Balmerino Primary School

Our School. Our Future.

We are Kind, Gentle and Helpful and have Ownership of our Learning.

We aim to provide:

• Opportunities
• Wellbeing
• Learning
• Support

We learn about the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Wellbeing Indicators and about how these can support us as we grow up. We develop our understanding of sustainability, our impact on the environment and our responsibilities.

To support Wellbeing, our values are:

• Inclusion
• Friendship
• Respect
• Personal Achievement

To support Learning, our values are:

• Perseverance
• Independence
• Enthusiasm
• Curiosity
• Effort
• Teamwork

As we deliver our curriculum, we aim to provide quality resources and make use of the whole environment including the school grounds and the local and wider area. We embrace our rural setting to enhance learners’ experiences. We involve children in planning their own learning, in target setting and in discussing their progress and next steps in learning. We maintain good links with parents, carers and the community. We make opportunities to discuss feelings and how we act upon them and we know that we can learn from our mistakes. We celebrate our success. We respect and celebrate diversity and recognise individual needs. We prepare our learners for transition and develop skills for life and work.

School roll: 59

Nursery roll: 8

Balmerino Primary School is situated in the rural village of Gauldry. A late Victorian building Balmerino Primary is enhanced with views across the River Tay and Carse of Gowrie. The school serves the villages of Gauldry, Balmerino and Rathillet catchment areas. The main school building houses two classrooms, a nursery class, a multi purpose dining hall, a Learning Support room, office and staff facilities. The playground houses an additional hut for pupils in P4-7 and contains two classrooms and a cloakroom.

Balmerino Primary school has excellent grounds including concrete play areas, a large grassy area with a trim trail, a quiet zone surrounded by a variety of shrubs and trees and numerous picnic tables.

Daily Timetable

• Morning 9.00am - 12.30pm
• Interval 10.40am - 10.55am
• Lunch 12.30pm - 1.15pm
• Afternoon Session 1.15pm - 3.00pm

School Uniform

Our school uniform consists of

• Navy blue sweatshirt with or without the school logo
• White or yellow polo shirts with or without the school logo
• Grey or black school trousers or skirt (not jeans or leggings, please)
• Sturdy Black Shoes which fasten and don’t slip off

Items with the logo on, along with school jackets and fleeces can be obtained from BE Schoolwear, 1-3 Meadowside, Dundee. Telephone 01382 200926. There are a range of shops (including supermarkets) where items without the logo can be bought.

All children must have a suitable kit for PE comprising shorts or tracksuit trousers, a t-shirt and gym shoes (kept clean for indoors) and trainers (that can get muddy outdoors).

In warmer months children may wear grey shorts or a summer gingham dress.

Please send your child to school each day with a waterproof coat with a hood and a school bag big enough to fit an A4 folder and their shoes/PE kits. On the coldest winter days, the heating in some parts of the school struggles a bit and we recommend your child brings a second jumper or fleece to school to wear over (not instead of) their school jumper. If possible, their second jumper or fleece should be navy blue and not have a brand, slogan or hood.

All items of stationary are provided in school. Some children like to bring a pencil case, but this is not required and there might be times the teacher prefers the child to use school resources rather than ones from home.