Coulter Primary School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Coulter Primary School in November 2022 and found the school to be performing well across all evaluated quality indicators. The report highlights "very effective leadership" and a staff team that provides "high quality learning and teaching experiences," resulting in children who are "confident, caring and empathetic." Inspectors concluded that the school has the capacity to continue improving and will not make further visits in connection with this inspection.

Strengths

• The headteacher provides "very effective leadership" with a "strong focus on improving outcomes for all learners."
• Staff demonstrate the school’s values through a "care, support and nurturing approach," delivering high-quality education.
• Children are described as "confident, caring and empathetic," treating others with "respect and dignity."
• Staff tracking of wellbeing and progress is leading to children making "very good progress in their learning."

Areas to improve

• Continue to work with the school community to "develop high quality approaches to outdoor learning."
• Continue to develop approaches to "improve children’s reading across a wider range of genres and authors."

Safeguarding

The report states that the evaluation for "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" was "very good," noting that staff track and monitor wellbeing effectively as part of their support for learners.