School Blog

You may remember a few months ago that we launched an app design competition for our P1-7 children through the Make It Happen Club, a charity whose aim is to inspire children's digital learning! This week Frances from Make It Happen returned to Toronto for a special Assembly to announce the winning design. Frances and [...]

Mrs Black organised a special 'Sports Assembly' last week where we came together as a whole school to celebrate our sporting successes and achievements over the last year. Awards were presented to individuals and we celebrated the sporting successes shared through wider achievements outside school as well as in school. We presented certificates of thanks [...]

On Tuesday this week a group of Primary 5 and Primary 7 children made their way to the Assembly rooms in Edinburgh to attend the Social Enterprise Academy's Award ceremony, where they collected an award for their work they have done with the Toronto Boutique so far and their plans to develop it further to [...]

Two Primary 5 pupils have been keen to share their knowledge of what they have been learning in class and during their own time. Here they are signing and singing the alphabet!

Primary 5 are looking at forces in science. Our challenge today was to design a parachute showing air resistance and gravity. This involved working in a small group, sharing ideas, testing parachutes and evaluating designs.

Our P6 pupils at Toronto have recently been preparing for one of their important and responsible roles for P7 in August. P6's submitted application forms, undertook an interview and completed training sessions to prepare them for being a Buddy to our new P1's in August. P6 are now well equipped for this responsible role and [...]

Our French Breakfast This term, in French, P5 have been learning all about food. We have played hangman in French and used ICT to reinforce our learning. Today we enjoyed a French breakfast and activities linked to our learning. This included: writing in French, role play of being in a café and a wordsearch.

P3/4 have been building castles this week as part of their IDL. They had already researched castles and drawn plans for them to follow. Have a look and see what you think!

P5/6 have been learning about Victorian inventions this week and had a go at being Victorian detectives. We had a look at some objects from Victorian times and tried to guess what they might be used for. We then looked online at photos from a Victorian museum to find out if we were correct.