On Friday 30th September Strachur Primary held a MacMillan coffee morning. Primary 1-4 baked fruit loaf that week and Primary 5-7, fairy cakes. These were sold alongside many donations of cakes and home baking from staff and the wider school community. Primary 5-7 served all morning and were delighted with the final total of £348.10 for this very worthwhile cause.
Thank you to all the people who contributed.
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Last year Isaac McAlinden from Strachur Primary entered a competition, along with the rest of his P6/7 class, to design the front cover of this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival programme. His design was shortlisted and displayed in ‘Our Dynamic Earth’ in Edinburgh over the summer. We love his design, what do you think?
Well done Isaac!
Pupils have been busy picking perfect potatoes, enormous cabbage and delicious cherry tomatoes from our polytunnel – all the hard work has paid off! Thank you to Mr Burke for his expertise and commitment to our school. Also thank you Mrs Speirs in the kitchen for preparing the vegetables to serve in the lunch hall.
What will we plant next?
We are delighted that Mr Burke (local Strachur retiree) has come into our school to transform our polytunnel from an overgrown jungle to something fit for Beechgrove Garden! We are now growing tomatoes, potatoes, cabbage, peppers, radishes and lettuce. Mr Burke has been involving groups of children in the process and pupils have taken responsibility for watering the plants everyday.
We are very proud of our P6 pupils who have passed their Cycling Proficiency – well done! Mrs Wilson trained them up on both the practical and theory. They are now ready to use their bikes safely on the roads. Thank you so much Mrs Wilson! Thanks also to Mrs Adrian, Mr Moore and Mrs Leyland who helped Mrs Wilson.
Fantastic!
We had a great day last Friday at the Cowal Police Sports. Our football team played well and everyone demonstrated excellent sportsmanship in the races. Thank you to the organisers for a fun event with opportunity for the children to socialise with other schools.
Go Strachur!
Many thanks to all who contributed on Friday to Mrs Tato’s memorial day. The children from Pre-5 to P5 enjoyed their pizza workshops with P6/7 (Mrs Tato loved Italy and used to stay there).
Angela from the British Heart foundation was in our school today to train our Primary 7s in the Heartstart Emergency Life Support Programme. They learned how to perform CPR and other emergency life saving skills. Mrs Wilson was Angela’s assistant for demonstrating the recovery position, thank you Mrs Wilson!
Primary pupils had a healthy tuck shop in school last week. Amanda from our SPPG prepared some delicious fruit – grapes, bananas and apples. Also on sale were cereal bars, flavoured water and our favourite… ice lollies!
Strachur Primary pupil council met on Monday to look at the designs submitted by the children for our new school tie. Staff at school have been voting on the 10 shortlisted by the pupil council and our parent council will vote tonight.
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We enjoyed meeting various mini-beasts this afternoon at Strachur Primary. We got to hold a spider, a snail, a beetle and even a snake!
Strachur Primary pupils and staff dressed sporty and red on Friday 18th March for their Sport Relief activities. We held three football tournments, refereed by Mr Ferguson, Mr Bryce and Tommi from P7. We had a P1/2 game, a P3/4/5 game and a P6/7 game.
On Thursday 11th March the early level class visited the recycling centre in Dunoon. Mr Wheeler gave us a tour of the centre and we saw someone pick up a skip with a big truck. We saw lots of different kinds of things that people had thrown away that can be recycled. Mrs Leyland put the batteries from our school into the section for recycling batteries. We learned that some items are taken away from Dunoon as they contain harmful gases. Also, we saw some bricks and stones that were going to be made into new roads. It was a great day and we really enjoyed it.
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On Thursday 10th March the pupil council served breakfast to all our pupils in the school hall. We had a selection of cereals, toast with butter, jam or honey, fruit and juices. The food was donated from the Co-op in Dunoon and all donations are going to Cancer Research UK. Thank you to all who contributed and well done the pupil council!
Strachur Primary and Pre-5 had so much fun celebrating World Book Day last Thursday. Staff and pupils dressed as their favourite character from a book and we shared snippets from our favourite books from home. The Pre-5 children enjoyed a Bookbug session in the morning and the older pupils read to our P1-2 in the afternoon. We have also spent some money on a new library for the school – house captains helped organise the books and everyone got to take one home on loan. It was a very busy day!
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Our early level class have had two very exciting sessions of Forest School led by our P1-2 teacher, Mrs Leyland. Our Pre-5, Primary 1 and Primary 2 pupils have enjoyed getting muddy whilst developing various skills in outdoor education.
Prior research has shown that this type of outdoor learning can improve physical, social and communication skills and increase self-confidence, motivation and concentration. Continue reading Strachur Early Level Class Forest School
Primary 3/4/5 ran their own pancake café for Shrove Tuesday this week. They sold pancakes with an option of lemon, syrup or butter and charged 20p per pancake! While their customers waited, they could read the fact about Shrove Tuesday on the menus! Well done P3/4/5 and thanks to the cook, Mr Ferguson!
Strachur Primary and Pre-5 have started a challenge – to walk the 6000 miles to Rio, where this year’s Olympic Games will be held. We have been doing laps of the playground and have figured out that 7 laps is approximately one mile. Last week we managed to walk 250 miles! The children (and staff) enjoy the exercise and we have also been learning about Rio in the classroom.
Strachur Primary celebrated Robert Burns’ birthday in style on Monday – with singing, dancing, poetry, music and (of course) haggis!
We had 7 prize winners from Strachur Primary…
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