Cunningsburgh – Primary 4/5 – 2025/26

These are a Few of our Favourite Things

On the first day back the children brought their favourtie thing. We then drew and painted them before practicing our cutting skills by cutting them out and backing them to create a black outline.

Self Portraits

The children we given a photograph of half of their face. They then drew and shaded the other half in pencil.

Maths – Subtraction

This week we have been learning the jump method of subtraction. We have been doing lots of practice with concrete materials and then looking at showing the working on paper.

Science

In science we did an experiment to investigate the properties that resulted in floating and sinking. The children learned to use the term buoyancy and density.

Big Question

This week we have been learning about primary and secondary sources. We looked at different sources of information and discussed the properties that made them primary or secondary. The children then created posters showing possible examples of primary and secondary sources.

Exciting Equipment Updates This Week!

This Week’s Equipment Highlights

• New Heights: One box was set higher, and another had a lower bench leading up to it, adding variety and challenge.
• Ropes Added: The ropes were introduced this week and were a huge hit with the pupils!
• Directional Changes: We included a mix of benches, beams, and tables with changes of direction to keep things interesting and engaging.

In maths we have been continuing our 'speedy skills' work and we have played some times table board games to help us practice. We have also got new QR codes in our classroom which we can scan to find different times table games to play. This has been super fun!

This week our writing has been about Guy Fawkes. In partners, we created fact files about his life and we also have written newspaper articles about The Gunpowder Plot. We imagined we were writing the newspaper report after the event in 1605.

We finished our Big Question about Fairtrade. We looked at different non-Fairtrade products and researched which ingredients in them could be sourced through Fairtrade suppliers.

We also started thinking about our Enterprise project this week and we had two special visitors in who were business experts. They spoke to us about branding, marketing, selling and the finance behind a business. It was great to hear from them before we properly begin planning our businesses next week. We asked lots of brilliant questions and spoke about what made us nervous about the event.

Our discovery club this week was about 'endangered animals', which was sad to learn about but a really important topic to educated ourselves and others on. We created presentations, posters and drawings of different endangered animals with lots of information about how we can help them.

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Discovery club:

This term, all pupils will be taking part in gymnastics, starting with mat skills and progressing to apparatus work. Gymnastics is a fantastic way for children to develop confidence, coordination, and strength while working at their own level.

It has been a very busy first week back at school after the holidays!

In maths we have started doing a new starter task before each lesson. We now get a 'number talks' picture with questions to work out. We have also started our 'speedy skills' for the term which will be times tables. Over the term we will be playing different games and working with Miss Mann & Mrs Johnson to build and consolidate our knowledge.

We have been writing poems this week about Halloween. We did an Acrostic poem and we did a rhyming poem where we had to add in the next line. 

Our Big Question this week has been about why we should choose Fairtrade products. We learned about what Fairtrade is and why it is important. We found out that it protects the rights of farmers who grow foods such as - sugar, cocoa and bananas. If a farmer is part of the Fairtrade organisation they will be paid fairly which will allow them to buy the things they need to live. We made posters about Fairtrade and the process of growing some of these foods. On Thursday we sorted products into Fairtrade and not Fairtrade groups. We also taste tested Fairtrade cookies, bananas and chocolate! :)

Halloween fun! 
On Friday we did a few fun Halloween activities. We had a mini-figure scavenger hunt around the classroom to find ghosts, bats, spiders and pumpkins. We also heard Halloween jokes from p3/4 which we can use when we go guising. We also used our knowledge of volume to follow a recipe and accurately measure ingredients to make a 'Wizard potion'. We used frog juice, zombie acid, wizards powder, pumpkin juice and fairy dust to make a potion! It was very fizzy. 

On Friday morning/afternoon we had Eve from the Edinburgh Royal Botanics come in to teach us lots about different plants and flowers. We learned about the names of Scottish plants, stories behind them, tasted some different plants, created ‘Frankenstein’ plants and also thought about plants that held memories for us. We all had a super time and enjoyed learning about plants in a different way.

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Over the last three weeks of term 1, our PE lessons centred around rugby skills, especially passing and moving with the ball. Pupils learnt some key rules of the game:

• Passes must go backwards.
• The team must stay behind the ball carrier.
• A forward pass or drop results in a knock-on, giving possession to the other team.

To reinforce these skills, we’ve played a variety of fun and active games:

🎯 Canadian Goose

Everyone starts with a ball. On command, balls are placed down and one is removed. Players without a ball become robbers, trying to steal balls and pull flags from others.

🏃 Flag Fury

Players move freely, trying to collect flags from others and attach them to their own belts—only one flag per person before moving on.

🐻 Bears and Buffaloes

Pairs line up in the middle. On their team name being called, they run to score a try while the opposing team tries to pull their tags.

🚪 Great Escape

Attackers start in a central square and try to escape to the edge without losing their tag, while defenders attempt to stop them.

❄️ Rugby Freeze Tag

Catchers tag others using the ball. Tagged players freeze with hands up until freed by a high five.

🪺 Inside the Raven’s Nest

Four teams compete to collect balls from the centre. The goal is to get three balls into their team hoop.

 

Hi it's me Sophie, I am going to write about this week. We've been doing bingo, Lego challenges and Countdown games to celebrate 'Scottish Maths Week'. 

We have also been learning about my world of work. We learned about different careers and jobs. We wrote and drew about our dream jobs and the skills we need to do them.

Our writing was about the Gnomeo and Juliet movie. We designed and wrote a description of our own gnome wrote a balanced argument and wrote about what the gnomes do when the humans leave. 

We also researched people in history and found out how they helped people and showed good values. For example, Emmeline Pankhurst, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King and David Attenborough.

Scottish Maths Week:

My World of work:

Impactful people in history:

We kicked off the school year with a Football block in PE. Primary 4/5 focused on building confidence in key football skills—dribbling, passing, and shooting—and applying these in simple game situations. The class showed enthusiasm and good teamwork throughout, making progress in both their skills and understanding of the game. Well done, everyone!