Humbie Primary School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Humbie Primary School and Nursery Class in June 2023, finding a school with clear leadership and effective approaches to supporting children’s wellbeing. The report highlights strong progress in the nursery and improvements in reading, while noting that the school has the capacity to continue improving without further inspection visits.

Strengths

• The headteacher provides "clear leadership of learning" and is building a staff team "committed to improving outcomes for children."
• Staff use "successful approaches" to support wellbeing, helping children become "resilient, happy and caring."
• "Effective whole school approaches" are raising attainment in reading and "closing identified gaps."
• Children in the nursery have "very responsive and high-quality experiences," leading to "very good progress."

Areas to improve

• Continue to improve approaches to delivering "high-quality learning, teaching and assessment" by sharing effective practice.
• Continue to raise children’s attainment in literacy and numeracy to help all children make the "best possible progress."

Safeguarding

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