STRICHEN SCHOOL BLOG

Adventure Trail Fun!

We are delighted that our two new 'Adventure Trails' have been installed and are now being used by the children. The work took around 5 days to complete and the two men installing it had to work very hard - especially getting all the holes dug where the posts would be concreted in place.

The adventure trails were funded by a Lottery grant and some funding from Aberdeenshire Council. We are delighted that we have new equipment for the pupils to use at playtime and lunchtime. Initially access to the trails will be timetabled for each class to make sure that everyone gets a good chance to use it and try it out.

We hope that this new additon to the playground will be popular with the children. Certainly the feedback we have had so far has been very positive.

Primary 6/7 Calendars for 2012

P6/7 used recycled Christmas cards to make their 2012 calendar.

We drew 5cm circles with a compass then we used a pentagon template to trace in the circle.
Next we used the compass to trace the lines of the pentagon to point the flaps up.
Then we made 6 of them, glued on the calendar tabs.
We repeated it and glued them together too and we made a calendar.

Dodecahedron is the name of the 3D shape we made.  It has 12 sides.

By Kelsie, Daniel A, Angus and Jordan

Merry Christmas from Strichen School

In an attempt to be as 'Green' as possible the pupils have been trying to reduce the number of Christmas cards sent at school. They were set the challenge of making a Christmas card for the pupils in their class. All the entries were judged today and the following pupils won for each class.

Pr 1/2 Callum Gordon
Pr 2/3 Alissa Brown
Pr 4/5 Lia Wallace
Pr 5/6 Camerson Strachan
Pr 6/7 Katie McMullan

Mrs Bellfield selected the winners and she had a really TOUGH job - she found it incredibly difficult to choose the winners as the standard was so high. But , well done to the winners!

Merry Christmas

 

           

          
        

Amazing Alliteration Poem by Primary 5/6

We have been learning about alliteration. We each chose a letter and used what we have learned so far to make a class alliteration alphabet poem!

Download Class 5 alliteration poem

SSA Christmas Fair

Just a reminder that we have our annual Christmas Fair this week on Thursday night from 4.00 - 5.30pm. We hope that you will be able to come along and join in the fun. tdea, coffee and mince pies will be available and you can also snap up some last minute Christmas presents from the stalls from the classes and the SSA.

It's Panto Season.....Oh no it's not......Oh YES it is!!!

 

Strichen School were delighted to welcome back The West Midlands Children's Theatre Company who put on a performance of ALADDIN for all the pupils and staff.

The performance was excellent and below you can read a selection of comments made by the classes aftere the show. To see more photos of the performance click on the link at the bottom of the report.

Comments from the Classes:

'Super funny!'            'Entertaining'         'Hilarious!'         'We want to see another!'

'It was awesome!'      'We hope that we get another visit next year!'

'Well acted!'          'The best bit was when one of them banged into the door!'

'The best performance we have seen yet at school!'   

It was....entertaining, fun and child friendly.

'Silly antics from start to finish!'          'The volunteers were excellent!'

Pr 1/2 - Funniest moments:
Jack, Olivia and Sophia thought it was when Aladdin's Mum said 'Mr Banana' to the bad guy!
Lewis thought it was when Aladdin threw water over the baddie and the water splashed me and Jack!
Emilie thought it was when Aladdin's mum made Glen do the dance. He looked so silly!
Lydia liked it when the chef fell asleep and Aladdin escaped!
Zoe liked when one of them called her 'silly'!
Matthew thought it was funny when they asked him his age. He said 6 but the man thought he said 66!

Download Aladdin

Primary 1/2 - Hedgehogs and Owls!

Primary 1/2 have been very busy! They have been finding ut about lots in the secret garden over the last few weeks. Below you will see two slide shows of photos you can look at from their class.

The first, Owls, is a slideshow of their art work. You can marvel at their amazing pictures of owls that they made recently. They really are excellent.

The second, Hedgehogs, is a record of the class finding out about hibernation. They then created their own hedgehogs, Harry and Henrietta, and turned a box into a home of leaves and twigs where they have left the hedgehogs to hibernate until spring! We hope they have a peaceful winter!

Download Owls         Download Hedgehogs

Primary 5/6 Make Tribal Masks

As part of Primary 5/6's project about 'Deserts and Jungles' they made tribalmasks out of clay and painted them. Click on the link below to download their review of the activity!

Download Tribal masks P 56 BLOG Oct 2011 v2

Book Fair Success

Last week we held our annual Book Fair in school. Pupils got the opportunity to view the books on Wednesday and then the fair was open for pupils and parents to buy books on the Thursday.

Not only did we have the book fair...we had the launch of Strichen School's 'We are writers' book that was produced last term. Every pupil in the school wrote a piece to be included in the book and a sample copy of the book was on display at the book fair for everyone to look at. We have had a number of orders so far and you canorder your copy on the special order form on Monday and Tuesday of this week.

The sales of this book, along with the sales at the book fair will determine how much commission we will make for purchasing books for the school. By Friday afternoon we had taken in sales of around £1200 from the sales of the book and other books in the fair. With this amount we should be eligible for around £700 worth of commission to spend on books for the school. We will take books from the book fair boxes and also from the catalogue of available resources that will help us refresh books in the library and also order some new reading materials for classes to use with reading groups.

We would like to thank everyone for their great suport of the book fair. We hope that they wil enjoy receiving copies of the 'We are Writers' book and that it will be a keep sake tolookback on in the years to come.

 If you would like to order a 'We are Writers' book please contact the school as soon as possible.

 

 

 

End of Term Entertainment

The last day of term was a busy day as we had planned some entertainment for the afternoon. The last week of term was designated as 'Older People's Week' and so to mark this event we decided tohold an afternoon of entertanment for the 'older people' of the village.

We organised tea, coffee and biscuits and then each class came through and sang for our visitors. It was a great afternoon and our visitors seemed to enjoy their visit. The children all sang well and there was a range of songs from the old traditinoal favourites to more modern hits.

We hope to hold a similar event again before Christmas.

Download End of term singing