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Strabane Academy Virtual Open Evening this Thursday 3rd February at 7.30pm
This week in school and Nursery we are having Number Week. The nursery children will be taking part in lots of number activities within 5. Yesterday the children who stayed for extended nursery made some fairy buns. They were able to help measure out the ingredients by looking for the numbers on the recipe. We talked about lots of numbers and used mathematical language during this activity. Today each child decorated their own fairy bun. They had to choose and count 5 different sweets to put on top. Let’s say, they left nursery with a big smile ready to eat their bun when they got home.
Well done boys and girls, what a good start to Number Week. 😁😁 1️⃣2️⃣3️⃣4️⃣5️⃣
The boys and girls in our class have been working really hard with their time tables this term. Have a look at our photographs to see who is a cub, cadet, captain, commander and division whiz. Can they move up rank this week?
Year 6/7 investigated the length of the perimeter of the playgrounds using trundle wheels, measuring tapes and metre sticks. We found the trundle wheels the easiest to use for this task. We found the average length of one circuit of the playgrounds was 128m, which means we’d need to walk (or run) 391 of them to complete a distance of 50km. Will we be able to walk 50km before Easter? Can you work out how many circuits we’d need to do per day to reach our target before Easter?
Please find attached a leaflet for our P7 pupils to help apply for their post primary place. Your child has received a paper copy today also. You can apply from tomorrow (1st Feb) at noon until it closes at 4pm on Wednesday 23rd February.
This week we had our first session with Sarah from Mind Explorers NI. We really enjoyed it and Sarah couldn’t believe our fantastic listening skills. We tried really hard with practising our breathing techniques too. We are looking forward to the next 5 weeks and learning lots of new mindfulness tools.
On Friday 14th January, Mrs Pollock took the children up to the greenhouse and planted some bulbs. They enjoyed exploring and looking around at all of the gardening tools and also helping to plant the bulbs. We hope we can get up again to do some more planting for the Spring.
Thank you Mrs Pollock.
🌟 Well done to all our stars this week 🌟
⭐️ Nursery: Willow
⭐️ Year 1/2: Jaxon
⭐️ Year 2/3: Mitchell
⭐️ Year 3/4: Robert & Finn
⭐️ Year 5/6: Zara
⭐️ Year 6/7: Bethany
The boys and girls in P2/3 have been learning all about Robert Burns today. They learned about his famous poems and songs. They also had a go at learning some Ulster Scots words! Thank you to our Highland dancers- your amazing dancing was the icing on the cake of our super celebration day!
Year 2 and Year 5
Tomorrow (Tuesday) we begin PIN (Parental Involvement in Numeracy) please find attached a powerpoint from Mrs Doherty our Numeracy Co-Ordinator to help explain what PIN involves.
