Wildlife - Red Squirrels

We have been enjoying our Woods and Wildlife topic. We have been learning all about red squirrels. 

-Watched videos of squirrels collecting nuts and a powerpoint all about squirrels. We remembered so many facts from this and all added a fact to our floorbook. 

-We collected sticks to create our own squirrel dreys, 

-Pretended to be squirrels and had to run around the playground finding all the hidden nuts.

-Used red and brown leaves from the woods to stick on our own squirrel templates. They turned out very cute. 

What animal are we going to learn about next?

Have a look at the pictures below to see all our Red squirrel fun. 

This afternoon we continued with the outdoor theme with our maths using natural materials such as pine cones to make our own addition sums. We showed how good we are at adding up.

Woods And Wildlife

To start our new "Woods and Wildlife" topic, we took a walk down to the woods with our ipads and chromebooks to take pictures of our local woods. We are so lucky to have them right on our doorstep and will be using them so much during our topic. 

Our First Few Days In P1

Our new P1 pupils have been doing a wonderful job at settling into class and have spent their first few days learning class routines, getting to know their classmates, working on numbers to 10, lots of rhyming games and fine motor activities. 

P1-4 term 4 2024/25 round up - Miss Brown

What an exciting (and exhausting) final term. We have done so many fabulous things. 

As part of our ‘People who Help Us’ topic we had crew members from the Scottish Ambulance Service come and visit us. The children enjoyed becoming patients for the crew, who showed us how they protect broken bones before going to hospital. We all got to see what a fantastic job they do for us. 

The P4s joined the P5-7 class to take part in a football  training session with a Ross County coach, hosted by Teanassie Primary School. We had a great time learning new skills, making new friends and had a few friendly matches both against Teanassie and mixed school matches. Thank you to Teanassie for making us feel very welcome in their school and to Ross County. A special mention also to our very own super referee Mrs Butler who helped referee the matches.

What a difference a year makes. The difference between the beginning of the school year and ,in our ‘Big Writing’ lessons, has been incredible. The children have worked incredibly hard over the year. They have really impressed with their ‘growth mindset’ approach,  always striving to do better each time. 

In maths and numeracy we have been working on fractions and, once again, the children have really impressed with their understanding. We have also been looking at directions, angles and symmetry and the children have enjoyed blindfold playground games, listening games and art to explore this area.

I have to mention the Baillie Cup again. We entered as a joint team with Balnain. It was a fantastic event. The children got a chance to make new friends with the Balnain children and worked well as a team. The children represented their schools well, both in behaviour and sportsmanship, as well as an amazing medal and trophy haul. Well done to team Cannich- Balnain!

Our school trip to Landmark was a great success. The children really enjoyed the day and showed great bravery and courage on some of the attractions. Once again they represented their school excellently with their behaviour.

Finally we had our end of year assembly. I felt incredibly proud and privileged to be a teacher for such a fabulous bunch of young people. I will miss them in the holidays and look forward to seeing them all again next school year.

People Who Help Us - Firefighters.

As part of our People Who Help Us topic, we have been learning about firefighters and what they do to keep us safe. We spoke about how important it is for them to be fit, healthy and strong. We discussed how much training they must do to keep fit. We had a go at our own firefighter training activity, this included crawling through small spaces, climbing ladders, jumping, aiming and carrying heavy bags. 

Baillie Cup 2025

On Thursday the 5th of June P1-4 took part in the Baille Cup Inter school sports with Balnain Primary School. 

Between them scooping a whopping 12 medals and x2 trophies. Amazing. 

Fun with Money

We have been practising budgeting our money and calculating change from different amounts by doing lots of active activities in class. We took a visit to Mrs Smarts' shop with some pocket money and used the Tesco website to plan a party for the class where we had £10 to spend each. 

Cannich Bridge Production - Oh No It's Playtime. 

We have been working hard all term on our production, practising lines, songs, remembering cues and stage positioning. I'm sure you'll agree that it was a fantastic production with lots of great singing, humour and, most of all, enthusiasm. It was well worth the effort. Many thanks to parent council who collected an impressive sum from donations too. Disclaimer - This production in no way represented the teachers or pupils of Cannich Bridge! 😜

Design and Create A Castle - Home Task.

Look at our fantastic castles we created at home. Every single one is so different and the children really enjoyed how they made them to the big class and nursery. Well Done Everyone :) 

Creating Our Own Trebuchet 17.3.25

On our school trip to Urquhart  Castle we had been learning about Trebuchet/Catapults and how they used them to attack castles. We created our own using lollypop sticks, tape, straws and a cup. We went outside to see how far we could launch various items. They worked really well and everyone worked well in their groups. 

13.1.25 - Online French Lessons

For the next 6 weeks, the P1-4 class are joining in with online French lessons along with lots of other schools in Scotland. We will be focusing on numbers, greetings and feelings. We were excited to put our camera on and see the other classes taking part and give them a wave. We loved playing the fun french games. 

6.1.25 - We had a busy first day back at school focusing on Literacy. P1 were working on word building and sounding out CVC words in Bingo games. P2-4 were working on improving their sentences and how to make sentences more interesting. We also did lots of fun spelling games. 

Our Role Play area has been transformed into Santa's Grotto for December. Children have been enjoying wrapping presents, writing cards and posting them in the post box and delivering them. It has been excellent for our fine motor skills, our writing and reading skills and working co-operatively and sharing resources. 

P1-4 have been working hard doing lots of different addition activities.

 P1 have been using different materials to help with addition to 10. 

P2 have been practising their addition facts to 20 using numicon.

P3 and P4 have been practising doing 2 digit and 3 digit additions using different ways to solve them. 

Have a look at our photos to see how busy we have been. 🏆