Daliburgh School

Overview

Inspectors visited Sgoil Dhalabroig - Daliburgh School in June 2025, noting that the nursery class was excluded as it had recently been inspected by Care Inspectorate. The report evaluates the school’s work against quality indicators, finding "good" raising of attainment and achievement, but only "satisfactory" learning, teaching and assessment. Inspectors express confidence that the school has the capacity to continue improving without further visits.

Strengths

• Children are described as "polite, friendly, respectful" and they "support each other well" while sustaining positive relationships with staff.
• Pupils make "good progress in literacy through English and Gàidhlig, as well as in numeracy and mathematics," participating enthusiastically in diverse activities.
• Staff effectively nurture individual interests and language fluency, with younger children initiating conversations "confidently in Gàidhlig."
• The acting headteacher holds a "clear vision for improving further children’s learning experiences and to raise attainment."

Areas to improve

• Staff should incorporate more "real-life, meaningful experiences in learning, particularly in numeracy and mathematics" to strengthen understanding.
• Approaches to teaching writing should include a "greater range of texts" to help children develop as creative authors.
• The school must increase the effective use of assessment information to ensure learning is "personalised and appropriately challenging."
• Gàidhlig learning for English Medium pupils needs to be "structured and progressive" to meet national attainment expectations by P7.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific narrative comments on safeguarding practices, though it notes the nursery class was separately inspected by Care Inspectorate.