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Rag Bags
As part of our ongoing work towards maintaining our ECO status, your child has received a Rag Bag. As you will be aware, this initiative has been developed to raise awareness of textile recycling. By participating you are helping the environment and supporting West Lothian Council to meet recycling targets as well as raising funds for our school.
We are looking for wearable clothes, paired shoes, handbags and belts. Please return your Rag Bag to school by Monday 6th March. If you have lots, we will gratefully receive them in black bags too. If your child cannot manage in with them themselves, please drop at the office, thank you! More information can be found here: http://www.rag-bag.co.uk/
World Book Day
This year World Book Day falls on Thursday the 2nd of March, but in school we will be celebrating on Friday 3rd of March where we will invite all children to dress up as a character from one of their favourite books. You can find lots of ideas at the following website: http://www.worldbookday.com/
Our Assembly team are busy working on a very exciting Assembly for Friday too and will be going around school this week filming staff and children telling us what their favourite books are. They will then make this into a short movie that will be shared with the children at Assembly.
As part of World Book Day, the children have requested that we do a book swap again. We would like to ask everyone to send in a book from home that they are finished reading and that they wouldn’t mind swapping with someone else in school. Books should be in very good condition. Children can send in more than one book and our aim would be that all children in our school get to swap a book and leave with another. This was hugely successful the last time we did it and we are really hoping for the same thing again this year. Please send books in to classes anytime from now and we will aim to carry out our Book Swap at the start of next week if we have enough books. Thank you in advance.
Scottish Family Learning Challenge
Welcome back everyone and Happy New Year to you all!! We hope that you have had a very enjoyable Christmas break and from all of the excited faces we were greeted with on Wednesday, we think it is safe to say that everyone is happy to be back into routine!
As you know, before the holidays we issued a wee Scottish family learning challenge which was to build a 3D model of a Scottish landmark with your family. Some of you have certainly been busy and we have really enjoyed seeing what you have made so far. Please ensure that your family creations are sent in to school by Monday the 9th of January so that we can have them ready for displaying…and later judging! Thanks everyone! Mrs Simpson
Our Lovely Choir live on Forth One
Interactive Advent Calendar
The boys and girls in P4/3 are really enjoying these interactive advent games! Why not have a go yourself at home by clicking on this link?
Christmas Newsletter 2016
Team Jak Charity
Our children and staff were very touched today as they were taken through an Assembly dedicated to Jak Trueman, an inspirational teenager who demonstrated a remarkable strength and positivity and showed extraordinary courage and selflessness when he raised nearly £100,000 in total for various cancer charities before he, unfortunately lost his battle with cancer.
His desire to create a positive legacy grew and 6 days before he died Jak unveiled plans to support other young people walking the same journey as he had and their families. He called his Charity Team Jak. Today, at Toronto Primary School we helped raise money for this incredible charity and with your support, are delighted to say we raised £130. Thank you!
If you would like to find out any more information about the Team Jak charity in order to find out about local fundraising events, please follow this link: http://www.teamjak.co.uk/jaks-journey/ 
Children in Need
A huge thank you to everyone who donated to this wonderful charity! The children took part in an Assembly planned for and run by our fabulous Pupil Council and amazing Assembly Team where they learned about some less fortunate children in and around Britain and of all the charities who are there to support them. THANK YOU!
Foodbank and Harvest Assembly
We would like to say HUGE big thank you to all families who managed to send in something for our West Lothian Foodbank Appeal. As always, we were blown away with your generosity and kindness! Your contributions will go a long long way to helping to support local families in West Lothian over the Christmas period. 
During our Harvest Assembly we discussed how we rely on farmers to harvest fruits and vegetables which they provide to supermarkets. We watched a clip about the process of harvesting potatoes using a huge combine harvester! Some children from The Launch Pad came up to tell us all about the apples they had been busy picking this week from our school garden – they told us that they are going to use them to bake an apple crumble…yum! We can’t wait for a wee taste!
