JENNER PARK PRIMARY SCHOOL

Overview

Jenner Park Primary is described as “highly inclusive” and provides a “safe, welcoming and stimulating learning environment.” Most pupils, including those with additional learning needs, make “good progress” in literacy and numeracy, supported by teachers who foster a “positive climate for learning.” However, the report notes that monitoring of improvement actions “lacks drive,” leaving issues such as Welsh language skills and attendance unaddressed.

Strengths

• Pupils develop “highly effective speaking and listening skills” and communicate with “accuracy and maturity.”
• The school provides a “welcoming and caring environment” with “effective” support for pupils with additional learning needs.
• Teachers use “assessment for learning strategies well” and maintain “effective working relationships” with pupils.
• The curriculum offers a “stimulating range of learning experiences” that reinforce prior learning and engage pupils.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must implement monitoring strategies “rigorously” to secure improvements, as current arrangements “lack rigour.”
• The school needs to improve pupils’ Welsh language skills, as few have a “wide enough vocabulary” and progress in oracy is “limited.”
• Attendance rates remain “below average” and require improvement, alongside enhancing pupils’ decision-making skills for independent learning.

Safeguarding

The report states that “arrangements for safeguarding pupils meet requirements and give no cause for concern.”