The school is centered in the community of Broughton, just north of Edinburgh's city center. Our catchment area is widespread and stretches from Princes Street in the south to Warriston in the north. There is a rich social and cultural mix of pupils within the school. Currently, around 25% of pupils attend from outwith the catchment area as a result of placing requests. The school roll is 365, organized into 14 mainstream classes and two language classes for pupils with additional support needs. The nursery provides a total of 100 part-time places, 50 each morning and 50 each afternoon.
Our School Aims:
- High Expectations.
- A caring, happy and secure environment.
- An engaging and challenging curriculum.
- Everyone supported to achieve their potential.
- Respectful and inclusive community.
- Working together and valuing partnerships.
- Preparing our learners for an ever-changing world.
- Promoting a healthy lifestyle.
Teachers and practitioners will share information to plan a child’s ‘learning journey’ from 3-18, helping their progression from nursery to primary, primary to secondary, and beyond, ensuring each transition is smooth. They’ll ensure children continue to work at a pace they can cope with and with a challenge they can thrive on.
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.
Ultimately, Curriculum for Excellence aims to improve our children’s life chances, to nurture successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors, and responsible citizens, building on Scotland’s reputation for a great education.
At Broughton Primary School we believe that all of our children should experience Excellence and Equity. We aim to provide the best possible opportunities for children’s learning and we want to see every child succeed and achieve their full potential. We will use our Pupil Equity Funding (PEF) to support children who experience barriers to learning and who may not be getting the same chances in education because their family is experiencing poverty or other financial difficulties. We recognize that the health and well-being of our pupils are crucial to progress and attainment. For this reason, we plan to develop interventions at Broughton which will provide universal support to our pupils as well as targeted interventions for some of our more disadvantaged pupils.
Through self-evaluation with staff, pupils, and parents and rigorous analysis of our attainment data we recognize where the barriers to learning are and understand where our poverty-related attainment gap is within our school. We will research the Scottish Attainment Challenge work that has been previously carried out within the City of Edinburgh and adopt the use of improvement methodology ensuring that small changes within our learning and teaching which will affect a big impact within our classrooms. There will be a regular measurement of impact and review, adaptations will be made accordingly. We have a rigorous tracking system in place where staff has the opportunity to review pupils’ progress in line with expectations and effective use of interventions.
