Ferryden Primary School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Ferryden Primary School and Nursery Class in February 2024, finding a school characterised by a positive culture and effective leadership. The report highlights that children are “confident, highly motivated learners” who are “very proud of their school,” supported by high-quality teaching and creative learning approaches. Inspectors concluded that the school has the capacity to continue improving, meaning no further visits will be made in connection with this inspection.

Strengths

• A positive “family feel” culture based firmly on school values and a commitment to children’s rights.
• Effective leadership by the headteacher and depute headteacher, who have introduced processes that “impact positively on children’s attainment and achievement.”
• High-quality and creative approaches to learning and teaching both indoors and outdoors, delivered by a “highly effective team.”
• Successful embedding of progressive approaches to digital learning, which “enhance children’s learning experiences and extend their skills and knowledge.”

Areas to improve

• Continue to support children to understand and talk about the skills they are developing to help them set next steps in their own learning journey.
• Continue to implement approaches to raise attainment for all children, with senior leaders developing their analysis of attainment data to monitor the progress of specific groups over time.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific narrative commentary on safeguarding arrangements, though it notes that the inspection evaluated the school’s work using quality indicators from *How good is our school?* and *How good is our early learning and childcare?*.