• Through commitment to our vision and values and to achieve our aspiration ensure that our young people: 
  • enjoy a broad, balanced and coherent curriculum which can provide challenges and motivation in learning and develops skills for learning, life and work. 
  • achieve success in their learning through a curriculum which provides continuity and progression and is individualised to meet their needs. 
  • contribute effectively to their own learning through the provision of teaching and self - assessment approaches which directly engage pupils in their own progress. 
  • build positive attitudes, resilience and well-being through developing the knowledge, skills and understanding of a healthy lifestyle. 
  • develop increasing levels of confidence through a school ethos which celebrates curricular and personal achievements and shares them with the school’s wider community and partners. 
  • belong to a community which is caring and giving. 

As a staff we have a shared aspiration for all our pupils which is that: 

‘every young person is supported and nurtured to achieve their potential as a learner and as a unique individual by developing the capacities 

and skills necessary for them to lead fulfilling lives now and in the future’ 

• We promote our School Code ‘to be the best we can ’ by working towards our core values of: 
  • believing in ourselves and never giving up 
  • getting involved and challenging ourselves 
  • caring for ourselves and others 

NATIONAL IMPROVEMENT FRAMEWORK HAS 4 PRIORITIES 

•  Improvement in attainment, particularly in literacy and numeracy  
• Closing the attainment gap between the most and least disadvantaged children
• Improvement in children and young people's health and well being 
• Improvement in employability skills and sustained positive school leaver destinations for all young people

NATIONAL IMPROVEMENT FRAMEWORK HAS 6 DRIVERS 

• School leadership  
• Teacher professionalism  
• Parental engagement  
• Assessment of children's progress
• School improvement 
• Performance information 

Our School Improvement Plan [SIP] and Standard and Quality Report [SQR] focuses on progress made across both the National Improvement Framework [NIF] in collaboration with Scottish Schools’ Self Evaluation Framework ‘How Good Is Our School? Version 4. 

The following table should support your understanding of references made to these documents and promote your knowledge of how we should take the school forward. 

LEADERSHIP + MANAGEMENT  

1.1 self-evaluation for self-improvement

1.2 leadership of learning

1.3 leadership of change

1.4 leadership and management of staff

1.5 management of resources to promote equity 

LEARNING PROVISION  

2.1 safeguarding and child protection

2.2 curriculum

2.3 learning, teaching and assessment

2.4 personalised support

2.5 family learning

2.6 transitions

2.7 partnerships  

SUCCESSES + ACHIEVEMENTS  

3.1 ensuring well-being, equality and inclusion

3.2 raising attainment and achievement

3.3 increasing creativity, and employability