St Monans Primary School

We believe in working together to create a strong, positive ethos.

As a Rights Respecting School we base the United Nations Convention at the heart of our visions, values and aims.

Our Rights Respecting Charter is on display in school, and we welcome the whole community to share in the life of the school.

Our visitors regularly comment on the warm and welcoming ethos felt when entering our school. We pride ourselves on the way we work as a team including parents, learners, staff and community. We are both inclusive and supportive. Respect underpins all learning in our school, and we work hard to ensure our children feel happy, confident and safe. Children feel valued and we ensure they have a voice in our school through our Eco, Health, Rights Respecting Schools, and Pupil Council Committee. We also regularly work with the whole school to obtain feedback and make improvements with learners.

We believe that through meeting needs in numeracy, literacy and health we can ensure each child develops necessary skills for lifelong learning. We strongly value our own culture and heritage, including Scottish Celebrations and learning about other cultures through a variety of topics and citizenship ventures. We have developed links with Vision Africa and sponsor a child in Kenya.

The ethos in our school strongly reflects the aims of Curriculum for Excellence, ensuring children have the capacity to be successful, responsible, effective and confident.

Our school has a strong sense of community. We participate in all community events such as

The St Monans Sea Queen, The Community Arts Festival and many other events. We like our children to explore the world around them and ensure they are exposed to a variety of stimulating learning experiences which will help them develop skills for life.

School roll: 77

Nursery roll: 29

The school building, opened in 1987, is of open plan design. The teaching areas are grouped round a central courtyard with a withdrawal room which is used for music, viewing television and quiet and noisy activities. There is also a spacious hall which doubles as a dining room.

Our central courtyard is loved by the children and contains a summer house which is used by older pupils at breaks as a common room, variety of potting benches, fruit trees, a pond and a variety of flower beds which are maintained by the pupils.

The accommodation has been extended to provide a spacious P1/2 classroom with toilet and disabled toilet facilities.

Our large playground has recently been developed through the help of a lottery grant and a community fund grant. We now have a lovely trim trail which all children can use and a fenced off area which is used daily for cycling or special games. We have lovely picnic benches and a wealth of soft and hard imaginative toys which we store in our shed and can be taken out during lunch break.

We have free access to a large grassy common adjacent to the school which we use for sports and other activities.

We are very fortunate to have full wheelchair access and a disabled toilet in the main building.

Our Nursery building was opened in August 2008 and stands in its own playground opposite the school. It is extremely well equipped and provides excellent indoor and outdoor accommodation for our early years learners.

Daily Timetable

SCHOOL HOURS

• Morning: Infants: 09.00 - 12.35 P3 - P7: 09.00 - 12.35
• Lunch: Infants: 12.35 - 13.20 P3 - P7: 12.35 - 13.20
• Afternoon: Infants: 13.20 - 15.00 P3 - P7: 13.20 - 15.00
• Interval: 10.40 - 10.55

NURSERY HOURS:

• Morning Session: 08.00 - 12.40
• Afternoon Session: 13.20 - 18.00

School Uniform

At St Monans we actively encourage all pupils to wear school uniform. We believe it promotes inclusion and equality, provides safe, sensible attire for school and creates a positive impression of the school in the community and outwith St. Monans. Wearing suitable dress is also part of promoting a life skill where pupils are more aware of the need to dress appropriately.

The school uniform consists of a royal blue sweatshirt (white logo) and white polo shirt (royal blue logo) which can be purchased through the school. Girls wear navy, black or grey skirts; the boys wear navy, black or grey trousers. School jumpers, fleeces, jackets and gym bags complete with school logo are also available for purchase. In 2014-15 we adopted a further option of a school tie which can be purchased at school.

Sensible, dark footwear should be worn. We accept that some parents are happy for their children to wear trainers to school but would ask that these are black or brown please.

Parents eligible for assistance in purchasing school uniform should complete an application form which is available from the Local Office or online at www.fife.gov.uk under 'School Clothing Grant'.