Glenlee Primary School and Nursery Class
We have a big, busy and vibrant school where there are lots of exciting opportunities for our pupils to learn and play together. We pride ourselves in our strong play pedagogy across our P1-P3 classes. Click here to access videos and news of our Play Pedagogy at Glenlee!
Play pedagogy is the foundation of our approaches at Glenlee. Staff use a variety of stimulating teaching practices to motivate and our interest children. We expect our children to be both collaborative and independent. Children take responsibility for their learning and in addition are involved in the planning of what they will learn and how they will learn.
The curricular areas are as follows:
Expressive arts
Languages and Literacy
Health and wellbeing
Mathematics and numeracy
Religious and moral education
Science
Social studies
Technologies
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Our learning and teaching activities are based on the outcomes and experiences in the guidelines that all schools have for Curriculum for Excellence and in addition to this, we have our own strong curriculum rationale which has been created in close consultation with our pupils, parents, staff and valued partners.
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We fully capitalise on the four contexts of our curriculum and carefully plan a number of experiences throughout the year to celebrate and enrich the life and ethos of our school.
Our school Vision Statement, is ‘Grow at Glenlee, Glow at Glenlee. The Values which we promote amongst our pupils are to:
💚Be Motivated
💙Be Responsible
❤️Be Nurturing
🧡Be Collaborative
We regularly celebrate the achievements of our children through assemblies, certificates and praise. We also have monthly prizes for pupils from each class based on the focus Value for that particular month in addition to celebrating star writer, mathematician of the week and celebrating when our pupils demonstrate that they are successful learners, effective contributors, responsible citizens and confident individuals.
Our Vision and Values logo
Life & Ethos Overview
Our Pathway of Supports
⭐'Oliver' school show 2025⭐
Here at Glenlee we are passionate about delivering a curriculum that meets the varying needs of all our pupils and also giving access to sports and activities that will broaden their range of experiences and opportunities for success. Each academic year we have many types of clubs and activities that either take place throughout the year or over a 4 - 6 week period. We are very grateful to our Active Schools Co-ordinator, Lesley Scanlan, for her support with this.
These include:
⚽Girls Football (P5-7)⚽Boys Football (P6-7)
🎤Choir 🕺Dance Group
🏸Badminton 🎨Craft Club
🥎Multisports 🧘Yoga
🏀Netball 🏸Badminton
👍Lego Club 🌳Forest Schools Club
📚Reading Club
...to name but a few!
We also perform a school show every 2 years, which are always spectacular!