Tag Archives: Active learning

STEM at Cunningsburgh

March 6, 2026 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

P6/7 had a fantastic day out on Wednesday 4th March, taking part in a a STEM day focusing on Maths and Robotics, hosted by Eleanor Hutcheon from UHI.

Using our previous learning on measuring perimeters of shapes, we looked at finding the circumference of a circle. This helped us to work out one rotation of a wheel and how far the robot would travel for one rotation, which then helped us to investigate how many rotations would be needed to travel a set distance. A wide range of Maths skills being developed! There was also lots of problem solving and talking about all the different approaches used to find the answer.

Eleanor had some super challenges for the class to try, one of which involved the winners receiving their choice of LEGO figure. P6/7 are a competitive bunch and were all determined to do well!

It was also great to get out in the sunshine and enjoy the play areas at Cunningsburgh Primary. Thank you to the children and staff at Cunningsburgh who invited us share their play areas with them. There was a very important and intense CPS v DPS football match in the multicourt too!

Thank you again to Eleanor Hutcheon from UHI and our parent helpers. who came with us We are very grateful that you were able to support us on the day.

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Active Maths

October 25, 2023 Mrs Leslie Leave a comment

This morning we have been very active in our maths. We are just starting a block on addition and subtraction so have played games to revise our mental maths skills and refresh number bonds. By keeping these strong, we will be able to apply our learning to bigger sums.

In this game, each cone had a value (not that we knew that until the race was over!)We had to relay with our partners to collect cones, when the time was up, each colour of cone was given a value, we then had to add the totals of our cones up to see who won it’s the highest score.

Glasgow Science Visit

January 30, 2023 User deactivated Leave a comment

This afternoon we had a fantastic time watching Disgusting Digestion, the story of food. It really was disgusting and poor Miss Clark had to hold her hands out at the end to catch the final product!!!

After that we were able to try out a huge range of science activities called Body Works. It was really good fun to have a go at them all. 1 Star (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1)
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First Week Back

January 6, 2023 User deactivated Leave a comment

It has been so lovely to see everyone back. What a great start to the year.
We are starting to get ready for the RSPB birdwatch, so this afternoon while the pupil council were out, the rest of us made bird feeders.
We used up the old pine cones from Christmas and learnt to tie a reef knot, so that we’ll be able to hang them from the trees. Next we made a delicious 🤢 mixture of lard, cheese, grains, nuts and sultanas and moulded it onto the cones. We will harden them up in the fridge and hang them out next week.
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STEM

November 22, 2022 User deactivated Leave a comment

On Monday 14th November, the P7s from all over the South Mainland went to SJHS for a STEM day. In the morning they took part in 4 different STEM activities, organised by DYW. In the afternoon they has a chance to visit lots of stalls promoting local workplaces.

Learning about fractions

April 21, 2022 User deactivated Leave a comment

Yesterday we looked at equivalent fractions and what makes them equivalent. Today we learnt more about fractions and played fraction games. 1 Star (1 votes, average: 1.00 out of 1)
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Renewable Energy workshop

September 27, 2021 User deactivated 1 Comment

This morning we had a really exciting workshop with Emma Chittick. She taught us about renewable energy and then we had to make a LEGO wind turbine. At the end of the lesson we tested all the turbines to see which produced the most energy. Kathryn and Isla WON!!!

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Mind boggling problem solving

September 24, 2021 User deactivated 1 Comment

Everyone was really engaged and enjoying the problem solving today. Lovely to see the effort going into solving all the different puzzles. We’ll done P6/7!

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Conservation volunteers!

September 20, 2021 User deactivated 1 Comment

This afternoon while the P6s were doing Bikeability, the P7s did a fantastic job of cleaning out the pond. It had become really overgrown. Now there is lots of room again for the frogs and next year’s frogspawn 🐸

Ethan threw himself in to the task “It was really fun, especially going in.”

Anders said “ I really enjoyed it, we cleared out half of the pond.”

Hannah said “It was fun and it was really messy.”

Fiona said “It was fun because I didn’t get wet!”

Lena liked it because she got a wet bum!

Roma liked it because it was stinky.

Esther thought that it was fun to clear it out but it was stinky though!

Isla thought it was fun to make a huge pile of the vegetation from the pond.

Elijah thought the weeds were quite tasty…not really!!!

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Climate Action Week Eco-schools

September 19, 2021 User deactivated Leave a comment

This week we have been learning more about how our climate is being affected by the increase in carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. We carried out an investigation to see how this affects temperature.