Our Pupils

Rights Respecting Schools Award: We have attained Gold level accreditation as Rights Respecting School and are working with other schools on their RRS journey.

All children are continuing to develop an awareness of UNICEF’s United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Although these rights are always present, we also emphasise that with these rights comes responsibilities and pupils have a duty to contribute effectively to society.  

At the start of each year classes create a class charter to help children understand that they have rights, how important it is to have rights and to develop their own sense of responsibilities. This award enhances the values of our school and give another platform for developing the teaching and learning associated with Health and Wellbeing. 

Eco-Schools Award: Strathburn School has achieved a seven Green Flag award as an Eco-School. This involves the whole school as we have to collect materials for recycling, try and ensure that we are energy efficient and look after our school and the surrounding area. We have an Eco-School committee that meets regularly and actively encourage the whole school with new initiatives.

Pupil Groups: Primary 4-7 pupils meet once a week to take part in pupil groups.  Current pupil groups include Enterprise, Diversity, School Sports, Digital Schools, Reading Schools, Sustainability and the John Muir Award.  Through these groups children are able to develop a number of important metaskills (see below), have meaningful discussions and are supported to understand, recognise and articulate these skills and their development in them.  

At Strathburn we encourage everyone to approach learning with a growth mind-set and understand that the best learning comes when we are challenged. We use visible learning strategies throughout the school so that our pupils are aware of their learning intentions and their success criteria.  All pupils have been introduced to the learning pit and are aware of strategies that they can use to support them to achieve their best.