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WL Dragons Den 2024

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On Wednesday this week a group of our P5 and P7 children attended West Lothian’s Dragons Den event where they pitched their social enterprise idea to a panel of local businesses in the hope of gaining investment in their business The Toronto Boutique and Pantry.

The children asked for investment in order to expand our already successful boutique, to include other school resources, eg. school bags, lunch bags, pencil cases, etc. and also to add our very own Toronto Pantry. The children’s aim is to support our families with the increasing cost of living by helping to lower the cost of the school day.

All pupils spoke confidently before the panel of dragons and an audience of mainly secondary pupils and adults – Mrs Black and Mrs McDougall are so proud of each and every one!

Although we didn’t win the main investment, we did secure a £50 seed funding to invest in our Toronto Boutique and Pantry.

We plan to share our vision for the expansion of The Toronto Boutique and Pantry at our next Parent Council Meeting on Tuesday 19th March.

We will also share all our plans and how you can access our Boutique and Pantry, here with you when we have ironed out all the logistics.

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Children in Need Danceathon 2022

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This year to raise money for Children in Need, we held a “Come as you Please” day and held a P1-7 Danceathon. Pupils and staff came to school wearing whatever they chose – some chose to wear their own clothes, some chose to wear their Pudsey t-shirts and accessories.

We threw some pretty awesome shapes at our Danceathon – the Macarena was definitely a favourite!

We raised a fantastic £149.33 for Children in Need!

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Remembrance Day Assembly

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On Friday at assembly we shared the very important message of remembering and the important symbol of the poppy. P3/4 helped to share this message with all their work they have been doing in class, from the beautiful poppy wreath, powerpoints of key facts and a touching poem they learned.  Thank you for helping us remember!

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We were feeling extremely humbled in Nursery today when Alison from the charity Mary’s Meals came in to collect a cheque for an incredible £80.38!

As part of our recent work on citizenship, Nursery staff decided that instead of accepting Christmas gifts from our lovely families, this year that we would ask them to forget the gifts for us and to try to contribute 25p so that we could raise £13.90 to feed a child for a year in a developing country. Mary’s Meals offered to double whatever we Managed to raise. Our amazing Nursery parents loved this idea and blew our target out of the water! We raised £80.38 which, once doubled by Mary’s Meals, will feed 12 children for a whole year! We can’t believe it! We are so grateful to have the most incredible children and families in our Nursery!

Alison, the representative from Mary’s Meals, was overjoyed to be invited in to speak with the children and she said that she had never heard of any other Nursery doing such a lovely charitable act in this way. Stuart from The Courier caught professional snaps and these photos will hopefully be published in The Courier next week or the following week.

For more information about the Mary’s Meals charity, follow this link:
https://www.marysmeals.org.uk/get-involved/campaigns/sponsor-a-school

Thank you again to our thoughtful families – we are overjoyed! Remember – no Christmas gifts! #familyengagement #citizenship @marysmeals

Children in Need and Breast Cancer Coffee Morning totals

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Thank you so much to everyone who donated delicious treats and came along this morning to help us raise money for Children in Need and Breast Cancer Awareness.  Now that all money has been counted we are delighted to let you know that together we managed to raise an incredible £968!  Phenomenal! 

This will be split equally between both charities.  Thanks again!

Team Jak Charity

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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/ jak-3

MacMillan Coffee Morning

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On behalf of Primary 7, we are delighted to inform you that we have raised an amazing £1155.44 for Macmillan cancer charity. Thank you to everyone who supported our coffee morning from coming along on the day to all the donations of fabulously delicious cakes and other treats we received. Your generosity again has been outstanding and is very, very much appreciated. We hope all who made it along had an enjoyable time.

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