Roseburn Primary School

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Roseburn Primary School first opened its doors in 1894 when its near neighbor, the Murrayfield Rugby Stadium, was still a polo field. It has long been a center point of the Roseburn community and is proud of its history. The school is part of the City of Edinburgh Council Children and Families Department and since it first opened it has welcomed boys and girls of all faiths and backgrounds.

The main school building is a traditional stone structure with four classrooms downstairs and five classrooms upstairs. It is fully adapted for disabled access to the ground floor and offers the very best of modern facilities throughout.

Two additional classrooms are housed in a unit in the playground and a self-contained Nursery sits to the side of the main building.

The school boasts a well-stocked modern library, a refurbished gym, a computer suite with state of the art PCs interactive whiteboards, computers, and iPads in every classroom (with internet access and wifi) one general-purpose room, lunch hall, and dining room.

At present, the school role is 252 and 55 Nursery children (June), ie. two nursery classes of 30 mornings and 30-afternoon capacity and ten classes ranging from Primary 1 to Primary 7.

Occasionally, some of the classes at Roseburn are composite classes such as our present P1/2 class. This means that the class includes the oldest children of the younger stage and the youngest children of the older stage. Composite classes are common throughout Scotland and are formed when there are too few or too many children within an educational year to form complete, single-year classes.

At Roseburn Primary we believe that children thrive in an environment in which they are happy, challenged, and secure. Our aspirations for our children are summed up in our school motto, “Dream, Believe, Achieve”. We provide a safe, nurturing, and caring environment in which we aim for all pupils to achieve their full potential and to have the confidence and skills to meet the challenges of the future.

The key Roseburn values of respect, responsibility, kindness, ambition, and perseverance are recognized and promoted by all members of the school community.

Roseburn Primary School provides a safe, nurturing, and caring environment in which we aim for all pupils to achieve their full potential and to have the confidence and skills to meet the challenges of the future.

Our aim at Roseburn is to

• To promote achievement for all by providing a broad, deep progressive, challenging, personalized, coherent, relevant, and enjoyable curriculum that enables all pupils to reach their potential.
• To foster skills, knowledge, and positive attitudes which help children to become independent learners
• To develop lifelong healthy and environmentally aware lifestyles.
• Provide a safe, stimulating, and happy learning environment.
• To support and develop the skill of staff to provide an effective learning and teaching environment of the highest quality.
• To promote equality of opportunity for all and to celebrate diversity.
• To continue to foster positive and productive partnerships with pupils, parents, outside agencies, and the wider community.

We have an extremely dedicated and supportive staff who work very hard to provide the best opportunities for all our pupils in a safe and happy school environment. We very much value and appreciate the positive support of our parents and the wider community and strive for an open and welcoming environment where we can work in partnership for the benefit of our children.

We also recognize the importance of a good working partnership between the school and the home in the education and social development of every child. Parents are welcome at any time to discuss progress or areas of concern and as a parent, we very much welcome your support and participation in the life of the school.

We promote close relationships with the community and help children to understand our own culture and the culture of others. We have close links with Murrayfield Parish Church and through them, with Ghana where we have developed activities that aim to provide our pupils with educational experiences and understanding to enable them to be active, informed, and responsible global citizens.

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