This week Ms McNiven is here with a story about a cat who decides to cook but doesn’t quite read the whole recipe! Find out what happens in The Witch’s Cat and the Cooking Catastrophe!

We love to read at Tollcross! For book week, we asked the adults at school to share their favourite books with you. The video is quite long as once we get started talking about books it is hard to stop us! 📚 We would love to hear about your favourite books too.

Ms Richardson has put together a special virtual library for book week. It has lots of different books that you can listen to at home.

This week our story is a dramatic tale of vegetables read by Ms Callachan. We hope you enjoy… Supertato! What Veggie Villan will you create? 🥔🍅🥕

This week Ms Menzies is here with another story for us. It looks like she has brought a friend with her too! You can see she is sitting in her cosy story corner at home. Do you have a favourite spot to enjoy a story? Maybe you can choose a friend to enjoy the story with today. 🐻🐨🐯

This week our coorie in story is read to you by Ms Brand! We hope you enjoy this funny story about being kind 🧦👞👖👔 🌈

This week, Miss Conry is here with our ‘coorie-in’ is in Scots! We hope you enjoy hearing the words for some of the different animals. Are there any Scots words you had heard before? Have you learned some new ones? My favourite is ‘hoolet!

We hope you enjoy ‘coorieing-in’ with lots of stories over the holidays. Here is one of our favourites…

Miss Richardson has some craft ideas for you to make your own Gruffalo family at home!

This booklet has lots of ideas for ‘coorieing in’ for the winter break including recipes and crafts.

A huge thank you to our fabulous Primary 7 for being such brilliant buddies. Many of you supported our Primary Ones when they were in Nursery and from their first visits to Primary One. We will miss you very much and wish you the best of luck for High School! We have some messages for you in the slideshow below.

Primary Ones, we hope you enjoy this slideshow of some of the fun you had together. There are some messages for you in here too!

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Today it is time for our final Coorie-In at home. We hope you enjoy today’s story read by Pauline! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zntNUiTmcdA

The story is set not too far from Edinburgh-did you recognise the Bass Rock?

And here are some ideas for some puffin crafts for you to try at home!

This link will take you to the website with instruction to help you draw your own puffin- https://www.theguardian.com/childrens-books-site/gallery/2015/mar/14/how-to-draw-a-puffin

Thanks again to everyone who has been in touch to share their story recommendations and Coorie-In crafts! We really love seeing them! You can email us admin@tollcross.edin.sch.uk or tweet us @Tollcross_P