Successful Learners

Confident Individuals

Plan a structured and balanced ‘Curriculum for Excellence’.

Varied teaching methods and activities. E.g. ‘active learning’.

Encourage pupil responsibility for self/peer assessment and target setting.

Monitor progress, record achievement and attainment to ensure each child reaches their potential.

Identify the emotional, physical and social needs of pupils and help them develop positive attitudes, personal and social skills.

Provide appropriate support for children with additional needs.

Celebrating success in the classroom, the school and in ‘out of school’ life.

Encourage a healthy and active lifestyle.

Create within the school a warm, caring and supportive atmosphere in which children, staff and parents feel secure and valued.

Responsible Citizens

Effective Contributors

Encourage children to enrich the school and its community by acting responsibly and by valuing the unique culture and traditions of its past.

Ensure that individual differences of race, culture and belief will be respected and celebrated as an enriching factor in the school community. Equal opportunities will exist for all.

Enable children to take part in decision making in the school through the pupil council and class circle time activities.

Promote attitudes of enterprise and self-reliance.

Encourage pupils to work on their own, and in teams to apply their thinking skills, to create and develop ideas, and to solve problems.