Pantysgallog Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Pantysgallog Primary School is a happy, inclusive school that places a high priority on the well-being of its pupils. Staff are ambitious for their pupils and help them to develop positive attitudes to learning. Most pupils make good progress from their starting points and there is effective provision for pupils with additional learning needs.

Overall, pupils make strong progress in developing their skills in English and mathematics, but they do not always apply these skills well enough in their topic work. Pupils have a strong voice in the school and thrive in their roles as learning coaches. They contribute well to a variety of groups and committees and can give examples of where their influence has had a positive impact on schoo...l life.

The curriculum is designed around the pupils' needs and over time helps them to develop a strong understanding of their local and wider community and their place in the world. A strength of the school is the focus that practitioners have on evaluating and improving the quality of teaching. This is having a positive impact on outcomes for pupils.

The headteacher provides strong leadership and is well supported by other senior leaders. Governors know the school well and ask challenging questions about decision making when required. There is a clear sense of everyone working together to provide a wide range of interesting opportunities and experiences that pupils may not have access to outside of school.

Innovation is encouraged, but leaders always keep a careful eye on the impact of changes and make decisions in the best interest of pupils. Recommendations R1 Ensure that pupils deepen and extend their literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum R2 Strengthen practitioners' understanding of child development to ensure that teaching is always matched appropriately to pupils' developmental needs What happens next The school will draw up an action plan to address the recommendations from the inspection. Estyn will invite the school to prepare case studies on its work in relation to pupils as learning coaches and talking and reflecting about teaching for dissemination on Estyn's website.