Ysgol Pant Pastynog

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Ysgol Pant Pastynog serves the villages of Prion, Peniel, Saron, Nantglyn and the surrounding rural area in Denbighshire local authority. The school is under the voluntary control of the Church in Wales. Welsh is the main medium of the school's life and work, and English is introduced in key stage 2.

There are 78 pupils between 3 and 11 years old on roll, including 8 part-time nursery pupils. The average proportion of pupils who have been eligible for free school meals over the last three years is around 4%, which is significantly lower than the national percentage of 19%. Around 80% of pupils come from Welsh-speaking homes.

The school has identified around 13% of its pupils as having additional learning needs, which is lo...wer than the national percentage of 21%. The school was last inspected in November 2011, and the current headteacher was appointed to the post in September 2013. Estyn does not inspect religious education or the religious content of collective worship when the school is of a religious character.

Instead, the governing body is required, by law, to arrange for religious education and collective worship to be inspected separately