Motion · S5M-16389 · 15 Mar 2019

Paradykes Primary's Nurturing School Award

Lodged by Colin Beattie (Scottish National Party) Standard Motion 10 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament congratulates Paradykes Primary School in Loanhead on being awarded the National Nurturing School Award; notes that the award is given by nurtureuk to schools that demonstrate exemplary practice in supporting a range of pupil needs in school nurture groups; considers that nurture groups are an educational psychologist-designed, teacher-led intervention for disengaged and troubled children, which removes behavioural barriers to engagement and attainment in schools through recreating missing or distorted early attachments; understands that the school won on the basis of its whole-school nurturing approach to mental health and wellbeing, and that the award is given at the culmination of a two-year programme of training and support in partnership with nurtureuk; notes that the school is the first in Midlothian to receive this award, and wishes everyone involved continued success with this initiative.

Supporters (10)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.