The main achievements of our school in the last 12 months can be found in our 'Standards and Quality report'.  Please contact the school if you would like to see a copy of this.

In summary, our key successes in 2022-23 included:

• Increased opportunities for children to develop skills in technology and use digital technologies to support learning and teaching.
• Communicating children’s learning journeys in ELC through a digital platform (Showbie) has resulted in parents receiving more frequent information about their child’s learning.
• Improved literacy progressions which supported a 5% increase of children on track in literacy this year
• Play pedagogy in ELC to P2, with a focus on loose part play, has resulted in an increase in problem solving, imaginative thinking and teamwork.
•  Establishing a transitions programme for Early Level, which has resulted in almost all parents finding the transition process supportive and informative

The main areas for improvement 2023-24 can be found in our 'School Improvement Plan' Please contact the school if you would like to see a copy of this.

In summary, our key points for development this year include:

• Improve outcomes for children in writing.
• Creating and implementing a progressive outdoor learning experience for children (ELC to P7).
• Embed Inspire digital technologies progression (ELC to P7).
• Use of effective feedback to move the learning forward (ELC to P7).
• Embed all nurture principles in practice (ELC to P7).
• Achieve silver for UNCRC  (ELC to P7).
• Improve children’s access to healthy snacks.
• The learning community to be aware of what a growth mindset is and to see an increase in positive outcomes.
• Introduce SBC #OneWay, which will align all schools across the Scottish Borders with the same progressions for literacy, numeracy and Health and Wellbeing

Improvement Planning Specific to ELC

• Improved outcomes for children in numeracy.
• Embed emergent literacy.