About Broomlands Primary School
A School that values 'Courage, Compassion & Connection'
Our staff extend a warm welcome to you here at Broomlands. Here we work in positive partnership to give your child the best possible education. Starting school is an exciting experience and we like to give every child a confident start to their school career, offering continuing help and encouragement. We aim to develop effective partnerships with parents/carers. Together we can ensure that school life is happy, interesting, challenging and promotes a sense of personal achievement.
Our positive ethos shines through. Post-pandemic, it focuses on supporting the needs of our children and families. We want all children to make the best of themselves, recognising that we need to first support their health and wellbeing, physically, socially and emotionally, equipping them to play an active, positive part in the life and work of the school and wider community. We support this with a relentless focus on the skills and strategies which help build and practice resilience. We are a compassionate school community who recognise that children have varied life experience. We help every child strive towards becoming a confident individual, fulfilling their potential and want everyone in the Broomlands family to know they are valued, accepted and respected.
At Broomlands we take a dual approach. We help children build connection with their local area, learning about, enjoying, valuing and being actively responsible citizens of a town with rich history, celebrating its place in the Borders, it’s rural location on the banks of the Tweed, celebrated through Civic week and other ‘uniquely Kelso’ traditions. We also want our children to be globally aware, mindful of the bigger picture in an ever changing world, encouraging them to take an active role in the wider-world and see their place in it.
Our curriculum is challenging and stimulating, based on high expectations of every individual in the school, building on their skills and achievements. As we implement ‘A Curriculum for Excellence’ we want members of our school community to be:
- Successful Learners
- Confident Individuals
- Effective Contributors
- Responsible Citizens
To achieve this, we promote learning that is active, collaborative, relevant and enjoyable so that children will experience a coherent curriculum suited to their needs and achieve the highest standards possible.
Our school ensures that everyone: - children, school staff, parents and other members of our community, work co-operatively and collaboratively to enable the achievement of all. We are here for your children. If you have a concern about your child, or you would like to contribute to the work of the school in any way, please do not hesitate to contact me.
Mr Adam Lindsay
Headteacher
ELC
Our Early Learning & Childcare Provision
Welcome to our child-centred and inclusive ELC. Here is where our journey will begin together within the heart of Broomlands Primary School. We take pride in working closely with our families to ensure everyone feels that important connection of being valued, respected and supported at every point of our journey together. We provide a warm, welcoming and compassionate provision, where children feel nurtured, safe and included.
We provide a developmentally appropriate, play-based learning journey for all our children, ensuring our ELC is ready to welcome children each day. Each Practitioner is committed to Listening to our children, Observing them, Valuing them and Empowering them to reach their full potential. We respond to our children’s interests, engaging them deeply and building on their knowledge, understanding and skills to develop their learning. As parents & carers you are the prime educators of your children. Their daily lives offer a curriculum that encompasses all the experiences they encounter with you at home, at clubs, group gatherings and in the wider community. These activities give opportunities for lifelong learning, with the support and interactions of you and other children in their lives. This helps equip each child with courage, supporting them to develop new skills and experiences with confidence.
Your child is at the heart of everything we do. We spend time getting to know your child as an individual, discovering what is important to them, finding out about any particular interests or skills, needs and history. This will help to build up a trusting relationship, allowing us to build on what the child already knows and can do. We offer opportunities and experiences that develop skills freely through play. We offer opportunities which are safe, enriching and stimulating, but encourage age-appropriate risk taking. We ensure that our resources, environment and opportunities are well planned and equitable for all of our children. We take pride in supporting communication, self-esteem and social skills, as well as giving our children time and space to develop at their own pace. Furthermore, we work with all our families to support any needs wholeheartedly and sensitively, to help ensure the best possible outcomes for all of our children. Cultural backgrounds are respected and valued so that we can meet the diverse needs of every child. Every one of our children will feel valued and that they belong in our Broomlands family, with warm, friendly relationships that encourage and support them in our nurturing environment. We want to ensure that our children can learn self-regulation, develop resilience and are empowered to learn to the very best of their ability.
Our ELC is ever evolving and we always strive to engage parents and families in your child’s learning journey.
Mrs Agnes Anderson
Senior Early Years Officer
Vision | Values | Aims
Our Vision & Values
A vision is a clear, inspirational hope for our children:
Our vision is to be a school of Courage, Compassion and Connection.
We do this:
- In our Learning
- Through our Relationships
- In our Behaviour
