Every year the we produce a school improvement plan which details aspects of our school which we think we need to develop. The plans explain how we are going to make these improvements and set out a timetable for carrying them out. On this page you will soon find full details of our improvement plan for this session. We hope that this will give you a clear picture of where we are going as a school.
This link will enable you to download this year’s improvement plan:
Yester Primary School. SIP 22-23
And here is a copy of our latest Standards and Quality Report:
In producing the report we reflect on the four key capacities in A Curriculum for Excellence and consider how we are meeting these in the work we do in this learning community.
We use the improvement plan along with A Curriculum for Excellence to guide our thinking when developing the priorities for Yester Primary School.
A Curriculum for Excellence sets out the following as the four main capacities:
Successful Learners
In what way does our school enable all children to:
- Use literacy, communication and numeracy skills?
- Use technology for learning?
- Think creatively and independently
- Learn independently and as part of a group?
- Make reasoned evaluations?
- Link and apply different kinds of learning in new situations?
Confident Individuals
In what way does our school enable all children to:
- Relate to other and manage themselves?
- Pursue a healthy and active lifestyle?
- Be self-aware?
- Develop and communicate their own beliefs and view of the world?
- Live as independently as they can?
- Assess risk and take informed decisions?
- Achieve success in different areas of activity?
Responsible Citizens
In what way does our school enable all children to:
- Develop knowledge and understanding of the world and Scotland’s place in it?
- Understand different beliefs and cultures?
- Make informed choices and decisions?
- Evaluate environmental, scientific and technological issues?
- Develop informed, ethical views of complex issues?
Effective Contributors
In what way does our school enable all children to:
- Communicate in different ways and in different settings?
- Work in partnership and teams ?
- Take the initiative and lead?
- Apply critical thinking in new contexts?
- Create and develop?
- Solve problems?