Improvements to the school floor plan

Here are the proposed changes to the school floor plan (click on the pictures to zoom in):

Below in black and white, the current situation :

Below, in colour, the proposed plans, with work scheduled to start this summer:

Staffing update (English/Support for Learning teaching post)

Update on the recruitment of a full time English/Support for Learning teaching post.

 

We have had two people apply for this post.

The interviews will be held on Tuesday 27^th May. We will keep you informed of the outcome and hope that the successful candidate will live on the Isle.

 

Tag Rugby Festival in Kirkwall - Friday, May 9th, 2014

Leavers' Ceremony

S4s Leavers' Ceremony

"On the 25^th of April 2014 the S3s planned and presented the S4s Leavers' ceremony. Family and friends of the Leavers joined us to celebrate the S4s time at Stronsay School and wish them good luck for their exams and the future. A video of the photos to present day was played then they were presented with gifts including t-shirts for friends and teachers to sign and write little messages on as a reminder bye. Family and friends were welcome to stay and have tea, coffee, homemade cake and cookies made by the S3s. Altogether it was a very emotional day.

The S3s would like to say a big thank you to all the teachers who allowed us to use their lessons as time to plan the ceremony and also to the SOS committee for their very generous contribution towards the Leavers' gifts."

SOS Concert - 15th March 2014

The SOS (Support Our School) Committee held a concert on Saturday 15th March 2014. We raised £547.20  for little extras that the Stronsay Junior High pupils require. It was a great night enjoyed by our appreciative and close community. Please find below some photographs of the evening and a few reports written by our talented pupils. Enjoy...

Stronsay's SOS (Support Our School) Concert 2014

by Elizabeth, Primary 5

 

"On Saturday 15th March 2014 we had an SOS (Support Our School) Concert. We had it to raise money for the school. It started at 7pm and ended at 10.15pm.

On the stage first was Stronsay's Silver Darlings, they were amazing.Then the Lower Primary told the story of 'The Little Red Hen' , they were very loud and clear and great at remembering what they had to do and say at the right time.

Mike Burgher and Bruce Fletcher were up next and while Mike sung about a flea, Bruce played the piano. Millie and Rebecca did ballet and it was beautiful.

Brother Seelos played 'The Entertainer' on the piano and then Brother Martin sung a song. The SOS Singers and Don and Mike sang three songs, it was epic.

The Stronsay Bairns (Upper Primary and Lower Primary) sang three songs called 'Coulter's Candy, Soldier, Soldier and Ye Canny Shove yer Granny aff a bus' and Mr King was granny. Awesome.

Then we had a raffle and there were so many things put in the raffle it took forever to get through it. After the raffle some of the Secondary did dance moves to 'Thriller'. It  was fantastically, fantastic. Then Tilly, Josephine and Mike did some songs. The SAS Singers (Stronsay's Alternative Singers!) sang some songs from the music hall times and their outfits were delightful.

Ingram,Diane and Mike played some songs on harmonica, cello and guitar and Roger told a funny story. Stronsay Strummers played some songs on their guitars and the audience sang.

Jacqui, Diane and Natalie played and sung some songs which included 'Wagonwheel'. Then the SOS Singers, Don and Mike sung a song. At the end, unexpectedly they asked the audience to come on stage and join them to sing it. Their costumes were awesome and cool.The event raised a grand total of £547.20. Thank you everyone who participated, donated raffles and worked to make it a very enjoyable evening."

Pupils release their trout into the Meikle Water

For the second year in a row, release day on Stronsay couldn’t have happen on a better day! A bright sun was out and the surface of the Meikle Water was more like a sheet of glass…
Mrs Denisson’s class walked down to the bank of the loch and once all the 150 or so  small fish had been transferred into small poly bags, it was time to let them swim freely into their new environment which seemed very welcoming on such a gorgeous spring day!
Our next mission was to try and find out what the newly stocked fry would be feeding on for the next few years: nets, trays and magnifying glasses came out and soon,  the pupils were bringing back some very interesting tiny creatures: water beetles, fresh water shrimps, water boatmen (corixa), stone fly larvae, caddis larvae and a type of flatworm, not yet identified.
After a very enjoyable afternoon, with the calls of greylag geese and oyster-catchers in the background, it was time to catch the minibus back to school.
Well done to the Stronsay pupils for carefully looking after the small trout and once more, achieving to bring to fry stage most of the ova (around 95%) the school received back in early February!

Mr P.

For more posts on our trout project, visit the "Troot in the Shed"  blog by clicking on:

http://trootintheshed.wordpress.com/

Les crepes de Mardi Gras...

Today, to celebrate Mardi Gras, the S1 and S2 pupils were given a recipe (typed in French, of course!)  to make "crêpes".
The pupils were very proficient in the kitchen and produced mouth-watering pancakes. The highlight was what everybody had been waiting for: the pancake flipping! And pretty successful some pupils were too!