Carnegie Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Carnegie Primary School and Nursery benefits from strong leadership and high-quality learning and teaching. Children are described as respectful, kind, and articulate, with a very good understanding of how to be successful in their learning. The report confirms that the school has the capacity to continue to improve without further visits.

Strengths

• The headteacher and senior leaders provide "strong leadership and vision," supporting staff and children to "lead change across the school."
• Children are "respectful, kind, and articulate" and are "very proud of their school and nursery."
• Staff deliver "high-quality learning and teaching consistently," supporting children to make "very good progress in learning across literacy and numeracy."
• The nursery team, children, and families benefit from "positive relationships," working together effectively to improve outcomes.

Areas to improve

• Provide "more regular opportunities for children to lead their own learning" to develop responsibility, resilience, and independence.
• "Continue to develop further and embed inclusive practice" to ensure all children access wider learning appropriately.

Safeguarding

The report evaluates "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" as "very good" for both primary and nursery stages, noting that children have a "very good understanding of... the importance of wellbeing in their day-to-day lives."