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SMUHA – DPS P7 SQUAD

March 17, 2026 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

It’s difficult to know where to start! P7, along with their P6 classmates have worked tirelessly over the past few weeks to prepare for their P7 SMUHA Squad duties. Please enjoy the many photos from the build up to the big day, and the day itself. Thankfully, the weather was kind to us! 🌞

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Preparations

Designing shields for the Jarl to choose from.

The Jarl choosing his 14 shields from each for the classes and ELC … with a cup o tae!

Paper mache helmets in progress on our Shared Learning Event!

Learning a new skill … needle felting. They picked this up so quickly!

Shield painting after measuring and marking out or lines.

Huge thanks to Mrs Henderson for sourcing great shields and to Trevor for adding the handles!

The Bill

Creating the wording for the ‘Bill’ is harder than it looks! The finished piece was a team effort … pupils, teachers and parents! The painting of it though, seemed effortless!

The day has come!

The Jarl beside his galley! Enjoy your day!

Our 14 strong, Jarl Squad! THREE CHEERS!!!

Ready to lead the procession! Thank you to all who joined in! It made our day!

We are so proud of you all! What a team!

This photo seems to convey the spirit of the day best of all! 😊

The P6/7 class would like to thank everyone who helped in any way to making our afternoon a success!

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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Buddies

March 6, 2026 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

P7 spent some time with their P1 buddies this term, making some Valentines crafts. We always enjoy being able to play with our buddies. So many important communication and social skills are being developed along the way! Well done everyone!

Having fun playing together when we finished our craft.

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Pupil Council Elections

October 10, 2025 Mrs Smith Leave a comment

This week, we held our Pupil Council Elections. The class have been learning about Democracy with Mrs Henderson so having the elections at the same time was a great way to put what they’ve learned about, into action!

Over the past few weeks, the class have prepared for the day by making voting slips, making a ballot box and private voting area. Those not involved in speeches were assigned different roles on the day.

The pupils standing for election all prepared their speeches at home. These were delivered with confidence and enthusiasm! Well done to all!

The P6 pupils all prepared and ready to speak to the voting public!

The P7s had a slightly longer wait to deliver their speeches but put in a great effort too!

When the speeches were done, the voting started!

The votes were counted by Dylan and Lucille and they were able to congratulate Alec and Lauren who are our P7 Pupil Council representatives and Archie and Callum who will act on behalf of the P6 pupils.

Well done to all involved!

That’s been a quick term! Happy October holidays one and all!

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Bikeability

September 8, 2025 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

The sun has been shining for the P6 Bikeability sessions this term!

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Pond Maintenance

September 8, 2025 Mrs Henderson Leave a comment

Primary 7s have been busy clearing out the pond in our school nature garden. When we first arrived, we weren’t sure if there was a pond in there – it was so overgrown!

Everyone got straight to work. It wasn’t long before we began to see lots of frogs appearing to take a look at what we were up to.

Some pupils are very keen to get right in the middle of the action. We are wondering if we should try to measure how much water comes out of their wellies each week, when it is time to head back to class!

We are enjoying our pond visits and finding out how we can improve this area, so that the frogs continue to thrive and return year after year. Some special plants and bugs have been kindly donated, to help breathe new life into our pond.

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Personal Topics

June 28, 2023 Mrs Leslie 1 Comment

Over the last few weeks we have been working hard on personal research topics on areas of history that interested us.
We held a sharing afternoon with P4/5/6 yesterday, looking at their work too.
It was lovely to see everyone take such pride in their work and to see so many creative ways of displaying work. Continue reading Personal Topics →

Christmas jumper day

December 11, 2020 User deactivated Leave a comment

The class looked fantastic today, in their Christmas jumpers and decorations. The P7 display is up in the hall and the class has worked really hard on all the crafts.
Hayden opened Kelsi’s doors on the advent calendar, with more lovely Pokemon drawings.
Have a good weekend everyone, ho, ho, ho!

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Biodiversity Talks

December 7, 2020 User deactivated Leave a comment

This week the Primary 7s made their Biodiversity presentations to the class. They have worked very hard on these, first doing their research, then writing a report, next they made their presentations using powerpoints, posters etc and finally today they presented them to the class. Ms Scanlan was very impressed. She thought that they had found out some excellent information, organised it well and presented it clearly to the class. WELL DONE!

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Week 5

November 27, 2020 User deactivated Leave a comment

This week Primary 7s have been starting to make their ppts or posters for their presentations. We learnt how to make an engaging ppt and what sort of things we need to put in them. Ms Scanlan is really looking forward to hearing /seeing them next week.

The class worked together to produce a lovely instrumental piece for the Christmas show – but we’re not telling you what it is!

On Friday we had our first transition meeting. This year it was online. On Monday we had written questions and sent them to Mrs Adamson. All the three cluster schools joined in today and we heard all about Sandwick. It was great to have our questions answered and to see some of the staff and what the school is like.

This afternoon we are working on our advent calendar display. We have also talked about our ‘giving advent calendar’. This year more than ever it is important to donate to the food bank, so any donations will be gratefully received.

Have a lovely weekend, Ms Scanlan