Roch C.P. School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Roch C.P. School is a caring and supportive school community, focused on pupils' well-being.

Across the school, teachers provide exciting learning experiences that make good use of the locality and build on pupils' interests. They promote the Welsh language, culture and heritage well. In addition, there are worthwhile opportunities for pupils to take part in sport and music.

Generally, pupils behave well in lessons and around the school. Most have positive attitudes to learning and, as a result, they make steady progress in most lessons. There is a strong, established culture of safeguarding, and there is no doubt that all adults have pupils' safety and well-being at heart.

However, a few matters concerning record... keeping were drawn to leaders' attention during the inspection. Over time, most pupils make steady progress in acquiring the knowledge, understanding and skills that they need. They make effective progress in speaking and listening, developing their digital and creative skills and in learning the Welsh language.

Most make suitable progress in their reading, writing and mathematics. However, opportunities to challenge the most able pupils are sometimes restricted by worksheets and over directed tasks. Similarly, in a few instances, less able pupils or those with barriers to their learning are not provided with appropriate learning activities.

Leaders make appropriate plans for ongoing improvement. Generally, these result in tangible improvements, for example in introducing a new curriculum. However, leaders' monitoring, evaluation and review processes are not consistently methodical and systematic enough to lead to improvements to classroom practice and pupils' outcomes.

Recommendations R1 Address the safeguarding record keeping concerns that were identified during the inspection R2 Sharpen monitoring, evaluation and review processes to focus tightly on improvement to classroom practice and pupils' outcomes R3 Ensure that the classroom provision across the school delivers appropriate challenges for all pupils, including the more able, those with barriers to their learning and those with additional needs