Queensferry Community Primary School

Overview

Queensferry Community Primary School is described as a “happy, vibrant school where pupils thrive” within a “highly inclusive” environment. The report highlights “strong and caring leadership” and an effective team that works purposefully to secure improvements, ensuring most pupils make “strong progress” and feel safe.

Strengths

• Pupils “enjoy coming to school” and demonstrate “high levels of respect” for one another’s cultures and the community.
• The headteacher provides “strong and caring leadership,” supported by a team that “trusts each other” and forms an “effective, successful team.”
• Staff offer “a variety of learning experiences” that keep pupils interested, with most, including those with additional learning needs, engaging well and achieving well.
• The school places a “strong emphasis on supporting the well-being of all,” offering comprehensive provision for pupils with additional learning needs.
• Leaders adopt a “beneficial community focused approach,” providing support for individual pupils and their families.

Areas to improve

• Teachers should improve opportunities for pupils to develop independence, particularly when responding to feedback and understanding next steps, as some currently “over-direct learning.”
• The school must formalise “consistent assessment processes” across the school to evaluate progress and inform planning, as assessment is not yet used consistently.
• Leaders need to provide regular opportunities for pupils to write at length and apply numeracy skills across the curriculum, as this provision is “less well developed.”

Safeguarding

The report states there is a “strong culture of safeguarding” within the school.