School Context

Our Lady’s Primary School is a Catholic School which is part of the Raploch Community Campus. The Campus is a state of the art education facility comprising of: 2 mainstream primary schools, Raploch Primary and Our Lady’s Primary, Raploch Nursery, Castleview School for children with additional support needs and Playhaven out of school care facility. Forth Valley College have teaching salons for hair and beauty courses and lecture rooms. In addition, the Campus has community sports and expressive arts facilities, used by the schools during the day, adult learning and youth spaces as well as a library. All of these provide excellent facilities to support children’s learning. We have a school roll of 97 learners across 5 classes – P1/2, P3/4, P4/5, P6 & P7.

Vision

Our Lady’s Primary School is a Catholic School which strives to:

· Deliver education of the highest quality for all our pupils within a Catholic environment with equal opportunity for all children.

· Develop a positive ethos and caring community that fosters an effective partnership between home, school, parish and the wider community.

· Instil in our children self-respect, self-worth and self-dignity which leads them to tolerance and understanding of the cultures and beliefs of others.

· Foster each child’s intellectual, spiritual, physical, social and moral development and enable each child to achieve his / her potential through the development and acquisition of the necessary skills, concepts and knowledge.

· Enable each child to learn how to learn and develop each child’s ability to reason.

· Encourage all members of staff to work as a team with an agreed educational philosophy which has, as its first priority, the needs of our children and which operates in an atmosphere of mutual respect and co-operation.

· Encourage parental interest, involvement and co-operation.

At Our Lady’s we promote our school values of Determination, Faith, Friendship, Kindness, Love, Respect and Compassion.

Our school motto, ‘Growing together to achieve lifelong success’ signifies our commitment to strong partnerships in order to ensure positive destinations for all learners in our community.