Pennyland Primary School

Overview

Inspectors visited Pennyland Primary School in May 2025, excluding the nursery class which was recently inspected by the Care Inspectorate. The report evaluates the school’s work against four quality indicators, with all areas judged as “satisfactory.” Inspectors express confidence that the school has the capacity to continue improving and will not make further visits in connection with this inspection.

Strengths

• Senior leaders’ approaches to working with partners to enhance learning opportunities and provide professional learning for staff.
• Positive relationships between staff and children, underpinned by the ‘Our Pennyland Promise’, resulting in calm classrooms where children are ready to learn.
• Children who are described as kind, respectful, and building an understanding of their rights.
• Recent improvements by the headteacher to tracking and monitoring, which are supporting staff to improve judgements on progress and beginning to raise attainment.

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders and staff should progress plans to speed up improvement, increasing children’s participation and enthusiasm to help improve the life and work of the school.
• Leaders and staff should continue to develop the consistency of learning and teaching to ensure children always experience high-quality learning experiences.
• Staff should increase expectations of what children can achieve, particularly in the middle stages, and develop better ways to recognise achievements and skills.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific narrative comments on safeguarding practices, though it notes that the nursery class was separately inspected by the Care Inspectorate.