Mossbank Primary School

Overview

Inspectors visited Mossbank Primary School and its Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) class in November 2023. The report highlights effective leadership and strong partnerships, noting that children feel valued within a nurturing environment. While the ELC class received positive evaluations across all quality indicators, the primary school’s learning, teaching, and assessment were rated as satisfactory, with specific areas identified for improvement.

Strengths

• The headteacher and senior practitioner provide "effective leadership" ensuring a "nurturing and inclusive" environment where children feel "valued, cared for and are proud to be part of the ‘Mossbank family’".
• "Strong partnership working" between the school, families, and the local authority is leading to "improved outcomes for children and families".
• Effective teamwork in the ELC class allows practitioners to identify and implement improvements, positively impacting children’s progress.
• The ELC class demonstrates good practice in leadership, learning, teaching, assessment, wellbeing, and securing children’s progress.

Areas to improve

• Develop further approaches to "monitoring and tracking children’s progress and attainment" to ensure all children make the best possible progress.
• Develop approaches to "planning learning across the curriculum" to ensure all children experience learning at the "right level of difficulty".

Safeguarding

The report states that the school ensures all children play and learn in a "nurturing and inclusive" environment where they feel "valued" and "cared for", with the quality indicator for "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" evaluated as good for both the primary and nursery stages.