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Book Review - Matilda

Book Title – Matilda                          Author- J. Mark

Characters- Matilda, Matilda’s Dad, Matilda’s Mum and Miss Honey.

Plot-

Well Matilda loves to read but she only had one book in her house and it was the cook book and she reads it every day! She asked her dad if he could take her to the shops to buy a new one but he said NO! You’ve got a TV, why would someone want a boring book anyway? I WOULD said Matilda. Her mum and dad didn’t like her so they went out to bingo every night and her brother went out to play and Matilda was left alone!

My opinion of the book:

I thought it was good because it was funny but it was also sad. My favourite bit in the book was when they were in the kitchen and her brother was calling her names like ‘Pie face’ or something like that so she threw a piece of chocolate at him and it hit him in the face!

Class 5

Fire Safety Visit for P5 & 6

Pupils in P5 & P6 had a visit by one of Grampian's Fire Safety Officers on Thursday 25th January. This is part of a planned programme for pupils in P5 & 6 across the authority and plays an important part in our Health Educatino Programme. Two pupils from Class 6 wrote this report.

Fire Safety Visit by Officer Gary Collins

On Thursday we had a talk on fire safety. The man’s name was Gary. e used to be a working fireman but now he is an extremely skilled instructor who does lots of talks to schools in the Aberdeenshire area.

He took in some smoke alarms and he told us to test our smoke alarms at home because some smoke alarms last 10 years and some a year. He said that we had to  clean it when we changed the battery.

He showed us a video of people who acted in a play and they set their house on fire. He told us to make an escape plan of our house and go through the procedures that it says on the instructions. There was other stuff like arranging a meeting place and he said you don’t leave each other and if you have a phone in that room cover the door then shout out the window “fire, fire.”

Then in a cartoon the man smelt a fire and the man was going to go down the stairs and the woman took him by the jumper and said “No! No get in a bedroom and cover the doors with blankets and other soft stuff. The man jumped out and got hurt and the woman passed the children down and the mum squashed him when she jumped.

Gary said that we had to do home work and we all said “Oh no!” But it was good home work - we have to test the fire alarms and make a plan of our houses and mark an escape route.

Written by Jake and Natasha

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Class 5's Podcast

Hi there.

We produced a podcast before Christmas - our first ever! If you would like to hear it why not visit our school website. The page address is:  http://www.strichen.aberdeenshire.sch.uk/page31.html

We hope that you enjoy it. We would like to thank the listener who sent the following comment to our blog:

Hi there, just a little note to say well done to the girls, boys and adults that were in the podcast, it was very well done and very interesting. Keep up the good work.

BAsketball Taster Session

On the 18^th of January we had a basketball specialist called Grant who came to teach us about basketball. He taught us how to do chest passes, dribble and control the ball. We all had great fun. There is a session at Mintlaw on Wednesday the 24^th January at 6.30pm – 7.30pm that we can go to if we want to.

Class 5 and 6 both got a forty five minute taster session  to   let them see how much fun basketball could be. The sessions was organised by our Active Sports Co-ordinator, Martyn Warren.

Our Owl Pictures

Click on the photo to see a larger version. More pictures and stories are available on the school website.

http://www.strichen.aberdeenshire.sch.uk/page27.html

Four weeks ago 23 artists had to make an owl picture.  They were great!  They were painting a sunset on black paper.  The paint colours were blue, red, yellow and white.  It made a sunset.  After that they had to cut out a bit of tree trunk and some branches on black paper.  Next they made it look like the sun was shining on it with oil pastels.  Then they drew an owl and coloured it in.

Helen

First of all we painted a sunset on our paper and the colours were red, blue, yellow, white, green and brown.  Next we made trees with black paper and we drew it out with white crayon.  Then we cut them out and then we made owls.  My owl was the fattest out of the whole class and P4 did a tawny owl and P3 did a barn owl.  Then we stuck it on the paper and coloured it in white, orange, brown and the beak was dark black.  Then I made leaves and stuck them onto the tree.  Then Mrs. Veitch stuck them on the corridor.

Stuart

First of all we painted the sky in blue, red, yellow and a little bit of white.  Then we did the land in dark paint.  Then we drew a bit of a tree and put on green and yellow oil pastels for a little bit of light.  We cut the tree out and stuck the tree on our pictures.  Next week we drew the owl.  The P4 drew the tawny owl and P3 drew the barn owl.  The owl was facing the ground but its head was turned round.  Next week Mr. Harris took some leaves in and we got a bit paper and we put the leaf under the bit of paper.  We rubbed the oil pastel on the paper and the leaf came out.  We stuck them on and last of all we put them up in the corridor.

Jessica

Christmas Fair

We are holding our annual Christmas fair in the school on Thursday 7th December between 4.00 - 5.30pm. Why not come along to get some bargains from the different stalls at the fair. Each class has been producing goods to sell at the Fair and parents from the SSA will also be selling a range of hand made goods.

Come along and enjoy the festive atmosphere and have a cup of tea and a mince pie after you have done all your shopping! We look forward to seeing you on Thursday.

Our visit to the ALEC caravan.

This week the ALEC Caravan is at school. ALEC stands for ‘Aberdeenshire Life Education Caravan. The caravan visits schools all across the Aberdeenshire and they provide lessons for pupils of all age groups about living a healthy life.

On Monday we went to the ALEC caravan. The lady giving us the lesson was called Sheila. Class 5 found out all about our bodies and we spoke about how alcohol and drugs could harm you. We played a game about how to sometimes say ‘No!’

We all met Harold the giraffe and he told us some jokes.

Here is one: Why is Cinderella no good at football? Because her coach is a pumpkin! We hope you enjoyed our post about the Alec caravan! Bye for now.

Leigha and Molly

Our New Teacher

This post is by Jake and Jacob and we’re going to tell you about our new teacher. His name is Mr. Jenkins and he is also the new Head Teacher of Strichen School. We asked him some questions!

He enjoys playing indoor football with his friends in Turriff. This year he won the golden boot for footballer of the year at his club! He also enjoys watching films and his favourites are The Lord of the Rings 1,2 and 3. His favourite sweet is chocolate and his favourite colour is red! His favourite take-away food is fish and chips.

He lives in Turriff and he used to be the Deputy Head Teacher there. His favourite thing is coming to work and he likes using computers.

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