Camstradden Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Camstradden Primary School is a “kind, respectful, inclusive and nurturing school” with “very effective leadership” driving significant improvements. Inspectors evaluated the school’s work across four quality indicators, noting that leadership of change and ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion were “very good”, while learning, teaching and assessment and raising attainment and achievement were “good”. The report concludes that the school has the capacity to continue to improve, so no further visits will be made in connection with this inspection.

Strengths

• Children are described as “friendly and welcoming” who “work well with other children and adults” and are “proud of their school”.
• Leadership is “very effective”, with headteachers and the senior team “developing trust, establishing clear processes and setting a strong direction for school improvement”.
• Staff provide a “calm and caring environment” and demonstrate “care and compassion”, working well with partners to support children’s progress.

Areas to improve

• The school must “continue to develop approaches to ensure consistently high-quality learning and teaching across the school”.
• The school should “continue to improve attainment in relation to expected national standards, particularly in writing”.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff “work well with partners to support children to make better progress in their learning” and that the school is “inclusive and nurturing”, reflecting high standards in ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion.