Findochty Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found a school with a "warm, welcoming and nurturing ethos" where children feel "safe and secure with a strong sense of belonging." While staff are described as "enthusiastic and hardworking," the report identifies specific areas for improvement regarding the consistency of learning experiences and the accuracy of data used for whole-school improvement.

Strengths

• A "warm, welcoming and nurturing ethos" where staff demonstrate care, ensuring all children are "fully included" and feel a "strong sense of belonging."
• An "enthusiastic and hardworking staff team" that works collaboratively to support children’s wellbeing and help them "talk about and understand their emotions."
• Effective approaches to improving children’s enthusiasm for reading, which is "improving children’s attainment in reading."

Areas to improve

• Improve approaches to gathering accurate information to clearly identify progress and next steps in whole-school improvement, ensuring an "achievable number of school improvement priorities."
• Enhance learning, teaching, and assessment to ensure a "consistently high quality of experience for all children," with planning that is "appropriately progressive across all areas of the curriculum."
• Develop further new processes to "track more effectively the progress of children across all areas of the curriculum."

Safeguarding

The report states that staff ensure everyone is "fully included in the life of the school," resulting in children feeling "safe and secure."