Well done to our Sports Ambassadors for organising a fantastic Sports Fayre. It was a great opportunity to share and learn about local opportunities for sports in our area.
Thank you for joining us and inspiring our learners! ⚽️🥅 https://t.co/6xb6ZMC3oy
— Strathyre Primary (@strathyps1) November 16, 2019
We are delighted to have been given the opportunity to pilot a new Reading Schools initiative with the Scottish Booktrust! You can find out more about some of the activities we are doing on the school’s twitter page!
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
Edinburgh Book Festival
Our school want to the Edinburgh Book Festival. Class two went to see an author called Kaye Umansky. She read breath-taking stories and did great impressions of the characters in her books. After that we went to see another author called Chloe Daykin. Chloe had a really funny assistant. Everyone had a clip board we had to write down how many men we saw hiding in her slide show. She wrote a book called ‘The Boy Who Hit Play’ and it was a fantastic book.
Class one went to see an author called Polly Fader and Emily Mackenzie one book was called ‘Picking A Pooch’ they all said it was a great story and that it was was super funny. They loved the main character ‘Pickle’ who was a dog and the author had a puppet on her hand and she ran around the room with it.
After that we all had lunch sitting outside and then some of us got ice cream. It was a great day and everyone got a book from the book shop.
Grace Harley
P6
