“Bringing learning to life and life to learning”
Curriculum for Excellence aims is to improve our children’s life chances, to nurture successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors and responsible citizens, building on Scotland’s reputation for great education.
Literacy is fundamental to all areas of learning, as it unlocks access to the wider curriculum. Being literate increases opportunities for the individual in all aspects of life, lays the foundations for lifelong learning and work, and contributes strongly to the development of all four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence.
Literacy consists of:
- Listening and Talking
- Reading
- Writing
- Modern Languages; children in the upper school are taught Spanish
Check out the Oxford Reading Tree support website where you’ll find lots of reading activities and free ebooks.
The children will actively participate in learning about the following areas of numeracy and mathematics:
- Number, Money and Measure
- Shape, Position and Movement
- Information Handling
The development of pupils’ problem solving and enquiry skills are promoted throughout numeracy and mathematics and the wider curriculum.
Learning in Health and Wellbeing ensures that children and young people develop the knowledge and understanding, skills, capabilities and attributes which they need for mental, emotional. social and physical wellbeing now and in the future. The goal is that children are:
- Active
- Respected
- Responsible
- Included
- Safe
- Healthy
- Achieving
- Nurtured
This covers Art & Design, Music, Drama and Dance.
Through learning in expressive arts your child will:
- Get the chance to find out about and express their feelings and emotions and those of others
- Discover and develop their personal, social and cultural identity
- Learn to recognise and value their culture locally, nationally and globally.
Through Social Studies, pupils develop their understanding of the world by learning about other people and their values, in different times, places and circumstances. They also develop their understanding of their environment and how it has been shaped. As they mature, children’s experiences will be broadened using Scottish, British, European and wider contexts for learning. Pupils learn about human achievements and about how to make sense of changes in society, of conflicts and of environmental issues. With greater understanding comes the opportunity and ability to influence events by exercising informed and responsible citizenship.
Through Science, pupils will develop their understanding of planet earth, forces and electricity, the properties and uses of materials, body systems and current scientific news items.
This includes creative, practical and work-related experiences and outcomes in business, computing science, food, textiles, craft, design, engineering, graphics and applied technologies
ICT
Pirie Park is part of the Glasgow Education Network and has filtered access to the internet and an internal email facility. We have 1 networked PC, laptop,a Smartboard and projector in each classroom to support interactive teaching and learning. We also have an extensive Media Suite/Library which has 30 networked PCs, a Smartboard and projector.
This deals with the development of the pupil in relation to self-awareness, relationships with others and the range of spiritual, social, moral and cultural values in our society.
Our Youth Worker, Paul Cathcart, regularly participates in our school assemblies. Class assemblies take place across all stages regularly with emphasis placed on the children’s topics studied in class. Parents and Carers are invited and welcome to attend their own child’s class assembly.
