Cleland Primary School

Overview

The inspection team visited Cleland Primary School in February 2024, engaging with parents, children, and staff. While the report highlights positive relationships and staff collaboration, it identifies significant areas for improvement in leadership, teaching quality, and attainment, noting that the school requires additional support and a further inspection within 12 months.

Strengths

• Staff ensure children feel "welcomed, cared for and safe," fostering "positive, respectful and nurturing relationships."
• Children are "motivated to learn," displaying confidence, politeness, and a "positive attitude to learning."
• Staff work well together as a team, demonstrating a keenness to develop skills to "improve outcomes for children."

Areas to improve

• Establish effective approaches to evaluate the quality of the school’s work to inform planning and implementation of improvements.
• Improve the quality and consistency of learning, teaching, and assessment to ensure appropriate pace, challenge, and building on prior learning.
• Improve approaches to meeting the learning and wellbeing needs of all children, including those requiring additional support.
• Raise attainment in literacy and numeracy across the school.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff support children to feel "welcomed, cared for and safe in school."