STRICHEN SCHOOL BLOG

World Book Day 2013

We had a great day on Friday celebrating World Book Day! Everyone came dressed up for the day.....from James Bond to Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz.

It was also International School Meals Day and so to mark this canteens across the authority had an American themed lunch! This proved very popular and the canteen was almost as busy as Christmas lunch!

Pupils had the chance to dress up as a caharacter from a book or film, as an American or in Red, White and Bllue!

Among the activities for World Book Day were:
- Dress up Day
- P6 and P7 pupils did some paired reading with the pupils in the nursery and Pr 1/2. They really enjoyed this and the older pupils were great at reading to the younger ones who really enjoyed it. Pr 6 pupils read to the nursery pupils as they will become their 'Buddies' when  they start in Primary 1 in August!
- Design a bookmark comeptition.
- Book Swap - Pupils took in books and swapped them for books taken in by the other pupils! A nice cheap way  to  get some new readfing materials!
- Design a book cover or book jacket for the 'new' book  'Strichen School Takes Over New York!'

And in the afternoon thew whole school met in the hall for our 'BIG READ'! Everyone, including staff, took a book along and we all spent some time together reading our books! It was a nice relaxing half hour!

Thanks to the members of the Pupil Council who helped organise the events on the day!

The Pupil COuncil will be busy again this week preparing for 'Comic Relief Day' on Friday!!

The photo shows everyone in the school during our 'Big Read'!

Mothers Day

Happy Mothers Day!

ON Friday, despite it being World Book Day and International School Meals Day, some classes were busy preparing for Mothers Day!

Mrs Johnston's class smelt like a flower shop when you entered! But the children were very busy! Look at some of their creations! Very impressive!

Primary 6 Road Safety Issues

Mrs Bruce, our Health specialist, has been working with Primary 6 on Road Safety Issues and how to deal with these.

Take a look at what we have worked on in our class sessions with her.

Download the file to find out what we have learnt!

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Primary 6 'Upsidedown Fairy Tales'!

One of the writing tasks Miss Clark set us earlier this term was to write an Upside Down Fairy Tale.

We had to think of a well know traditional Fairy Tale, then re-write it,  changing it to be written from a different point of view or changing something about the main characters.

Our story had to be entertaining for the reader and our success criteria was:
To change the point of view/main characters
Use interesting words and phrases to describe characters/settings
Use adverbs to make it more interesting
Vary our openers
Organise our story in appropriate paragraphs
Accurately punctuate our work

Once our stories were complete Miss Clark worked with us to edit an re-draft our stories on the computer.

 Read some of our Upside Down stories here by downloading the file below! Enjoy!

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Primary 7 - Happy New Year

Here is our blog item for this month!

Please click on the link below to open it!

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Fun in the snow!

Pupils had great fun out in the snowy playground today at lunchtime.

Here is the profuct of one groups efforts! Well done!

Fun in The Secret Garden

Pupils from the nursery had great fun in The Secret Garden on Wednesday. They spent the session outdoors and played in the snow and had a great snack of warm soup while they were there. They saw the 'Flat Stanley' snowman made by P1/2 and decided to make their own.

Have a look at the photos below of the snowman made by the nursery and the P1/2 pupils.

The nursery pupils having their warm snack!

The nursery started to build their own 'Flat Stanley' snowman!

Primary 1/2's 'Flat Stanley' snowman!

School Handbook

In the lead up to the end of the year schools were required to revise and update their school handbooks in light of new regulations laid out by the Scottish Government. These new handbooks are available online on the Aberdeenshire Council website - although to date our one has not appeared on it as yet. We have requested that the new handbook is included as soon as possible. The link below would take you to the details for Strichen School.

http://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/schools/our_schools/detail.asp?schoolid=bstpc

In the mean time the handbook is available by clicking on the link below.

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Happy New Year from Everyone at Strichen School

                         
We would like to wish everyone a Happy New year from all at Strichen School. We look forward to another excitng new year in school and hope that everyone is back ready to work very hard until Easter.

The photo below was taken at our Christmas service which was held on the last day of the term and was alovely way to finish before the holidays. Thanks to the Rev. Fothergill for allowing us to visit the church for the service.

 

St Andrew's Day Assembly 2012

Strichen School held a special assembly to celebrate St Andrew's Day on Friday 30th November. Pupils from all classes took part and entertained the audience with something that represents Scotland. The assembly started off with a short animated film about how Andrew became Scotland's Patron Saint. You can see this animatino by clicking on the link below.

St Andrew - The Patron Saint of Scotland

After the pupils had watched the video each class took their turn to entertain us.

Primary 1/2 sang a song for us which was excellent!

Primary 3 sang us a song about 'Tattie Soup' which was very amusing and then a group of 8 pupils came out an did a Boston Two Step for us. The dancing was excellent!

Primary 4/5 were next. Amelia entertained us with a poem she had written about vegetables! The a group of girls did a Highland Fling which was ecxcellent! The dancers were Ruth, Alissa, Meira, Amelia and Elisa.

Primary 6 pupils then took their tunr. Anya volunteered to play the violin and gave agreat rendition of Auld Lang Syne. Stephanie and Kimberley then recited a Scots poem.

Primary 7 were the last to take part. A number of pupils also recited a variety of Scots poems. The pupils were Michael, Craig, Nathan, Jack, Cameron, Lucy, Jazmine and Beth. After this Kyla did another Highland Fling for us all to enjoy. The assembly was rounded off by Alex and Daniel who played 'Scotland The Brave' on the guitar and piano.

The children all did very well and we would like to thank them for volunteering to take part in the assembly.

You can see a selection of photos from the event below.

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