Thank you to Primary 3 for a very informative assembly today. Lots of great singing and some very interesting facts about Scotland, well done !
Category Archives: celebrating success
India y Connor hablan español
Primary 6 have been learning to speak in Spanish. This lovely video made by Connor and India looks at a conversation between two puppets, Lola and Eduardo.
bueno trabajo y muy bien
Tollcross Christmas Fair
Thank you to everyone who came along to our school Christmas Fair on Saturtday. You helped us to raise £1300 for school funds. All of the money raised will help to pay for school trips and outings throughout the year. Thank you !
Tollcross Primary Wins Award for INNOVATING, CREATING, INSPIRING
The 2013 Children and Families Achievement Awards were held this evening at the Assembly Rooms on George Street. This sparkling ceremony was attended by children, young people and adults from Children and Families and hosted by Councillor Paul Godzik and Grant Lachlan. Tollcross Primary won a highly commended award in the INNOVATING, CREATING, INSPIRING category for our Outdoor PE Project at the Union Canal. Ms Brand, Miss Chadwick, Mr Devine, Yusef, Michal and Macha were there to collect the award. Well Done to everyone involved !
Tollcross Pupils Decorate the Christmas Tree at Point Hotel
Our pupils had a great time decorating the Christmas tree at the Point Hotel. All of our pupils took part in a competition to design a decoration for the tree with prizes for the winners. Pop along to see the tree and the super decorations after our school Christmas Fair on Saturday. Thank you to the staff at the Point Hotel who made our pupils feel so welcome and to the member of staff who took time to have a conversation with Pablo in Spanish. ¡gracias
Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers
Kate and Alchemy Arts would like to thank all the staff and pupils of for all the ideas and inspiration you have given for the Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers Trail. The wonderful ideas and artwork contributed by staff and pupils are now with the Edinburgh art Festival artists and designers and being made into the Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers guide and map.
From the 1st August the map and guide will be available to collect from the City Art Centre, Fruitmarket Gallery and Dovecot Studios. Families will be able to follow the guide, completing creative activities and collecting stamps along the way. Once all the stamps have been collected, families will be able to redeem a special limited edition prize from Trinity Apse, where they will also have the chance to play an extraordinary musical art piece!
We will be launching the Map and Guide at International Play Day on Wed 31st July. This will be the very first time the map and guide is available to the public. We would like to invite all Tollcross staff and pupils along to collect their map and guide and to celebrate all the hard work that has gone into it. We will also be running large scale
interactive art workshops which families can join in with.
International Play Day will take place on the Royal Mile between 12.30-4pm Wed 31 July. The whole Royal Mile from the city Chambers to North Bridge will be taken over by exciting play activities including a giant sandpit, huge water play area, magic potion making and the Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers art zone.
Edinburgh Art Festival Explorers can be found in the quadrangle of the City Chambers and will be creating some weird and wonderful art works.
We hope to see you there!
Ministers visit Tollcross Primary
Dr Alasdair Allan MSP, Minister for Learning, Science & Scotland’s Languages and Shona Robison MSP, Minister for Commonwealth Games & Sport visited Tollcross Primary this morning. During their visit, ministers met our P6/7 pupils and shared the Outdoor PE Route our pupils have created at the Union Canal. We are sure they enjoyed their visit.
This is what the ministers said about the Outdoor PE Project …
“Really impressed with the use of technology in this project. Kids really enjoyed the activities and were “puffed” by the end, which is what I like to see ! Would be good to see this idea shared with schools across Scotland.”
Shona Robison, Sports Minister
“Great to see the school so involved in designing and using something that helps you learn and keep fit at the same time. Sure other schools will want to copy.
Alastair Allan, Schools Minister
The Boys’ Relay Race gets off to a great start !
Tollcross compete at the Interscholastics
Well done to our athletics team who participated in the Interscholastics at Meadowbank today. We brought home medals, got into lots of finals and had a great day. Well done also to our official helpers and the best supporters ever ! Congratulations to Afolabi who won a gold medal in the 150m Sprint !
Maths Challenge Prizewinners
Congratulations to our seven prizewinning mathematicians from this year’s Mathematical Challenge at Edinburgh University. We won four bronze medals, one silver and two gold.
This represents a huge achievement by these children.
We had more prizewinners than all but one other primary school.
Tollcross Primary School 