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Aims

Teaching and Learning
  • To provide a safe, stimulating and rewarding learning environment for all our pupils.
  • To strive to raise achievement, setting high standards in learning and teaching.
  • To actively involve children and their parents in their learning.
  • To focus on developing literacy and numeracy skills, particularly in the early years of school.
  • To balance the remaining teaching and learning time across the range of subjects so that our children will be confident in a wide range of skills and abilities.
Curriculum Areas
  • To develop the children's knowledge and awareness of the world around them, their immediate environment, differerent people and places throughout time.
  • To equip them with science and technology expertise and to develop a confidence with Information and Communication Technology.
  • To encourage the children to develop their physical fitness and development within the curriculum and beyond. This is promoted through an awareness of health issues and fitness as a leisure pursuit.
  • To develop the children's ability to search for meaning in things around them, providing experiences of other faiths and religions in the world.
  • To encourage the children to develop their creative skills in art, craft, design, drama and music. These are central to what we can share with our community.
Teamwork
  • To work closely together with parents, staff, pupils and the wider community to promote learning and development in the widest context. We aim for Bonhill School to be at the heart of the Bonhill Community.
School Ethos
  • To set positive models of compassion, understanding, good manners and conduct in all that we do so that Bonhill School and all the people within it are proud of where they belong.