Kemnay Primary School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Kemnay Primary School and Nursery Class in September 2024. The report highlights that children are welcoming and proud of their school, with strong leadership tracking attainment effectively. While the primary stages show good leadership and wellbeing, the nursery class and some teaching aspects require further development.

Strengths

• Children are described as “welcoming, polite and enjoy talking about their learning,” being “articulate and proud of their school and nursery.”
• Senior leaders “track and review attainment and achievement data well,” ensuring “high levels of attainment are maintained over time.”
• Staff “plan effectively for children who require support with learning and wellbeing,” leading to “improved outcomes for children who experience barriers to learning.”
• The school demonstrates “good” leadership of change and raising attainment in the primary stages.

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders and staff should “use self-evaluation information more effectively” to prioritise improvements with the “greatest impact on children’s experiences and outcomes.”
• Staff should improve “approaches to learning and teaching,” ensuring planning is at the “correct level of difficulty” and improving “pace and challenge.”
• Nursery leaders and practitioners need to “develop clear roles and responsibilities” to take improvement priorities forward at pace.

Safeguarding

The report evaluates “Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion” as “good” for the primary stages and “satisfactory” for the nursery class, noting that staff plan effectively for children requiring support with wellbeing.