Ardeer Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Ardeer Primary School and Nursery Class demonstrates strong performance, particularly in raising attainment and achievement. The report highlights effective teamwork and the use of data to support learning, while noting the school has the capacity to continue improving without further visits.

Strengths

• There is "effective teamwork across the school and nursery to support all children to achieve the best possible outcomes in their learning."
• The school makes "highly effective use of data to inform planning and measure the effectiveness of the strategies used to raise attainment in literacy and numeracy."
• Learning, teaching and assessment in the primary school is evaluated as "good," while raising attainment and achievement is "very good."
• In the nursery class, learning, teaching and assessment is evaluated as "very good," as is securing children’s progress.

Areas to improve

• The school should "continue to support children across the school to become more independent in their learning by providing more experiences that promote curiosity, independence, and confidence."
• Staff should "review the process used to plan learning across the school to enable staff to develop further creative teaching approaches."

Safeguarding

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