This website was last updated on the 17th June 2010

Our School Logo - The Heron

Quote for the week

From a year 8 student

"Lessons should be hard to forget"

Our Vision: Excellent Education For All

 

Main Entrance to our school

 

World Book Day 2008

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Standards and Quality Report

Personal learning plan

Our School Aims

Our School Handbook

Our School Improvement Plan 2009 / 2010

Local links to explore

The Orkney Today newspaper

The Orcadian newspaper

Scottish Qualifications Authority

Orkney Islands Council Website

Learning Teaching Scotland

Visit Orkney - website

BBC Radio Scotland

Scottish Executive

Northlink Ferries

Pentland Ferries

 

Meet the Staff Team at St Andrews

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At St Andrews Primary School, we aim to provide a happy, caring environment where children are valued as individuals and are treated as equals regardless of gender, ability, culture, belief or ethnic background

Mrs Thelma Holt Head Teacher of St Andrews Primary School

New Staffing Arrangements for next term 2009/2010

We are very pleased to be able to tell you of our new staffing arrangements for next term and year. They are: Nursery Mrs Jocelyn Tulloch, Mrs Inga Gilmour and Mrs Barbara Moore P1 Mrs Hazel McKinlay P3/2 Mrs Alison Aitken P4/3 Mrs Margaret Kirkness P5/4 Miss Lindsay Campbell P6 Mr Murray Gallacher P7 Miss Lori Scott Music Mrs Denise Denvir Support Staff Mrs Cathie Shearer, Mrs Linda Bonner and Mrs Amanda Ruddick We  will be supporting two probationer teachers this year, one in P1 and one in P6. They will be supported mainly by Mrs Shelia Eunson and Mr Neil McIntosh. Neil will have time outwith these duties to engage in developing a project in school and for the Authority.

The St Andrews Primary School Parent Council

All relevant information and items of interest, such as: minutes of Parent Council meetings, fundraising activities and other school news will now be posted onto the new Parent Council Page. Please click on the photograph or above link above to view. The Parent Council is also to be found on Wikispace, please click the link below www.saparentcouncil.wikispaces.com

School Closure Hotline

Occasionally due to severe weather conditions, pupils may be sent home early or the school may close until the weather improves. Details of school closures are usually broadcast on Radio Orkney in the morning during severe weather conditions or parents can use the school closure hotline above to find out more details.

Our Privacy Promise

We are very aware of parents concerns as regards to the school website and appreciate that some parents/ carers may not want their children to be published online, so we are careful not to upload any photos or information about pupils whose parents have not given permission to the school. For parents who have given permission, we are still very careful not to identify any pupils. We will never identify a child alongside a photograph or give out personal details of any of our pupils.

Contact Information

Head teacher - Mrs Thelma Holt

admin.standrews@orkneyschools.org.uk

St Andrews Primary School Toab, Orkney Islands, KW17 2QU

Telephone 01856 861256      FAX 01856 861421

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St Andrews Primary School

Opened in December 1995, St Andrews Primary School was built as a seven class primary school with a nursery for the children of Deerness, Holm, St Mary's, Tankerness and Toab. It was officially opened in June 1996 by Jim Wallace, MP for Orkney and Shetland.

Since extension work in 2003-04, there is a larger hall, eight class bases and two shared areas in the ground floor of the teaching area. Upstairs there is a computer room, small library area, art/ craft base and teachers resource room.

The nursery is well equipped with both morning and afternoon sessions for Nursery (3 year olds) and Pre-school (4 year olds)

In the administration area there is a Staff Room, The Office, Head teacher's Office and a general purpose class base used for musical activities as well as a Medical Inspection Room.

The school is surrounded by grassy and hard surfaced play areas which are being developed gradually. At present there is a wooden Trim Track, pond and wetland area, Victoria's Garden, a weather station and imaginative games painted on the tarmac. Bulbs, trees and bushes have been planted and further development of the of the outside of the school is on going thanks to the Grounds for learning project.

There are currently around 160 pupils at St Andrews, that includes the Nursery pupils. The average class size is about 19 pupils per class.