Welcome to Kirkcaldy West Primary School Glow site!
Our overarching vision is for our learners to develop within the four capacities to ensure they grow and learn as Successful Learners, Confident Individuals, Effective Contributors and Responsible Citizens. This will enable them to contribute to a modern Scotland as young people and adults. To celebrate achievements, learners identify one of the the four capacities to focus on, with pupils sharing their success in the identified capacity with their teacher. Successes are celebrated in class as well as at assemblies. Success is also shared on corridor display boards around the school.
Our values of Respect + Knowledge + Wellbeing + Perseverance + Success (R+K+W+P+S) underpin our ethos, expectations, positive behaviour approaches and classroom practice. Pupils work throughout the school session to collect our RKWPS badges and proudly wear them to share their successful journey in showing our school values in practice. Sitting alongside our values is ‘The West Way’ which is a set of agreed aims and principles that we live our school lives by namely: showing respect, helping others, making good choices, showing good manners and looking after our school. The language of the West Way is regularly used, discussed and incorporated into class charters.
We have a keen parent council who have recently appointed a new chairperson and secretary. Many of our parents are willing to support the school and nursery and we have seen a fantastic amount of money raised over the last few months. Our parents are also keen to support learning and have recently been involved with STEM groups and Bikeability training.
We have started up our Breakfast Club from 8:30am and this is supported by catering staff and PSAs (60p per day). After school care is not currently available although our parents/carers have recently been sent a feasibility survey from Fife Strategy Childcare provision.
