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.
Christmas Choir
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Christmas Bauble Competition
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 all over the world and was a super representation of the cultures and languages spoken in our school – Bulgarian, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Polish to name just a few.
The Language Ambassadors announced 1 winner from each class this morning at assembly, the winning designs were hung on our school Christmas tree.
Challenge Poverty Week – P7
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.
Challenge Poverty Week – P6/7
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.
Challenge Poverty Week 2024
During Challenge Poverty Week 2024, Primary 3 explored some big questions:
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What does West Lothian do to help people in poverty?
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What does Toronto PS do to help poverty?
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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 school clubs.
Primary 3 also had a visit from Mrs McDougall, our Family link Worker, who came and explained what she does in her job does to help.
For our school to provide further support to our families and community we identified a wide range of ideas, including creating a knitting or sewing club to make scarves and hats to keep families warm, having fruit bowls in classes, and much more!
We then made posters to express our thoughts and ideas.
P4/5 Save a Life Scotland
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.
Social Enterprise Academy Awards 2024
On Tuesday this week a group of Primary 5 and Primary 7 children made their way to the Assembly rooms in Edinburgh to attend the Social Enterprise Academy’s Award ceremony, where they collected an award for their work they have done with the Toronto Boutique so far and their plans to develop it further to include a food pantry.
The Assembly rooms were so beautiful, we were in awe of the grandeur. We also got to listen to the Deputy First Minister, Kate Forbes speaking about how we are contributing to changing the future.
Signing and singing the alphabet in P5
Two Primary 5 pupils have been keen to share their knowledge of what they have been learning in class and during their own time. Here they are signing and singing the alphabet!
P5’s French Breakfast
Our French Breakfast
This term, in French, P5 have been learning all about food. We have played hangman in French and used ICT to reinforce our learning.
Today we enjoyed a French breakfast and activities linked to our learning. This included: writing in French, role play of being in a café and a wordsearch.
WL Dragons Den 2024
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.
