Pontrhondda Primary School

Overview

Pontrhondda Primary is described as a “caring, supportive school at the heart of its community” where staff maintain warm relationships with pupils. While provision for well-being and additional learning needs are strengths, the report highlights that attendance levels remain too low and writing skills are not developing sufficiently.

Strengths

• Staff work closely with families, “listening to their views carefully and adapting provision to meet pupils’ needs.”
• Most pupils with additional learning needs “make strong progress from their individual starting points.”
• The school’s “compassionate and thoughtful ethos” results in nearly all pupils displaying “exemplary behaviour.”
• Teachers effectively develop pupils’ speaking and listening skills, often from low starting points.
• The headteacher provides “strong and thoughtful leadership” and works effectively with governors and staff.

Areas to improve

• Strategic actions do not always prioritise the areas in need of most attention.
• Pupils do not develop their writing skills well enough due to a “lack of opportunity to write at length” and inconsistencies in teaching and assessment.
• Teachers do not provide pupils with “sufficient opportunity to develop independence in their learning.”

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific commentary on safeguarding arrangements.