The nursery children have been interested in learning about people who help us in our community. We had a visit to nursery from two police officers on motorbikes and the children who wanted to had a turn sitting on the bikes and then had a chance to ask the police some questions. Mary, our lovely lollipop lady came into the nursery to tell us all about what she does, and the children asked lots of questions. We were able to sing Mary a road safety with Ziggy song that we had learnt. We also had Mrs Grieve who is a nurse, and one of our mums, who came in and showed us what nurses who work in theatre wear and the children tried out some of the equipment. This week we went down to the local Fire Station for a visit and the children got to try on helmets, sit in the fire engine and learn all about what fire fighters do! Through these real-life experiences and imaginary play, we are learning how local shops and services provide us with what we need in our daily lives. Also, by exploring our local community, we are learning about the different roles people play and how they can help. Who knows what the future brings for these little people. We are having a visit from our local Coastguard soon to learn about all the work they do for us. 
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Focus on Fairtrade
Our Fairtrade committee have been working very hard this year to re-apply for our status as a FairAchiever school. To do this we had to complete the following actions:
- Adopt a Fairtrade Policy
- Review our Action Plan
- Embed Learning
- Use Fairtrade Products
- Complete 2 challenges – we choose Fairtrade cafe and promoting Fairtrade school uniform.
- Complete both learner and teacher audits – our learner audit has showed us where we need to focus over the next 3 years, our teacher audit told us that Fairtrade can be taught in many subjects, Health and Wellbeing, Social Subjects, Maths and Literacy.
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- 1. Fairtrade Policy signed by Pupil Council, Parent Council and Head Teacher
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- 3. Some resources used with our classes.
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- 3. Some resources used with our classes.
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- 4. Fairtrade Products on sale at our cafe.
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- 4. Fairtrade Football raffle held for children and parents.
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- 5. A busy Fairtrade cafe
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- 5. Making Fairtrade logo during our cafe
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- 5. Fairtrade cake stall at the cafe
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- 5. Working with Koolskools, we now offer a Fairtrade option for school uniform.
We also wrote to Tayside Contracts to ask them to use Fairtrade products whenever possible in the supplying of nursery snack and our school dinners, we had new cupboards installed in school and were given a donation of 100 white mugs, allowing us to be more eco-friendly when catering for events in our school. Thanks to Carnoustie/Panbride church. Many children painted the Fairtrade logo onto rocks at our cafe and the committee then hid them around Carnoustie for the public to find and to promote Fairtrade – we think ‘Fairtrade Rocks’ and we hope you do too.
Inspection Report
Our Inspection Report has been published and we are all feeling very proud. We are proud of our children, our staff and our whole community. Below is a copy of our report. There are also links which take you to the summary of inspection findings which give more detail of the inspector’s visit and their findings.
28 August 2018
Dear Parent/Carer
In June 2018, a team of inspectors from Education Scotland visited Woodlands Primary School
and Nursery Class. During our visit, we talked to parents/carers and children and worked
closely with the headteacher and staff. We gathered evidence to enable us to evaluate aspects
of the quality of leadership and children’s achievements.
The inspection team found the following strengths in the school’s work.
Staff have created a nurturing, inclusive learning environment, where children are
developing resilience for learning, and attaining and achieving very successfully. The highly
effective leadership team, led by the headteacher have a clear vision for the school and
give well-defined direction to staff. They involve stakeholders in the life and work of the
school.
Children are confident, successful learners. They are motivated to do well, and are very
enthusiastic about their learning. They are very articulate, respectful and contribute well to
the life and work of the school.
Staff work together very well to implement whole school approaches to self-evaluation.
They track children’s progress effectively, and identify priorities for improvement which lead
to improved outcomes for all children.
Staff have taken forward well-planned improvements for learning, teaching and assessment
to raise attainment in numeracy and mathematics across the school. Sector leading
approaches to embedding a numeracy-rich environment for learning, which is leading to
excellent progress in early mathematics for almost all children in the nursery class.
The following area for improvement was identified and discussed with the headteacher and a
representative from Angus Council.
As planned staff should develop further approaches for learning, teaching and assessment
for literacy, with the same rigor they brought to improving numeracy and mathematics.
Woodlands Primary School and Nursery Class Inspection Report
Summarised Inspection Findings for Woodlands Primary School and Nursery Class
