Greyfriars RC Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Greyfriars RC Primary School provides a supportive environment where staff possess detailed knowledge of children and families, resulting in effective wellbeing support. While the school demonstrates strengths in writing and literacy support, the report evaluates both ‘Learning, teaching and assessment’ and ‘Raising attainment and achievement’ as ‘satisfactory’. Inspectors expressed confidence that the school has the capacity to continue improving without further visits.

Strengths

• A caring environment where staff’s detailed knowledge of children and families results in effective support for children’s wellbeing.
• The high quality of children’s work during writing lessons, where they identify successfully what they need to do to improve further.
• Staff check effectively the progress of children needing additional support with literacy.

Areas to improve

• All teachers need to plan learning activities that are sufficiently challenging and well-matched to children’s interests.
• Children need more opportunities to lead their own learning, including through play.
• Senior leaders and teachers need to use assessment information more effectively to be able to identify and address gaps in learning.

Safeguarding

The report highlights a caring environment where staff’s detailed knowledge of children and families results in effective support for children’s wellbeing.