Category: School Information

Posted on

Call for Help! Developing the Young Workforce!

Thank you to those who have responded to our form already. 

We are keen for our pupils to have opportunities to learn about a variety of skills and knowledge that may help encourage and inspire them to consider different options in the future.

During the year there are opportunities for class learning to link with occupations and skills for work. We would like to build a bank of volunteers to approach during the year to come in to talk to the children.

This could be class, group chats or running a workshop, whatever you feel comfortable with. If you would like to volunteer to talk about your job or skills please fill in the form below.

This can be shared with parents, carers and members of the community.

Posted on

Families Learning Together 4

On Thursday we had our fourth Families Learning Together session of the year. Family members joined their child to look at their learning progress in their jotters. Thank you to everyone who came along.

We also used this opportunity to engage families on self evaluating our school improvement plan.

Our nursery also had a Pop in and Play session and we had a fantastic turn out! Thanks to everyone who joined us.

Posted on

Nursery Care Inspection Success

As you know, in February our nursery underwent a Care Inspection under the new model of inspection.

They graded us: 

  • Quality of care and support 5 – Very Good
  • Quality of management and leadership 4 – Good

Some of the positives from the report included: 

  • We found the nursery to be welcoming with a warm and friendly atmosphere.
  • Children experienced kindness and compassion from staff that used physical affection, for example high fives and cuddles, to ensure children felt
    supported and secure.
  • The service provided different opportunities for parents to stay and participate in their child’s nursery experience, including termly ‘stay and play’ sessions.
  • A nursery blog, weekly newsletter and online learning journal were in place to share updates with parents.
  • Children requiring additional support had individualised plans in place which were subject to regular review.
  • Staff worked in partnership with other professionals, such as speech and language therapists and a link educational psychologist to ensure children experienced consistent and stable support.
  • It was evident staff valued snack time and understood the learning opportunities and positive experiences it could provide. Children enjoyed an unhurried snack in a relaxed atmosphere with many different conversations and social interaction taking place.
  • Children were encouraged to be active and had daily access to a well-equipped nursery garden.
  •  Staff supported children to risk assess independently by teaching them how to make judgments based on their
    individual abilities.
  • Staff told us they felt supported by the senior leadership team and all newly appointed staff confirmed they had a mentor to support their integration into the team.
  • Pumpherston and Uphall Station Community Primary School
    had experienced a number of recent changes, including staff roles and responsibilities, and their overarching approach to play, learning and development. The changes had been well led and managed, and were having a
    positive impact on children.
  • We found a strong commitment from senior leaders and staff to collegiate working within the setting and wider learning community.

You can read the full report here:

Nursery Care Inspecorate Report 2019

The positive finding of this reports reflects effectively our nursery team work together to provide high quality learning experiences and care for our children.

Posted on

Profiling @ PUSCPS

This session we are looking at improving our approaches to profiling. At our recent inservice day staff looked at our current approaches to profiling and some changes we would like to trial following some professional reading.

Please see below an overview of profiling in our school. We will be asking you for your feedback on some of our current and new ideas over the school session.

Profiling at PUSCPS

Posted on

P4-7 Pupil Profiling Survey

As part of our school improvement plan, Primary 4-7 took part in a survey to evaluate our approaches to profiling. They were asked to score out of 6 if they agreed with the following statements from How Good Is OUR School? The feedback will support us with making improvements to our profiling approaches.

The results are as follows:

  1. Everyone in our school has opportunities to be able to develop a variety of different interests, talents and learn new skills. 5.13
  2. Everyone in our school can take part in a group, club, team or activity beyond normal class time if they want to. 5.26
  3. Our school keeps accurate records of pupil participation and achievements and helps us to recognise their importance of these. 4.85
  4. At all stages of school we have good opportunities to take responsibility through organising and leading activities. 5.13
  5. We can talk confidently about the skills we are gaining as a result of leading and organising aspects of school life. 4.91
  6. We are getting better at knowing when our skills are improving and being able to talk about this. 5
  7. We have a good way of recording our knowledge and skills and this shows how we are building on the skills we have developed. 5.3
  8. Our school knows and is interested in building on the skills we are learning out of school. 4.96
  9. Our achievements are recognised, valued and celebrated by our school and community through a range of ways which help build our self-esteem and confidence. 5.09

Profiling Pupil Response

Posted on

School Improvement Documents

Every year we publish a School Standards & Quality report which outlines the progress we have made over the last session and a School Improvement Plan which outlines the work we plan to carry out this session.  Both of these documents are available by clicking the links below.

Click the link here to download a copy of the School Standards & Quality Report (S&Q) for last session: 2018 S&Q Report Schools & ELC_PUSCPS

Click the  link here to download a copy of the current School Improvement Plan (SIP): PUSCPS_School_Imp_Plan_2018-19

Click the link to view a copy of the school inspection report from November 2017:  School Inspection Report

Click the link to view a copy of the school inspection report from November 2017:  Nursery Inspection Report

Report a Glow concern
Cookie policy  Privacy policy