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 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.