Peterhead Central School

Overview

The inspection team found that children are polite, motivated, and demonstrate a strong sense of belonging. Staff work effectively as a team under the headteacher’s leadership, creating a calm, nurturing, and inclusive environment for learning.

Strengths

• Children are described as “polite, motivated and eager to learn” with a “strong sense of belonging.”
• The headteacher leads staff effectively, who are “motivated to make a difference and improve outcomes for children.”
• Staff build positive relationships with families and support wellbeing in a “calm, nurturing and inclusive environment.”
• Nursery staff have created “well-considered and calming places” for learning, resulting in children who are “creative, inquisitive and engage purposefully.”
• The nursery has a “very effective and well-considered approach to transition,” ensuring parents are fully included in planning.

Areas to improve

• Staff should improve approaches to learning, teaching, and assessment to ensure they are of a “consistently high-quality” and that learning is at the “right level of difficulty.”
• Teachers should improve how assessment information is used to ensure all children make the “best possible progress” and raise attainment.
• Nursery staff should develop their use of questioning to “extend children’s problem solving and learning.”

Safeguarding

The report states that staff have “effective approaches to supporting children’s wellbeing in the school and nursery.”