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Our New P.E Hall

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Our New Hall

At Strathyre School we now have a big P.E hall. We used to have to go to Lochearnhead hall to do our P.E every Monday and now we don’t. Our new hall is very big. We do P.E two times a week in it and if it is wet playtimes we go in there and we can either play a game or sport organised by Mrs Keenan, play board games or sit and chat. The school kitchen is in there as well so we get our lunches in there on special tables that fold up and get put in the cupboard after we have eaten. We have lots of new equipment for P.E and class one have been learning hockey with Mr Martin. We now know how to pass, tackle and dribble.  It is great having so much space.

Tristan Kett

P3

 

Childrens News, Childrens News, Class 2, New School

What I Like

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What I Like

I like that’s it’s a calmer school, it is quieter than being a McLaren. The wee class could hear us and we could hear them, now we can’t hear anything. There are corridors and doors in between the classroom in Strathyre but at McLaren the big class was above the wee class and there were no doors. Our new school is bigger, its eco-friendly. It is amazing, fun, happy, friendly and there are more rooms. There is also a lift and an amazing P.E hall. In the spare classroom which is known as the MIC hub we have a robotic station which I enjoy doing. Our new school is great.

 

Uisdean Cameron

P5

Childrens News

Digital Leaders and Communications

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Tweet of the Week.

Our communication group have decided to a tweet of the week.

Tweet of the week is when we ask students from all age groups to think of a tweet of a week which is a short sentence which I will then write onto our tweet sheet. This will then get stuck on the door so all can see. Our first tweet back at Strathyre was ‘Our new school is neat’

Ember Mulhearn

P6

 

 

 

Childrens News, Class 1, Class 2, Classes, topics, trips

Transport in the Trossachs

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Transport in the Trossachs

One of our topics this year was Transport in the Trossachs.

We researched this and found out lots of interesting facts. We worked with a partner a senior pupil with a junior pupil all from class 2. We had to choose two different types of transport and make up a presentation to show to everyone at the end of the topic. This is a great way to learn, you learn through what you research for yourself and you also learn when you watch and listen to other presentations. We learnt about the old railway line between Callander and Lochearnhead.At the end of the topic we went through to the Riverside Museum which is the Transport Museum in Glasgow. We went around in our classes and each class did a workshop. Class 1 went to a workshop on boats, class 2 went to a workshop on old transport. We got to look through the museum, it was all very interesting.

Ember Mulhearn

P6

 

 

 

Childrens News, Class 1, Class 2, Classes, topics, trips

Transport in the Trossachs

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Transport in the Trossachs

One of our topics this year was Transport in the Trossachs.

We researched this and found out lots of interesting facts. We worked with a partner a senior pupil with a junior pupil all from class 2. We had to choose two different types of transport and make up a presentation to show to everyone at the end of the topic. This is a great way to learn, you learn through what you research for yourself and you also learn when you watch and listen to other presentations. We learnt about the old railway line between Callander and Lochearnhead.At the end of the topic we went through to the Riverside Museum which is the Transport Museum in Glasgow. We went around in our classes and each class did a workshop. Class 1 went to a workshop on boats, class 2 went to a workshop on old transport. We got to look through the museum, it was all very interesting.

Ember Mulhearn

P6

 

 

 

 

Childrens News, Class 2, science

Science – Friction

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Science – Friction

Class 2 have been learning about friction in science. We have been finding out about different types of friction e.g. if you were to ski on a road the skis would barely move because roads have more friction but if you were to ski on snow the skis would go faster because snow has less friction. The next thing we tried was we got a cube and put different materials on each side of the cube, then put string around a cup and then taped the cup onto the cube. After putting the cup on the cube each group had a bunch of weights and then the groups put the weights in the cup for each material to see how much was needed for each side to move and wrote how much weight each side took. Then two people from each group typed their results on the computer and we compared all the results.

Jack Pace-Bain

P6

Childrens News, Childrens News, Class 2, robotics and coding

Robotics

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Robotics

We went to the Robotics competition at McLaren High School.  Tabitha, Anna, Violette Mackenzie and myself had to build a robot and programme it to go around a course themed like space. Mr Martin helped us as it was very difficult to programme and it took lots of tries to get it right. We were very nervous about the competition as we had never done anything like this before. We went round all the entries and praised them all. In the competition we came third.

Jenna Sneddon

P4

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Mufti

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Mufti Day

At the end of term we had a mufti day to raise funds for our dolphin and panda that we adopt from WWF. We get newsletters and information to let us know how our animals are doing. I hope we can raise more money for our panda and our dolphin next year.

 

Stuart Mathieson

P4

 

Childrens News

Moving

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Moving

Moving was hard for everyone. There were hundreds of boxes to be moved from Callander to Strathyre. When we moved back to the school before Christmas Class 1 and Class 2 were ready for us. The cupboards and drawers were filled with everything we needed to do our work but Class 3 which is our Hub was still filled with boxes to get put in the store cupboard.  Everything there eventually got put in the cupboard and class 3 started to get transformed into our new HUB with a robotics corner, a maker station, cool library with bean bags, computers, play trays which are filled with things to make a story up and there is going to be an outdoor leaning table. Outside everything is the same, we still have a play area out the front and the top woods are still the same with trees, paths and hill to run up.  The friendship hut is still there but it is filled with things until springtime. We lost our ‘chocolate factory’ in the bottom woods but we have a new one at the very top of the school grounds and we have been given buckets and spoons for it. Our new school is great.

Poppy Mackenzie

P5

 

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Lunchtime Club

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Football Club

The football club was a suggestion from Tyler and myself. We made a poster about the football club. P1-3 were on Monday and P4-7 were on Wednesday. We taught the P1-3 class quite a lot of skills. We did dribbling round the cones, shooting, free kicks, penalties and striking. P1-3 behaved pretty well. On the first Wednesday it was pouring with rain we didn’t know if we were going to do it or not. The teachers said we could do it but if it started to rain heavily we would need to stay inside. Luckily it stopped raining and we got outside to do it there were a lot of people. We started off with a game of tig as a warm up and then we did penalties and I was the goalie. We also did dribbling around cones. At the end we had a little match and the yellow team won 3-2. Tyler and I enjoyed holding the club and hopefully we can do it again

Ossian de Arkotxa Dougall

P6