STRICHEN SCHOOL BLOG

Children in Need 2014

We had a great day today celebrating Children In Need day! The school raisded £135 to put towards the total for the whole country! Thanks to everyone for your support.

Everyone came dressed up for the occasion - and many went with the Super Hero theme! Everyone had their photos taken for their 2015 calendar. This year we took individual and family photos so that you will have more of a choice for your calendars! Order forms will go out next week.

The Pupil Council members planned, organised and ran 'fun activities' for the classes in the hall. Well done to them for their hard work and organisation.

In the afternoon we had an assembly with a Children In Need theme and they were shown a video of the original 'Do they know its Christmas' video as a new version is being recorded this weekend! We then finished off with a disco - which was a real noisy event!

So....the photos will be up on display next week for you to see and help you decide which ones you want to order for calendars!

But to finish....here are some of the staff.....Supergirl, The Teletubbies and Bananas in Pyjamas!

I dont think we need to say anything more!

Pr 4/5 Buchan Science Festival Workshop

The children were given the task to write a report for the school Blog.
Here is Anona’s report .

 The Science Festival

On Wednesday 29^th of October Liz from the Science festival took us upstairs and told us we were making band rollers.

        She introduced herself.  After that she showed us wind-up toys.  There was a penguin and a caterpillar.  She also told us the instructions.

        We found groups and got to a table.  I had Ellie and Emilie in my group.  We also had cards on the tables.  One had lengths of sticks and the other had shapes of wheels.  My group had the lengths of sticks and I had the small ones.  The instructions were: you get the wheels and a ruler.  Draw one line across the wheels and one up and down.  Next you draw your own design.  After that we drew little lines on the big lines. Then you got eight drawing pins and put four on the little lines and four on the other.  Get four little bits of wood and stick them on each drawing pin.  Next get an elastic band and slip it through the little hole in the wheel.  But don’t put it all in because you’re going to put half a match stick in the loop now.  After you’ve done that you keep pulling it through.  When you have pulled it all you find a washer and a bead.  When you’ve got that you put the washer on the elastic band.  After that you put on a bead and get a lollipop stick and put it through the loop.

        After we did that we went to the hall to have a race.  First we had a group race.  Next we had a class race!  Matthew was first, Glen was second and Alina was third.  It was the best thing I’d ever made!  It was a great day!

 

School Meals Online Payment Survey

Online Payment for School Meals – Parent Survey

For some time now parents of academy pupils have been able to add monies onto pupils’ cashless catering accounts online through the Council’s website. As part of the Council’s iCE (Improving the Customer Experience) Project, school catering have been working with the project team to improve the customer experience by introducing online payment for primary school meals along with an improved meal ordering system for pupils. Parents would then be able to pay for pupils’ meals on line by debit or credit card in addition to payment by cash or cheque to the school. A standardised ordering system across all primary schools would also greatly help to ensure that every pupil received their chosen option of lunchtime meal and would help to reduce unnecessary wastage of food.

As part of this ongoing project we would like to get feedback from parents of primary pupils with regard to the functionality they would like to see incorporated into an online payment system.

To gain this feedback from parents we would like them to complete a short survey which is available online at:

 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/aberdeenshire_school_payments

 

Survey open from Mon 3^rd – Mon 24^th Nov.

New Pitsligo Visual Arts Show

We had a large entry of exhibits to this year's New Pitsligo Visual Arts Show. A number of our pupils won prizes for their work! The work is on display in the main corridor of the school and the other entires that were put in are on display in the GP Room.

Well done to all our winners!

Prize Winners: 
Stephanie Downie, Brenna Collie, Anya Fisher, Tammy Ferrier, Amber Weatherhead and  Lauras Fowlie.

Highly Commended:
Rhya Weaver, Lewis Strachan amd Megan M



 


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World Smile Day Fun!

We had a great day on Friday celebrating World Smile Day!

I think we achieved our aim.....Do an act of kindness and make ONE person smile!

Each class took part at assembly and entertained us! Pr 1/2 sang for us! Pr 2/3 also sang for us and told great jokes! Pr 4/5 sang a song they learnt on the day and Pr 5/6 sang....accompanied by Miss Cruden on her guitar! Pr 6/7......got dressed up very wackily and danced to Ant 7 Dec's 'Let's Get Ready To Rumble!'

All in all it was great fun....and we also looked at the 80 SELFIES that were sent in specially to mark the day! Thanks to everyone who helped with the selfies!

 

Pr 2/3 Outdoor Learning

Pr 2/3 have been making use of the good weather to work outside in the playground on some of their numeracy tasks.

A number of activities were set up and the children worked in groups to carry out the tasks.
Some of the tasks they were set to do had them…..

-       Building a wall and finding out if the wall would be even or odd?

-       Placing numbers on an odd and even line – making sure they add the numbers to the correct line.

-       Matching the number and number word and making that number using a ‘Tens Frame’.

-       Shape Sort – according to whether it had odd or even numbers of edges.

 They have also been making clay pots and have been painting them.

 The class has had a visit to the local library already this term.

 During Golden Time they made models with the construction materials.

 The class have been working hard and they really enjoyed working round the different stations outside.

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Primary 1/2 - Busy, Busy, Busy!

We have had a busy first term in p1/2! 

The boys and girls in p1 have been enjoying active literacy activities and learning the letter sounds and common words.  They have also been learning about numbers through the fun number zoo stories.

The children in p2 have been working hard on their literacy and numeracy activities too! They have been enjoying their new reading books!  The boys and girls in p2 have been very kind to the p1 children, helping them to become familiar with the class routines.

Each Friday we enjoy going to assembly with the whole school.  On Friday 26th September, we enjoyed Jamesie's assembly! Here we are enthusiastically taking part in a song he taught us! We sat very smartly and listened to the story Jamesie told us about being grateful! 

Friday 3rd october: World Smile Day

Friday 3rd October is WORLD SMILE DAY. We celebrate this every year as their aim is simple.....Do an act of kindness- Help one person smile!

We all know that a smile makes the day brighter and we know that the world could do with more smiles! This years marks the 50th year since Harvey Ball created the 'Smiley' which is recognised and used all round the world!

This year...our challenge to the staff and pupils is to submit a SELFIE of themselves smiling! We have had quite a few in already and look forward to getting more! Email them in and they will be displayed on our large TV on World Smile Day!

But...in the meantime......DO AN ACT OF KINDNESS and HELP ONE PERSON SMILE!

 

Great Success: Macmillan Coffee Morning

 

 

We are delighted to announce once again that the pupils and families of Strichen School have excelled themselves when it comes to supporting charities! On Friday 26th September we held our SEVENTH Macmillan 'World's Biggest Coffee Morning'  and to date we have raised £1186.

The event was organised by the staff and pupils of Pr 4/5, Pr 5/6 and Pr 6/7. They worked together to plan out the morning event and devised a range of activites and tasks for the visitors to work on as well as running a raffle, baking for the coffee mornig and running all the different activities.

This even has grown over the years and is now firmly established on the schol calendar. The staff and pupils can be very proud of their achievements and we are sure they can be assured that the money they raised will be put to very good use by The Macmillan Cancer Support Charity to further their work.

We also need to thank the volunteers who came in to help on the mornng - parents and other people from the community assisted the children and were erqually responsible for ensuring the success of the event.

And finally we need to thank everyone who came along and supported the event. We had well over 100 people attend the event and they enjoyed going round the activities and stalls and enjoyed a cuppa with a very extensive array of home bakes and cakes! Without their generous donations we would not have been able to make such a great amount!

Well done to everyone!

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Referendum Excitement

Today was Referendum Day and Strichen School, was very busy.

Pupils from Primary 6/7 had researched, planned and organised our own Referendum Election. They had drawn up a list of all the voters, had made ballot papers for both the younger and older pupils and had set up an excelent polling station in the GP Room.

At a special assembly they explained to all the pupils how an election is organised and then over the morning took each class in turn for them to experience voting in secret at the polling booths!

They did an excellent job and the end result was a very narrow victory for the YES vote.

in the morning before school the pupils took a great deal of interest in what was going on at The Ritchie Hall. The place was very busy and there were voters, a large group of media people and police officers in attendance.

The Police came over and spoke to the children and explained Mr Salmond, The First Minister, was due very soon to vote. After the classes were in the Pr 6/7 and Pr5/6 clasases went out to observe from the playground.

We were all very surprised when The First Minister on his way away came over to get his photograph taken beside the pupils.

The pupils were viewing so that they could say in years to come that they observed a special moment in the history of Scotland by watching The First Minister leave after casting his vote.

The children were very excited and we are sure they will remember this for along time.