Our Standards and Quality report highlights our successes and improvements over the last year and can be found at the link below:
Newmilns PS and ECC Standards and Quality Report 2024-2025
The Summary of Our Improvement Plan for session 25/26 can be found at the links below.
Newmilns PS SIP Summary 2025-26
Excellent Lesson
Over the course of the last school session, staff worked together to refresh our Excellent Lesson. Children were involved in this too, when we gathered their thoughts at different Together Times. The Excellent Lesson is our expectation across all of our classrooms and will support our Quality Assurance processes across the school year.
Excellent Learning and Teaching Graphic 2024
Emotion Works
To complement our existing Health and Wellbeing programmes we have invested in an Emotional Literacy Programme called Emotion Works.
Emotion Works is an educational programme designed to support the development of emotional literacy across the school.
It uses different coloured cogs to help children understand the component model of emotions: how our emotions work and how they link to triggers, behaviours, body sensations, regulation strategies, intensity and influences.
More information can be found at the link below:
Care Inspectorate
In March 2025, our Early Learning and Childcare Centre took part in a pilot inspection using the new shared inspection framework. The Care Inspectorate will publish a report in due course and although this will not supersede the gradings below, our on going improvement work is recognised.
Our Early Childhood Centre was formally inspected by the Care Inspectorate for the first time on the 8th of February 2018. Full details can be found in the report below. The inspector was very happy with our centre and the progress we have made since opening in August 2016.
