Crookston Castle Primary School

The Aims of Our School

• To provide a secure, stimulating, happy environment
• To ensure that all pupils achieve their full potential
• To develop a working partnership with our parents and the community
• To encourage pupils to show respect to each other and to all adults in the school and community
• To promote equal opportunities for all, in terms of race, religion and gender

We are a new build under Glasgow City Council's Pre 12 strategy. We have enjoyed this fabulous new campus in Pollok since May 2007 and are fortunate to have been given the opportunity to teach and learn in a building designed for the 21st.Century. We share the campus with both with Langlands School, a school for children with complex learning difficulties, and with Crookston Castle Early Years Centre for children from 0 - 4years.

Curriculum for Excellence has now been introduced across Scotland for all 3-18 year olds – wherever they learn. It aims to raise standards, prepare our children for a future they do not yet know and equip them for jobs of tomorrow in a fast changing world.

Curriculum for Excellence enables professionals to teach subjects creatively, to work together across the school and with other schools, to share best practice and explore learning together. Glow, Scotland’s unique, world-leading, online network supports learners and teachers in this and plans are already in place for parents/carers across the country to have access to Glow.

Teachers and practitioners will share information to plan a child’s “learning journey” from 3-18, helping their progression from nursery to primary, primary to secondary and beyond, ensuring the change is smooth. They will ensure children continue to work at a pace they can cope with and with challenge they can thrive on.

Curriculum for Excellence balances the importance of knowledge and skills.

Every child is entitled to a broad and deep general education, whatever their level and ability. Every single teacher and practitioner will be responsible for literacy and numeracy – the language and numbers skills that unlock other subjects and are vital to everyday life.

It develops skills for learning; life and work to help young people go on to further study, secure work and navigate life. It brings real life into the classroom, making learning relevant and helps young people apply lessons to their life beyond the classroom. It links knowledge in one subject area to another helping children understand the world and make connections.

It develops skills so that children can think for themselves, make sound judgments, challenge, enquire and find solutions.

Within Curriculum for Excellence your child will progress through a national framework of levels. The broad expectations in primary are:

• The early curriculum level in the pre-school years and P1.
• First curriculum level – to the end of P4.
• Second curriculum level – to the end of P7.

The levels are not there as hurdles to get over as quickly as possible but rather as staging posts on a journey which offers opportunities for challenge and depth. We plan learning experiences and activities in order to ensure “how much” and “how well” children have learned and developed. This is more important than “how fast”.