Our School

Our Vision

Invergarven creates a school community where we are safe, included and excel in what we do.  We are proud of our achievements and are confident in our own abilities.

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Aims

1: To create a positive school ethos that promotes inclusion and equality by:

• Encouraging pupils, whatever their ability, to reach full potential
• Ensuring relationships are based on mutual respect and understanding
• Creating a welcoming and purposeful atmosphere for pupils, parents and staff

2: To provide a stimulating and enjoyable curriculum for our pupils that will:

• Cater for all needs and abilities
• Be delivered through quality teaching and learning, providing a range of learning experiences
• Encourage pupils to develop a positive sense of achievement and pleasure in their learning
• Enable pupils to make the best of opportunities presented to them despite their additional support needs

3: To improve the standard of achievement and attainment within the school by:

• Careful monitoring of pupil attainment and achievement
• Encouraging pupils to work to the best of their ability and helping them to make best possible progress
• Promoting an ethos of success within the school
• Raising standards of attainment in the core areas outlined in the pupil’s IEP

4: To assist our pupils’ personal and social development and to teach them the values and responsibilities of citizenship by:

• Encouraging pupils to become aware of their own feelings and those of others around them
• Encouraging in pupils an awareness of the rules in school and of those in the wider community
• Promoting independence across all areas of learning
• Equipping them with the skills necessary to cope with the challenges they may face and by enabling them to make the best use of appropriate support systems

5: To promote effective partnership that links home, school and community by:

• Involving parents in their children’s education in school and at home
• Promoting effective home-school links
• Contributing to and being an active part of the local community

6: To develop an effective framework for learning by:

• Seeking to provide quality staff development opportunities and review where appropriate
• Endeavouring to offer an attractive, stimulating and safe school environment which will promote effective teaching and learning
• Encouraging pupils to be motivated and confident.