Cunningsburgh Primary 1/2 Blog 2025/2026

When the sun shines in Shetland, we make the very most of it! 🌤️

Our bairns love getting outside to learn, play, explore, and enjoy some fresh air together. From outdoor games and nature walks to creative activities and teamwork challenges, there’s always something exciting happening beyond the classroom walls. Being outdoors helps us stay active, curious, and happy — and it’s a great chance to enjoy the beautiful weather while it lasts! 🌿⚽🎨

There were plenty of smiles, laughter, and rosy cheeks as everyone soaked up the sunshine and made wonderful memories together. 🌞😊

We’re always happiest when learning can happen both inside and out!

What a fantastic day at school as part of the Folk Festival celebrations! 🎶✨

Our bairns had an amazing time welcoming talented musicians Will Pound and Jenn Butterworth into school today. The halls were filled with music, laughter, and plenty of toe-tapping as pupils joined in, listened, and learned all about playing the guitar and mouth organ. 🎻🎶

A huge thank you to Will and Jenn for inspiring our pupils and sharing such a memorable musical experience with us. 🎶👏

We were delighted to have our breakfast last Friday morning. The bairns got weetabix, toast and a selection of fruit. It was enjoyed by all.

Ever hopeful that the nice weather has come and is here to stay…

Our January to March term in PE was very busy.  P1/2 did 4 weeks of dance, 2 weeks of handball and 6 weeks of swimming.

Dance

In our dance block, pupils explored how to use movement to express ideas. We focused on:

• Using imagination and responding to different stimuli
• Travelling, stillness, shapes, jumps and gestures
• Changing rhythm, speed, level and direction
• Repeating patterns in movement
• Showing expression and confidence

The children had great fun experimenting with creative movement and performing short sequences.

Handball

In handball, we concentrated on building ball control and throwing and catching skills.

Swimming

In the pool the pupils worked on developing their water confidence and front and back crawl.  The class enjoyed the block, working hard and showing good improvements in all their water skills.

We were delighted to welcome Gemma to the class on Tuesday afternoon to tell us about her job as an optician and share some interesting facts and some of the cool things that happens when we go for eye tests. The bairns (and staff) thoroughly enjoyed it! Thanks for coming!

A busy start to the last week of term… Egyptians and Magnets are keeping us busy!

We were delighted to have Naomi and Moira along this week for some reading opportunities in the child initiated play times. Thanks for spending time with us – the bairns loved it!

The bairns have really got stuck into their play projects this year. We have had the Eiffel Tower built from straws to robots with wood, nuts and bolts! A creative bunch!

We were delighted to welcome Hannah’s Dad, Andrew for a morning of reading. The bairns went in small groups to the reading neuk and heard a variety of stories. Thanks to Andrew for coming along.