Fintry Primary School

Overview

The inspection highlights a school with a "welcoming, caring and inclusive ethos" where staff and children maintain "positive, respectful and trusting relationships." Inspectors found that children feel "safe, valued and nurtured" and are proud of their school, while the nursery class demonstrates particularly strong practice in learning and progress.

Strengths

• Staff work very well together to create an environment where children are "polite and kind to one another."
• The school engages effectively with parents and the community to offer a "wide range of valuable learning experiences."
• Nursery staff use digital technology "very effectively to support and enhance children’s learning experiences."
• The nursery class achieves "very good" evaluations for both learning, teaching and assessment, and securing children’s progress.

Areas to improve

• Develop a "shared understanding of high quality learning, teaching and assessment" to ensure appropriate support and challenge for all learners.
• Create further opportunities for children to be "fully engaged in planning and leading their own learning."
• "Target Pupil Equity Funds more closely" to children experiencing specific barriers to learning.

Safeguarding

The report states that "children feel safe, valued and nurtured" within the school's positive and inclusive environment.