Llangadog C.P. School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

The school is a caring community that places a strong emphasis on safeguarding pupils and promoting their well-being effectively. Due attention is given to respecting diversity within the school community. This is reflected in the caring and welcoming way in which pupils and staff value everyone's contributions to the school's work and the way in which they welcome new pupils.

This ensures that pupils who join the school settle quickly and become a complete part of its community. As a result, nearly all pupils are happy and feel safe at the school. They know that they can share any concerns with staff and that they will receive a caring and prompt response.

The relationship between the headteacher and parents is a positive... one. Most pupils are polite and willing to help each other. Many persevere diligently when they face difficulties in their work and value the varied opportunities they are given to contribute to the content of their tasks and to have a general influence on other elements of the school's work.

Staff are beginning to consider different ways of planning to ensure that pupils acquire and apply their literacy, numeracy and information and communication technology (ICT) skills consistently across the curriculum. However, they are not yet established enough to have a positive effect on standards and progress. Although lessons are usually interesting and appropriate, teaching is not always effective.

In addition, not all teachers have consistently high expectations in terms of challenging the full range of pupils to achieve to the best of their ability. Where teaching is at its best, activities provide rich experiences that nurture pupils' independence successfully and encourage them to make at least good progress. Most pupils make appropriate progress in their literacy, numeracy and ICT skills from their starting points and those with additional learning needs make at least good progress.

Many develop good creative skills when playing musical instruments, such as the flute and drums, and when competing in local and national competitions. Following a period of instability in terms of leadership, the current headteacher has introduced a number of essential strategic procedures to try to ensure that provision is effective and that pupils make appropriate progress. However, as these are new, it is not yet possible to measure their true effect.