The Twyn School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Twyn Primary School provides an inclusive and nurturing environment. Staff foster positive relationships and create a warm, supportive and friendly environment where pupils are happy and feel safe. School leaders and staff work to promote a vision that has a strong focus on well-being and emotional support and, as a result, pupils engage enthusiastically in lessons and behave well.

The school's provision for well-being is a strength. A wide range of thoughtful and responsive interventions are well embedded and have considerable impact on pupils' social and emotional skills. Skilled staff use 'The Den' nurture room effectively with individuals and groups to address their social, emotional, and learning needs by removing barriers to ...learning and providing a safe space away from busy classrooms.

The school provides effective support for pupils with additional learning needs (ALN) and as a result they make suitable progress during their time in school. Across the school the quality of teaching is variable. In a majority of classes, where the teaching is effective, pupils make good progress in developing their literacy and numeracy skills and they make suitable progress from their starting points.

However, leaders have not monitored the impact of teaching carefully enough to ensure that pupils make the progress of which they are capable. The school is beginning to develop its curriculum appropriately and is providing a range of engaging learning experiences for pupils. However, there is not sufficient focus on developing pupils' knowledge, skills and understanding systematically and progressively as they move through the school.

Recommendations R1 Improve self-evaluation processes and ensure that they influence improvement priorities more effectively R2 Improve the quality and effectiveness of teaching to ensure that all pupils are challenged and supported consistently R3 Ensure that the curriculum supports all pupils to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding systematically and progressively