School Blog

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 [...]

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 [...]

On Thursday 10th October 2024, P4/5 recognised World Mental Health Day by taking their learning outdoors. Outdoor learning is thought to improve mood, reduce stress, encourage relaxation, improve physical activity and boost confidence and self esteem. P4/5 took their literacy outdoors where they found interesting places to read their books and then use the natural [...]