Queensferry Primary School

Queensferry Primary is a two stream non-denominational school in the heart of the historic town of South Queensferry. Currently we have 14 primary classes and 2 nursery classes.

We are proud to be a central part of the historic community of South Queensferry and have many, many links with the wider community such as through our eco work, links with our Community Police Officer, and through partnerships with other local nurseries, partner providers and schools.

Our school building also hosts clubs and activities such as Brownies and Boys’ Brigade. We also work hard to promote the sense of community within our school. Partly this is done through our house system – all our pupils belong to either Wallace, Bruce, Stewart or Douglas.

We firmly believe that the ethos of our school is central to successful learning and teaching. If children have a sense of belonging, they feel happy and secure and learn more effectively. We work hard to create a positive environment where everyone is valued and equipped with the tools to reach their full potential.

We seek to provide a safe, caring environment where all children feel happy, confident and valued as individuals. One of our major aims is to provide learning opportunities of the highest quality. We recognise the knowledge and skills which each child brings to school and wish to build on these by providing a programme of challenging experiences which will meet, as far as is possible, the individual needs of each child.

The ethos of Queensferry Primary School is central to successful learning and teaching. If children have a sense of belonging, they feel happy and secure and learn more effectively. We work hard to create a positive environment where everyone is valued and equipped with the tools to achieve their full potential.

Our School Values for children, staff and our school community:

• Kindness – defined as a key component of our ethos. Friendliness and empathy sit within this value as we strive to be a bully free school.
• Co-operation – we want our pupils to do well academically and socially – learning with and from each other. Co-operative Learning features in all our classrooms.
• Creativity – we want to develop and nourish children’s natural creativity through a curriculum based in opportunities to experiment, problem solve, discuss and collaborate. We want children to question, make connections and explore.
• Perseverance – children will build their confidence and resilience through being challenged and learning from their mistakes.
• Responsibility – each of us contributes to our learning work ethic. As we take increased ownership for our learning, we also take steps towards being independent learners.
• Respect– this underpins our relationships with each other, our manners, our conversations and our attitude – towards each other, our work and our belongings/school.

We wish to encourage a partnership with you to ensure the best possible standards of pupil behaviour. Our aim is for all of our pupils to behave well by making good choices and taking responsibility for their own behaviour. We have agreed school rules which we all keep and positive reinforcement strategies such as praise, stickers, house points and Privilege Time in place. We also believe that it is important that children know the consequences of unacceptable behaviour. If we have any concerns about behaviour we would contact parents. By working together we can ensure that each child is happy in school – happy children learn well.

We offer a wide a range of sporting and cultural activities and these activities take place in lunch breaks, at the end of the day, on Friday afternoons and Saturday mornings. Currently we have clubs such as judo, dance and cheerleading. There is an active Scripture Union group and an after school recorder group and choir. Many of our Senior Pupils run supervised lunch time clubs for younger pupils.