Lynburn Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that Lynburn Primary School and Nursery Class benefits from "highly effective leadership" and a "motivated and reflective" staff team. The school provides "inclusive and positive environments for learning" where children feel safe, are "resilient," and actively contribute to school improvement.

Strengths

• The headteacher’s "relentless focus on improving outcomes for all" is supporting children to make progress in learning.
• Staff have developed "nurturing and respectful relationships with children," creating environments that support engagement.
• Children are described as "welcoming, friendly, resilient and proud of their school," leading improvement efforts with "enthusiasm and ambition."
• In the nursery, a "strong focus by all staff on continuously improving the support they provide" ensures children’s needs are well met.

Areas to improve

• Staff should review approaches to planning and assessment to ensure learning is "planned at the right level of difficulty."
• Staff should continue to "raise the attainment of all children in literacy and numeracy."

Safeguarding

The report states that staff have created "inclusive and positive environments for learning which are supporting children to feel safe and engage well in learning."