{"id":13,"date":"2019-05-05T10:36:55","date_gmt":"2019-05-05T10:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/?page_id=13"},"modified":"2025-10-30T12:19:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T12:19:10","slug":"vision-values-and-aims","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/our-school\/vision-values-and-aims\/","title":{"rendered":"Vision, Values, Aims and Curriculum Rationale"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Our Vision, Values and Aims<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/public\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/uploads\/sites\/10585\/2019\/05\/Vision-values-aims.bmp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"114\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/our-school\/vision-values-and-aims\/vision-values-aims\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/public\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/uploads\/sites\/10585\/2019\/05\/Vision-values-aims.bmp\" data-orig-size=\"671,173\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Vision values aims\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/public\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/uploads\/sites\/10585\/2019\/05\/Vision-values-aims.bmp\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/public\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/uploads\/sites\/10585\/2019\/05\/Vision-values-aims.bmp\" class=\"size-full wp-image-114 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/public\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/uploads\/sites\/10585\/2019\/05\/Vision-values-aims.bmp\" alt=\"\" width=\"671\" height=\"173\" \/><\/a><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Vision<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>\u201c<strong>Nurturing learning and achievement<\/strong>\u201d is our vision in Dundonald Primary and Early Years Centre.<\/p>\n<p>At Dundonald Primary and Early Years Centre we want <strong>everyone<\/strong> to feel <strong>nurtured<\/strong> (Article 9), <strong>included<\/strong> (Article 23) and <strong>involved<\/strong> in all aspects of early years and school life.\u00a0 <strong>Everyone<\/strong> has the right to engage in <strong>high-quality learning<\/strong>, to <strong>achieve success<\/strong> (Article 29) and to experience <strong>positive relationships<\/strong> (Article 4 and 5).\u00a0 We aspire to be a school of excellence where the children are at the heart of all that we do.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Values<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>Respect, perseverance and kindness<\/strong> are the 3 core values that permeate throughout Dundonald school community.\u00a0 These help us to focus on our aspirational vision and aims for our school and EYC. (Articles 1, 2, 15 and 28).<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Aims<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Our aims are founded on the shared values and ambitions of the school and its wider community.<\/p>\n<p>At Dundonald Primary School and Early Years Centre we aim to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Provide a <strong>safe<\/strong> and <strong>nurturing<\/strong> environment <strong>for all <\/strong>(Article 19)<\/li>\n<li>Develop <strong>all pupils\u2019<\/strong> self-esteem and confidence to allow them to reach their full potential (Article 28)<\/li>\n<li>Recognise and celebrate achievement for <strong>all pupils<\/strong> within and beyond school<\/li>\n<li>Encourage children to be actively involved within the school and their own community (Article 11)<\/li>\n<li>Provide everyone with challenging, motivating, positive and purposeful <strong>learning experiences<\/strong> (Article 29)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our aim at Dundonald is to ensure <strong>all pupils<\/strong> fulfil their potential as <strong>Successful Learners, Responsible Citizens, Effective Contributors and Confident Individuals<\/strong> through engaging fully with school life and embedding our vision and values in our practice.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong style=\"font-size: 26px\">Our Curriculum Rationale\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">In Session 2022-2023, we worked together with our staff, our children and families to identify:\u00a0 what our unique qualities are in Dundonald PS and EYC and what is most important to us.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">After consulting with everyone, we created our Curriculum Rationale.\u00a0 Our Curriculum Rationale explains what we are aiming to achieve through our curriculum &#8211; our Rationale explains what we want for our children and how we will work together to achieve it.\u00a0 Please click on the link below to read our Curriculum Rationale.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/public\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/uploads\/sites\/10585\/2025\/10\/30121852\/Curriculum-Rationale-Poster.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>Dundonald PS and EYC Curriculum Rationale<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our Vision, Values and Aims Vision \u201cNurturing learning and achievement\u201d is our vision in Dundonald Primary and Early Years Centre. At Dundonald Primary and Early Years Centre we want everyone to feel nurtured (Article 9), included (Article 23) and involved in all aspects of early years and school life.\u00a0 Everyone has the right to engage &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/our-school\/vision-values-and-aims\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Vision, Values, Aims and Curriculum Rationale<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":0,"parent":9,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-13","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1687,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13\/revisions\/1687"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/9"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/sa\/dundonaldpsandeyc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}