Gleniffer High School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Gleniffer High School in March 2025 and evaluated its work using quality indicators from *How good is our school?* The report states that the school’s work in “Learning, teaching and assessment” and “Raising attainment and achievement” is “good”. Inspectors express confidence that the school has the capacity to continue to improve and will make no further visits in connection with this inspection.

Strengths

• The school fosters “caring supportive relationships between young people and staff” which create a “welcoming and nurturing learning environment”.
• Senior leaders encourage “close partnership working” that develops young people’s employability skills and contributes to “sustained improvements” in positive destinations.
• Staff provide a “wide range of courses” meeting the needs of learners requiring additional support, resulting in increasing numbers attaining qualifications at SCQF levels 3 and 4.

Areas to improve

• Continue to develop the ‘Gleniffer toolkit’ to support teachers in embedding “greater consistency in approaches to learning and teaching” through professional learning and collaboration.
• Improve approaches to the planning of learning by making “full use of all available information about young people” to ensure all learners make the best possible progress.
• Improve attainment at National 5 and Higher, including a focus on more young people achieving “high quality passes”.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific statements regarding safeguarding arrangements or outcomes.