Inspection Report


Please follow this link to access the letter for parents/ carers sent on behalf of Her Majesty’s Inspectors of Education.
https://education.gov.scot/media/t0cckfpe/grangepsncins210120.pdf
I am sure you will agree that the report captures the features of outstanding practice that make Grange great! To find out more please follow these links:
https://education.gov.scot/media/tmsc3s1y/grangepssif210120.pdf – primary
https://education.gov.scot/media/gfvohwhg/grangepsncsif210120.pdf – nursery
Thank you to everyone for your ongoing support of our fantastic school and I look forward to celebrating with the children on Friday afternoon at discos P1-4 2.00-2.30pm and P5-7 2.30-3.15pm.
The children are invited to ‘dress down’ on Friday and to being a snack/ drink…it’s party time!!
#timetoshine #believe #superproudHT

GREAT GRANGE LEARNING

What a positive start it has been to our new term at Grange, with so much Great Grange Learning underway. As always there is a buzz of activity and learning around our school as we all continue to REACH FOR THE STARS! #believe…

#progress – This term we will issue our first of three Progress Updates of the year to let you know how the children are progressing in their learning. Based upon feedback from parents last session we have included a teacher comment and the children’s own learning goals. Where children are not yet making the progress we would hope for, staff will be in touch to discuss the support which is in place in school and ways you can help at home. I am sure you will continue to be as impressed as I am by the children’s ability to discuss their progress in learning at our upcoming Learner Led Conferences. On the night the children will also be Sharing Our Learning from our Gaming @ Grange project so don’t miss it!

#positivity – We all know at Grange that we need to be challenged in our learning to become Great Grange Learners and our aim this year is to increase the level of challenge for everyone.We have used feedback from parents, staff and children to come up with our own definition of what we mean by CHALLENGE at Grange…

CHALLENGE IS EITHER TAKING THE NEXT STEP IN LEARNING OR LEARNING THAT STIMULATES YOU TO THINK, REASON OR SOLVE PROBLEMS – SOMETIMES IT’S BOTH!!

This is a first draft and we plan to use this with the children to help us have a shared understanding of what challenge looks like and of course what it feels like (it doesn’t always feel good!). Our staff have been working hard to try out different ways of increasing challenge in our classrooms and I look forward to sharing our progress with you over the year.

#rightchoices – We continue to have weekly Bounce Back sessions in our classes to help the children explore their social and emotional well-being. This will be particularly helpful as we move forward with our work on challenge as we all need the resilience to deal with our mistakes in learning and to use mistakes as opportunities to learn. Our Health Hub MAD group will continue to work hard to encourage everyone to make healthy choices and our Eco Warriors are doing a great job with their recycling duties – well done everyone!

#engageyourself – Our MAD Fundraisers are delighted to have raised over £650 from their apple crumble bags and the chocolate tombola. Thank you to everyone who supported them and they have great plans for the Christmas Fayre to build on their profit to help pay for our Christmas cinema trip. Another exciting enterprise venture has been developed by a group of P5 boys who are making and selling waffles to raise funds for our playground so watch out for more information – look out Sir Alan Sugar! Huge thanks as always to our Parent Council and Grange Gabbers for continuing to support the school by sharing views and opinions and for organising fantastic Halloween events for everyone. Don’t forget that the minutes from Parent Council meetings can be accessed on the school blog and everyone is always welcome to come along and help to improve our school. Our next family learning event will look at supporting our children to cope with anxiety and to build resilience – we look forward to seeing you on the night!

#acceptance –  We strive at Grange to make sure that we know all of our children on an individual basis to ensure they are making progress in learning and that they are happy! To help us with this we will be reviewing our Great Grange Relationships policy this Friday at Grange Gabbers 9.30-10.30am where we will share scripts used by staff and we will discuss rewards and consequences. Please come along if you would like to get involved – by sharing your views and opinions you help us to improve and to continue to make Grange great!

As you can imagine this is just a snapshot of all the amazing work that is going on in our school… I continue to feel privileged to work with such committed staff and of course wonderful children. Their energy, creativity and enthusiasm make our school the vibrant learning environment that it is and make us all proud to be Grangers! #believe

 

 

GAME ON!

#positivity…This term has seen the start of our first whole school topic ‘Gaming’ which was launched by a visit from The Code Show. This was an exhibition which demonstrated the development of technology and gaming over the years. The classes are now immersed in game design and coding and we plan to share our learning with parents over our Learner Led Conferences in November.

#rightchoices…To link with our whole school topic we held our first in a series of family learning events ‘Parenting in a Digital Generation’. The evening focused upon the impact of digital technology and social media upon our children’s well-being. It was very thought provoking and the evaluations from parents were extremely positive. Please have a look on our blog for more information about apps, online safety and of course our fantastic ‘Guarding Grange’ vlogs!

#engageyourself…Over the last few weeks we have hosted our first Grange Gabbers and Nursery Natters meeting, a Staff Gabbers meeting and our first Mini Gabbers for the children. These all proved really useful ways of getting informal feedback to help us improve. We got ideas and views from parents and staff around ‘challenge’ which is one of our main areas of improvement. The children shared their views about the playground, timetabling and the dinner hall which we will take forward over the coming weeks.

#acceptance…We are continuing with our focus on ‘happiness’ with weekly ‘Bounce Back’ sessions to help everyone reflect upon relationships and resilience. At a recent staff meeting Mrs McIntosh and Mrs Balfour shared their approaches to daily ‘check ins’ which help to ensure that everyone is ready to learn after break and lunch. Mr Muir and Miss Henderson shared the SPLAT programme which offers our children a range of activities to develop social skills in an inclusive way. Our next family learning evening will support our work in school by considering the topics of anxiety and resilience.

#progress…At Learn to Learn last week our P7s shared their thoughts about ‘challenge’ and our task is now to take their ideas along with the feedback from staff and parents to come up with a definition of what challenge means at Grange! Our shared definition will then help us to recognise challenge in our classrooms as we all know at Grange that challenge helps us to become better learners. The next Head Teacher Challenge will involve every class in creating a ‘Stuck Stop’ to give the children strategies and resources to use when they are stuck! This will help everyone to cope with challenges and to become more independent – P6 will report back in October.

#believe…As if all of the above isn’t enough we hosted one of the most exciting community events Monifieth has seen, our Outdoor Cinema. The sun was shining and our families came in droves to see The Greatest Showman and of course Despicable Me. Huge thanks go out to the parents who made this ambitious idea into a wonderful reality (you know who you are!). In true Grange style we made a memory which will surely last a lifetime and reminded everyone that we should dream big and always REACH FOR THE STARS!

 

…where pupils, staff and families REACH FOR THE STARS!

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