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P6 Fun and Fitness with WL College Students

Today, Primary 6 had the opportunity to work with a group of West Lothian College HND students in fun fitness tests, relay races and games. The children had a brilliant time and are really looking forward to their next session.

 

Christmas Carolling

P6/7 have been investigating Christmas in Bulgaria. As part of their learning the learned a Bulgarian Carol and want ed to share their learning with the rest of the school. Yesterday P6/7 went carolling to the different blocks to share their song. Listen to it here:

https://youtu.be/6X_kAovxXjs

Community Art

Ursula Cheng came into school this week as part of a community art project. Ursula is collating ideas from local schools and community groups as she is planning to use these ideas to paint a local tunnel.
The children at Toronto helped Ursula to make paints from natural materials such as fruit and vegetables and used these to paint their own pictures.

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:
  • What does West Lothian do to help people in poverty?
  • What does Toronto PS do to help poverty?
  • 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.

P7 Visit to Heriot Watt

Primary 7 enjoyed a visit to Heriot Watt University where they had fun designing and testing their own parachutes, took part in fun activities to programme the Sphero bots and also learned more about life at University.

In January Primary 7 pupils took part in the Watt Box challenge, set by Heriot Watt University. The University staff challenged our P7’s to design a chariot which could travel 2 metres and be pushed or pulled by a Sphero Bot.  The staff from Heriot Watt were so impressed with the enthusiasm and skills shown by the children, including their preparation and design process, and as a result Toronto Primary were chosen as the Inveralmond Cluster winners.  For being the winning ICHS cluster school Heriot Watt invited our P7 children to visit the university to take part in a variety of STEM based activities.

New P1 Buddies

Our P6 pupils at Toronto have recently been preparing for one of their important and responsible roles for P7 in August.

P6’s submitted application forms, undertook an interview and completed training sessions to prepare them for being a Buddy to our new P1’s in August. P6 are now well equipped for this responsible role and are looking forward to meeting their buddies very soon!