Class Teacher

Currently, Midlothian has 6 secondary schools, 32 primary schools (19 of which have nurseries) and 2 stand alone nursery schools. Our special school, Saltersgate, provides support for children with a range of physical, social, emotional, behavioural and learning difficulties. The schools range in size from our smallest primary school with around 20 children to our largest secondary with over 1200 pupils. We have a diverse range of school catchments, from rural to urban settings. We are fortunate to have a growing number of new build schools, with 15 of our primary schools and 1 secondary having been built within the last 10 years and several new builds planned.

Paradykes Primary School and Family Learning Centre is a non-denominational primary school serving the Loanhead and Straiton communities. We firmly believe that every child matters and we focus on this when planning improvements throughout the school. There is an active and very supportive parental body that support future improvements to life at Paradykes!
The school is part of the Lasswade High School Associated School Group. We have just moved in to our new school building as part of the Loanhead Centre.

The school roll is currently 275 and we also have a 40:40 nursery.

Our development priorities for this forthcoming session include becoming a Nurturing/Attachment Aware School. Our staff team are fully involved in school development work and self evaluation and play a key role, along with our pupils and parents/carers, in developing the school. Come and join us!

Closing date: 05/03/2018

Reference: MID02203

Paradykes Primary School
3 Mayburn Walk
Loanhead