Parent Information

APPLYING FOR SCHOOL / NURSERY

To apply for your child to be enrolled at Finzean School, please apply via the links below and then please follow the instructions:

Applying for a school place – Aberdeenshire Council

Apply for a school outside your catchment – Aberdeenshire Council

To apply for your child to be enrolled at Ballogie Nursery and funded for early learning: 3 and 4-year-olds, please apply via the link below:

Apply for funded early learning: 3 and 4-year-olds – Aberdeenshire Council

SCHOOL MEALS

https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/schools/school-info/meals/primary-school-meals

PARENT COUNCIL

Parental involvement and engagement are important to the school and the nursery and we are very appreciative of their support. In the past, parents have been involved with a variety of activities to help support and add to pupil learning, for example, listening to reading, running the Recorder Group, helping at the School Woods for outdoor learning, coming on school trips, and raising money for the school. To develop the DYW project, parents and carers will also be asked to take part in a proposed Careers Event at the school, in Term 4, when they will be asked to talk to the P4/5/6/7 class about their job/profession and the skills and qualifications they need.

The active and supportive Parent Council support the school by actioning issues raised at the Parent Council meetings and raise much needed funds for school projects and resources by running their 2 main Fundraising Activities, namely the Tom’s Cairn Race and the Christmas Fair.

The staff are really appreciative in all that you do. Thank you.

ASSESSMENTS

Standardised National Standardised Assessments

In line with Aberdeenshire Council Policy, pupils at Finzean School will engage with the Scottish Government’s Standardised National Standardised Assessments (SNSAs). The Scottish Government commissioned the Scottish National Standardised Assessments as part of the National Improvement Framework.

https://www.gov.scot/policies/schools/national-improvement-framework/

For children and young people to have the best chance of reaching their potential, parents, carers, teachers and the children themselves, need to understand how they are progressing, and what further support they require. Alongside a wide range of other assessment activity, the assessments help to inform that understanding by providing teachers with objective and nationally consistent information on children’s progress.

However, ongoing and informal assessment is, and will continue to be, a central part of everyday assessment. Teachers will continue to draw on all of the assessment information available to them, when considering children’s progress and planning the next steps in their learning.

Thereafter, Teachers can then discuss children’s progress with them and their parents, planning next steps accordingly, and ensuring parents understand how best to support their child’s learning at home.

What is being assessed?

Scottish National Standardised Assessments focus on aspects of reading, writing and numeracy.

Who is being assessed?

All children in P1, P4, P7 and S3.

How many times will your child take the assessments in a school session?

P1 children will take two SNSA assessments: one in literacy and one in numeracy.

P4 children will take three SNSA assessments: one in reading, one in writing and one in numeracy.

P7 children will take three SNSA assessments: one in reading, one in writing and one in numeracy.