Rosehearty School

Overview

The inspection found that Rosehearty Primary School and Nursery Class benefits from “strong and compassionate leadership” that sustains a “positive culture and environment for learning.” Children are described as “friendly, polite and proud” of their unique setting, demonstrating school values through their interactions. While the nursery class evaluations were rated “good,” the primary school’s learning, teaching, and assessment were judged as “satisfactory.”

Strengths

• The headteacher provides “strong and compassionate leadership” to staff, children, and the community.
• Children are “friendly, polite and proud” of their learning environment and demonstrate school values well.
• Staff work effectively as a team to engage children and are “responsive to the pastoral needs of all children.”
• The nursery class achieves “good” evaluations for both learning, teaching, and assessment, and securing children’s progress.

Areas to improve

• Continue to improve approaches to monitoring children’s progress across all areas of learning and achievements at the primary stages.
• Continue to improve children’s progress and attainment at the primary stages.
• Practitioners and teachers need to engage in more regular collaboration with colleagues across the local authority to strengthen confidence in applying national standards.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff are “responsive to the pastoral needs of all children,” helping to maintain “very positive and nurturing relationships.”