Torphichen Primary and ELC

Last week, our Community Police Officers helped us to check the speed of vehicles passing through our village. This is part of our local campaign to encourage drivers to drive through our local village at the correct speed limit. #WiderCommunity #CommunityIssue #WhatIf

Capturing spiderweb during #Exploration time #creativity #OutdoorLearning #SenseMaking

Some of our pupils were out delivering fliers around our village yesterday to canvas if a 'Winter Clothing Swap Shop' would be helpful in our community. #sustainability #community @SocEntAcademy @WL_UNCRC @KSBScotland

Our Food Bank donations were the equivalent of 65 meals. Pupils toured round the warehouse and the garden where the foodbank has over 200 raised beds to grow fresh fruit and vegetables. #community @wlfoodbank @KSBScotland @WL_UNCRC

When pupils take the initiative in their learning it leads to wonderful things! River tidy up planned,organised and carried out by our pupils today! #SDG4 #LifeBelowWater #sustainability #4contexts @WL_UNCRC @KSBScotland

#showcase #PupilLead #Projects #agile #skills #SchoolCommunity #4contexts

Pur first #showcase event this morning had a great turn out. Lots of projects lead by our pupils - planes, friendships bracelets, movies, pancake making and much more! #whatif #4contexts #skills

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Each year I wonder if there’s more I can do to help teachers starting out with play. Advice and training tends to come after you’ve started so I made a wee video with some thoughts. Getting started with play pedagogy - Realising the Ambition youtu.be/Q1KKiD4_B_c via @YouTube

Fire pit magic and campfire songs!

Yummy ice cream in the rain - thanks to our PTA for organising this! @TorphichenC

Bubble Art in the morning!

So much fun at our School Fun Fat at The Craigs campsite yesterday! Thank you to our fantastic PTA for providing a fantastic lunch!!!!

We are delighted to share that this week we received our Silver Award for Rights Respecting Schools Award. Our pupils, staff, parents and partners were central to this process and we thank them all for speaking so passionately about how we do learning in our school. @WL_UNCRC

Quiz Time! #forestopia #WhatIf #sustainability @be_daydream @EducationScot

Some highlights from our day at The Royal Highland Show following our #forestopia presentation.

Super proud of our confident individuals speaking this morning about #forestopia @be_daydream @EducationScot

We are ready to inspire others about the benefits of #forestopia @EducationScot @be_daydream #whatif #sustainability #creativity

Well done to Westfield Primary pupils and Mrs Browne for organising a very unique tournament for all the small schools in West Lothian! #whatif #uncrc #RightToJoinGroups @UNICEF_uk #community

Congratulations to our Ski team - 3rd place in this year's team dual slalom competition. Clean sweeps for Alex, Cameron and Isaac! Well done to Rosie for competing in her first competition Finally, well done to Isla won an instructor award for the 2nd year.