CWMDAR COUNTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Overview

Cwmdar County Primary School is described as a “happy and inclusive school” where staff and pupils treat each other with “care and respect.” The inspection highlights a “strong culture of safeguarding” and effective support for pupils with additional learning needs, resulting in most pupils making “good progress” in core subjects.

Strengths

• Pupils’ behaviour is “exemplary” and they “engage positively with their learning.”
• Teachers and support staff form “warm and nurturing working relationships” that help pupils feel “relaxed and valued.”
• The school provides “strong support for pupils with additional learning needs,” with assistants offering “valuable individual support.”
• Nearly all pupils have “strong speaking skills” and “confidently talk about their work.”
• Leaders “foster collaboration successfully” and provide clear direction within a “calm, purposeful and happy environment.”

Areas to improve

• Increase opportunities for pupils to “direct their own learning, developing their independence and creativity.”
• Provide opportunities for pupils to “reflect on and respond to feedback and identify next steps in their learning.”

Safeguarding

There is a “strong culture of safeguarding at the school” and, as a result, pupils “feel safe at school.”