STRICHEN SCHOOL BLOG

GET SET FOR RIO CHALLENGE!

As part of the build up to the Olympic Games in Rio in the summer a 'Get Set for Rio' challenge has been set! We are being challenged to get the children to cover the distance from here to Rio between now and the start of the games!

Every physical activity they do could be logged and uploaded to a special online record and this tracks the kilometres we have covered! When we enter the activity, the time it was done for and the number of people who did it it calculates the equivalent distance traveled by the group by doing it. This gets added to our total...and hopefully by the end of session we can have made it to the 10,000Km needed to get from here to Rio!

Classes will all have record sheets they can fill in and these will be uploaded to the website to track our progress.

So....can we meet the challenge and 'Be Set for Rio' this year?

Sharing our WIDER ACHIEVEMENTS and LEARNING out of school!

Our pupils are all SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS....in AND out of school!

 

We are setting out on an activity to gather information about the learning and wider achievements of our pupils that takes place OUT OF SCHOOL!

Our pupils spend only 6 hours everyday in school.....a small part of their day and week. We realise that a huge amount of learning and the development of skills takes place out of school at home, by attending clubs and goups and by activities they are learning about at home.

 

We are sending a letter home with a sheet attached so that you can work with your child to fill it in so that we can start to keep a record of their out of school achievements and learning. You can add any information you feel is relevant for your child....and don't think anything is not worth putting down!

We are looking forward to seeing the wide range of activites and achievements that our pupils have been involved in.

 

 

 

 

Macmillan Coffee Morning

Just a reminder that our 'World's Biggest Coffee Morning' takes place on Thursday morning this week...Thursday 8th October. Please come along if you can make it and help support this great cause....one we have raised a lot of money for over the last few years!

World Smile Day 2015

Do An Act of Kindness - Make One Person Smile!

We celebrated 'World Smile Day' on Friday and everyone had good fun.
A number of activities took place:
1. A Smile Day assembly when each class 'entertained' the other classes with something to make them smile.
2. Pupils wore a touch of yellow to mark the link with the 'Smiley'!
3. The children completed 'Smile Vouchers' to take home for someone...promising to do an act of kindness for someone. 
4. We had a 'Hunt the Smiley' at playtime in the playground where 30 smiley faces were hidden round the playground. House points will be allocated to all those who found them!

World Smile Day was set up in honour of Harvey Ball who was the creator of the Smiley in the 1960's. The message is simple: Do an act of kindness ...make one person smile.

Our aim is to get the children to think about that everyday - not just once a year! If we all do our bit then we can all help to make the world a happier place.

Breakfast Club

The breakfast Club has been very successful over the last few weeks with around 20-22 children coming along and having their breakfast in school before the school day starts. We are delighted with the numbers that have been coming and the children seem to enjoy the opportunity to meet and chat before the start of the day.

The breakfast club meets on a Tuesday morning from 8.30 - 9.00am and breakfast costs 50p!

We hope to be able to continue this next term in the run up to Christmas.

 

School Trophies 2014-2015

Last session we had a number of trophies presented to pupils and to Houses after a range of activities over the last term.

The trophies have just been returned from the engravers after the children had the trophies over the summer. The House trophies remain in the school while the trophies presented to individuals will keep them until they are presented to the next winners.

Trophies (Left to right...back row first)

Bert Fowlie Memorial Trophy                          2015  Ruby Morgan

House Championship Shield                             2015  YOUNG

Buchan Area Sports Shield                               2015  Strichen School

House Sports Trophy                                       2015  COUTTS

P7 Sports Champion - Boys                              2015  Callum Taylor

P7 Sports Champion - Girls                             2015  Stephanie Downie

Secret Garden Helpers

We would like to thank the volunteers who came along on Friday morning to help work in the Secret Garden to 'tidy it up'! We had a very productive morning and over 2-3 hours we created a LARGE pile of branches, cuttings and items that were taking over some of the garden. We are waiting for this to be taken away by staff from the grounds department!

The volunteers, Mrs Laird, Mrs Morgan and Mr & Mrs McAdam worked very hard to help clear the beds round the outer part of the garden. We still have more to do and they have kindly said they would come back this week to help once more.

Our plan is to try and get the garden back into a 'tidy state' and after the holidays we would like to set up a Garden Club where we have a group of volunteers, who are keen gardeners, who would come in every couple of weeks and work with some of the pupils to keep the garden neat and tidy.

The nursery pupils came along to thank the volunteers for their hard work - as one of the problems we had was the amount of nettles and wild roses growing in the garden. 

While working in one area Mrs Morgan found a very young Wren chick in a hole in the wall. The nursery pupils were very interested to see this and it was safely put back afterwards and will hopefully continue to grow and thrive.

 

Mr & Mrs McAdam, Mrs Morgan and Mrs laird.

 

The baby wren found in the garden in a hole in the wall!

Buchan Sports Champs AGAIN!

 

STRICHEN SCHOOL won the Buchan Sports Area Athletics event on Tuesday 10^th  June, 2015 at Longside School and retained the shield for another year!

We have now won the event for the last two years running!

We had a great team of pupils from Primary 4, 5, 6 and 7 taking part and they performed excellently and supported their team mates very well through the event.

This is a great achievement to win the event two years running! Thanks to all the staff and parents who attended to provide help and support for the team!

Thanks should go to members of the Active Sports team and our PE staff who organised and run the event and to all the staff from the cluster schools who helped on the night!

GO TEAM STRICHEN!

Easy Fundraising!

Many thanks to those who have signed up to www.easyfundraising.org.uk ! We received our first cheque today for the total of £38.70. This is a great bonus...and all it takes is a few clicks before you buy online!

If you have not signed up why not do it today and help us raise more funds for the school!

Thanks

http://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/strichenprimaryschool/?t=Easyfundraising-lo&v=a

 

Time Capsule Burial

Today was an exciting day for Strichen School. It was the day we buried our Time Capsule which will remain buried for the next 50 years until 2065! What a thought!

The pupils and staff have been working on this since January and have collected and made a wide range of items to bury for the pupils of the future to open up and look at in 50 years time.

The press were there and we hope that some of the photos will make it into the press to mark the event. It was with a mixture of sadness and excitement that we buried the items - as it was very strange thinking that these things will lie there not to be opened for another two or three generations.

The classes were excited. Photos were taken of the items before they were finally placed in the capsule and then another group of pupils helped to actually place the capsul in the hole that had been prepared.

Amongst the items buried were:

Nursery: A poster showing some of the Nursery activities
            A poster listing what each child would like to be when they are older...including one who wants
            to be a Ninja Warrior!
            A sample of some 'Well Done' pages from the nursery pupils
            A 2015 calendar showing Mrs Dunbar and Mrs Hendry as 'Bananas in Pyjamas!'
            A 'Frozen' DVD.....lets hope they can play it then!

Primary 1/2
            A Tesco Shopping Receipt showing prices of goods from today
            A booklet about Primary 1/2 and the school
            A booklet - 'It's Cool About Us! Let Us Take a Selfie!'

Primary 2/3
           Some of the Katie Morag work that they did last term
           Examples of Scottish phrases learnt in class
           Individual pupil sheets - Life in 50 years time!
Primary 4/5
           Examples of some food packaging from today
           A pupil's guide to 'Minecraft'
          A pupil's guide to 'Loom Bands' and examples of Loom Band creations
          Current Expressions poster  e.g L.O.L.      OMG     etc
           Individual pupil sheets - life in 50 years time!
Primary 5/6
           A pencil case with items needed for school today
           A book by our favourite author
           An information booklet on Strichen, classroom technology and transport
           A newspaper from last week - First Class
Primary 6/7
          Selfie Poems
          A class photo when P6/7 were in P1/2
          A pendrive with video interviews by each pupil in the class
          Cost of living information in 2015

Among other items included were:
         - A pen drive with photos and information included in the capsule
         - A school sweatshirt
         - A School Newsletter
         - Strichen School Newsbook 2014
         - School Merit System Certificates
         - A canteen menu and dinner tickets
         - A class photo signed by the pupils
         - Uk coins laminated and sealed for the future!
         - A TV Guide
         - Newspapers from the birth of Princess Charlotte
         - Strichen Star Newspaper (Pupil Newspaper)
         - An A.F.C. photo from this season!

We truly hope that some of the pupils will be able to gather in 50 years time to see the capsule be dug up. Apparently the only way into it is by using a hammer to break the seal as it is designed to be air tight and water proof. Let's hope it survives.

The oldest pupil at school now, Teigan Allan, will be 62 when it is opened and the youngest in the nursery will be 53! Seven more complete groups of pupils will pass through the school before the capsule is dug up! 

One thing is for sure....some of the staff will probably not be there to see it opened!

Video of Mr Jenkins burying the capsule!
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This has been a very exciting project and we hope that in 50 years time the information about the Time Capsule will be found in the office and a ceremony takes place to dig it up again!