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Ellon Primary School:‘We stand as EPS: Engaged, Positive, Supported’
At Ellon Primary School, we are dedicated to delivering a curriculum that embodies our vision to ensure every child is Engaged, Positive, and Supported (EPS). We aim to provide a learning experience that is both inclusive and ambitious for all—balancing academic rigour with meaningful opportunities to develop essential skills for learning, life, and work.
Our approach is rooted in the CARE philosophy, ensuring that our curriculum is not just a set of subjects, but a pathway to personal growth:
Curiosity Drives Learning: We provide an academically challenging environment that inspires pupils to ask questions and explore the world around them.
Achievements Celebrated: We look beyond the classroom to recognise and celebrate success in its broadest sense, ensuring every child feels Achieving.
Respect Shapes Our Relationships: By fostering a Connected and Honest community, we ensure our curriculum is inclusive and that Every Voice Counts.
Encouraged and Resilient: We empower our pupils to be Resilient when facing challenges, providing a supported and Encouraged atmosphere where they can reach their full potential.
By integrating these values into our daily practice, we create a coherent and relevant journey that prepares our young people for the future, ensuring they are Positive and ready to contribute to their community.
Our curriculum will be based around the four capacities of Curriculum for Excellence – to ensure our pupils are successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors, and responsible citizens.
At Ellon Primary, our curriculum is the vehicle through which we realise our core vision: to ensure that every child is Engaged, Positive, and Supported (EPS). Grounded in the principles of Curriculum for Excellence—breadth, depth, personalisation, challenge, and coherence—we continuously adapt our learning pathways to meet the evolving needs of our pupils.
We believe that Curiosity Drives Learning. By fostering an environment where Every Voice Counts, we empower our students to be Resilient, Encouraged, Achieving, Connected, and Honest. These values are the foundation of our CARE philosophy, which guides our pedagogical approach:
Curiosity & Challenge: Designing lessons that spark inquiry and offer high levels of engagement.
Achievement for All: Celebrating success in its broadest sense—from academic milestones to participation in arts, sports, and community volunteering.
Relationships & Respect: Ensuring that Respect shapes Our Relationships, creating a nurturing atmosphere aligned with Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC).
Equity & Excellence: Committed to the Aberdeenshire mission of Raising Attainment for All and closing the gap through inclusive, aspirational practice.
Curricular Areas:
Our Integrated Curricular Framework.
Our Integrated Curricular Framework.
At Ellon Primary, our curriculum is the vehicle through which we realise our vision: ensuring every child is Engaged, Positive, and Supported. We deliver high-quality learning across all areas, ensuring that Curiosity Drives Learning and Every Voice Counts.
At Ellon Primary, our curriculum is the vehicle through which we realise our vision: ensuring every child is Engaged, Positive, and Supported. We deliver high-quality learning across all areas, ensuring that Curiosity Drives Learning and Every Voice Counts.
Curricular Pillars:
Literacy and English Language: We develop Connected communicators through Listening, Talking, Reading, and Writing, encouraging children to express their ideas with confidence.
Numeracy and Mathematics: Building Resilient problem-solvers who can navigate Number, Money and Measure, Information Handling, and Shape, Position and Movement.
Health & Wellbeing: Central to our CARE ethos, we nurture mental, emotional, social, and physical wellbeing. This includes PE, activity, sport, food health, and ensuring Respect shapes Our Relationships through sexual health and parenthood education.
Social Studies: Pupils become achieving global citizens by exploring People, past events, societies, environments, and the economy.
Sciences: We ignite the Curiosity that Drives Learning through the study of Planet Earth, Biological Systems, Materials, and Topical Sciences.
Technologies: Preparing children for a digital future with Computing science, business skills, and engineering, fostering Honest reflection on technological developments in society.
Expressive Arts: A platform where Achievements are celebrated in Music, Drama, Art and Design, and Dance.
Religious and Moral Education: We explore Christianity and World Religions to support the development of beliefs and values, ensuring Every Voice Counts in our diverse community.
Modern Languages: Expanding our horizons and staying connected through German and Makaton, ensuring all learners are supported in their communication.
Why Our Approach is Different:
Why Our Approach is Different:
By aligning these subjects with our Aims and Values, we ensure that learning is Relevant and Personalised. We don't just teach facts; we cultivate the EPS (Engaged, Positive, Supported) mindset so that every pupil leaves Ellon Primary ready to contribute meaningfully to their community.
By aligning these subjects with our Aims and Values, we ensure that learning is Relevant and Personalised. We don't just teach facts; we cultivate the EPS (Engaged, Positive, Supported) mindset so that every pupil leaves Ellon Primary ready to contribute meaningfully to their community.
Curricular Levels
To refine these levels for Ellon Primary School, we must ensure they reflect our commitment to a curriculum where Every Voice Counts and where Curiosity Drives Learning. These stages are not rigid boundaries; they are flexible pathways that ensure every child is Engaged, Positive, and Supported (EPS) as they progress through their learner journey.
Our Learning Pathways: The EPS Journey:
Our Learning Pathways: The EPS Journey:
At Ellon Primary, we recognize that every child's path to Achieving is unique. We follow the Scottish Curriculum for Excellence levels, adapting them to ensure that Achievements are celebrated at every stage.
Early Level (Pre-school & P1): This foundation stage focuses on sparking the initial Curiosity that will drive lifelong learning. While typically spanning the nursery years through Primary 1, we provide a supported transition that respects individual readiness, ensuring every child feels encouraged from day one.
First Level (To the end of P4): As children move through the lower primary years, our curriculum broadens to keep them Engaged. We foster Resilient learners who are connected to their peers and their community, providing the challenge required to meet these outcomes by the end of P4, or whenever the learner is ready.
Second Level (To the end of P7): In the upper primary years, we emphasize Honest self-reflection and personal responsibility. We prepare our P7 pupils for the transition to secondary school by ensuring they have a deep, coherent understanding of the curriculum, celebrating their growth as they reach the end of this stage.
Third and Fourth Levels (S1 to S3):
Though these levels transition into secondary education, our primary curriculum builds the essential bridge. The Fourth Level specifically offers increased Personalisation and Choice, allowing young people to follow their passions. This stage is designed to provide diverse possibilities, acknowledging that a student's programme will be tailored to their specific strengths rather than covering every single outcome.
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