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Highlights from Latest Inspection

The school is a homely community that promotes pupils' well-being successfully. Nearly all pupils behave very well and most make good progress from their starting points.

Nearly all pupils feel safe and know whom to approach for support. Pupils' well-being and positive attitudes to learning are a clear strength at the school. A priority is placed on ensuring that pupils develop a sound understanding of their rights and of the importance of encouraging equality and being moral citizens.

Nearly all pupils are proud to attend a Welsh-medium school and use the language regularly in classes and during break times. Most teachers and support staff have high expectations of all pupils. They know their pupils well, praise them for ...their efforts and encourage them to succeed.

As a result, pupils have the confidence to try and are happy to learn from their mistakes. An interesting and balanced curriculum is provided for pupils and staff consider their ideas when planning to ensure that they have ownership of their tasks. However, they do not always provide enough opportunities for pupils to develop their numeracy skills or extended writing skills, where appropriate, across the curriculum.

Although the school's leadership situation has been unstable over the past few years, a new headteacher has now begun her work. What is important to her is that the school provides broad, exciting and interesting experiences for pupils, which motivate them to develop as independent and enthusiastic learners. She is keen to work with the governors, parents, teachers, support staff and members of the senior leadership team to ensure that the school is a happy and safe place that respects the contribution of all members of the community.

Although the school has self-evaluation processes to try to identify its strengths and areas for improvement, they are not incisive enough or established strongly enough to have the best effect of provision or standards. Governors support the school well. However, they rely too much on guidance from staff to improve the school and have a tendency to provide more support than challenge in their role as critical friends.

Recommendations R1 Ensure that leadership processes become stable and lead to improvement R2 Strengthen the role of governors to enable them to act effectively as critical friends R3 Provide regular opportunities for pupils to apply their numeracy and extended writing skills across the curriculum