Primary school in Stirling

[BanksiaRose]

Hello, any Stirling teachers or parents around who could give me a steer on Riverside Primary School, specifically P6/7, in case we end up in that catchment area? In researching it, I've discovered that Riverside has several Gaelic medium and autism classes, so is it quite a specialist school? Is mainstream education tackled well? For what they're worth, their results on the Scot Gov dashboard aren't fantastic but I'm hoping to get some real-life info from locals on here.
And also, could anyone confirm the birth date range for this year's current P6 cohort (21-22)?
Thanks v much.

Well current p7 could be from just had 12th birth day in January 2022 ( held back a year, more common in Scotland than England), to those turning 12 in March ( standard as cut off is end of Feb) being the normal oldest in year, to those who are just turning 11 now, till end of Feb. Therefore 10-12. So P6 a year younger.

@horseymum

Well current p7 could be from just had 12th birth day in January 2022 ( held back a year, more common in Scotland than England), to those turning 12 in March ( standard as cut off is end of Feb) being the normal oldest in year, to those who are just turning 11 now, till end of Feb. Therefore 10-12. So P6 a year younger.

Thanks, @horseymum That's hurting my head a little!

Riverside has always been a good school. It has a mixed catchment area and does have the GM and ASD provision for the authority but they are separate entities within the same campus if that makes sense.

I'm not sure which info you have found before but here is the link to their latest HMIE report. (Scottish version of Ofsted)

education.gov.scot/education-scotland/inspection-reports/reports-page?id=4200

The normal/not deferred birth dates for current P7 are 1 March 2010 to 28 February 2011. Most will be turning 12 from March onwards.
There may be older children in the class who deferred their start. Most of those will turn 12 between 1st Jan and end Feb but some could be a little older.

Riverside primary id quite big. My DC went to nursery there. I have neighbours with DC there who seem to be happy as they've moved from that catchment (with one child in the school) to my current on but have registered younger DC there also.

They do have mainstream classes and have quite a nice catchment with DC from lots of backgrounds I think.

We didn't choose to carry on into primary education there as our local primary was good. We had nursery placement in Riverside due to needing 2 spaces at the same time and they are the only ones that could offer it at the time.

Sorry just saw it was current P6s date range. Just take a year off the above so they will be roughly 1/3/11 to 28/2/12.

[quote PushingAnElephantUpTheStairs]Riverside has always been a good school. It has a mixed catchment area and does have the GM and ASD provision for the authority but they are separate entities within the same campus if that makes sense.

I'm not sure which info you have found before but here is the link to their latest HMIE report. (Scottish version of Ofsted)

education.gov.scot/education-scotland/inspection-reports/reports-page?id=4200[/quote]
Thanks for that link, @PushingAnElephantUpTheStairs
The style of those reports provide narrative that's more useful than simply looking at data.

FYI, I was using this dashboard for more recent info: public.tableau.com/app/profile/sg.eas.learninganalysis/viz/SchoolInformationDashboard-Primary/Introduction

@ElephantOfRisk

The normal/not deferred birth dates for current P7 are 1 March 2010 to 28 February 2011. Most will be turning 12 from March onwards. There may be older children in the class who deferred their start. Most of those will turn 12 between 1st Jan and end Feb but some could be a little older.

Riverside primary id quite big. My DC went to nursery there. I have neighbours with DC there who seem to be happy as they've moved from that catchment (with one child in the school) to my current on but have registered younger DC there also.

They do have mainstream classes and have quite a nice catchment with DC from lots of backgrounds I think.

We didn't choose to carry on into primary education there as our local primary was good. We had nursery placement in Riverside due to needing 2 spaces at the same time and they are the only ones that could offer it at the time.

Thanks v much, @ElephantOfRisk