Touch Primary School

Our vision, values and aims are reviewed every few years. Staff, pupils and children all play a part in forming these.

Our school and nursery is a community with learning at its heart: striving for excellence for all

We aim to:-

• Provide an ethos where children are valued and happy as their wellbeing needs are met and where their learning is appropriately supported and challenged
• Ensure children develop across the four capacities (Successful Learner, Confident Individual, Responsible Citizen  and Effective Contributor) and live our school and nursery values
• Equip our learners with the skills, knowledge and attitudes for learning, life and work
• Provide an equity of experience and opportunity to ensure all learners are able to fulfil their potential
• Raise attainment and narrow the attainment gap

Our values are:

• Honesty
• Aspiration
• Respect
• Kindness

We encourage our children to form positive dispositions towards learning and use a set of key words to establish a shared language around learning:

• problem solve
• engage
• reflect and adapt
• wonder
• aim high
• persevere
• link learning

School roll: 225

Nursery roll: 56

Touch Primary School is a large primary school that serves the communities of East Dunfermline. The school currently has a roll of 281 including the nursery.

Children from the surrounding areas of Touch, Garvock, Bellyeoman and the Eastern expansion of Dunfermline attend the school and nursery. The school serves a very mixed catchment of private and public housing and caters for a very broad spectrum of socio/economic groupings. This is a strength of the school.

At present there are 10 classes ranging from P1 to P7. In addition to class teachers we have 2 part time LS teachers, teachers to cover non-class contact time, a brass tutor and a further music tutor funded by YMI (Youth Music Initiative).  The school has a management team of Headteacher, a part-time Depute Headteacher and a part-time Principal Teacher.  There is a large team of well qualified pupil support assistants, school support assistant and administrative staff who greatly support the work of the school.

Touch School was built in the 1970s and was extended in the first few years to establish a nursery.  The school was further extended in 2020 to provide an additional four classrooms.  In 2021 the nursery was refurbished and extended to provide three playrooms.

The school is surrounded by a large tarmac play area. There is also a wildlife garden, internal quad garden, blaze pitch, enclosed grass area and additional tarmac play area.  In addition to this, the nursery and five ground floor classrooms all have an enclosed, outdoor area, which allows free flow play between the inside and outdoor areas.

Touch Primary has a very active Parent Council who support the work of the school including raising funds and supporting school initiatives.

The school enjoys a very good and purposeful relationship with parents. Many classes visit the surrounding area and community to support their learning, concerts and performances.

Other strong links have been established with the Community Council, the Schools Liaison Police Office and our Councillors.

Daily Timetable

• Morning Session
  9.00am - 12.35pm
• Interval
  10.40am - 10.55am
• Afternoon Session
  1.25pm - 3.05pm
• Nursery hours for all children will be 9.00am - 3.00pm

School Uniform

We strongly encourage parents to ensure their children wear school uniform; royal blue sweatshirt or cardigan, white shirt and tie or white polo shirt, dark (grey or black) shorts, trousers, skirt of pinafore. Children in P7 should wear a white shirt and P7 tie. School uniform can be ordered from our supplier School Trends, by going to https://www.schooltrends.co.uk/uniform/TouchPrimarySchoolKY114JZ A small stock of uniform is kept in school.

• School sweatshirts cost from £10.95 depending on size
• Polo shirts cost from £7.75 depending on size
• Fleeces cost from £15.95 depending on size
• Parka Style coat (non-reversible) fully waterproof costs from £21.95 depending on size
• Fleece lined reversible rain jackets cost from £23.95 depending on size
• School ties are available as a normal tie or on elastic at the cost of £4.00

There is also the option of royal blue school tracksuits and a PE kit comprising T-shirt, shorts and gym bag