Llanishen High School

Overview

Llanishen High School provides a “vibrant environment” where pupils are “nurtured and valued” within an inclusive community. Leaders are committed to ensuring every pupil succeeds, having taken “decisive actions to reduce the impact of poverty” and offering an “exceptionally broad range of extra-curricular activities.”

Strengths

• Staff foster “positive working relationships” with most pupils, who “behave well” and demonstrate “high levels of respect.”
• In many lessons, teachers “capture pupils’ interest” and use questioning “skilfully,” enabling pupils to “speak confidently” with a “broad range of vocabulary.”
• Pupils with additional learning needs benefit from “highly effective support” and are “fully integrated into the school community.”
• A “positive safeguarding culture” ensures most pupils feel safe, with effective work to “restore relationships” following bullying incidents.
• Pupils receive “useful advice and guidance” to help them make informed choices about subjects and their future.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must “strengthen self-evaluation and improvement planning” to focus more precisely on the impact of teaching on learning.
• The school needs to “improve the provision for the progressive development of pupils’ skills including Welsh across the curriculum,” which is currently “underdeveloped.”
• Teachers should “improve the quality and impact of written feedback,” as they do not always offer useful comments on targeted work.

Safeguarding

Leaders and staff secure a “positive safeguarding culture where most pupils feel safe and free from bullying.”