East Linton Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that children experience a “warm and positive ethos” underpinned by “nurturing and mutually respectful relationships.” Staff have assisted children to sustain “good levels of progress and attainment” in key areas, with the school demonstrating the capacity to continue improving.

Strengths

• Children are described as “considerate, articulate, confident, and very motivated by learning that actively engages them in thinking creatively.”
• The headteacher provides “quality care and pastoral support” and engages the community in an “approable manner” to enhance children’s experiences.
• There are sustained “good levels of progress and attainment in numeracy and mathematics, listening, talking and reading.”
• All four primary quality indicators and all four nursery quality indicators were evaluated as “good.”

Areas to improve

• Staff should plan “more creative and challenging learning” to meet the needs of the highest attaining children and increase the use of digital technology.
• Teachers should continue to raise children’s attainment in writing.
• The headteacher should focus on the “strategic improvement of the school,” including the further development of the curriculum.

Safeguarding

The report states that the quality indicator for “Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion” was evaluated as “good” for both the primary stages and the nursery class.