East Craigs Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that children are "confident, able and articulate" and keen to learn, with positive early play-based experiences for the youngest pupils. However, the report evaluates all four quality indicators as "weak," indicating significant challenges in leadership, teaching, wellbeing, and attainment. Consequently, the school requires additional support and a further inspection within one year to ensure necessary improvements are made.

Strengths

• Children are described as "confident, able and articulate" and are "keen to learn and be more involved in making decisions about their school."
• The school has made an "early start" in providing "play-based learning experiences" for the youngest children.
• Effective support is provided by the support for learning team and pupil support assistants for "children who find learning challenging."

Areas to improve

• The headteacher must provide "clear direction" and establish "robust approaches to evaluate the quality of the school’s work."
• Staff need to improve approaches to learning, teaching, and assessment to ensure a "consistently high-quality learning experience" with appropriate challenge and support.
• All staff must improve approaches to promoting "positive relationships and behaviour," while leadership should improve tracking of attainment and focus on raising literacy and numeracy.

Safeguarding

The report does not explicitly state a separate evaluation for safeguarding, but notes that the "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" quality indicator was evaluated as "weak."