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In Shawlands Primary School we aim to provide a calm, nurturing, purposeful learning environment which both challenges and supports our pupils to achieve their very best in everything they do. We aim to encourage each child to do this by making learning stimulating, relevant and enjoyable developing the emotional, social, creative, physical, and intellectual skills necessary to fully engage in today’s world. We want to inspire all our pupils to become successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors, and responsible citizens. We recognize that to enable each child to do their best, it is important that we work in close partnership with parents and carers. We will work with you to encourage your child to work hard and behave well. The support of parents and carers is invaluable to the life of our school and Shawlands Primary has a culture of very positive parental engagement. We will strive to engage you in and keep you informed of developments and we look forward to your participation in a range of activities and events in the life of the school. The Curriculum for Excellence is not only about what children are learning, it is about new ways of teaching and learning, with more emphasis on skills for learning, work, and life. In Shawlands Primary we have spent considerable time looking at our teaching methodologies and strategies. Our approaches to Learning and Teaching are now: Active Collaborative Encourage children to explain their thinking Help children make connections Give children ownership Encourage independence and responsibility In this session, we moved forward by examining our curriculum design. The Shawlands Curriculum Plan was designed by staff at the beginning of the session including teaching blocks of Language, Maths, Health & Well Being, Interdisciplinary Learning, Discrete Subjects, and Personal Learning. The future is to examine robust systems of assessing and tracking learner’s progress as they move from Early Level through to Second Level. View full school

Shawlands Academy is a large, nondenominational school situated on the south side of Glasgow, in Scotland. The pupils here number around 1250. It is a long-established school dating from 1894. There was a private school of the same name located in Skirving Street which began about 1857. However, the school as we know it today opened its doors for the first time 124 years ago in the building on Pollokshaws Road which is now Shawlands Primary School. Shawlands Academy has modern classroom facilities throughout the school, thereby helping to maintain a high standard of education for pupils. The school attempts to combine the best elements of traditional Scottish education with a developing curriculum designed to equip pupils for the twenty-first century. There has been significant investment in technology which has improved pupil provision in all subjects particularly in Business Education, Computing, English, Modern Languages, Science, Design & Technology, and Music. In Shawlands Academy we aim: To provide the highest standard of learning and teaching To provide equal opportunities for all irrespective of ability, gender, race, ethnic origin, and disadvantage To develop a close working relationship between school, home, and community To emphasize the work of individuals and their contribution to the school community To foster attitudes of respect, responsibility, compassion, honesty, and self-reliance To motivate pupils positively, raise their expectations and maximize their level of achievement To provide a high standard of care for staff and pupils Curriculum for Excellence aims to achieve a transformation in education in Scotland by providing a coherent, more flexible, and enriched curriculum from 3 to 18. The curriculum aims to help every learner develop knowledge, skills, and attributes for learning, life, and work, which are encapsulated in the four capacities. To enable the young person to be a successful learner, a confident individual, a responsible citizen, and an effective contributor. Curriculum for Excellence aims to support all children and young people in developing skills which they will use throughout their life and in their work, including the development of pre-vocational, enterprising, and employability skills, personal skills, high levels of cognitive skills, and the opportunity to put learning into a practical context. View full school