At Corstorphine Primary we aim to provide your child with a quality broad general education which will, in turn, provide a rich and secure foundation for learning in secondary school and beyond.
The staff at Corstorphine Primary School extend a very warm welcome to you and your child and look forward to the happiest and productive association with you both. We hope that your child will feel very secure and happy here and that the time they spend at Primary School will provide the kinds of experiences and opportunities which will enable them to achieve their maximum potential and become confident, lifelong learners. We will strive to enable your child to capitalize on their unique strengths, skills, and qualities and to recognize that every one of them has the facility to impact very positively on the world.
We recognize the crucial role that we play in ensuring our children acquire secure core literacy and numeracy skills and a holistic understanding of Health and Well-being and the associated importance of making the right choices. We also recognize and value the role that all curriculum subjects play in your child’s development and especially the role of the Expressive Arts in promoting imagination, creativity, spirituality, and self-expression.
Corstorphine Primary School actively embraces the work of Carol Dweck on Growth Mindset (1) and we have embedded the promotion of these attitudes and values in our everyday dialogue with children. This is one distinctive feature of our approach towards ensuring that our children have the best chances of success and happiness in life.
We adhere to the “One Planet School” (2) philosophy and recognize the importance of embedding education for sustainability, global citizenship, children’s rights, and opportunities for outdoor learning across our formal and informal curriculum.
We value the important role that you, as parents, play in the all-around development of your child and aim to support this by seeking your co-operation in partnership with us. We will aim to capitalize on opportunities for working with you in a variety of different ways that will serve to enhance the educational experiences of your child at Corstorphine. Parents currently help around and support the school in a wide variety of different ways from working directly with pupils to membership of the PTA, Parent Council, or other Parent groups such as, “Project Play”.
We will provide a warm, friendly, caring, and happy environment where all staff and children have a sense of value and belonging and a shared sense of identity and pride. We will foster, in all children, a strong sense of respect for all members of the school community, for the school itself, and its environment. We will create an environment that promotes equal opportunities and celebrates cultural diversity. We will take every appropriate opportunity to acknowledge, value, and appreciate the various cultures and heritage of the pupils and encourage them to appreciate and value the culture and heritage of others.
We will promote an ethos of achievement by having high expectations, clear, shared goals, and a strong emphasis on recognition and praise for all. We will achieve high standards of pupil behavior through clearly articulated discipline procedures and a strong emphasis on positive approaches which promote social and moral learning. We will help all of our children to discover and develop their interests and strengths. We will ensure staff and adults within the school provide positive role models for pupils. We will arrange regular gatherings of the school as a community and use such occasions to encourage and reinforce our values.
We will provide balanced programs of learning within the pre-school and 5-14 curriculum frameworks which are interrelated, progressive, coherent, relevant, and differentiated. We will ensure that all children experience high-quality learning and teaching approaches that are purposeful, challenging, fun, and encourage creativity. We will ensure that where possible real purposes will be provided for learning. We will cater to varying needs and learning styles and encourage self-discipline and independent learning.
