OYSTERMOUTH PRIMARY SCHOOL

Overview

Most pupils make good progress and benefit from teaching that “stimulates and engages them well.” The school provides a “high level of care, support and guidance,” ensuring pupils feel safe and valued. However, leadership and management are judged as “Adequate and needs improvement” because many leaders are new and self-evaluation processes are at an “early stage of development.”

Strengths

• Pupils display “positive attitudes to their learning,” behaving very well and showing “high levels of respect and concern for others.”
• Standards in literacy and numeracy are strong, with most pupils developing “strong reading skills” and becoming “confident mathematicians.”
• The school fosters a “caring, inclusive ethos” where staff know pupils extremely well and provide a “nurturing environment.”
• Parents and the community support the school enthusiastically, contributing to resources and activities such as guided reading sessions.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must “monitor, evaluate and plan for improvement rigorously” to address weaknesses in self-evaluation and sustained improvement.
• Teachers need to ensure written feedback enables pupils to understand clearly “what they need to do to improve their work.”
• The school should increase opportunities for pupils to use Welsh outside designated lessons and allow more independent choice in learning.

Safeguarding

The report states that the school’s arrangements for safeguarding pupils “meet requirements and give no cause for concern.”