School Blog

We have enjoyed a lovely first few days together as the Tay Class of 2025-2026. We have already enjoyed many new experiences with each other and look forward to many, many, more as our year unfolds...We hope that you can join us along the way!

Well what an amazing year we had together and we are all looking forward to being Primary 2's in August This week we have enjoyed a whole school water fight, a chance to celebrate mass in the church, Primary 7 leavers assembly, class party and so much more! I think it's safe to ... Continue reading Last week in Primary 1 →

Over the last 2 weeks, as part of a whole school topic, P2 have been learning all about recycling. ♻️ We started our topic by having a pupil voice planning session as to what we would like to learn and what we already knew. We read through our story book and made a list in ... Continue reading P2's Recycling Fortnight →

P5 were delighted to win a prestigious award for literacy this week. In January, we did a lot of literacy work on our Scots Poetry topic including writing a biography of Rabbie Burns, learning and reciting his poems, creating our own Scots poems and hosting a Burn supper for parents. We met benchmarks across reading, ... Continue reading P5 win Creativity in Literacy Award →

The scientists from the University of Edinburgh were back in P5 this week sharing our results from our DNA experiment. Well done to everyone! We discovered that it's easier to extract DNA from strawberries than it is from grapes. Our experiment was part of their research into DNA and will be published in a forthcoming ... Continue reading Scientists in P5 →

Scientists from the University of Edinburgh visited P5 for the third time to complete our investigation into the DNA extraction of fruit. We completed the experiment a few weeks ago when the scientists first visited, and today found out our results. All four groups successfully extracted DNA from grapes, but we discovered it is easier ... Continue reading Scientists visit P5 →

What a busy week we have had in Primary 1. On Monday we made cakes , we had to use lots of skills, measuring, mixing as well as working as part of a group. On Tuesday we planned, prepared and had a class party we decided what games to play, music and talked about ... Continue reading Primary 1 →

Primary 2 have had a busy but brilliant week! We finished off our money topic by finalising our understanding of 'change' through our very own shop! We made 50p in different ways, using different coins and purchased our sweeties, working out the change we should receive. Everyone did brilliantly! As part of our recycling ... Continue reading Primary 2's Week →

We had so much fun at Mill Farm!! Sounds. Sensations. Feeling. Listening, It was a super, super,day.

P4 had a fantastic trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. We watched the sealion show and learned all about their health and how we can help them by looking after the environment. We got to pet some goats and sheep and we loved how soft they were. We saw lions, an elephant, giraffes and camels. ... Continue reading P4 at the safari park →

P5 have been very busy these last few weeks! We are currently in the middle of exploring the DNA of fruit samples as part of a study with Edinburgh University scientists. We conducted the experiment last week and will welcome the scientists back next week for the results. The results will be used at uni ... Continue reading P5's busy weeks! →

This week in primary 1 we are all proud that we completed our first class assembly. Some of us were very nervous but we all rose to the occasion. The video will be posted on seesaw. We also participated in our first school sports day! We worked hard in our house groups to collect ... Continue reading Primary 1 →