Robust Vocabulary

This session we are pleased to be Rolling out our Robust Vocabulary Instruction Programme (RVI) and spreading it across the whole school to improve our Pupils Literacy Skills.

Our programme has been successful in:

• Improving our Pupils understanding of Tier 2 words – words that are robust and can be used in a range of contexts.
• Improving Oral Literacy Skills – learners who are confident when they talk with others and can express themselves.
• Improved Literacy Writing Attainment Levels
• Developed pupil understanding of Grammatical Structures, including past and present tense, single and plural rules.

We are extremely pleased to be continuing our collaboration with Fife Speech and Language Therapist Mhairi Bousie (SaLT), who worked collaboratively with staff members to create our RVI Programme – long may this partnership continue

 

 

Health Promoting School

As part of the national priority related to improving the diet and fitness of people in Scotland, our school is about to embark on a twin approach to fitness and diet. In school, children will be encouraged to choose healthy options at lunch and are able to buy fruit from the new healthy tuckshop. Try this great interactive game online. Fife Education has created its own Health Promoting Schools website to support this initiative. The national website offers a wealth of information and is worth visiting. Hungry for Success is an initiative linked directly to Health Promoting Schools.

 

 

International Education

Young people growing up in Scotland today can look forward to spending their working lives as citizens of an increasingly complex world. International education will become fundamental to their realising their potential in such a multicultural and global society.

International education is a broad concept, and it can be exemplified in a variety of forms and experiences. These include school-based experiences, often using ICT, in addition to school links, exchanges and overseas visits. Learning in and through international education can make learning about any subject or any cross-curricular theme more relevant and fun.

(Extract from Learning and Teaching Scotland website)

 

Global Citizenship

We are keen to involve our children in discussing global citizenship.

Global issues are important in the lives of all young people, living in a world where economies are increasingly interdependent and global communication is a daily reality. Young people have access to the internet and increased opportunity to travel, watch news stories from around the world as they develop and follow for example international sporting events as they happen. They have access to a wide range of cultural goods, media products and information from other countries, and an awareness of human transnational migration. The benefits for young people of international education include:

• having a platform from which to develop empathy and an active concern for those with whom they share the world

having an intercultural awareness which helps make connections with others and which helps combat racism and xenophobia

 

Global Partnership

Global School Partnerships promote partnerships between schools in the United Kingdom and schools in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean.

The programme aims to raise young people’s awareness of global development issues and equip them with the skills and knowledge to become active global citizens.

Our school is involved in the following ways:

 

E-Twinning

eTwinning enables our school to work with other schools in Europe through Information and Communications Technology (ICT). It can be a simple and straightforward way of finding partner schools and working on a range of exciting curriculum projects.

Two links offer more information

http://www.britishcouncil.org/etwinning

and

http://www.britishcouncil.org/etwinning-what-is-etwinning.htm

 

Rights Respecting School

 

The RRSA is a UNICEF scheme based on the U N Convention of Rights for the Child, which lies at the heart of humanity and at the core of the ethos of schools and communities. It is not only about teaching children about their rights but about reinforcing the universal principles of behaviour and values within their society.

Our schools is/will be undertaking this award scheme, which will align our school ethos and codes of conduct with the collective consensus throughout the planet – as virtually every country in the world has agreed upon the convention.

More information is found on the Unicef website.