Category Archives: School Information

Policies, Profiling, School Aims, School Values, School Vision Statement

Curriculum Rationale

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Please find below our new Curriculum Rationale that has been written in consultation with pupils, parents and staff.

Our School Vision Statement

 All members of our learning community ‘Believe’ in themselves and thus ‘Achieve’ the best they can which will ultimately enable them to ‘Succeed’ in all they do.

Believe in yourself, Achieve your best, Succeed in all you do.

Our School Aims

  • We aim to prepare all our young people with the skills, knowledge and attributes for the challenges of the future.
  • We aim to create a learning environment which stimulates, challenges, supports and provides opportunities to develop independent learners.
  • We aim to deliver an innovative and creative curriculum which is relevant to our children’s lives and promotes personalisation and choice.
  • We aim to provide high quality learning and teaching experiences to enable every child to reach their full potential.
  • We aim to foster our core values through creating a positive and welcoming school ethos.
  • We aim to support each child’s skills and talents through recognition and celebration of individual achievements.
  • We aim to promote effective partnerships between home, school and the wider community.

Our School Values

  • Enthusiastic – I am passionate and excited by learning.
  • Friendly – I show compassion towards others and am considerate of their feelings.
  • Inclusive – I accept others and appreciate diversity.
  • Respectful – I am considerate and courteous to others.
  • Responsible – I am accountable for my learning and my actions.
  • Successful – I try my best individually and as a team member.

Curriculm Rationale

Pupil Council, School Aims

New School Aims

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As a school we have recently created new school aims from information we gathered from pupils, parents and staff. Our new aims are:

  • We aim to prepare all our young people with the skills, knowledge and attributes for the challenges of the future.
  • We aim to create a learning environment which stimulates, challenges, supports and provides opportunities to develop independent learners.
  • We aim to deliver an innovative and creative curriculum which is relevant to our children’s lives and promotes personalisation and choice.
  • We aim to provide high quality learning and teaching experiences to enable every child to reach their full potential.
  • We aim to foster our core values through creating a positive and welcoming school ethos.
  • We aim to support each child’s skills and talents through recognition and celebration of individual achievements.
  • We aim to promote effective partnerships between home, school and the wider community.

Our new Pupil Council rewrote the aims into child friendly language, these will be displayed in classes.

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Anytime Anywhere Learning, Primary 1, Primary 2, Primary 3, Primary 5, Primary 7, Pupil Council, School Improvement Plan, Technologies

School Improvement Plan: Pupil Version

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At our Pupil Council Meeting this week we looked at the School Improvement Plan and what this would look like, sound like and feel like in our school. The pupils worked together in small groups to use OneNote to collaborate together using the one document, with the other pupils supporting the younger ones.

Here is a copy of our School Improvement Plan in a child friendly version: pupil-version-sip-16-17

English & Literacy, Events, iAchieve, School Improvement Plan

Meet the Teacher 2016

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On Thursday we held our annual Meet the Teacher event. This was an opportunity for parents and carers to find out what our school priorities are for the year, meet their child/ren’s teacher and find out about their learning. Thank you to everyone who attended this event, and to the house ad vice captains for helping out. If you were unable to attend the presentations and learning letters will be available in the blog.

Feedback from the event included:

  • I am fully aware and impressed with the plans for this session.
  • I feel more informed.
  • Great to know what my child will be learning in the coming year,
  • Useful to know about the class routine.
  • Very happy to see the amount of resources available.

Standards and Quality Report

Health & Wellbeing, Primary 5, School Values

Gotta live them all in P5B

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As part of our welcome to P5B week, we worked together to create our class charter which will help us to be a successful class throughout this year. We began by voting on a theme for our charter, then we created a design for it in pairs. We combined our designs to put together the final pokemon themed product. We used the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to help us create some class rules that linked into the 7 different key articles that we explored.

We agreed that in P5B, we will…

  • Listen to each other and respect each others’ opinions.
  • Respect each others’ privacy.
  • Take part in a range of different learning activities to develop our talents and skills. We will always try our best.
  • Keep our environment and classroom as safe and as healthy as we can.
  • Respect people from all countries and their languages, religions and cultures.
  • Respect each others’ right to an education by staying focused and on task and not distracting others.
  • Make sure we take time to play and relax. We will let people join in our games by being inclusive.
Health & Wellbeing, Primary 5, School Values

Welcome to P5A

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P5a explored some Articles from the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child to help create our class charter.

“We looked at the rights of children.”  (Kuba)

“We went into pairs to think about the right and drew a picture of what it means to us.” (Freya)

We voted on how to display our charter.  “We made scuba divers and creatures for our underwater theme.” (Daniel).

We have all been working very hard earning Well Done Tokens and Dojo points for following our charter and living our class values.