Lyng Primary School

Overview

Lyng Primary School has “taken effective action to maintain the standards identified at the previous inspection.” The school provides a “warm and nurturing environment” where pupils are courteous, behave well, and achieve well due to high expectations. Leaders and governors support the school’s vision for inclusivity, ensuring performance remains strong.

Strengths

• Staff create a supportive culture where pupils “settle quickly,” make friends, and develop a “love of learning.”
• The curriculum is “rich,” offering exciting opportunities such as creating artefacts for the Lyng Museum and learning to fly drones.
• Early years provision is high-quality, helping children get a “swift start” in reading, writing, and concentration.
• The reading curriculum is “well organised,” with targeted interventions ensuring pupils become “fluent and confident readers.”
• Changes to the writing curriculum have helped pupils effectively, allowing older pupils to “successfully write at length across a broad range of genres.”
• Pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are “well supported” and make good progress through carefully designed curricula.

Areas to improve

• In some foundation subjects, teachers are not always linking new learning to prior knowledge, resulting in gaps in pupil knowledge that need addressing.
• The new mathematics curriculum is not yet implemented sufficiently well, with some pupils having gaps in mathematical knowledge because teachers do not always check understanding before moving on.

Safeguarding

The report states that “the arrangements for safeguarding are effective.”