Royal Mile Primary School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Royal Mile Primary School and Nursery Class in April 2025. The report highlights strong leadership and effective transitions, but identifies significant weaknesses in learning, teaching, and wellbeing for the primary stages, necessitating additional support and a follow-up inspection within one year.

Strengths

• The headteacher and principal teacher provide "strong leadership," establishing "positive and effective relationships" with children, parents, and staff.
• Staff demonstrate deep knowledge of children and the "multicultural community," remaining "responsive to the needs" of families.
• "Effective transition arrangements" are in place for children moving from nursery to P1 and from P7 to high school.
• The nursery class receives "good" evaluations across all quality indicators, including leadership and securing children’s progress.

Areas to improve

• Develop a "whole school strategy to improve relationships and behaviour," ensuring agreed approaches are applied consistently.
• Improve "approaches to learning, teaching and assessment" to ensure all children experience "high-quality, well-planned learning" matched to their needs.
• Improve attendance across the school and enhance how teachers measure attainment in literacy and numeracy.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific narrative details regarding safeguarding arrangements, though it notes that the evaluation for "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" in the primary stages is "weak."