School Blog

P6/7 have been investigating Christmas in Bulgaria. As part of their learning the learned a Bulgarian Carol and want ed to share their learning with the rest of the school. Yesterday P6/7 went carolling to the different blocks to share their song. Listen to it here: https://youtu.be/6X_kAovxXjs

Our Toronto choir visited Braid House this week to perform some Christmas carols for the members there. We loved sharing our Christmas spirit, joy and singing with them.

P4, P4/5 and P5 let their hair down for their Christmas party this week. They enjoyed some Scottish dancing, party games, snacks and some Christmas music and dancing. We all had a ball, and are totally in the Christmas spirit now!

Toronto's Language Ambassadors set the whole school a Christmas challenge over the month of December. Their challenge was for every pupil to design a Christmas bauble that shared some traditions or language from another country. The designs we received were fabulous. it was so hard to choose winner. The baubles depicted traditions and languages from [...]

The Digital Leaders set the whole school their annual Christmas challenge to create a digital design to transform into our Toronto digital E-card. It was such a difficult job to choose 1 winner from all the amazing entries. We had creations on Word, Powerpoint, Adobe Express and Canva. We are delighted to share our winning [...]

Primary 4 and Primary 4/5 have been enjoying music sessions with Eamonn from Infectious Grooves. After weeks of learning new skills in drumming and rhythm, each class confidently shared their learning in a showcase performance for the rest of the school.

Ursula Cheng came into school this week as part of a community art project. Ursula is collating ideas from local schools and community groups as she is planning to use these ideas to paint a local tunnel. The children at Toronto helped Ursula to make paints from natural materials such as fruit and vegetables and [...]

We are delighted that our clubs are up and running again at Toronto. This week saw our first club, Level 1 Bikeability, up and running. Next week we have P4-7 Tennis on Monday, P4-7 Choir on Wednesday and P1-3 Football on Thursday. We are hoping to add more to our list soon!

Through our recent learning we have been finding out about the Romans. We looked this week at Roman foods and were shocked at some of the items they would have on their feast menus - can you imagine eating peacock, tongue or dormice! We created our own Roman Feast menus with a variety of foods [...]

Primary 7 explored the cost of the school day. In groups, we discussed different school costs and created a diamond nine to show greater and smaller costs. We then looked at a school calendar with different school events. We discussed the costs that these events would have.

For Challenge Poverty Week, P6/7 explored the 'Cost of the School Day'. We now have an understanding of how the school day costs money for families. We discussed the things Toronto Primary School does to support families in reducing the cost of the school day.

During Challenge Poverty Week 2024, Primary 3 explored some big questions: What does West Lothian do to help people in poverty? What does Toronto PS do to help poverty? What could Toronto PS do to help those in need? Learners discussed the West Lothian food bank, our Toronto Boutique, free school meals and free after [...]