STRICHEN SCHOOL BLOG

Class 6 Organise Mini Olympics

Class 6 helped to organise and run a very successful Mini Olympics very recently. The pupils, along with help from Mrs Mitchell, class teacher, and Miss Brown, Active Sports Co-ordinator, organised a whole day of sporting fun for the pupils at school. The whole event was a great success and we must thank them for all their hard work. This repoort was written by pupils in the class.

The Strichen Squeak
On Friday the 19^th of September Strichen Primary School held a Mini Olympics. It started at 9:30am and ended at 3:15 pm and about 150 people took part. They thought of this because the P.7s have been doing a project on the Olympics and they had made their own torches. The school was split into six teams which were Jamaica, Spain, Australia, USA, Chinaand Greece which are countries who all take part in the Olympics. Each team had to do an event at a time then move round. The events were Javelin, Foot ball Shootout, Netball, Speed Bounce, Standing Long Jump, Bean Bag Throw Relay Races and for fun and Obstacle Course. The day was split into three parts morning to playtime for Nursery and Class 1; playtime to lunchtime for Classes 2 and 3 and lunchtime to home time for Classes 4, 5 and 6.

The day was a huge success. Everyone really enjoyed their day and was very tired after their hard work.

On Wednesday the 24^th of September was the Medal and Certificate Presentation Ceremony. All the pupils were excited because they were going to find out the outcome of the Mini Olympics.

The winners were Greece, 2^nd came Australia,  3^rd was China Spain came in 4^th and USA and Jamaica came in 5^th and 6^th but everyone worked really well together.

Reporters: Molly, Leigha and Jillian

Class 1: A Singing Blog Entry!

See pupils in Class 1 singing for your enjoyment. They sing about an old favourite from my childhood.... Puff the Magic Dragon! We hhope you enjoy their singing.

Click on the link below to see the video!

Class 1 Sing!

Class 3 Hold Very Successful Coffee Morning!

‘World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ in aid of Macmillan Cancer Charity

 

Class 3 have been very busy over the last week making plans to hold a coffee morning for parents, relatives and friends to help raise funds for the Macmillan Cancer Support charity. ‘The World’s Biggest Coffee Morning’ took place on Friday 26^th September and Class 3 joined in with the thousands of other coffee mornings arranged for that day.

 

They, along with their teacher Mrs Veitch, decided that this would be a great way of helping raise funds for a worthwhile cause while at the same time having some fun and learning some useful enterprising skills. They made all the arrangements for the coffee morning from going to the local shop to buy all the things they would need, designing and printing tickets and organising a wide range of activities for the visitors to do when they were in school having their coffee.

 

The children worked hard all morning and were amazed when over 60 people turned up for their coffee. The visitors had time to chat, look at the children’s work  on the walls, see photos of the children at work, visit the school eco garden and even play on the Nintendo Wii!! The visitors also had the opportunity to buy a word search produced by one of the pupils, play ‘Play your cards right’ and guess how many coffee beans were in a jar!

 

A great time was had by all and the pupils could not believe it when they counted up the money afterwards and discovered they had made £400.

 

Class 3 deserve a lot of credit for running such a well organised event and for raising so much money. We would like to thank all the visitors who were able to come along and help make this such a great event.

 

This following report was written by some of the pupils after the coffee morning.

 

‘On Friday 26^th September Class 3 had a ‘Macmillan Cancer Support Coffee Morning’ in our class. Our families were invited and many came along to join us. We had some games for them to try. These were ‘Pick a Square’, ‘Guess the number of coffee beans in the jar’ and ‘Play your cards right’.  We also got to play on the Nintendo Wii and it was great. The parents all had fun as well. Rhia, Steven and Callum were in charge of guessing the number of beans in the jar. Craig and Beth were in charge of ‘Pick a Square’. Daniel, Glen, Michael and Ryan ran the ‘Play your cards right’. Lucy sold copies of the word search she made at home. The guides were Kelsie, Angus, Jack and Alexa. We all helped to count the money and the coffee beans once everyone went. We were amazed to find out that we made £400. ‘

Welcome to Class 3's Blog

Welcome to Class 3’s Blog.

This term we are working with Ollie the Octopus to learn about “Enterprise”.

Our 1^st challenge has been Creativity and this has been encouraging us to work well in a group.

We had to produce the front page of a newspaper using stories and pictures of our holidays.  In Music we created musical phrases. Please look at the photos we took of this.

We are collecting little cardboard boxes for an Art activity next week – creating a desk tidy. Please send your boxes in soon!

Our 2^nd challenge is Responsibility. We are going to try and be more responsible for ourselves as well as others.

The Magic Garden has grown a lot over the summer months. We are responsible for it so we have had a few sessions of weeding to try and tidy it up!  Look at our photos to see everyone working together.

Hope you have enjoyed our Blog!

Best wishes from all the boys and girls.

Class 5: 'What if....?'

Class 5 are the first class to update the blog site for this session.
Miss CLark set them the challenge of writing some poems using the title of ...'What if...?'

Have you ever found yourself thinking....'What if...?' The children set about the task using their imagination to see what ideas they could come up with. They have recorded their poems and you can listen to a few of them here if you wish below.

Class 4 are going to add something to the blog site next. They are thinking about having a video entry so check back soon to see.

Download andrew_p.mp3         Download andrew_t.mp3         Download brandon_gray.mp3

Download david.mp3               Download Evan.mp3               Download Helen.mp3

Download stephanie.mp3        Download steven.mp3             Download stuart_k.mp3

           

 

      

End of the Session!

The summer holidays have just begun but already we are planning for next session. Our aim for next session is to have the blog updated on a regular basis to keep it fresh and interesting. Each week we hope that one class will have something to upload to the site to share a little of what they have been doing over the last few weeks. It may be a report, some photos or samples of the children's work. But please keep checking regularly when we come back in August for our regular updates about what is going on at Stricen School.

Pr 7 Edinburgh Trip - 2008

Hello and welcome to the blog for this year's Primary 7 trip. Strichen School have once again joined up with Longside School for our annual trip - and this year we are off to Edinburgh!On Tuesday morning 49 pupils and 5 members of staff will all board our bus ready to start our adventure away. If you want to know how the trip is going then keep up to date by checking out the blog with our daily updates.

We hope that you will enjoy reading about what we have been doing and what the pupils think of what they have been doing. Click on the link to take you to the P7 trip blog page.

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

Class 2 - What we like at school

Class 2 have been thinking about some of the things they like to do at school. Here is a selection of some of their thoughts.

Daniel: I love music, it is my favourite thing in school. I love the piano. I really love the sound.

Finlay: We did symmetry on the computer by drawing pictures.

Layla: I like Circle Time because we get into a circle and we use a pink Teddy.

Kyla: I like Golden Time as I get to play with anything I want to.

Corey: I like doing number up to 20.

Steven: I like doing my envelope words and doing my work.

Nicola: We made houses in art with card and we rubbed crayons on it. It was magic.

Alexa: I like Circle Time.

Beth: I like drama because Mrs Johnston was Daddy Bear and we were Goldilocks.

Aaron: When we go to PE we get Mr Fyfe. It is good fun on the bars.

Fraser: I liked ‘Magic Grandads Big Book of History’ on the board.

Lucy: I like everything in art.

Craig: I like the library because I get to get books.

Michael: I love the book ‘Harriet’s Hair’ the book Mrs Johnston is reading in class.

Callum: I like playing with cars when I finish my work.

Scott: I like using the computers because you can do lots of things.

Nathan: I like PE when we get Mr Fyfe.

New Photo Albums

Please note that some new photo albums have been uploaded. Some of the photos taken by Class 6 on their walk round Victorian Strichen and Class 3's visit to the Loch of Strathbeg are newly uploaded. You can also look at how class 4 got on making their 'Balloon Buggies' as part of the Buchan Science Festival week. Liz Robertson visited the school for the day and worked with three classes and they all had great fun.

Class 3 Visit to the Loch of Strathbeg

Last week Class 3 went to the Loch of Strathbeg to find out all about mini-beasts. This is a report by some of the pupils about their day.

First we went to the guest room and dropped off our bags. Then we went to the garden and looked under logs for minibeasts and found  lots of  them. Nichola then took us pond dipping with big big nets. Nichola gave us a pair of binoculars and said to go in the bus. Nichola took us to the hide to look for lots of birds. After all the activities were finished we went back to the bus and we went back to school. We had great fun and learned a lot.

By Ryan, Rhyss and Glen