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- Croftfoot Primary School is a nondenominational school in the Croftfoot area of the City of Glasgow and has served the children, parents & carers of the surrounding area for over 75 years. It is a listed building and stands within a beautiful grassed area with mature trees to the front. We believe that to enable each child to achieve their full potential, it is important to develop and maintain a positive partnership between home and school. We strive to keep you fully informed of developments and seek your views whenever possible. Children are consulted and are given a wide range of opportunities to influence the development of the school. We have an active Pupil Council, and all children have the opportunity to participate in Whole School Committees. Staff, children, and families are involved in setting the priorities for the School Improvement Plan and helping us to be the best we can be. In Croftfoot Primary we aim to provide a happy, stimulating, and secure learning environment that encourages positive working attitudes in all our pupils, and fosters respect and tolerance for the beliefs and opinions of others. At Croftfoot Primary School, we strive to ensure that children are provided with a wide range of opportunities to develop their skills and talents. Knowing your child as an individual is extremely important to us. We aim to produce fluent, confident readers who understand what they are reading and enjoy doing so. The teaching of reading is based on both sight vocabulary and a structured program of word attack skills to enable children to decode unfamiliar words. Our pupils are taught to apply their reading skills functionally to aid learning across the curriculum. Throughout the school, children use the All Aboard reading scheme. This is supplemented by Lighthouse Readers at the early stages and by Literacy World at the upper stages. All schemes provide a vast array of materials to support the development of skills. We follow Glasgow City Council’s “New Horizons in Writing” approach to the teaching of writing and use a variety of materials to support this development, including Scholastic Writing. Importance is laid on the content of children’s writing and pupils are encouraged to write in a variety of styles and for a variety of purposes e.g. writing reports, writing to persuade people, writing instructions, imaginative writing, poetry writing, etc. From P1 they are encouraged to ‘have a go’. The teaching of the structure of writing is supported by Nelson Skills, handwriting by the Gourdie scheme, and spelling by the Primary Education spelling program. Additional resources provide further consolidation opportunities. In all classes, attention is paid to the presentation of work, and children are encouraged to write neatly and correctly. View full school
Croftfoot Primary School is a nondenominational school in the Croftfoot area of the City of Glasgow and has served the children, parents & carers of the surrounding area for over 75 years. It is a listed building and stands within a beautiful grassed area with mature trees to the front. We believe that to enable each child to achieve their full potential, it is important to develop and maintain a positive partnership between home and school. We strive to keep you fully informed of developments and seek your views whenever possible. Children are consulted and are given a wide range of opportunities to influence the development of the school. We have an active Pupil Council, and all children have the opportunity to participate in Whole School Committees. Staff, children, and families are involved in setting the priorities for the School Improvement Plan and helping us to be the best we can be. In Croftfoot Primary we aim to provide a happy, stimulating, and secure learning environment that encourages positive working attitudes in all our pupils, and fosters respect and tolerance for the beliefs and opinions of others. At Croftfoot Primary School, we strive to ensure that children are provided with a wide range of opportunities to develop their skills and talents. Knowing your child as an individual is extremely important to us. We aim to produce fluent, confident readers who understand what they are reading and enjoy doing so. The teaching of reading is based on both sight vocabulary and a structured program of word attack skills to enable children to decode unfamiliar words. Our pupils are taught to apply their reading skills functionally to aid learning across the curriculum. Throughout the school, children use the All Aboard reading scheme. This is supplemented by Lighthouse Readers at the early stages and by Literacy World at the upper stages. All schemes provide a vast array of materials to support the development of skills. We follow Glasgow City Council’s “New Horizons in Writing” approach to the teaching of writing and use a variety of materials to support this development, including Scholastic Writing. Importance is laid on the content of children’s writing and pupils are encouraged to write in a variety of styles and for a variety of purposes e.g. writing reports, writing to persuade people, writing instructions, imaginative writing, poetry writing, etc. From P1 they are encouraged to ‘have a go’. The teaching of the structure of writing is supported by Nelson Skills, handwriting by the Gourdie scheme, and spelling by the Primary Education spelling program. Additional resources provide further consolidation opportunities. In all classes, attention is paid to the presentation of work, and children are encouraged to write neatly and correctly.
