St Margaret's RC Primary School

St. Margaret’s is a Roman Catholic Primary School situated in the heart of the community in South Queensferry, near Edinburgh. We aim to provide education of the highest quality for all pupils, which meets their educational, personal and spiritual needs. As an inclusive school we welcome all pupils.

Our school has close links with the local nurseries in the area. and to our feeder high school, St Augustine’s, which ensures smooth transition from P7 to S1. St Margaret’s Primary offers a variety of extra curricular activities including Netball, Choir, I.C.T/Website, Board games and Gardening.

The school may be small in size but is most definitely big in heart! We pride ourselves in being a supportive family and the staff team consistently keep the children at the centre of everything they do.

Our vision is that St Margaret’s provides education of the highest quality for all pupils, which meets their educational, personal and spiritual needs and which enables them to be successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and to make an effective contribution in their present and future lives.

Our Values

• Friendship
• Honesty
• Respect
• Perseverance

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.

These key human aspects of learning are supported through the following arrangements by:-

• Creating a school ethos which, in every way possible, gives value to these aspects of development, especially by providing an overall atmosphere that is both caring and challenging and which provides opportunities for the development of personal responsibility.
• Promoting social and moral learning through the way in which disciplinary issues are handled.
• Ensuring that staff and adults within the school provide positive models for pupils.
• Arranging regular gatherings of the school as a community and using such occasions to encourage and reinforce the values on which the school is based.
• Enriching the curriculum in all appropriate areas with an emphasis on spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.
• Providing opportunities within the curriculum to advance personal and social development.
• Providing a programme of religious education in which consideration will be given to responses to basic questions relating to the meaning, value and purpose of human life.
• Providing a programme of moral education.
• Taking every appropriate opportunity to acknowledge, value and appreciate the various cultures and heritage of the pupils and to encourage them to appreciate and value the cultures and heritage of others.