Oxgang Primary School

Overview

Inspectors visited Oxgang Primary School in November 2023, finding a school characterised by strong leadership and positive community relationships. The report highlights that children learn and achieve in a “safe, inclusive and nurturing environment” supported by staff who effectively address individual wellbeing needs.

Strengths

• The headteacher provides “strong leadership” and is “well respected by staff, children, parents and partners,” effectively managing the “direction and pace of change.”
• “Positive relationships across the whole school community” are based on school values, ensuring children are “happy and respectful.”
• Staff use “highly effective approaches” to develop knowledge of wellbeing, helping children and parents to “manage more effectively their own wellbeing.”
• All staff possess a “detailed understanding of children’s individual circumstances” and use Pupil Equity Funding and partnership working creatively to achieve positive outcomes.

Areas to improve

• Continue to “develop and embed consistent approaches to learning, teaching and assessment” to ensure consistency in judgements about progress.
• Further develop approaches to planning and checking support effectiveness to “raise attainment further in literacy and numeracy.”

Safeguarding

The report states that children learn and achieve in a “safe, inclusive and nurturing environment” where staff have a detailed understanding of individual wellbeing needs.