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We have a fantastic week in Primary 1! Everyone has done fantastic work during our phonics lessons. In Primary 1 we will be learning a new sound every day which it lots of work but all the boys and girls have been fantastic. We use Read Write in to help us learn our sounds. We ... Continue reading Week two in Primary 1 →

From next week, we look forward to bringing you news of the travels of Taylor our class mascot. He will be journeying beyond the school to see what the members of Tay class get up to! This week has been lovely! It has been our first full week as members of Tay. We have enjoyed ... Continue reading ThelifeofTay! →

Welcome Back, Everyone! A new school year means new adventures, new friends, and exciting things to learn! Over the next few weeks, we'll be getting into our classroom routines so we know just what to do each day. We created our new door design with Mrs. Saunders, and went over our class/school values, ... Continue reading First week in P5 complete✔️ →

Wow what an amazing first week in Primary 1! All the boys and girls have settled in well to school and are gaining confidence when going for break and lunch with the other boys and girls. We have been learning our school values and that we all have rights. We all used our finger ... Continue reading Welcome to Primary 1 →

Welcome Back! ✏️ We're excited to begin a new school year together! As we settle in, we'll be building our classroom routines so that everyone knows what to expect and feels confident each day. A special welcome to our new student Jack —you're joining a caring, hardworking class, and we can't wait to learn and ... Continue reading First week back in Rannoch →

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 →