Cunningsburgh Primary 1/2 Blog 2023/24

We had a lovely morning visiting Isla’s family farm where we saw lambs, calves, tractors (getting to sit in one) and got a chance to see how wool comes from sheep and ends up knitted. We had a fantastic morning! Thanks to Isla and Isla’s mam for organising it and to Sheila, Douglas and Jamie for having us.

We have had great fun trying some simple orienteering tasks in PE.  Orienteering is an activity that requires you to follow a map to navigate your way around a course in the shortest possible time.  We have learnt how to follow a map, what a key is and how to use it, keep the map orientated to the group, what a control is and how we use them, work with others and many other useful things that help us to navigate around an orienteering course.

Imagine you’re in a magical land called Scotland where farmers grow delicious foods! Some farmers plant seeds in the ground to grow golden fields of wheat for yummy bread. Others take care of fluffy cows and get fresh milk to make tasty cheese! Can you guess what other kinds of food these special farmers might have in their land?

Mrs Bannister had the bairns baking their own bread today… and it was delicious. The bairns really enjoyed helping make bread and seeing how it was made. A massive thank you to Mrs Bannister for doing this with the bairns!

We have loved the Titanic theme for the play projects this week and the bairns were very creative, but at school and home!!

We have started visiting the Polycrub this week and what a treat! The bairns got stuck right in with a mixture of digging, planting and watering the seeds. Each bairn will get to go for a visit over the next couple of weeks.

Have you ever heard of a brave explorer named Christopher Columbus, who sailed across the big ocean and discovered new lands? Or how about a kind woman named Rosa Parks, who refused to give up her seat on the bus and helped make things fair for everyone? Can you think of other amazing people from long ago and the cool things they did?

Miss Baronet started our week with a super lesson on Neil Armstrong and Amelia Earhart and what an amazing conversation the bairns had! We learnt lots of new things and enjoyed the interactive activities. We then looked at Rosa Parks and did a small activity where Miss Hunter was only going to take the bairns with blue eyes on a holiday… that didn’t go down very well! A super (mature) discussion was had and the importance of what Rosa Parks did. A really enjoyable big question this week! And thanks to all the parents who got involved with sending in brilliant books – we loved looking at them!

This week our play project theme was senses and the bairns didn’t disappoint. We had some junk modelling experiments, we had drawings on the board, some fancy glasses, pictures, fact sheets and we even had experiments at home as well as incredible PowerPoints from home! Well done Primary 1/2!

This term in the Music Class, Primary 1 and 2 have been learning songs about the sea and have also been listening to pieces of orchestral music which are inspired by the sea. The pupils have been learning to identify the different instruments in the orchestra and have also shared ‘what the music makes them think of’ when listening to music. They have also being doing musical activities such as ‘Meeting the Musicians’, learning a couple of songs with sign language signs and practicing how to make a ‘musical storm’ in preparation for watching the Royal Scottish Orchestra on-line concert called ‘Tara the Tugboat’.

Well Done boys and girls!

Ice-cream was our topic of choice for play projects this week. We had a lot of fun!

We have been looking at our families and all the special people we are lucky to have in our lives. We went on to create family trees and it was lovely hearing the bairns speaking about the different things they do with parents, grandparents, cousins, etc.
We even did a little digging to see if we were distantly related to each other. I have 16 “cousins” in the class… a lovely, unexpected find!