Juniper Green Primary School

Juniper Green Primary is a forward-thinking school where everyone is valued and encouraged to aim for excellence. We are extremely proud of all that goes on here.

Juniper Green Primary School values and promote:

• High expectation of success
• Preparation for the future
• Agreed values promoted by all
• A secure, happy and caring environment
• Everyone value and working in partnership
• Caring for local and wider communities and our planet
• A challenging, motivating, creative and fun curriculum
• Respectful, mannerly and fair treatment of all
• Promotion of healthy life-styles

We wish to encourage a partnership with you to ensure the best possible standards of pupil behaviour. Our “Better Relationships, Better Behaviour, Better Learning” policy is given in leaflet form to all new parents and we hope you will support us in ensuring that we work together to encourage positive behaviour in our school.
Our curriculum is inclusive. It is a stimulus for personal achievement and is designed to give our pupils a broad experience of the world encouraging them to realise informed and responsible citizenship.

We are striving to enable every child to realise their potential in all aspects of life. ‘Education must develop every child’s personality, talents and abilities to the full. It must encourage the child’s respect for human rights, as well as respect for their parents, their own and other cultures, and the environment’ We symbolise this through our juniper berries - the fruits or outcomes that we are aiming for our learners in terms of personal attributes, capabilities, skills, knowledge and understanding of the world, so that, as fully developed young people they will become successful learners, Responsible citizens , Confident individuals and Effective contributors.

Curriculum for Excellence emphasises the value of an active learning approach. In the early years, children will have a range of learning experiences that include planned and purposeful play and stimulating learning which engages and challenges children’s thinking using real life and imaginary situations. As children progress through school they continue to be involved in active learning experiences which are engaging and give them ownership of their own learning.

Is at the heart of our aims and embedded in the ethos in the school. We do this by offering a vibrant and stimulating curriculum that is shaped by the 7 principles of curriculum design. The benchmark for our curriculum is planning for challenge and enjoyment. Learning will not take place effectively unless our children are engaged and motivated. They have personalisation and choice through being given plenty of opportunities to direct and shape their learning through choosing aspects of what they study so that it can be made personal to their interests and needs.

Our delivery of the curriculum maximises opportunities to make links across subjects and skills to ensure a coherent experience wherein children can understand why they are learning and how it is relevant in preparing them to take their place in society. We plan wherever possible to enable learners to demonstrate their knowledge, understanding and skills in real life or meaningful situations or contexts so that the relevance is clearly apparent. We plan for both depth and breadth and our programmes of work ensure that the learners experience progression throughout their time in the school.

We offer a wide a range of sporting and cultural activities as possible. There is a range of extra curricular activities available for pupils during lunchtime and after school. Parents will be informed about these by the school. In addition to inschool activities, classes also make regular educational visits and field studies. These visits are linked to pupils’ class work.