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Showing posts with label Upper Primary. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Upper Primary. Show all posts
Sunday, 21 February 2021
Monday, 20 April 2020
Friday, 20 March 2020
Stronsay School Sport Relief
Stronsay School Sport Relief
During February and March 2020 our school took part in Sport Relief. This year the primary and secondary pupils did a sponsored swim and the daily mile challenge.
The sponsored swim took place at the Stronsay swimming pool on the 18th of February. Both the upper primary and the secondary pupils contributed. The total amount of money raised was an amazing £165, kindly donated from family and friends of the pupils.
The daily mile challenge was held on the netball court at the back of the school and was from the 9th to the 13th of March. Primary attempt the daily mile each day either in the mornings or after lunch, but this week was a little bit more special as we counted our laps and secondaries joined us for a few of the days. The average amount of individual laps each day was around 18 laps which is 1 mile. The primary total came to 1706 laps which is almost 95 miles!! Most primary pupils also kept track of how active they were in and out of school on a chart.
The nursery also took part over the week by having an egg and spoon race, an obstacle course, musical statues and hide and seek. The nurseries raised £42 and Hannah Johnston won half of this.
Also in the staff guessing competition £20 was raised and Mr King won half of that.
We would like to say thank you to everyone involved and thank you for reading this.
By Millie Dennison and Liam Daily
Tuesday, 17 December 2019
Friday, 13 December 2019
Thursday, 12 December 2019
Sunday, 3 November 2019
Tuesday, 29 October 2019
Cooke Aquaculture funding
Cooke Aquaculture
On 2nd October 2019 two people from Cooke Aquaculture came to present us with a giant cheque of £3985. Their names were Sarah and Erlend. The money they gave us was to make our school a better, happier and friendlier place than it already is. Specifically to help create our friendship garden and outdoor learning space. The Pupil parliament came up with 5 main aims for the Friendship garden these are the aims:
To make the school a better place
And a happier place
To make more friendships
To discover and learn
Help the environment
The pupil parliament involves the whole primary (1-7). Steve helped us by giving us guidance for the learning space. He organized for Castlehill Construction to flatten the wild area to make room for the learning space. Also to try and get the waterfall working. We are very happy with what we have organized so far.
Mrs Groat, while the pupils were off school, applied an entry form for Cooke Aquaculture to present us with a cheque. So if she hadn’t done this, none of this would have happened.
So big thanks to Mrs Groat, Steve and Cooke Aquaculture.
We would like to say a big thank you to Cooke Aquaculture for their support.
By Millie, Dorothy, Sam and Melvin.
Tuesday, 8 October 2019
Stronsay Science Festival Workshops 2019
Stronsay Science Festival
Workshops 2019
Monday 9th September Activities:
Morning:
TRACKS IN THE CLOUDS
Dr Alex MacKinnon from Glasgow University delivered
a Radiation in Space workshop to the S4 Physic pupils and a shortened version
to the remaining Secondary and Primary pupils. Dr MacKinnon explained how Scotland
and its history of innovative scientific discovery were pivotal in
understanding the way partials behave. CTR Wilson’s invention of the
cloud chamber made the subatomic world visible by displaying particle tracks of
condensation. Telling the story of the first Scottish Nobel Prize winner in
Physics, born 150 years ago, and how his particular mix of interests remains
topical in current research on cosmic radiation and climate.
Dr Mackinnon demonstrated radioactive decay
using a Thermoelectric Cloud Chamber containing a Thoriated tungsten rod (2%)
in which Thorium is used as an Alpha emitter showing the primary tracks due to
alpha particles. It also showed the occasional Beta track seen due to the
daughter nuclei of previous decays.
Afternoon:
DNA to BUTTERFLIES PROJECT
Dr Bill Graham who worked within the
Engineering Research Industry for many years developing new materials for the
Aerospace industry delivered a workshop entitled ‘DNA to Butterflies’ in which
Secondary student explored the role and importance of communication through modelling
DNA.
The pupils worked in pairs to build a model
of DNA which acted as instructions for a computer aided design program to
develop a unique Butterfly. The computer program developed by Mr Graham then
printed the unique butterfly using a 3D printer which he brought to the school
to show the pupils. The workshop demonstrated how science and technology teams effectively
communicate and work together to develop and deliver new innovations within the
Scientific and Engineering community.
Wednesday 11th September Activities:
Dr Dave Craig a former Research Production
Engineer, whom as part of his engineering career was an instrumental part of
the Engineering team which developed and manufactured the Typhoon Fighter Jet
cockpit display unit. Dr Graig now works with schools and YESC (Young Engineers
and Science Clubs Scotland) delivered two workshops for the secondary pupils:
Radiation:
The Secondary pupils in S4 participated in
the Radiation Workshop delivered by Dr Dave Craig in association with
CERN@school a programme designed to inspire the next generation of scientists
and engineers by offering access to CERN technology.
In which Students carry out their own
research projects using detectors provided by the Institute for Research in
Schools. During this workshop we investigated and collected data relating
to Ionising Radiation. The pupils had opportunity to use a MX-10 detector
(Particle detector) to compare and measure alpha, beta and gamma radiation
emitted from different sources such as background radiation,’ LoSalt’, Normal
table salt, a charged balloon and various mobile devices .
Cars:
Maths poster competition
Well done to Dorothy who has won a national competition to design a poster advertising and celebrating the 20th birthday of the Primary Maths Challenge!
Tuesday, 25 June 2019
NORTH ISLES SPORTS 2019
North Isles Sports 2019
North Isles Sports 2019 was held on 15 th June 2019 in Westray. It was the 70 th anniversary as North Isles Sports started in 1948 although they skipped a year out somewhere in between. The islands that compete are Stronsay, Papay, Sanday, Westray and sometimes North Ronaldsay and Eday.The events were 100m sprint, 200m sprint, 400m sprint, 1500m, high jump, long jump, shot putt, football, netball and the fun primary events that were held were 75m sprint, shot putt and standing long jump. The age groups were primary, school girls, school boys, ladies, mens and veteran. I don’t
know ALL of the results but here’s the primary events: for the standing long jump P4/5 boys, Jamie Holland came 1 st with a fab jump of 1m 65cm!!!!!! For the P4/5 girls Martha Bremner competed even though she is only in P3!!!!! She came 3 rd place with an awesome jump of 1m 22cm!!! In the
P6/7 boys Melvin Holland came second with a jump 1m 71cm missing out on 1 st place by 2cm!!! In the P6/7 girls I (Millie Dennison) came 1 st with a jump of 2m 14cm. In the 75m sprint p4/5 boys Liam Daily did a great run and came 3 rd !!!!!! In the
P4/5 girls 75m Martha Bremner competed again and came 3rd with a really speedy run. In the P6/7 boys 75m Melvin Holland competed and came 3 rd place. In the P6/7 girls Toni-Anne competed and also came 3 rd !! In the shot putt P4/5 boys Wilbur came 1 st place with an amazing putt of 4m 96cm!!! In the P4/5 girls shot putt Martha Bremner competed and got 3 rd place!! In the P6/7 boys shot putt Sam Whiteman did a fabulous throw and came 3 rd !! In the P6/7 girls Dorothy Bremner came 1 st place with a huge putt!! As there was so many achievements from the Stronsay competitors I cannot type them all, although what I can say is everyone did so well!
By Millie Dennison
Monday, 3 June 2019
Tuesday, 23 April 2019
Fun 5z Netball
The Northlink P6/7 Primary league came to a conclusion on Sat 30th March at the Picky Centre. Stronsay Limpets (Lewis, Melvin, Sam, Dorothy and Millie) played extremely well over all four games, resulting in a fantastic 2nd place in the league overall. Well done to you all! Thank you very much to SOS who funded the travel and fees over the season – it is much appreciated and would not be possible without this help.
JRSO trip to Whitehall Village
On Monday 1st April 2019 the JRSOs did a Primary trip to Whitehall Village.JRSO stands for Junior Road Safety Officers, who are a small group of kids who teach their peers/younger children how to be safe on the road.
Since the younger ones had been doing a lot on being seen, crossing roads etc.We thought it would be cool to do a trip for them so we could actually do what they had learned. While we were walking we had to cross roads a few times.So,we reminded everyone to stay at the kerb and STOP, LOOK, LISTEN!Which includes stopping at the kerb, looking right, left, and right again and listening for traffic.Most people said they enjoyed it, (although it looked like they all did) and had fun. As we walked we had some stops and did discussions on the signs we saw,the bad corners and other things.We think altogether it was a great trip.
Thursday, 20 December 2018
Monday, 17 December 2018
Friday, 23 November 2018
Maths challenge certificates
This year's recipients of the Gold, Silver and Bronze Maths Challenge certificates:
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