Ysgol Frongoch

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Ysgol Frongoch is a happy, caring school where pupils work and play together confidently. Staff help many pupils to make strong progress when developing their speaking and listening, mathematical and digital skills.

They focus well on pupils' well-being, and this allows pupils to thrive in the schools' inclusive environment. Pupils develop their creative and thinking skills well in many aspects of their learning. Teachers take good account of pupils' ideas when planning the curriculum and this helps to ensure that pupils engage consistently well in lessons.

While teachers plan many interesting learning experiences, these do not always focus well enough on developing pupils' skills systematically. This means that in areas s...uch as reading and writing, certain of pupils' skills do not always progress strongly enough. Teachers are beginning to help pupils to understand how to assess and improve their learning independently, but both teachers and pupils do not have a consistently strong understanding of how best to achieve this.

Leaders place a high priority on developing pupils as independent learners who know how to manage their emotions and behaviours and who support their peers helpfully. They focus well on ensuring that all staff feel part of the school team. This ensures that everyone, including governors, understands the school's priorities and works together supportively.

Nevertheless, when monitoring and evaluating the work of the school and when planning professional learning, leaders do not always focus well enough on areas that need improvement, such as improving the quality of teaching and planning for the implementation of educational reform. Recommendations R1 Focus self-evaluation and development strategies more sharply on improving pupils' progress and learning R2 Develop a more strategic approach to professional learning that focuses on education reform and securing high quality teaching R3 Improve pupils' reading and writing skills What happens next The school will draw up an action plan which shows how it is going to address the recommendations. Estyn will work with the local authority to review the school's progress.

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