STRICHEN SCHOOL BLOG

Primary 3's new friends!

Primary 3 were very excited today when two new people joined their class for the next few weeks! They have been joined by Troy and Miley who have come all the way from Springfield High School in the United States. They have been set the challenge of finding out all about houses and homes in Scotland.

Miley and Troy are going to visit different parts of Strichen and perhaps even go and visit some of the houses of the pupils in the class. When the pupils left school today Miley and Troy were tucked up in their beds in the corner of the classroom.

We look forward to hearing how Miley and Troy get on and we hope there might be a few more blog posts about how they are getting on.

The pupils received a letter from Troy and Miley before they arrived. You can read the letter below.

"Hi Primary 3

Our names are Troy and Miley. We go to Springfield High School and our school has set us a really tricky assignment. All of the boys and girls have to find out about houses and homes from different parts of the world. Guess which country we were asked to research? Scotland! We were so excited when we heard we were going to be sent to Scotland, to stay, or about 7 weeks!
We really want to do well. So far our grades have not been too good so we hope you can help us so that our teacher will be pleased with all the things we find out. We were looking on the web for a school we thought looked fun and saw your school website. Strichen School looks great. We felt sure you would be willing to help us! Oh, your school meals look good too!
We are really looking forward to working with you and seeing and experiencing some fo your famous Scottish sights and traditions. We Americans just love Scotland.

Troy and Miley."

Excitement in playground as tree falls over!

The pupils were very excited at playtime on Thursday 20th August as when they went outside they realised that a tree on the path next to the school had fallen over and had crashed into the school fence and into the playground.

We are delighted that this happened while the pupils were in class and not when they were outside! We have contacted the council and the tree will be removed today for health and safety. We are looking in to getting the other trees checked to make sure they are safe!

Look at the pictures to see the full effect of the damage! The other pictures are in an album which can be found on the left side of the screen called '0910 Fallen Trees'.

Welcome back for session 2009 - 2010!

We hope that everyone had a great summer and that everyone is raring to go with another new session. This session we have tow new members of staff. We have Mrs Owen who will be working with our Primary 5 pupils and Miss McFarlane who will be working with  our Primary 7 pupils.

We are looking forward to getting annother wide range of articles for the school blog site this session and we hope that you will look at it on a regular basis.

Hopefully at least one post will be placed on the blog every week from a different class.

Class 4 Trip to Aden Park

We enjoyed going on our class trip, on Monday 15^th June, to the Buchan Heritage Centre.  There was another class there so we got split into groups.  Boddam School was in one group and our class got split into two groups.   The activities we did included Story Telling and Singing, the Heritage Trail and Dancing.

The story telling was about a Magic Tree, Jamie’s Lost Trainer and Jam Tarts and all the stories, songs and poems were written in Doric.  

In our groups we did some Scottish dancing and at the end we had a Ceilidh and there was some singing.  Henry sang a song from Abba called Dancing Queen and Joanne danced the Highland fling with a girl from Boddam.  

A lady called Mable gave us a tour around the museum and another lady called Jenny showed us the Horse Mans Hoose.

At break we got to go to an old castle near the museum. 

We learned a lot about how the men would have made and sang Bothy Ballads and what life was like for them.  We also learned that everyone used to speak in Doric. 

It was a great day.  We all had fun and learned a lot. 

By Gemma, Shannon and Sarah.

PS Check out the photos: 0809 Class 4 Aden Park
(Look at the photo albums on the left to see them!)

Primary 7's produce final podcast at Strichen!

Primary 7 pupils were set a challenge for Friday afternoon this week. They had 90 minutes to produce some audio recordings we could use to produce a podcast for the blog site. They worked very hard and came up with  some very good ideas. We hope that you enjoy listening to their final podcast as primary 7 pupils.

Download P7 final podcast

Primary 6 - World War II

Primary 6 have been finding out all abuot life during World War II. THey have carried out a wide range of activities and have learnt a lot. This post includes a selection of poems written by the class about the blitz and 'sound pictures' of what they thought it might have  sounded like during an air raid. We hope that you enjoy them.

Download Andrew p blitz     Download Andrew t blitz    Download Brandon blitz   Download Cameron blitz

Download Chloe blitz    Download Evan bltiz   Download Hannah blitz    Download Iain blitz  

Download Jack blitz     Download John blitz    Download Kelsey blitz     Download Kimberley blitz   

Download Milly blitz     Download Stephanie blitz     Download Steven blitz    Download Stuart f blitz

Download Stuart k blitz

Sound Pictures

Download Hannah kelsey milly john        Download Helen, david, chloe and stephanie

Download Michael, Cameron + lauren      Download Stuart F, Evan, Andrew T, Iain

Download Stuart k, jack, andrew p, steven

Class 1 : Our Surprise Visitor to Class!

Class one were delighted this week when they had a visit from a 'hearing dog'. Bobby is specially trained to listen for his owner so they know if someone comes to the door or the telephone rings.

Here are some of the stories they wrote after the visit.

ETHAN
'Our surprise visitor today was Bobby the hearing dog. Bobby listens for jean and helps her to hear. He is very clever.'

LIA
'Today we had a visitor. It was a dog and his name is Bobby. Bobby is a hearing dog and if the fire alarm went off Bobby would wake jean up.'

JACK
Today we saw a hearing dog. His name was Bobby. He helps Jean to answer the phone. He was amazing.'

Look at the photo album '0809 Hearing Dog' on the left of this post for more pictures.

Class 4: Planting in the garden!

Class 4 have produced a powerpoint presentation for their latest blog entry. They were out to the 'Secret Garden' planting radishes. We shall have to see how well they grow before the end of term.

Click on the link to open the presentation.   Download Class 4 Radishes

Primary 7 Trip toLoch Insh

Click on the link below to go to the blog for the P7 trip!

http://strichenschoolblog.typepad.co.uk/p7trip/

Robbie Burns Visits Strichen School

We were very lucky to have a very special visitor to school this week - Robbie Burns! As part of our 'Homecoming' work this year a visit had been arranged by a man who puts on a special show all about the life of Robbie Burns. What makes it different is that he actually dresses up as Robbie Burns and tells the audience all about his life and his work. Primary 7 produced this record of his visit!