It’s all blossoming well at Bushes...
Parents and teachers have vowed to work together to ensure pupils have a blossoming future at Bushes Primary.
The children have worked alongside teaching staff and parents to update the Paisley school’s vision, values and aims.
The project started in February, before lockdown kicked in, and has just finished.
Headteacher Craig McCrorie said the new vision, values and aims are core to life at the school.
“Staff, pupils and parents were all involved. We worked together to create the new vision and put it all together,” he said.
“The vision, values and aims is everything that the school is built on and that we work towards. It’s central to everything we do in the school and the nursery.
“Our values of kindness, friendship, compassion, honesty, respect, achievement, learning and resilience are used on a daily basis throughout the school and ELC Class and are at the root of everything we do.
“Our vision has been inspired by Eglantyne Jebb – the founder of Save the Children in 1919 and who drafted the document that became the Declaration of the Rights of the Child, which was one of the main inspirations for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
“She believed that humanity owes the child the best it has to give and this is a thought we share at Bushes where all staff and the community work tirelessly to help everyone blossom at Bushes.”
The school worked with Elderslie artist Hayley Fallows from Angelkin Art. She was commissioned to create artwork to promote the updated vision, values and aims.
Mr McCrorie said he’s delighted with Hayley’s artwork. He added: “It really embodies what we’re doing. We’re all working together with the roots right through to the blossom.
“We’ve got it as a letterhead on the school paper and on the website and newsletter.
“Our next step is to get it displayed around the school and classrooms.”