Category Archives: Whole School

Burns Celebrations

Toronto Primary really got into the spirit on Friday, as we celebrated all things Scottish in honour of Robert Burns.

Each class worked together to produce a variety of guid Scottish displays in oor hall – from tartan kilts, to Charles Rennie Mackintosh designs.

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Oor wee hall showcased more of oor school’s talent as we turned it into oor Toronto Art Gallery, focusing on Scottish artists and Scottish inspired art work.

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To complete our Burns Day celebrations we held a Poetry competition, where representatives from each class recited some fabulous Scottish poems at a special assembly. Remembering and pronouncing all those Scots words was tricky but what talented bairns  we hae at Toronto!

Whit a rare day we had!

Bee bots have arrived in Primary 2!

Primary 2 were very excited to meet the Bee bots!!

Bee bots are programmable floor robots. The children enter instructions to move the bee bot forwards and backwards, right or left.   They have been having fun navigating them from one place to another on the  Isle of Struay as well as around the classroom!!

                         

They have also been introduced to a maths based program called Sumdog.  They have been learning how to log in using their own user names and passwords and have been enjoying playing the different games.

     

Primary 2 number work.

Primary 2 have been busy since returning to school after the Christmas holidays.   They were learning about symmetry and identifying pictures and shapes that were symmetrical.  They made their own symmetrical butterflies.

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They have also been working on money.  They have been looking at the values of different coins and have been investigating  different ways they can make  certain amounts.   They have been using their skills of counting in 2’s , 5’s and 10’s to count bundles of coins.

New Years Resolutions

Our first week back after the Christmas holidays was a busy one! What better activity to begin the new year than to reflect on the last year and make plans and goals for the year to come. We remembered all the activities we have enjoyed during 2018, when we were still young P4’s and P5’s! We thought about the things that are still to come for us this year- Lowport, trips, responsible roles, and decided to set ourselves some targets for 2019.

We created this display to share our thoughts and ideas, and help keep us on track.

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P1 Learning

We’ve had a busy first week back at school. In Maths, we learned about odd and even numbers through using our smelly socks! We also made patterns using different materials in the classroom then looked at number patterns by counting in 2’s. In Literacy, we sounded out three letter words independently.

 

Brilliant Books

Last term we held a Book Fair, where many children from across the school purchased some fantastic books. Due to the number of books purchased during the time the Book Fair was in school, we managed to raise some money to spend on books for our school. Children from the Pupil Leadership Team and pupils from P5/6 were responsible for choosing and ordering some new books to update our school library. There were so many good books to choose from, prices to consider, budgets to adhere to, it really was a tough job!

Just before Christmas our first box of books was delivered and our second box was delivered this week. The Helping Hands team have been busy organising the books this week and putting them out into the library for all to read.

We can’t wait to settle down with a good book!

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