STRICHEN SCHOOL BLOG

School Lunches: NEW Menu from April - October 2011

PLease find below a copy of the new school lunch menus that will be used from April 2011 until october 2011.

Download Spring Summer 2011 Menu Leaflet 4

The link below will take you to the section of Aberdeenshire Council's website that provides information about the 'School Meals Service.

School Meals Service Information

Primary 3/4 Create Talking Books!

Download Owl and Big Bad Wolf           Download Prancel and Kettel    

Download 'The Adventure Twins'          Download Christmas Owl

Recently the pupils from Primary 3/4 were set the task of writing some fairy tales for the pupils in Primary 1. Primary 1 were doing a project on Fairy Tales and Mrs Veitch thought this would be a great challenge for her pupils - write some of your own fairy tales for the pupils in P1.

After a lot of hard work the pupils finished their stories and illustrated them and produced laminated copies of their books for the Primary 1. They held sessions with the Primary 1 pupils where they read their stories to them and also presented the stories at a recent assembly.

Now you too can look at the stories and hear them read by the pupils. We hope that you enjoy the first ones that we have finished. There are still some more to be completed and these will uploaded to the blog as soon as they are ready.

Well done to all the pupils in Primary 3/4 for all their hard work in producing such good stories!

Click on the files below to download them so you can listen to them on your computer.

 

 

Chooosing a School - A Guide for Parents

Please click on the link below to take you to the most recent copy of the Scottish Government's publication 'Choosing a School'.

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2010/11/10093528/0

Snow Day Wednesday 8th December

THE CHRISTMAS FAIR IS CANCELLED FOR TONIGHT! NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED!

We are very sorry for the inconvenience caused by the weather again after being backk to 'normal' this week!

Please find below some work for some classes that has been posted by the teachers. We hope that you will try to do some of these activities as it is important to keep working.

Pr 1/2
Download Pr1-2 Snow Daywork

P3/4
Download P3-4 snow -Wednesday 8th December 2010

Pr 5
Download Miss Stephen P5 Wednesday 8th December Instructions
Download Coordinates 1          Download Division Facts (3s, 4s & 6s)     Download Naming 2D Shapes
Download Number bonds to 10, 20 & 30             Download Pictogram-1-favourite-animals
Download Times-tables-loop-2b                         Download Times-tables-tests-3-4-6
Download Times-tables-tests-7-8-9
Download Roald dahl                                         Download Sentences

Pr 6
Download 8.12.10 - intructions                          Download James and the Giant Peach 8.12.10
Download Maths activities 8.12.10                    Download My favourite weather
Download Snow depth challenge                        Download Snow flake Symmetry
Download SNOW SCAVENGER HUNT                   Download The Secret of Platform 13 08.12.10
Download The Twits 08.12.10                           Download The Werewolf and the Ibis 08 12 10
Download Winter Works of Art                          Download Write a Snow Journal
Download Write a weather report

Primary 7
Download Pr 7 Snow Day 8.12.2010

Christmas Fair and School Calendars

PLEASE NOTE:
School Calendars: 2011
Orders for calendars must be into school by Thursday 9^th December at the latest if these are to be ready in time for the end of term.

The SSA Christmas Fair will go ahead as planned on WEDNESDAY 8^th DECEMBER between 4.00 – 5.30pm.  However, if conditions take a turn for the worse it may have to be cancelled at short notice!
The SSA would like to ask for donations of items for the Christmas Fair.
Lucky Dip: Prizes for boys or girls wrapped or in a food bag.
Raffle: We hope to make up some hampers as prizes for the raffle. Any items you feel would be suitable to be included in a hamper should be handed in to the school at any time between now and the fair.
SSA Stall: The SSA will also have a stall and they would be delighted to receive donations of any art or craft items that could be sold on the stall. Items can be handed in to the office from now on until the day of the fair.

We realise that certain activities may prove difficult to put on at short notice and the committee will make decisions about individual things on the day of the fair.

The latest newsletter and calendar order forms are attached below. If you can not get into school please phone to order your calendars.

Download December 2010no 2                    Download Calendar order form2

Extra Sheet fro Primary 7

Miss Crawford asked me to post this in case any of the P7's can't get on to GLOW!

Download Debate Groups[1]

Yet Another Snow Day!

Good morning everyone! Well, here we are AGAIN! This is getting very tiresome and we are desperate to get back to school! Yesterday we went down to 140 hits on the blog site! But hopefully that means that everyone logged on to get some work to do for the day!

As you can see from the photo I have been growing some large icicles in my garden! I keep trying to get them off from the drainpipes without breaking them but it is difficult!

We have a lot of new work for you to do today! You can see the links below for each class. There is also an activity for EVERYONE. You do not need to do it today but you may be able to get started with planning what you are going to do!

Whole School:  Design a Christmas Card - ECO Group
We hope to make this an ECO Christmas in Strichen School! Down load this file to find out all about it!

Download ECO Christmas Card Competition

Class work for Friday!

1. Continue to go over your reading and learn your spelling words that you got out last.

2. COntinue with activities from the previous days that you have not had a chance to do or finish.

Download Mrs Noble Pr 1 Friday                      Download Pr 3-4 Mrs Veitch Friday

Download Primary 5 Miss Stephen Friday         Download P7 Miss Crawford Friday

Primary 6: Download the files you need!

Download Snow Day work P6

Download James and the Giant Peach 2.12.10                 Download The Twits 02.12.10

Download The Werewolf and the Ibis 02 12 10

Download Pentagons circles triangles Later and Earlier

Download Simile and alliteration revision activities                    Download Squares - Later and Earlier

Download The Moon facts               

Hopefully we will see you all soon!

Snow Day Fun!

Well, here we are again! Another day of terrible weather and road conditions! All the teachers are desperate to get back and do not like being off school for so long!

Today was the busiest day we have ever had on the blog site! We had over 320 hits on the site so some of you must have kept checking to see what you had to do!

We hope that you managed to do some of the work there. The teachers have asked that you continue with the activites set and that you go over your reading and spellings also!

You should continue to...

a. Go over your reading and try and read some stories about the weather in the newspaper!

b. Do your spelling - go over the words and test yourself. If you have brothers and sisters there they can help you and you can help them!

c. Try to make a list of some of the things you have done this week in the snow!

d. Our Christmas Fair is next week. You need to keep thinking about what we need to do for that!

e. If you got out your song words for the Christmas Service you could start to learn them off by heart. That woul dbe a huge help! Mrs Gibb says thenursery pupils should have their words also!

Continue with the activites from yesterday. Here are some additional items from some of the teachers to keep you going!

Download Pr 1-2 Mrs Noble Thursday 2nd Dec       Download Pr 2-3 Mrs Johnston Thursday

Download Pr 3-4 Mrs Veitch Thursday 2nd Dec      Download Miss Stephen Pr 5 Thursday 2nd Dec

We do not know what the situation will be for Friday. We will constantly review the conditions and the weather and make a decision on Thursday night or ealry Friday morning. We have an activity lined up for tomorrow if required!

In the meantime work hard and keep your fingers crossed!

Snow Day Work Wednesday 1st December

Please find below links to work for each of the classes in the school. We are very sorry for the issues the weather is causing. It is very frustrating for all of us....especially in the run up to Christmas.

The work is there for all pupils to access and may be spread over a couple of days - as we do not know how things are going to work out regarding the weather. We have heard reports from the police that the conditions are very bad in the Mintlaw area and if it turns very icy then it may cause all sorts of problems.

We really hope to be back to normal as soon as possible - but at the moment we have ensure we do not put people at risk by having to travel in such poor conditions.

Pupils should continue to read their reading books, work on any spellings and use all oportunities to use number in everyday situations. The files below are labelled for each class.....even the nursery!

We hope to see everyone back to school very soon.

PS As a special treat - Primary 7 have two files!!!

Download Nursery snow                              Download Mrs Noble Pr1 Snow work    

Download Mrs Johnston Pr2-3 Snow work     Download Mrs Veitch P3-4 Snow work

Download Miss Stephen Pr5 Snow work       Download Miss Clark Pr 6 Snow Work

Download Miss Crawford P7 No 1                Download Miss Crawford Pr 7 No 2 (Science)

P7 Rugby Trip - Scotland v Samoa

Barring a sudden change in the weather the rugby will go ahead as normal tomorrow. Miss Crawford and Miss Stephen will meet those going outside the Richard Donald Stand at 1.45. Please ensure that the children have plenty of layers to keep them warm. It would be helpfulif they had any snack with them that they think they might need.

After the match you should meet at the same place where you dropped the children off. If yu could be there just after 4pm it would be most helpful so that staff do not have to wait for a long time after the match.

We will place a message on the information line tomorrow to update the situation at 11.00am.

If you will not be able to make the game tomorrow please leave a comment on the blog site so that we can be aware of the situation.