Pentland Primary School

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Our school is a non-denominational, coeducational school for all stages from Nursery to Primary 7. We are proud of our high standards in learning and teaching, which we hope, will set our pupils on the path of lifelong learning. We are committed to working closely with parents as equal partners in your child's education, in the life of your child's school, and city-wide developments in education. Parental involvement in the decision-making process and performance monitoring are an integral part of school life. We look forward to developing that partnership with your support.

School Aims:

• Key Aspirations: Successful Learners, Confident Individuals, Responsible Citizens, Effective Contributors.
• Curriculum: to provide a wide range of educational, social, and cultural experiences through a broad, balanced, and challenging curriculum.
• Support for pupils: to support each individual with equality of access to educational opportunities, which promote personal and social development and underpin academic achievement.
• Ethos: to create a welcoming, safe and happy environment where everyone feels valued and positive about themselves and the school.
• Attainment: to support and celebrate children reaching their full potential through the rigorous monitoring and continuous evaluation of progress and attainment
• Resources: to invest time, money, and effort to provide the highest quality resources to effectively take advantage of all opportunities for lifelong learning.
• Learning and Teaching: to provide the highest quality positive, stimulating, and challenging learning and teaching experiences to encourage all children to develop their full potential as successful learners.
• Management, leadership, and quality assurance: to provide effective and approachable management and leadership, which plans and strives for continual improvement for all members of the school community.

We seek to provide a safe, caring environment where all children feel happy, confident, and valued as individuals. One of our major aims is to provide learning opportunities of the highest quality. We recognize the knowledge and skills which each child brings to school and wish to build on these by providing a program of challenging experiences which will meet, as far as is possible, the individual needs of each child.

Starting school for the first time or changing schools is a momentous occasion for any child and their family. We hope this handbook provides information and reassurance that we will endeavor to provide the best quality educational experience so that your child can achieve his/her full potential.

At Pentland we aim to create an ethos where every learner is:

• Fully Engaged with their learning
• Confidently Aspirational in their outlook
• Honestly Reflective about their efforts, progress, and achievements
• Appropriately Supported in their endeavors, and Supportive of others.

Every child is entitled to a broad and deep general education, whatever their level and ability. Every single teacher and practitioner will be responsible for the development of literacy and numeracy from the Early Level through to the Senior Phase. It develops skills for learning, life, and work, bringing real life into the classroom, making learning relevant, and helping young people apply lessons to their life beyond the classroom. It links knowledge in one subject area to another helping make connections in their learning. It develops skills that can enable children to think for themselves, make sound judgments, challenge, enquire and find solutions.

Pupils are encouraged to discuss and reflect on their learning as part of daily practice. All pupils are also provided with protected time, at two opportunities throughout the year, to discuss their learning with their teacher on a one-to-one basis. This learning conversation focuses on the pupil’s progress and identifies areas for development.

We offer as wide a range of sporting and cultural activities as possible. We are extremely fortunate to have so many staff, parents, and friends who are willing to give up their time to run clubs. There is a range of extracurricular activities available for pupils during lunchtime and after school. Parents will be informed about these by the school. In addition to in-school activities, classes also make regular educational visits and field studies. These visits are linked to pupils’ classwork.

We place a high priority on the well-being and safety of our pupils. To this end, we have in place a personal safety program to give pupils knowledge and life skills to keep them safe from all forms of abuse. Where we have concerns about the possible abuse of pupils we are required to follow the Edinburgh and the Lothian’s Inter-Agency Child Protection Procedures which set out the specific duties and responsibilities towards the child and their parents/carers.

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