Quality and Standards Report

Lawthorn Primary School
& Early Years Class

September 2019

Standards & Quality
Report

Our School

Lawthorn Primary School
opened in August 2000 to serve
the growing needs of the
Lawthorn, Girdle Toll and
Perceton areas of Irvine. It is
a purpose built, open plan school
with a roll of 357 pupils from P1 – P7, organised into
14 classes. The staffing structure consists of a full-
time equivalent of 17.5 as well as 0.6 for pupil
support. The management team underwent a
restructure in June 2019, resulting in an allocation of
1 Head Teacher, 2 Depute Head Teachers and 1
Principal Teacher. The teaching staff is supported by
2 full-time and 5 part-time Classroom Assistants and
2 full-time clerical staff. There is also a self-
contained Early Years Class that caters for 64
children and is staffed by a full-time equivalent of
4.0 Early Years Practitioners, including 1 full-time
Senior Early Years Practitioner.

Close links have been established with Greenwood
Academy and associate primary schools and a robust
P7/S1 transition programme has been firmly
established.

How well did we do in 2019?

Curriculum for Excellence Attainment Results

In 2019, there was an increase in the number of children
who achieved Early, First and Second level reading, writing
and numeracy. There has been a slight dip in the attainment
of listening and talking at Early level, however at First and
Second level, attainment continues to rise.

Listed below you will find further examples of the
progress and achievements for 2018-2019.

 An active literacy approach was adopted in
P1-P3 to help raise attainment in literacy.

 A range of resources for literacy and
numeracy were purchased to help raise
attainment.

 A new planning framework was developed to ensure effective
progression and consistency across the school.

 In order to raise attainment in reading, we worked with our
community librarian to refresh and renew
our school library.
 We worked closely with Brian Donnelly
to raise awareness of anti-bullying and
develop a new school policy in line with

national guidance.
 We successfully introduced our L3 Spanish to Primary 5 –

Primary 7 children.
 We developed a new positive relationship policy in line

with local and national guidance.

 We developed our school playground to promote
positive and inclusive play.

 We received positive feedback from an Education
Scotland empowerment inspection.
 We achieved our Silver Rights Respecting School
Award.
 We continued to develop positive parental
partnerships through a range of activities
including:
o EYC PEEP and Baby PEEP.
o EYC Stay and play sessions and PAThS workshops.
o Maths Games Afternoon.
o Read Write Count Workshops.
o French Day parent and child activities.

 We were successful in achieving awards at a
range of competitions over the year. These included:
o Second place in the Greenwood maths challenge.
o First place in the Ayrshire Association
chess tournament.
o 2 of our pupils were short listed for the
engineering awards and had their work
displayed at Strathclyde University.
o One of our pupils achieved second place in the Marymass
art competition.
o One of our pupils achieved second place in
a Stop Crime competition for the
Rivergate shopping centre.

 We raised a total of £1350.91 for charities.
 We developed our community links through visits to our local

care home.

School Vision, Values & Aims

In 2019 we consulted the whole school
community to review our school vision, values

and aims.

School Vision

To nurture, inspire and support our children to
achieve their full potential.

Values

KINDNESS HONESTY

RESPECT RESPONSIBILITY

Aims

 To provide a high-quality learning environment which promotes
excellence and equity and enables our children to become
successful learners, confident individuals, effective contributors
and responsible citizens.

 To celebrate the talents and achievements of all children to
enable them to achieve their full potential.

 To work in partnership with parents, carers and our whole school
community to maintain a positive school community, where
everyone is respected, included and nurtured.

 To promote empowerment, leadership and collaboration at all
levels.

School Improvements 2019-2020

Our school priority for 2019-2020 is to ensure high quality
learning, teaching and assessment. In order to achieve
this, we will focus on the following objectives:

Learning and Engagement
 Learners’ experiences will be consistent, motivating, challenging and well-

planned.
 Children will understand the purpose of their learning.
 Children will have the opportunity engage in sustainable learning

opportunities through outdoor learning and community involvement.
 Parents/carers will be involved in supporting learning.
 Positive and nurturing relationships will continue to be developed throughout

the school.

Quality of Teaching/Quality of Interactions
 Staff will improve practice and awareness of how to raise attainment.
 Learners will experience a wide range of learning environments and creative

teaching approaches.
 Explanation and instructions will be clear through the use of high quality

learning intentions, success criteria, skilled questioning and effective
feedback.

Effective use of Assessment
 Assessment approaches will be matched to the learning needs and are used

to support learners.
 A quality body of evidence will be used to support assessment judgements

and decisions about next steps.
 Assessments will be relevant, reliable and valid.

Planning, Tracking and Monitoring
 Learning experiences will be well planned and tracking and monitoring

procedures will be robust.
 Learners and their parents/carers will be involved in planning and evaluating

learning.
 Teachers will have well-developed skills of data analysis which are focused on

improvement.