STRICHEN SCHOOL BLOG

Visit by NHS Health Assistant

Recently we had a visitor to school who works for NHS Grampian. She was a nutritionist and her job is to teach people about the imortance of eating healthily. She visited for the whole day and spoke to each class. Parents were invited to school to h ear the presentation and a few were able to come along to join in. The pupils enjoyed their session and some valuable lessons were learnt!

Here is a brief report from two pupils about the visit.

On Thursday the 22^nd of February a lady called Mrs Gascoigne came in to tell the whole school about healthy eating. She asked us what our favourite food was and how to balance our food types for good health. She had a mat that told us what % of each food type we should eat during the day.  Fruit and vegetables should be 33% of the day’s food.  Bread, cereal and potatoes should also be 33%. Fats and sugar were 10%. Milk and dairy was 12% and meat and fish was also 12%.

Protein helps you grow and helps repair your body. You need at least ¾ portions of milk, yogurt and cheese per day. Vegetarians should eat quorn, beans, eggs and lentils to keep healthy. Vegetarians should eat vitamins and minerals to help heal their body.

To provide energy you need plenty of calories in your food such as potatoes, rice, bread, pasta and cereals. These are the snacks you can eat – cereal bars, fruit bars, fruit flakes, popcorn, pancakes and scones.

In a can of coke and a mars bar there are 16 spoonfuls of sugar!

You should drink 3 to 4 bottles of water per day.

      

By Ryan Forman & Gavin Simpson

PRIMARY 7- ALL IN A WEEK’S WORK!

PRIMARY 7- ALL IN A WEEK’S WORK!

During one week recently, this is what we learned or improved:

A baby hedgehog is called a piglet.

My graph skills on computer are better.

My serve in volleyball is better.

My volleys in volleyball are better.

The breed of Silkie is the most popular breed of poultry in Great Britain.

I learned to make a clapper in Science.

I learned to do and understand ratios.

I can make up and tell a story orally rather than writing it on paper.

I can read Welsh words.

I have improved my arcade driving.

I have improved speaking out with a partner.

I have improved my typing skills on the computer.

I have played less on the play station.

I have improved my skills on a motor bike.

I have improved at bowling.

I have improved at spiking in volleyball.

I learned how to do fingered chords on my keyboard.

I have improved at roller blading.

I have improved in my piano lessons.

I have found out how sore it is when I fall in my ‘heelies’.

I have improved my Highland Dancing.

I have improved my football skills.

I remembered my show and tell talk.

I have improved in my cooking skills.

I have improved at hair pleating.

I learned how to play squash.

I learned how to keep score in volleyball.

I think this lets you see that you often learn MORE than you think when you really think about it!

Well done!  Keep it up!   

Valentine's Day

On the 14th February Class 5 were learning all about the heart since it was Valentines day. We did maths, learnt some ‘Heart’ facts, did sheets about our pulse and drew pictures of hearts with chalk. We drew three hearts and coloured them differently and at the bottom we wrote ‘’Healthy Hearts’’. HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!

By Ryan & Megan

Scots Poetry Podcast

Listen to our new PODCAST on the school website. You can hear a selection of pupils reciting the poems they learned as part of the work done in school to celebrate the life of Robbie Burns.

Click on the link to go to the page:

http://www.strichen.aberdeenshire.sch.uk/page31.html

Fire Safety Talk: Lesson 2

Fire Officer Gary Collins paid a second visit to the school this week to teach pupils in P5 & 6 about the importance of fire safety in the home. Here is a report by two of the pupils about their visit.

On the 8^th of February Gary Collins, Fire Safety Officer, came in and gave us a talk about fire safety.

Garyshowed us how quickly a fire can spread. He showed us videos about a hoax call that killed a teenaged girl. She died because her friend made a hoax call because two teen age boys made her do it by locking her in the phone box.

He went over some of the things we did in the previous lesson. He showed us another video called ‘It was just a game.’ It was about a group of friends that went on a bike ride around the country and stopped in a field for a picnic. They played a game where you had to hold a lit match until it went out. A boy called Paul dropped the match and the bale of hay went on fire. A girl named Claire got severe burns because she tried to get her bike but she tripped on a rock in the field and burned her arm.

He kept saying that as a last resort in a fire you should jump out a window because you could break your bones.

At the end he put on a funny cartoon. We really enjoyed the two sessions with Gary.

By Connor and Becky.