Halloween has featured a lot in our learning in P4/5 over the last week! One of our favourite experiences was experimenting with static electricity to make our spooky ghosts fly!
Spooky Experiments in P4/5
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Category Archives: Our Classes
After School Clubs Are Back!
Our after school clubs are back up and running at Toronto!
Today we had both Multi Sports and Bikeability clubs. Our pupils are really enjoying learning new skills!
P4’s Water Cycle Text Map
P4 have been creating a text map of the water cycle as part of their explanation writing.
Outdoor Learning With P2
Primary 2 are really enjoying their outdoor learning again, now that the weather is getting better. They have been sharing books and stories, setting up the hammock independently and collecting rubbish from our site.
Primary 1 trip to Jupiter Artland
Primary 1 had a trip to Jupiter Artland this week where we had to the opportunity to look around all the amazing sculptures which sit in the park. We saw an amethyst cave, a star constellation and a grass bridge over the water, amongst lots of other things!
Everyone had a great day, even though they were all rather tired, after walking over 4 miles!
Stroop Test Challenge in P5
P5 have been preparing for their Joseph performance and have been linking this to other areas of our learning.
In the story Joseph is given a coat of many colours, so in Science we tested out an experiment with colours.
Did you know, in 1935 John Ridly Stroop invented the ‘Stroop task’? This was all about naming colours. First a number of colours were projected onto a screen in their own colour, and then in a different colour. People were asked to name the colours the words were printed in.
We timed each other reading both sets of words and found that our brains work slower when the colour you have to name has been used to print the name of a different colour!
How quickly can you read them?
P2/3 Explore Mondrian
P2/3 have been exploring the works of different artists. This week we looked at Piet Mondrian. Did you know Mondrian began as an artist by painting realistic landscapes?!
He then changed how he painted – he didn’t want his pictures to look like nature, he wanted to explore how colour and line worked together.
P2/3 had a go at creating their own pieces of simple Mondrian art using only a few colours.
P6 Cross Country
Primary 6 enjoyed taking part in the Inveralmond Cluster Cross Country – all the pupils did an amazing job completing a large lap of Howden Park. The pupils demonstrated great sportsmanship and stamina throughout.
Toronto took first place in the girls race and our joint girls team claimed the top spot out of all the schools competing.
A massive well done to everyone who took part, you all did Toronto proud!
Film Making in P1b
Jonathan from D fie foe, film makers joined us to help develop our movie making skills!
Our first movie ‘Give us a wave’ was produced, filmed and directed by the P1 children.
Busy, Busy, Busy in P6/7!
P6/7 have been busy!
We have been rehearsing for our performance of Joseph and The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat.
In maths, we have been interpreting data from bar, line and pie charts.
We have been focussing on discussion writing and thinking of arguments for and against as well as our own opinion.
We planted our potatoes this week and will be watching them grow and adding more compost as soon as we see the green leaves appear. We are hoping to grow lots.
P6 took part in the Inveralmond cluster cross country and one of our girls won 1st place. We are so proud of her. Our girls team also came top in the competition, They will go on to represent us in the next stage of the competition in September. Fantastic!
