Welcome to kilpatrick 

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Welcome to Kilpatrick School and KEYS

This website aims to bring you key information about our school community as well as details of the wonderful learning experiences our pupils enjoy. Below you will also find access to our School Handbook, Improvement Plan and our Policies for areas of our curriculum.

Head Teacher's Message

Dear Parent/Carer 

I hope this website gives you much of the essential day to day information that you need as well as illustrating the vision and the values that we possess and prize here at Kilpatrick School. 

Kilpatrick School is a specialist establishment providing education from birth to 18 years of age for children and young people with additional support needs. This makes us truly, an all through school. Kilpatrick Early Years’ Service (KEYS) offers sessions for babies and children from 0-3 years of age. 

Our school also has Primary and Secondary classes. Some of our children, in both KEYS and our Primary classes have shared placements with their local mainstream Nurseries and Primary Schools. In the Senior Phase of Secondary (S4-6) our pupils benefit from both our in-house vocational programme and our vocational opportunities delivered in partnership with West College Scotland at their Clydebank College campus. 

Our new school building was opened in November of 2016 and joined with the existing Primary building to form our new school campus which is set within our picturesque and leafy school grounds. Our purpose-built school includes many outstanding facilities such as our adventure play park, our outdoor all-weather pitch, our hydrotherapy pool, our hospitality kitchen and shop, our technical workshop and science laboratory, sensory and light rooms and our classrooms resourced with state of the art information and communication technology.

Our teaching and support staff are committed to providing the best possible learning opportunities and experiences for our children and young people and work tirelessly as a team to do so. We work in partnership with many other agencies and organisations to ensure that we strive every day to get it right for the children and young people here at Kilpatrick School. Parents are of course a vital part of the ‘team’ around every child and young person and I look forward to developing positive relationships with you over the years that your child attends Kilpatrick School.  

Rest assured that we endeavour to make sure that all our children and young people are safe, happy, achieving, nurtured, active and respected and that they are provided with opportunities to be responsible and included whilst pupils in our school. If you require any further information or ever have any concerns, the door is always open here at Kilpatrick School. 

Please never hesitate to get in touch either by telephone, email or by coming in to meet with us. 

Yours sincerely 

Louise McMahon 

Our Vision Values and Aims

This is the new video of the school vision and values, to support our pupils in understanding our vision and values.

Kilpatrick vision and values.MOV

Departments

Click on the school badges below to access information for each department within the school.

Helpful Documents

Kilpatrick School Handbook 23-24.docx.pdf

School Handbook

This is our school handbook for the session 22/23. In this very helpful guide you will learn much more about the fantastic work being carried out in our school community and learn about the ethos of the school. Click on the square with the arrow to view in full screen mode.

School Improvement Plan

This document outlines the improvements that we are making to our school over the 3 year period (2021-2024). We are currently in phase 3 of the plan and here you will see details of how we will achieve excellence for all our pupils. Click on the square with the arrow to view in full screen mode.

Kilpatrick School recovery SIP 2021-2024 (year 3).pdf
Emotional Health and Wellbeing Policy (Updated 2023) .docx.pdf

Emotional Health and Wellbeing Policy

At Kilpatrick School we Nurture Potential Together. Emotional Health and Physical Wellbeing are at the heart of all that we are and all that we do. This is our Emotional Health and Wellbeing Policy. Click on the square with the arrow to view in full screen mode.

Literacy and Communication Policy

This document is a statement of the aims, principles and strategies for raising attainment and achievement in Literacy and Communication at Kilpatrick School. Click on the square with the arrow to view in full screen mode.

Literacy and communication strategy October 2020.docx.pdf
Numeracy and mathematics Policy KS .docx.pdf

Numeracy and Mathematics Policy

It is vital that to the best of their ability, taking account of their additional support needs, pupils at Kilpatrick School develop the ability to apply numerical understanding and skills to solve problems in a variety of contexts and to cope with practical mathematical demands on everyday life. Click on the square with the arrow to view in full screen mode.

Developing The Young Workforce Rationale

Opportunities for developing skills for learning, skills for life and skills for work occur throughout the school. In this document you will find details of what we are doing within our setting to support our students. Click on the square with the arrow to view in full screen mode.

Developing the Young Workforce Rationale Final - June 2023 (1).pdf

Child Protection Policy

Here at Kilpatrick school we follow the West Dunbartonshire Policy for the protection of all our pupils. The following document gives details of how we follow this policy within our school community (Click on the square with the arrow to view in full screen mode) and the below button will take you to WDC's child protection page where you can fins further information.

Here you will find out information for exciting events taking place in our school community. It is also a great place to find pictures and information on past events.