Cumbrae Primary School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Cumbrae Primary School and Nursery Class in January 2024, finding a school with strong leadership and positive outcomes for children. The report highlights "very good" performance across all primary quality indicators and "good" performance for the nursery class, noting the school has the capacity to continue improving without further inspection visits.

Strengths

• "Positive nurturing relationships between all staff and children" result in pupils who are "confident, secure and engage very well in learning."
• A "highly respected and aspirational headteacher" drives improvement, supported by an "effective and resilient staff team" successfully enhancing attainment and outcomes.
• "High-quality experiences," including outdoor learning and community projects, are "well planned and effectively supported by a range of partners."
• Leadership of change, learning, teaching, assessment, wellbeing, and raising attainment are all evaluated as "very good" for the primary stages.

Areas to improve

• Provide children with further opportunities to "lead their learning and recognise the skills they are developing."
• Continue to develop the nursery environment to ensure all curriculum areas are "planned well" and children are "engaged and challenged fully."
• In the nursery, further develop play and learning experiences around wellbeing indicators to support children’s sense of "health and wellbeing."

Safeguarding

The report evaluates "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" as "very good" for the primary school and "good" for the nursery class, indicating strong practices in these areas.