Parsons Green Primary School

The Parsons Green community acts as a guiding light to lead the children towards becoming successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors.

We want to see all children leave our safe, nurturing and stimulating learning environment with the necessary skills to become happy, healthy and successful members of society.

At Parsons Green we have a caring ethos. We are welcoming to our whole school community believing we are stronger when we work towards a common vision.We value our diverse school population and celebrate the range of achievements that we gain.

Parsons Green School Vision is to create a safe, inclusive, nurturing and stimulating learning environment where all learners can develop life-long skills, fulfil their potential and participate in a caring global community.

Our School Aims To be a warm, friendly and welcoming community of learners, learning together to promote:

• Respect for self , others and the environment.
• Equality, fairness and inclusion.
• Skills for learning, life and work.
• An ethos of achievement.
• A healthy lifestyle.
• A global outlook.

Our school is just beginning a link with Sambari Primary in Tanzania. In order to start off our link, we had a whole school MADD (music, art, drama and dance) about Tanzania project to start our school session 2015-16.

Each class learned a little about the country, the language, culture and climate. We are looking forward to hearing a lot more. This link is part of the Twende Pamoja project which has been running for the past ten years between Scotland and Tanzania. Our cluster schools are all linked to a school in the same area.

For 2016-17 we are starting the year with a Peace project which is being run in conjunction with our partner schools in Tanzania.

Parsons Green has begun the journey towards becoming a Unicef Rights Respecting School. This involves learning about the UNCRC (United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child) and what that means for ourselves and each other.

We have been using our Vertical Grouping Project to explore Article 31 – the right to play. It has involved mixing classes from P1 – P7 in our four houses and thinking about what the right to play looks like for us in our school. We have been learning lots of different types of games and getting to know others around the school better. This is helping us to have an even friendlier school built on positive relationships with each other.

We have been working towards our Green Flag Award with the children across the school engaging in a variety of different activities. This ranges from developing biodiversity within the Wildlife Garden, to recycling our paper waste and reducing food waste, to litter picking and thinking how we can all do our bit for the planet.

Our curriculum is inclusive, is a stimulus for personal achievement, and through the broadening of experience of the world, is an encouragement towards informed and responsible citizenship.

We are committed to supporting the development of the whole pupil and as a result, wish to encourage their development in spiritual, moral, social and cultural terms in order to fulfil the aim of the curriculum for Excellence of helping our young people to become Successful Learners, Confident Individuals, Effective Contributors, responsible Citizens.

Children are encouraged to develop this capacity through keeping their resources, their classroom and their cloakroom areas tidy and clear. They are expected to show respect to one another in the way that they behave using the agreements of their class and playground charters which encourage them to build positive healthy relationships with one another. At Parsons Green we encourage the children to think of others and think about looking after the world around them.

At Parsons Green, we celebrate and value pupils’ achievements both within and out with school. All areas such as academic, social, emotional, sporting and creative learning is recognised and highly valued. We strive to ensure that every learner experiences success and is recognised for their achievements, whether it be through house points, stickers, certificates, the children know that success comes with hard work and effort.