Our School's Vision, Values and Aims
We aim to motivate everyone to participate with enthusiasm to be well organised, resolute, and open-minded. To see our island as a benefit not a barrier; to embrace and enrich our unique resources - friendliness, community spirit, heritage, landscape, traditions, and culture - to help maintain and develop the island as a beautiful place to live:
‘Proud to Belong.’ ‘Proud to be a Limpet.’
Together, our vision is to ensure that everyone achieves their full potential and enjoys being part of a caring learning community.
We seek to be respectful, kind, inclusive and responsible in all that we do.
Our Curriculum Rationale
On Stronsay, we work together as a school community to develop, promote, and sustain an aspirational vision for our curriculum. The curriculum has a sharp vision and rationale shaped by the shared values of the school and its island community. Our curriculum is grounded in our commitment to securing children’s rights and well-being. It takes account of learners’ entitlements and the four capacities and reflects the uniqueness of our small school island setting. There is a strategic overview that we use to ensure a shared understanding of the purpose and design of the curriculum. The structure of our flexible curriculum provides equity of opportunity to maximise the successes and achievements of all our individual learners.
Headteacher's Welcome
Stronsay Junior High School is a 3-16 school and early years' centre with 50 pupils on roll. Our setting offers early years' provision for 3-5 year-olds with places for eligible 2-year-old children. We have a primary school and a secondary school up to and including S4. After S4, our young people attend Kirkwall Grammar School and stay in the Papdale Halls of Residence from Monday to Friday.
Our school is a vibrant and ambitious learning community with a relentless focus on the highest standards of academic achievement, personal development and equality of opportunity. In everything we do, we are dedicated to achieving the best outcomes for your children and young people.
We hope you find our website useful. Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can help in any way.
– Dr Petra McLay, Headteacher
We aim to motivate everyone to participate with enthusiasm to be well organised, resolute, and open-minded. To see our island as a benefit not a barrier; to embrace and enrich our unique resources - friendliness, community spirit, heritage, landscape, traditions, and culture - to help maintain and develop the island as a beautiful place to live:
‘Proud to Belong.’ ‘Proud to be a Limpet.’
Together, our vision is to ensure that everyone achieves their full potential and enjoys being part of a caring learning community.
We seek to be respectful, kind, inclusive and responsible in all that we do.
Our Curriculum Rationale
On Stronsay, we work together as a school community to develop, promote, and sustain an aspirational vision for our curriculum. The curriculum has a sharp vision and rationale shaped by the shared values of the school and its island community. Our curriculum is grounded in our commitment to securing children’s rights and well-being. It takes account of learners’ entitlements and the four capacities and reflects the uniqueness of our small school island setting. There is a strategic overview that we use to ensure a shared understanding of the purpose and design of the curriculum. The structure of our flexible curriculum provides equity of opportunity to maximise the successes and achievements of all our individual learners.
Headteacher's Welcome
Stronsay Junior High School is a 3-16 school and early years' centre with 50 pupils on roll. Our setting offers early years' provision for 3-5 year-olds with places for eligible 2-year-old children. We have a primary school and a secondary school up to and including S4. After S4, our young people attend Kirkwall Grammar School and stay in the Papdale Halls of Residence from Monday to Friday.
Our school is a vibrant and ambitious learning community with a relentless focus on the highest standards of academic achievement, personal development and equality of opportunity. In everything we do, we are dedicated to achieving the best outcomes for your children and young people.
We hope you find our website useful. Please do not hesitate to contact us if we can help in any way.
– Dr Petra McLay, Headteacher
