Welcome to John Fergus School
Welcome to our website! We are so pleased that you have looked for us and would like to learn more about our wonderful children and young people and what we do at JFS.
John Fergus is a small school for pupils with complex additional support needs. The school catchment is the town of Glenrothes and the surrounding villages and placement is determined by application through the AMG process. Our learners are from age 3 to age 18. Each class team is made up of a teacher and a number of Level 3 Pupil Support Assistants.
John Fergus School delivers the Curriculum with Personalisation and Choice at the fore and a strong family centred approach to learning. With Communication and Literacy at the centre, pupils are given real life experiences through Numeracy and Maths, Health and Wellbeing and Skills for Learning, Life and Work, encouraging Pupil Voice through a total communication approach, which recognises preferred method of communication. Close partnerships with parents mean individual targets are set to help meet needs within the home and community and as a result, our children and young people’s lives are enhanced.
We also have close working partnerships with our local nursery, primary and secondary schools, encouraging inclusion for our learners, appropriate to their individual needs.
Partnership with the local college also allows senior learners to access courses and for us to accommodate students from their courses that train Pupil Support Assistants.
We have strong working partnerships with a range of professionals, including health, which includes a Pupil Support Nurse, based in JFS for much of the week.
We are very proud to be an active member of our local community, partnering on projects and generally being out and about making the most of it for our learning and teaching.
John Fergus School seeks to develop those qualities that best enable each individual to operate as effectively as possible in their own environment. The school upholds the principle that every person has the right to develop their abilities in their own way, to their own limits, as a whole person.
