Lochardil Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Lochardil Primary School and Nursery Class benefits from "highly effective leadership" and a "positive and caring environment." Children are described as being "very proud of their school," and the institution demonstrates a clear vision to develop them as "globally aware and active citizens."

Strengths

• Children are "very proud of their school" and can "articulate well the positive difference they are making in their school and beyond."
• The headteacher provides "highly effective leadership," leading by example to create a "positive and caring environment" with a "strong sense of collective achievement."
• Staff gather a "wide range of information and data... in an effective way" to identify what is working well and what needs improvement.
• There is "effective empowerment of staff" in the school and Early Learning and Childcare (ELC), leading to an "agreed and positive team-working approach to school improvement."

Areas to improve

• Staff should "continue to develop consistently high expectations of children to ensure an appropriate pace of learning for all."
• This should include providing "opportunities for children to lead their own learning as well as wider aspects of the work of the school" to sustain and extend attainment.

Safeguarding

The report evaluates "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" as "very good" for both the primary stages and the nursery class.