Penygelli Primary

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Penygelli Primary School provides a warm, caring environment for pupils. Pupils, staff and the community are proud of the school. Pupils feel safe and well cared for by their teachers with whom they have strong working relationships.

Overall, pupils' behaviour is excellent and they treat one another and adults with respect. Members of the recently formed interim leadership team have re-established a positive culture across the school community. The interim headteacher, supported by the deputy headteacher, is highly visible and works well with other staff towards fulfilling their vision to provide a caring, thoughtful, happy and secure environment for pupils.

They have brought staff together through a challenging time and r...e-established a vision for wellbeing and belonging across the school community. During their time at school, many pupils, including those with additional learning needs, make suitable progress from their starting points. Most develop their oracy, reading, physical and creative skills well, but do not make as much progress in developing their writing and numeracy skills.

The interim leadership team has recently established effective systems to gain a greater understanding of the school's strengths and areas for development. However, over time, the school's evaluation and improvement processes have not been effective enough in securing improvements to important aspects of teaching and learning. The partnership between the school and parents is a strength, placing the school in the heart of the community.

There is a sense of pride in being associated with the school and parents value the positive role it plays in developing their children's enthusiasm for learning. Recommendations R1 Further develop the curriculum to ensure that it supports the progressive development of pupils' skills, particularly writing and numeracy, as they move through the school R2 Improve the aspects of teaching and learning experiences identified in the report as being less effective R3 Sharpen self-evaluation and school improvement processes to focus closely on bringing about improvements to teaching and learning What happens next The school will draw up an action plan to show how it is going to address the recommendations. Estyn will work with the local authority to review the school's progress.