Isla Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Isla Primary School and Nursery benefits from an "effective headteacher" and staff who provide "positive leadership" with a "clear vision for improvement." The school fosters a "welcoming, nurturing, and inclusive ethos" where children are "happy, achieve and are supportive of each other." Inspectors expressed confidence that the school has the capacity to continue to improve without further visits.

Strengths

• Staff provide "positive leadership" and are "ambitious for all children," supported well by the headteacher.
• Children are described as "welcoming, articulate and proud of their school and nursery," keen to share their learning.
• A strong sense of community is established through a "welcoming, nurturing, and inclusive ethos" underpinned by children’s rights.
• "Strong partnership working" offers positive opportunities for children to develop skills for "learning life and work" in relevant contexts.

Areas to improve

• Strengthen approaches to "evaluating the quality of the work of the school" to better evidence what is working well.
• Develop "consistently high-quality approaches to learning, teaching and assessment" to ensure all children are challenged appropriately in literacy and numeracy.
• Nursery staff should engage in professional learning to make better use of interactions and spaces to support progressive skill development.

Safeguarding

The report states that the school’s work in "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" is evaluated as "very good," underpinned by a "welcoming, nurturing, and inclusive ethos" which is "underpinned very effectively by children’s rights."