Forehill School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Forehill Primary School in February 2025 and identified significant weaknesses in leadership, learning, teaching, and attainment. While the report highlights a positive school culture and strong community relationships, it concludes that the school requires additional support and a further inspection within one year to ensure necessary improvements are made.

Strengths

• The acting headteacher leads with “passion and a clear vision,” fostering a culture of “mutual respect, collective leadership and high expectations.”
• Children are described as “happy, well-behaved” and “proud of their school,” demonstrating eagerness to participate and learn.
• Staff have established a “safe, nurturing and welcoming environment” that supports positive relationships within the community.
• The school works effectively with partners to “enrich children’s learning across a range of contexts.”

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders must improve approaches to evaluating the school’s work using “more robust evaluations” to identify priorities and demonstrate that actions improve outcomes.
• The quality of “learning, teaching and assessment, including learning through play” requires improvement to ensure high-quality experiences for all children.
• Staff need to raise attainment in literacy and numeracy, as “children are capable of achieving more” at all stages.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff have created a “safe, nurturing and welcoming environment” and that the quality indicator for “Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion” was evaluated as satisfactory.