’d ever made!  It was a great day!