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School Improvement Priorities
School Improvement Priorities
Health and Well-being
Health and Well-being
Dalreoch Primary is a health promoting school where we aim to achieve a healthy lifestyle for the whole school community. The promotion of health and well-being is central to our school curriculum.
Six areas make up our health and well-being curriculum:
Mental, emotional, social and physical well-being
Planning for choices and change
Physical education, physical activity and sport
Substance misuse
Food and health
Relationships, sexual health and parenthood
We promote Health and Wellbeing through a range of learning experiences, including:
regular opportunities for high quality outdoor learning
healthy, tasty and nutritious school meals
comprehensive health and well-being lessons embedded in our curriculum
our Seasons for Growth programme, helping children to cope with bereavement, change and loss
extra curricular sporting activities
playground sports and games led by our p6/7 play leaders
specialists working directly with classes, e.g. in dancing and karate
focus weeks, e.g. Anti-Bullying, road safety, Children's Mental Health Week
provision of milk and water, available daily for all pupils
tooth brushing programme for primaries 1 and 2
opportunities for family learning
experiential learning activities for children, including learning about keeping safe online
Pupil committees and leadership opportunities – eg. our Sports Committee, Rights Respecting Focus Group
Literacy
Literacy
Raising attainment in literacy is a whole school priority at Dalreoch Primary. We consider the development of literacy skills to be the responsibility of all and believe that core literacy skills should be developed across a range of meaningful contexts as children grow and develop.
In Dalreoch Primary literacy learning is planned to enable all children to develop the four capacities of the Curriculum for Excellence and become successful learners, confident individuals, responsible citizens and effective contributors. We promote literacy through outdoor learning, the life and ethos of the school, opportunities for personal achievement and through motivating and engaging literacy experiences.
Listening and Talking
The first literacy skills acquired by children are those of listening and talking. We build upon these skills to support the development of reading and writing skills. At Dalreoch we provide opportunities for children to participate in discussions through listening and sharing ideas. We encourage pupils to create and develop arguments, opinions and viewpoints and share these with others. A range of approaches are used to ensure that vocabulary is developed and that pupils are able to talk clearly and coherently in different contexts and situations.
Reading
At Dalreoch, every pupil is given a wide range of reading opportunities which meet their learning needs. Pupils have access to high quality texts which are appropriately enjoyable. We explore a range of fiction, non-fiction and poetry to develop our skills. Reading for enjoyment is promoted by our reading leaders throughout the school and encouraged as much as possible. Pupils participate in many reading events throughout the year including Book Week Scotland, World Poetry Day and World Book Day. We have a beautiful library which is shared across the school and ELCC where our children and parents enjoy the magic of reading.
We are very proud to have been awarded in 2024 the Gold Reading School's Award - the first primary school in West Dunbartonshire!
Writing
Writing is an important part of our literacy curriculum, and makes a significant contribution to the development of children as thinkers and learners. In Dalreoch Primary, Writing is a focus in relation to attainment in the school. Children are encouraged to take part in regular ‘Have a Go’ writing which is low-risk and where they can write freely about topics of their choosing to practise their skills. They will also experience different genres of writing
Personal (writing about own experiences)
Functional (writing for a purpose)
Imaginative (explore ideas, themes and characters for entertainment)
In Early years, we use Greg Bortrill's 'Drawing club' approach to ignite the joy and imagination in mark making and writing opportuinities.
Primary 4 and 5 are part of the National Writing Programme where children have the opportunity to learn skills and techniques to improve their writing attainment.
Numeracy
Numeracy
Our school follows the Curriculum for Excellence Guidelines in Mathematics using the WDC 'Count With Me' programme. We provide a range of practical activities, problem solving and investigations to encourage mathematical thinking strategies. We provide a range of learning and teaching approaches including through play based learning, which aim to develop in each pupil a curious mind, along with the necessary attitude, skills and knowledge to succeed in mathematics and numeracy.
The skills we develop through numeracy:
a positive, confident attitude to maths
an awareness of the usefulness and relevance of maths in life
an understanding of maths through problem solving and investigation
the use of problem solving as a method of enquiry across the curriculum
the ability to discuss, explain and report maths activities
competence in the use of mental and problem solving strategies
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