Aberfoyle Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that positive relationships across the school and nursery support children to be “confident, articulate and engage very well in learning.” Effective leadership approaches ensure children make “very good progress in literacy and numeracy,” while a wide variety of opportunities helps develop skills for learning, life, and work. The report confirms the school has the capacity to continue to improve without further visits.

Strengths

• “Positive relationships across the school and nursery which support children to be confident, articulate and engage very well in learning.”
• “Effective approaches developed and led by the headteacher to check how well children are making progress in the primary stages.”
• Children make “very good progress in literacy and numeracy.”
• “The wide variety of opportunities provided for children to develop skills for learning, life and work.”
• The nursery class received “very good” evaluations for nurturing care, play and learning, and leadership.

Areas to improve

• Staff should ensure children take a “more active role in leading their learning,” including recording the skills they develop.
• In the nursery, staff should “continue to develop approaches to measuring the progress children make over time.”

Safeguarding

The Care Inspectorate reported “no requirements and no areas for improvement” for the early learning and childcare setting, noting that nurturing care and support was evaluated as “very good.”