Hafod y Wern Community Primary School

Overview

Hafod y Wern Community Primary School provides a safe and welcoming environment where pupils make good progress and access a wide range of engaging activities. Leaders ensure that cost is never a barrier to learning in this area of high socio-economic disadvantage, offering a rich curriculum that includes sporting, musical, and outdoor experiences. The school’s support for pupils with additional learning needs is identified as a particular strength, enabling nearly all such pupils to make good progress in learning and well-being.

Strengths

• Pupils are described as “courteous and welcoming,” showing respect for each other and staff while engaging well in learning.
• Support for pupils with additional learning needs (ALN) is a strength, with “nearly all pupils with ALN” making good progress.
• Teachers plan “stimulating lessons” that often follow pupils’ interests, helping younger pupils develop curiosity and older pupils work collaboratively.
• The school successfully removes financial barriers, ensuring all pupils can participate in “sporting and musical activities” and educational visits.
• Leaders use monitoring and self-evaluation processes “purposefully” to identify priorities and link professional development to school improvement.

Areas to improve

• Improve the quality and consistency of feedback so pupils understand how to “improve and maintain the quality of their work over time.”
• Develop opportunities for pupils to apply a wider range of numeracy and digital skills “in authentic contexts at an appropriate level” across the curriculum.

Safeguarding

Leaders, staff, and governors create an environment where pupils feel safe.