Ysgol Bro Cernyw

Highlights from Latest Inspection

The school's robust leadership and conscientious staff nurture pupils' well-being, care and support highly effectively.

They know the pupils well and have a sound understanding of the school's strengths and areas for improvement. With this information, they set about improving provision conscientiously and ensure that there is a close-knit community throughout the school. By doing so, and through the homely and inclusive sense that is created, pupils demonstrate positive attitudes to their learning.

A strong feature of teaching and learning is the way in which pupils develop robust oral skills during their time at the school. Pupils also foster a love of reading purposefully and most are confident readers by the end of the...ir time at the school. Teachers plan appropriate opportunities for pupils to use their core skills, such as their literacy, numeracy and digital skills, across the curriculum.

Although there are good examples of these opportunities, which develop most pupils' skills soundly, there are not enough regular opportunities for them to build on their numeracy, digital and extended writing skills, in general. The working relationship between teachers and pupils is a strength and the care, support and guidance they provide for pupils are very effective. All staff interact highly effectively with pupils and each other, which creates a productive learning environment.

This supports pupils to foster enthusiasm towards their learning successfully. Teachers work diligently to ensure that most activities engage pupils' interest and give them useful feedback and support, on the whole. However, at times, teachers provide pupils with too much guidance, which hinders their ability to develop their independent learning skills and not all tasks succeed in challenging pupils to achieve to the best of their ability.

Recommendations R1 Increase opportunities for pupils to apply their numeracy skills, digital skills and their ability to write at length across the curriculum R2 Ensure that teachers challenge pupils to the best of their ability and provide regular opportunities for them to develop their independent learning skills effectively