Garth Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Garth Primary School is a happy and caring learning community.

Leaders, staff and governors work diligently to ensure that pupils' well-being sits at the heart of their work. The school understands and works with its local community beneficially. As a result, the school, its pupils and their families work together confidently and purposefully.

Pupils develop positive working relationships with staff and trust them to help and support them at all times. The school's developing curriculum, and an engaging range of extra-curricular activities and clubs, ensure that pupils enjoy school and take part positively in all the school has to offer. For the most part, teachers challenge pupils effectively and plan learning that suppor...ts them to make useful progress in many areas of learning.

Many pupils make particularly positive progress in developing their speaking and listening skills. Leaders and staff continue to work to develop learning experiences that ensure that pupils develop their skills and understanding progressively. There is a strong sense of teamwork at the school, and the headteacher, senior leaders and staff work together positively.

Leaders set in place positive strategies to improve pupils' skills and support their well-being. Their decision to fund family engagement officers is having a notably positive impact on pupils, their families and the local community. Recommendations R1 Address the well-being issue identified at the time of the inspection R2 Ensure that the curriculum enables pupils to develop skills systematically and progressively R3 Sharpen monitoring and improvement strategies to focus better on pupils' learning R4 Improve pupils' writing skills What happens next The school will draw up an action plan to address the recommendations from the inspection.