Kingswells Primary School

Overview

The inspection found that Kingswells Primary School and Nursery Class provides a "caring and nurturing environment" where children "attain and achieve very well." While the primary school stages received "very good" evaluations across all quality indicators, the nursery class received "satisfactory" ratings for leadership and learning, teaching and assessment.

Strengths

• Practitioners in the nursery are "caring and respectful," establishing "very positive relationships with parents."
• Primary school children are described as "confident and articulate" and are "leaders of their own learning."
• "Highly effective leadership" has created an environment where children achieve very well.
• Teachers engage in "high-quality professional learning" to provide "engaging and motivating learning experiences."
• Staff create a "stimulating and rich learning environment" enabling effective play-based learning for P1 to P3 pupils.
• "Effective approaches to supporting wellbeing and inclusion" lead to "very good outcomes for children."

Areas to improve

• Review and improve approaches to learning, teaching and assessment in the nursery to ensure "consistently high-quality learning experiences."
• Develop "robust approaches to quality assurance" in the nursery to identify what is going well and what needs improvement.
• Senior leaders should revisit the skills framework and "strengthen approaches to developing the young workforce," including partnership working.

Safeguarding

The report highlights "effective approaches to supporting wellbeing and inclusion," noting that staff’s "responsive use of wellbeing data" is leading to "very good outcomes for children in the school."