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Deerpark Primary School has been awarded a hat-trick of prestigious awards

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Deerpark Primary School has been awarded a hat-trick of prestigious awards.
We have been recognised to a gold standard by School Sports Scotland, the Scottish Book Trust and Emotion Works.
The School Sports Scotland Gold Award recognises the school’s high level of participation in physical education, school sports events, clubs, and broader sports activities.
The school’s sports committee played a pivotal role in achieving the award, contributing to the action plan and providing the assessors with their own evidence.
The Gold Reading School Certificate from the Scottish Book Trust recognises the school’s dedication to cultivating a love of reading among its pupils. The committee was impressed by the extensive work put in by both staff and students to foster a vibrant reading culture. Key initiatives include visits from Macastory, reading cafés, a well-stocked library, book nooks, and classroom libraries.
The Gold Emotion Works Award, recognises the school’s exceptional implementation of the Emotion Works programme over the past three years. This comprehensive programme has supported learners to develop emotional literacy and identifying effective strategies for managing their emotions. From Primary 1 through to Primary 7, learners have embraced the programme, which has positively impacted both their emotional wellbeing and overall school experience.
The school’s headteacher Anne Rice is delighted with the trio of the awards and thanked staff, parents and pupils for their hard work and dedication.
Clackmannanshire Council, February, Rights Respecting Schools

Rights Respecting Schools

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We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded Rights Respecting Schools – Silver Rights Aware status. Silver – Rights Aware is the second stage of the Rights Respecting Schools Award.

The award is granted by UNICEF UK to schools that show good progress towards embedding children’s rights in their policy, practice and ethos. The school was assessed by one of UNICEF UK’s Professional Advisers who looked at the whole school’s rights respecting work.

Achieving Silver: Rights Aware means that Deerpark is embedding the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, promotes knowledge and understanding of the UNCRC throughout the school community and is seeing a positive impact of this on the school’s ethos, practice and environment.

The whole school community are delighted their efforts have been recognised and are now aiming to become a Gold Rights Respecting School.