Maindee C.P. School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Leaders at Maindee Primary School create an inclusive culture that celebrates its diverse nature well.

This creates a strong sense of community cohesion and an environment that pupils are happy to attend. Pupils feel that the school is a safe space, where they are respected as individuals. They take on many beneficial leadership roles, for example leading the innovative Young Translators programme that provides support for pupils arriving at the school who are new to English.

Leaders ensure that parents and the wider community are involved in developing the school's curriculum. Through listening to the community and involving pupils, staff ensure that the curriculum is stimulating, relevant and appropriate for the needs of... pupils. This curriculum celebrates Wales and cultures across the world.

A strength of the school is the way in which it encourages families to become involved in teaching about and celebrating diversity. For example, parents visit the school to teach pupils to cook the kinds of traditional meals that they eat at home. Consistently high-quality teaching is a particularly notable and impressive feature of the school.

Teachers support pupils to develop their literacy, numeracy and digital skills well. This ensures that most pupils make robust progress from their staring points. Whilst this is a strength of the school, teachers do not give pupils enough freedom and opportunity to enhance and apply their skills in the outdoors.

They monitor the progress of every pupil carefully and work with leaders to identify where additional support is needed. Pupils who have additional learning needs (ALN) benefit from effective and well targeted provision that supports their progress and behaviour successfully. Leaders use robust self-evaluation processes to ensure that they know the strengths and areas for improvement of the school.

They address these in a purposeful manner and share the leadership of improvement priorities with relevant members of staff. Across the school, staff have access to professional learning that encourages them to be innovative through research-based learning. Recommendations R1 Ensure that pupils have regular opportunities to access the outdoors to make choices with their learning, develop curiosity and independently apply their skills What happens next The school will draw up an action plan to address the recommendations from the inspection.