Crathie School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Crathie Primary School in May 2023, finding a school where children are “enthusiastic, motivated and engage well in learning.” The report highlights a “caring, nurturing environment” supported by effective staff collaboration and positive relationships across the school community. Inspectors evaluated the school’s work against quality indicators, rating both “Learning, teaching and assessment” and “Raising attainment and achievement” as “good.”

Strengths

• Children are described as “very proud of their school,” demonstrating strong values and feeling “happy, safe and included in decisions about school life.”
• The headteacher and staff work together effectively to embed the “rights of the child” within school life, fostering “very positive” relationships.
• Learning takes place in “motivating learning spaces” and through “increasingly relevant contexts,” helping children understand how classroom learning links to life beyond school.

Areas to improve

• Teachers should “develop further their use of assessment to inform planning” and ensure “increased levels of challenge within learning” to support appropriate progress for all children.
• The school should “continue to raise attainment across the curriculum, with a particular focus on writing.”

Safeguarding

The report states that children “feel happy, safe and included in decisions about school life” and that the school ensures the “rights of the child are embedded within the life of the school.”