
Coffee Morning Preparation
Inspired by P1-4’s outdoor learning yesterday, P1-7 created their very own hapa zome (Japanese art using natural materials) ready for TPS Parent Council’s coffee morning and car wash.

STEMOVATORS Event Oban – 6th May
We were absolutely delighted to hear from Miss Fraser that our pupils did us proud in Oban on Tuesday. In addition, we were overjoyed to find out, through a surprise visit from Mia from SAMS on Thursday morning, that Tayvallich Team 1 had won 3rd Prize in the Climate Ready

Fabulous Family Fridays
We are so lucky to have so many parents and family members who have been able to share information and stories about their career journeys. On Friday 25th April, we were delighted to welcome Sander Grafton in today to talk all about his work as a fisherman. We all learned

Outdoor Learning with Rowan and Sal
We have now had two fantastic outdoor learning sessions with Rowan and Sal from Tayvallich Initiative. The children and staff have been discovering the ways that we can care for the fantastic environment that surrounds us and make sure that we support it so it supports us long into the

Climate Ready Classrooms – visit from MacLeods
On Thursday the P5 to 7 children were extremely lucky to have a visit from Stuart MacDonald at MacLeods. MacLeods are celebrating their 50th anniversary this and are undertaking 50 special things throughout the year for themselves and the communities they serve. As part of this, Stuart came in and

LANDS25
The P5 to 7s represented us on Wednesday at this fantastic event which was part of Scottish Learning For Sustainability Week. They took part in an exciting range of indoor and outdoor STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) activities and discovered the learning and employment opportunities rooted in the lands

Fabulous Family Fridays
We were incredibly lucky to have not one but two family members come in this week to talk about their work, following on from Lorna MacArthur’s brilliant information session last week about being a teacher. Lorna showed us the items that are essential for a teacher to have in their

STEM LEARNING
P5-7 have been continuing to work hard on their understanding of STEM. Over the past few weeks we have been learning how to make a water wheel, a hydro scheme, batteries (from pennies, cardboard and vinegar) as well creating the beginnings of our sustainable school for the STEMOVATORS competition. We

Comic Relief – showing how we care
As part of our challenges for Comic Relief, the children have each been taking care of an egg for the day, without putting it down (unless it is left in the care of another trusted person for a short time) or cracking it. As of lunchtime, the children have been

Outdoor learning and play
This week has seen a lot of outdoor activity with soft start taking place in the sunshine and lunchtime Farm Club seeing the children washing the tractor wheels, establishing the farm to keep animals and planting cress, micro-greens, parsley and chives. Art club was equally busy with some extremely impressive

World Book Day 2025
For World Book Day on Thursday, P1-7 shared their favourite book characters with one another. They then partnered up to create a new, unusual story, for example: The adventures of Wednesday and Miss Honey, Captain Ahab and Dog Man and even Bart Simpson and Matilda.The pupils searched the playground for