Pentrepoeth C.P. School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Most pupils develop exceptionally positive attitudes to learning and this helps them to progresswell as they move through the school. Young pupils settle well into the welcoming nursery environment and this establishes good patterns of learning and behaviour that grow from year toyear.

By the end of their time at the school, pupils' passion for developing new skills, gainingknowledge and understanding,finding things out and solving problems is clear.Leaders and staff have made strong progress in developing a new curriculum that suits theirpupils,their community and their vision. Collaboration between staff within the school and with otherschools in the cluster is a strength and benefits their professional learning considerably.
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Enthusiastic, skilled teachers ensure that pupils benefit from interesting lessons, learn to challenge themselves, and achieve high standards in nearly all areas of the curriculum. Currently however,pupils do not make consistently strong progress in developing their Welsh vocabulary and sentencestructures.The school's leadership team, staff and governors have established a clear vision for the school, based on securing highlevels of well-being, good progress and a strong culture of safeguarding.

Successfulcollaboration, a track record of effective school improvement and high expectationsenable everyone in the school community to contribute purposefully to achieving thatvision.RecommendationsRecommendationsWhathappensnextThe school will draw up an action plan to showhow it is going to address the recommendations.Estyn will invite the school to prepare two case studies, one on its work in relation to the use ofthe outdoor environment to apply numeracy, literacy and digital skillslearnt in class and a second School contextSchool contextPentrepoeth C.

P.SchoolLocal authorityNewport CityCouncilLanguage of theproviderEnglishType of schoolPrimaryNumber of pupils on roll457Pupilsof statutory school age354Number in nurseryclasses45Percentage ofpupilseligible for free schoolmeals over athree-year average (Thenational percentage of pupils eligible for freeschoolmeals over a three-yearaverage inPrimary is 23.0%)4.

3%Percentageof pupils identified ashavingadditional learning needs (a)(The nationalpercentage of pupils identified ashaving anadditionallearningneed inPrimary is 16.1%)11.0%Percentage of pupils withEnglish asanadditional language0.

0%Date of headteacher appointment01/09/2016Date of previous Estyn inspection (ifapplicable)01/10/2014Start dateof inspection15/05/2023© Crown Copyright 2023:This report may be re used free of charge in any format or mediumprovided thatit is re used accuratelyand notused ina misleading context.The material must be acknowledged as Crown copyrightand the title of the report specified.Publication date: 19/07/2023Please note that the photographsdisplayed may not be of the school that isthe subject of thisreport.