Ysgol Pen Y Bryn

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Pupils at Ysgol Pen y Bryn primary enjoy coming to school and make strong progress in their academic and social skills. They are caring, tolerant and respectful towards each other and to adults. There is a feeling of mutual trust and respect between pupils and staff.

Pupils know that adults in the school care for them and that they can turn to them when they face challenges or have difficulties. Senior leaders have worked hard to create this calm and nurturing ethos and it plays a key role in ensuring effective learning in the school. The school provides a rich, broad, and balanced range of learning experiences and additional provision that meets the educational and wider needs and interests of pupils well.

Teachers take g...ood account of pupils' ideas when planning the curriculum and this helps to ensure that most pupils display high levels of interest and engagement in their learning. Staff ensure that most teaching is purposeful and enables pupils to use existing and newly learned skills in real life contexts. This means that, as pupils move through the school, most develop a secure understanding of what and how they are learning.

Leaders set a positive and ambitious tone for the school's work. They promote collaboration and teamwork very well and place a high priority on developing pupils as ambitious, confident, and independent learners. They are good at identifying the areas of the school's work that are most effective and those aspects that need to be improved.

This supports the school to plan and implement improvement strategies effectively. This is reflected in the work by the whole staff team to develop the school's curriculum ready for the implementation of the Curriculum for Wales. Recommendations R1 Provide opportunities for pupils to make decisions about how they organise and present their work and to decide for themselves how they respond to learning tasks R2 Strengthen provision for the development of pupils' Welsh language skills R3 Provide regular opportunities for pupils in Years 3 to 6 to apply their numeracy skills across the curriculum What happens next The school will draw up an action plan to address the recommendations from the inspection.