Park Road Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that the headteacher demonstrates “strong, compassionate leadership” with a clear vision for supporting staff and families. Children benefit from “warm, caring and nurturing relationships” with staff and engage well in their learning. However, the report identifies significant weaknesses in learning, teaching, and assessment, requiring additional support and a further inspection within one year.

Strengths

• The headteacher provides “strong, compassionate leadership” focused on achieving better outcomes for children.
• Children benefit from “warm, caring and nurturing relationships” with staff across the school.
• Children “engage well in their learning and in the life of the school.”
• Staff have taken “positive steps to begin to strengthen approaches to learning and teaching” and are ready to work together to improve outcomes.

Areas to improve

• The headteacher must strengthen approaches to identifying improvement needs, ensuring the plan is clearly focused on improving outcomes for children and families.
• Staff need to improve the quality of “learning, teaching and assessment” and strengthen their understanding of national expectations in literacy and numeracy.
• Senior leaders and teachers should improve the overall curricular experience, ensuring it is “coherent, progressive” and fully reflects the design principles of Curriculum for Excellence.

Safeguarding

The report states that the nursery class was inspected by Care Inspectorate within the past 18 months and is therefore not part of this inspection, while noting that the school’s work in ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion was evaluated as satisfactory.