Alehousewells School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Alehousewells School and Nursery Class in March 2025, finding that effective leadership and warm relationships are positively impacting children’s experiences. The report evaluates primary learning, teaching and assessment as ‘satisfactory’, while nursery provision is rated ‘good’ for learning, teaching and assessment and securing children’s progress. Inspectors are confident the school has the capacity to continue improving without further visits.

Strengths

• The acting headteacher provides “effective leadership” that is having a “positive impact on learning and teaching” and has “quickly gained the respect of the whole school community.”
• Staff support the improvement agenda well, resulting in children’s “experiences and progress” improving.
• There are “warm relationships across the school and nursery,” where children learn and play in a “caring environment.”
• Staff “know the children, their families and the community very well” and work effectively as a team.

Areas to improve

• Continue to improve attainment in literacy and numeracy and mathematics.
• Review approaches to planning and assessment to ensure all children make progress across all areas of the curriculum and receive “appropriate challenge in their learning.”

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific statements regarding safeguarding arrangements or outcomes.