School Blog

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 [...]

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!