Cefn Fforest Primary

Overview

Cefn Fforest Primary School provides a "very caring and supportive learning experience" within a "welcoming, nurturing and inclusive" environment. Leaders maintain a "clear vision" and staff work conscientiously to improve teaching, ensuring the curriculum is "wide ranging and relevant" to the local community.

Strengths

• Staff "know their pupils well" and "prioritise well-being appropriately," making useful links with the community.
• Teachers "adapt their teaching to meet the needs of all pupils," with teaching assistants providing "useful, bespoke support."
• The curriculum offers many opportunities for pupils to use learning in "authentic contexts," with "creative development" being a "strong feature."
• Most pupils "make good progress from their starting points" and become "increasingly confident in using a wide range of vocabulary."
• Pupils "use their numeracy and digital skills well across the curriculum" and enjoy extra-curricular language classes.

Areas to improve

• Raise standards in Welsh, as "too many lack confidence in speaking Welsh."
• Increase opportunities for pupils to "influence how and what they learn," which are currently at the "early stages of development."

Safeguarding

The report states that staff "prioritise well-being appropriately" and the school environment is "very welcoming, nurturing and inclusive," though it does not provide a separate detailed safeguarding judgement.