We welcome you to Ferryhill Primary School. Our children are enthusiastic, friendly, welcoming, and very well behaved. Our staff is hard working and very committed to giving the best for the children in our school. Ferryhill is a great place to be and we’d welcome you to come along and see this for yourself.
We currently have around 300 pupils in the primary school and we have both a morning and an afternoon nursery class. In addition to classroom spaces, we have a library and three separate halls for Physical Education, assemblies, and dining. There is a separate computer suite as well as iPads for use in classrooms. We appreciate our working kitchen which cooks great meals fresh on the premises.
The school is well resourced and enjoys good links with the local and wider community. We are located in the heart of the Drylaw community and have good links with the local neighborhood center which provides a popular breakfast club. We have a good after-school provision which also operates during holiday periods. We enjoy a successful partnership with our Parent Council which is open to all parents.
We have fantastic grounds including the playground, playing field, orchard, woodlands and ‘secret gardens’. Our children are enthusiastic, friendly, welcoming, and well-behaved. Our staff are hard-working and committed to giving the best for the children in our school.
“All our children will be successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens, and effective contributors to society and at work.” We will endeavor to create an educational environment of the highest quality which:
- Provides children with the necessary skills for life: Wisdom, Justice, Compassion, and Integrity.
- Values and respect each individual.
- Works in partnership for the good of all.
We work together to ensure that pupils and staff experience a positive, safe and secure environment maximizing the potential for effective learning and teaching. We operate a system of Positive Behaviour where the efforts and achievements of all pupils are recognized and celebrated as we strive to encourage high standards and expectations. We find this helps to build up children’s feelings of self-worth and makes them aware of their responsibilities towards others. Our Behaviour Policy also outlines a set of consequences for children who may be disrupting learning and teaching in class or presenting with challenges in the playground. If a child’s behavior is becoming a concern, we welcome the opportunity to discuss this with parents and carers at the earliest opportunity.
The active exploration of the environment means that some of the child’s education takes place outside the classroom, outside the school. We provide children with the benefit of visits to historical buildings, theatres, art galleries, museums, places of work, the zoo, etc. These visits are planned to enrich the curriculum and are as important as work done in the classroom.
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 that a child 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.
