Goytre Fawr Primary

Overview

Pupils at Goytre Fawr Primary School generally make strong progress and enjoy coming to school, with most displaying positive attitudes to learning. While teaching, wellbeing, and care are rated as good, leadership and management are judged as ‘Adequate and needs improvement’ due to insufficient self-evaluation and monitoring. The newly appointed headteacher has established a clear vision, but it is too early to judge the effectiveness of new systems for evaluating performance.

Strengths

• Pupils make strong progress in literacy and numeracy, with many developing effective writing and problem-solving skills.
• Most teachers have high expectations, foster positive relationships, and use questioning well to facilitate understanding.
• Pupils feel safe and secure, behaving well and demonstrating respect for others and staff.
• The school provides a caring, inclusive ethos with good support for pupils with additional learning needs.
• Parents are encouraged to play a key part in school life, benefiting from effective communication and informal access to staff.

Areas to improve

• Ensure rigorous self-evaluation and monitoring is undertaken to raise standards in provision.
• Ensure that teaching supports and challenges pupils of all abilities, as planning does not always identify appropriate activities for all.
• Raise standards in spoken Welsh and improve the leadership capacity of staff at all levels.

Safeguarding

The report states that the school’s arrangements for safeguarding pupils meet requirements and give no cause for concern.