STRICHEN SCHOOL BLOG

Fruity Fridays Take Off!

Today was our first Fruity Friday. Fruity Fridays are being introduced to encourage everyone to make sure they eat plenty of fresh fruit and vegetables. We hope that everyone will eat some fruit or veg for their snack on a Friday at breaktime. Classes will be awarded points for the number of pupils taking part. This is going to be a regular event every week from now on.

Mrs Campbell provided a short demonstration on how to make pineapple rings for pupils in Pr 1-3. She took in her pineapple ring utensil and demonstrated how to turn it into pineapple rings or chunks. The children thought it was a real magic trick! They all got to try a piece of the lovely pineapple.

 

Photoshow

Click on the link below to see a slide show of some photos of art work in the school at present!

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World Book Day 2010

The pupils had a great day on Thursday on World Book Day. Pupils, and staff, came dressed as characters from books and told their classmates who they were and why they liked that book! Some of the pupils from the older classes did paired reading with the younger ones and quite a few pupils added contributions to our World Book Day GLOW Page. P7 pupils wrote strories and posted them on GLOW for others to read! They worked very hard and did well.

Miss Clark's class organised a 'Book Swap'! Pupils took in a book, or two, they were prepared to swap for another book and everyone who took in a book was given a raffle ticket. Everyone with a raffle ticket could swap the ticket for one of the other books taken in. Craig and Gemma organised three separate sessions for the pupils to swap their books. P6 & 7 pupils swapped books as did pupils in P4 & 5 and pupils in P1/2 & 3! Everyone with a ticket went home with one or two new books to read! Thanks to everyone whotook part and were prepared to part with a book they had read so someone else could read it.

The highlight of the day was pupils from P6 & 7 taking part in a live online event at 10.30. To celebrate World Book Day the Scottish Book Trust had organised a special event with Michael Rosen who is a famous childrens author and poet. (http://www.michaelrosen.co.uk/) He spoke live from Glasgow and over 100,000 children viewed his talk! He was very funny and hopefully will inspire the pupils to experiment with their writing. You can see the edited version of this event soon on www.bbc.co.uk/authroslive .

Here are a few pictures of the event!

 

 

 
  

Old Photos!!

We had a member of staff who retired recently and at a presentation for her an ex-member of the canteen staff told me she had some old photos of the schoo. She kindly lent them to us and here are three of them!

The first shows the original primary school. It is no longer there but it looked quite impressive. It would have been great to have seen it in its hey day! The second one shows the present school before the extension was added on when it was re-furbished as the new primary. Parts of the building were obviously flattened to allow the hall, canteen nursery and two new classes to be built! The lat picture shows the original canteen and kichen! It was a hut across beside the entrance to the Secret Garden. These are great photos and we hope you enjoy seeing them.

If anyone has any more please get in touch with us at the school!

SSA Bingo Night

The SSA Bingo Night which was cancelled last week due to the weather will now take place on FRIDAY 12th MARCH in the Royal British Legion Hall at 7.30pm. Due to licensing laws NO UNDER 16's are allowed to come to this event.

Sharing School News and Events

We are delighted that our new large screen TV is now up and running in the main corridor. This will provide us with a far better way of sharing news and what is going on in the school with everyone. Previously we displayed photos on a small screen in the school entry area but this was not really accessible to the pupils and very few parents saw it as they usualy enter by the pupil door. The new TV is situated in the centre of the main corridor and will be seen by everyone every day. We look forward to developing this new feature and hope that people will see it as a valuable addition to the school. It can also be used to show TV programmes and DVD's and so I am sure we will have groups sitting on the steps watching the TV!!

Retirement!

Today (Friday 26th February) is the last day that Mrs pat Ingram will be working in the canteen as she is retiring at the end of the day. Pat has worked in the canteen foir 20 years and has helped to prepare thousands and thousands of school meals for Strichen, New Pitsligo and Kininmonth. We all hope that she will have a great retirement and will b e able to do all the things she has never had time for.

She was presented with a cake, flowers and a cheque from the staff and the SSA and also gifts from her colleagues in the kitchen and the DSO. We would like to thank Pat for her hard work over the years for the children of Strichen.

SSA BINGO NIGHT

Please note that tonight's SSA BINGO NIGHT has been cancelled due tothe weather. We hope that we will be able to get a new date organised for this event very soon.

The snow continues to be a problem and we hope that school will be back to normal on Monday once again.

At this moment we are still not sure what the weather situation will be tomorrow. We hope that we will be open as normal. The SSA Bingo Night takes place tomorrow night and we hope that it will still go ahead. Can we alert people to the fact that under 16's ARE NOT able to attend this event due to the British Legion's Licence.

Help for Haiti

Today we had a dress as you please day to raise money for the children of Haiti. I was reading the First News which is a newspaper that comes to our school, when I came across how your school could raise money for Haiti. I then asked my mum if it would be a good idea to ask my teacher, Miss Clark. She said it would be a great idea! So on Tuesday I went into school and asked Miss Clark. It was a yes! The next day at lunch I wrote a letter for everyone at home. 

 

When the day came most people had come dressed in their own casual clothes and had brought in a donation. We have raised almost £300. That is an amazing amount! Thank you for your support.

 

There are loads more things you can do to help Haiti so if you are thinking of raising some money I definitely recommend it, it’s amazing what you can do!

 

By Gemma Fowlie Primary 6

Pupil Council Rep

 

Find out more at the Unicef website.
http://www.unicef.org.uk/give/index.asp?page=33&google=haiti_jan10&gclid=COek2reD6J8CFYSX2AodXi4hGQ