We have a strong, positive ethos at our school.

We have a dedicated team of teachers and support staff who work together to ensure we achieve our vision, values and aims for all our learners and their families.

At Inverkeithing Primary School, we aim to:

• Provide and promote a positive, inclusive, and respectful learning environment where pupils are encouraged to have high aspirations and a ‘can do’ attitude to all of the challenges presented to them.
• Provide and promote an ambitious learning and teaching culture within which our pupils receive a broad general education which enables them to reach their full potential as Successful Learners, Responsible Citizens, Effective Contributors and Confident Individuals
• Work and as school community to enable pupils to develop relevant capacities and attitudes through a curriculum which has a strong focus on the development of Literacy, Numeracy, Health and Wellbeing and, on promoting achievement and raising attainment.
• Be committed to improving all aspects of the school through a culture of self-evaluation to maintain the effectiveness and relevance of our work, we give priority to ensuring the quality of our approaches to learning and teaching continues to engage and motivate learners.
• Build positive relationships with learners, with parents, colleagues, partners and across the school community. We work with all stakeholders to ensure early intervention is timely to maintain pupils’ safety and well-being and maximise their capacity to learn.

At our school, we believe that working together with our families is essential to ensuring every child thrives. We are committed to building strong, positive, and valued partnerships with parents and carers, recognising that you are your child’s first and most important educators. When school and home collaborate effectively, we create the best possible conditions for learning, wellbeing, and success.
Working Together
We are dedicated to fostering meaningful relationships with our families, built on mutual trust, respect, and shared responsibility. By working together, we strive to support every child to achieve their full potential and to feel safe, included, and nurtured within our school community. We are proactive at creating opportunities for parent groups to come together and have active Parent Council and PTA (fundraising) groups who meet regularly to support the work of our school.
Collaboration and Shared Priorities
We value collaboration with our parents and carers. At Inverkeithing Primary School, we aim to:

• Provide and promote a positive, inclusive, and respectful learning environment where pupils are encouraged to have high aspirations and a ‘can do’ attitude to all the challenges presented to them.
• Provide and promote an ambitious learning and teaching culture.
• Work as a school community to develop through a curriculum with a strong focus on promoting achievement and raising attainment.
• Build positive relationships with learners, with parents, colleagues, partners and across the school community.

We will continue to work in partnership with parents and carers to identify what matters most for our children and our school community:

Open and Honest Dialogue
Effective communication is central to strong partnerships. We are committed to open, honest, and timely dialogue. We welcome feedback, questions, and ideas, and we encourage conversations that help us understand the needs and experiences of our families.
Supporting Attendance and Engagement
Attendance is a vital part of every child’s success. We work closely with families to remove barriers to attendance and ensure that children feel motivated, supported, and ready to learn. Together, we aim to encourage positive routines and a shared understanding of the importance of everyday learning.
Getting It Right for Every Child
Our work is underpinned by the principles of Getting It Right for Every Child (GIRFEC). By placing children and families at the heart of all we do, we ensure that support is coordinated, strengths-based, and tailored to each child’s wellbeing needs. Working together with families, we aim to ensure that every child is safe, healthy, achieving, nurtured, active, respected, responsible, and included.

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Daily Timetable

School Uniform

We believe that the positive ethos of the school and the pupil's attitude to their work and themselves are all reflected in the wearing of the school colours.

The uniform also enhances the feeling of ‘belonging’ to our school.

Our uniform increases security as it makes an intruder to the school or school grounds easier to identify.

We are proud of our school colours and feel that the wearing them adds a sense of pride and responsibility to the wearer.

We ask children to wear the following uniform:

• Grey or black school skirt/ pinafore or trousers/ leggings.
• White blouse or a polo shirt in white or yellow.
• Blue or black jersey or a blue cardigan or sweatshirt.

School tie.
Flat, sensible, comfortable shoes.

Uniform items can be purchased online from Border Embroideries and My Clothing.
'Leaver's' jumpers are organised for our P7 pupils at the beginning of their final year with us to celebrate and also encourage wearing of school uniform.

Should you have any difficulty accessing this online please don’t hesitate to ask our school office staff for assistance. We have a large quantity of good quality, second hand clothing that is free.

We have a small stock of ties in school families can purchase.

For PE all children need gym shoes, shorts or leggings or jogging bottoms and a T-shirt.

These should be worn to school on your child’s gym day and should be appropriate for active use in the gym (not too loose, no hoodies, no jeans, nothing that will catch on gym equipment).

We actively discourage and do not allow the wearing of football or team colours to PE lessons, school clubs or in the classroom. School items like packed lunch boxes, school bags, water bottles etc should also not display football/ team logos.  Our experience is that wearing team strips can lead to tension and conflict which may progress to bullying or unwanted behaviours between children.

Jeans should not be worn to school with the exception of a dress down/ dress up day.

Jewellery: Your child should not come to school with jewellery or accessories. Jewellery should not be worn during P.E. as it can be dangerous.

If valuables are lost or damaged, this may cause upset, as well as time which should be spent on teaching being spent trying to sort out problems.

Make up at school: We ask that children do not wear make-up to school. This can be distracting and can lead to peer pressure to conform to a certain image.