CPS Scoop – Country Dancing
P3 and 4 went to Brownhall Primary to join with their P3-4-5 class to learn country dancing. We learned how to do a few different dances. Some dances were danced in sets and some were danced in pairs. [.....]
CPS Scoop – Curling’s Cool
We got a mini bus with Brownhall P6 to learn curling at the Ice Bowl. Firstly we were given a quick talk on curling then we were sent onto the ice. First we slid with the stone then [.....]
CPS Scoop – School Halloween Party
On Wednesday 1st November we had a Halloween party in the school. Everyone dressed up, including the teachers. There were witches, skeletons, vampires and dead school girls. I went as dead Red Riding Hood. We played musical pumpkins, [.....]
CPS Scoop – Children in Need Day
The News Report: - We did lots of activities for Children in Need. We played pie face against the teacher and if you lost you got squirty creamed! We also made clothes for Pudsey. We also made paper [.....]
CPS Scoop: P1/2/3 Assembly
Our Assembly was about Katie Morag. Katie Morag kicked her teddy and threw it into the sea. She was in the huff because all the big people were in the way and she couldn’t see her baby sister. [.....]
CPS Scoop: Make your Own Island
We are reading Katie Morag stories just now. We made our own island for homework out of recycled materials in our house. I used green card, beads, felt, pompoms and glitter. It is pretty. By Sophie I made [.....]
CPS Scoop: Making Pizzas
First of all we went on the internet to find out the recipe for a pizza. Then we got our ingredients to make the dough. We worked together in groups to make the base then we added our [.....]
CPS Scoop: Team building activities
We did six team building activities for our Skill Session, which taught us to work together in a team and to mix and share our ideas with other people. My favourite one was when we had to throw [.....]
CPS Scoop: Science Visit to Dumfries High School
Our visit to the high school was all about sound. Miss Henry used the promethean board to play animal sounds and we tried to guess what animal it came from. She also had a machine that played high [.....]
CPS visit WWT Caerlaverock (Lego Animals!)
Our Lego WWT animal visit In May the whole school went to the Wildfowl Wetland Trust (WWT) to see the brand new Lego animals. The day we arrived was a media day so we got to go before [.....]
CPS scoop – competition winners!
Video editing our camera project After Easter we collected all our pictures and videos off our camera trap and Mr Tennant’s brother Colin (the Italian Guy) came to help us edit the video. He brought his camera, apple [.....]
CPS Scoop – Health, teambuilding and mental maths!
Health and Wellbeing: Emotions Over the last few weeks we have been learning about how to talk about our emotions and feelings in Health and Wellbeing. We had to pick a card and read the card which either [.....]
CPS Scoop – Gardening and planting
On the 8th and the 15th of May the p4-7 pupils went outside and carried out some gardening. We planted a lot of new plants like carrots, apple mint and pineapple mint, peas, little Heath plants, a pieris [.....]
CPS Scoop – Creativity
Art and Design In art and design recently we were looking at visual elements, such as: line, shape, colour and texture. We were inspired by David Hockney and Moore, and produced a coloured picture of a chicken. We [.....]
CPS – Red Nose Day review
Red Nose Day On the 2nd last Friday of the term we had a day in school raising money for Comic Relief. On red nose day we had to make a red nose out of newspaper and tissue [.....]
CPS Solway Firth Talk p1-3
On Thursday the 24th of March Nic Coombey came to talk to the P1-3 class about the Solway Firth Partnership. He brought in loads of cool items with him that he had found on the beach. These included [.....]
CPS Scoop Logo competition winners
The whole school were tasked with coming up with a design for the new CPS Logo/Slogan, and everyone did really well with their designs! The winning pupils were as follows, who have had a part of their design taken [.....]
CPS Cross Country Achievement and Netball fun
On the 22nd of March Katy, Georgie, Kaelyn, Rachael and Rhyanna took part in a cross country tournament. They were split into age groups, p6/7 (They had to run for 1200m) and p4/5(They had to run for 800m). [.....]
CPS Scoop – All kinds of houses!
Village Walk On a school day p1 to 3’s went on a walk into the village to look at houses to learn about what they were made out of and how there were built. They talked about the [.....]
CPS Scoop – building challenges
On the 21st of March during our IDL [interdisciplinary learning] week we were given the task of researching and building different types of bridges that could withstand a specific weight (5kg). So we were put into groups and [.....]