School Blog

It was lovely to welcome all our children back to Toronto after the Festive break. P4/5 have started off their new year by reflecting on all that 2024 offered and making resolutions for the year ahead. They have set their own goals for what they would like to achieve in 2025.

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.

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 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 [...]

On Thursday 10th of October 2024, P4/5 took part in World Restart a Heart Day. We learned essential CPR skills via a live stream with Save a Life Scotland, who were attempting a Guinness World Record for online CPR training.