Seaton School

Overview

Inspectors visited Seaton School in May 2025, excluding the nursery class which was recently inspected by the Care Inspectorate. The report evaluates the school’s work across four quality indicators, all of which are rated as “good”. Education Scotland expresses confidence that the school has the capacity to continue improving and will make no further visits in connection with this inspection.

Strengths

• Children benefit from a “calm and positive climate for learning” that reflects school values and leads to positive experiences.
• The acting headteacher and leadership team have developed a “shared vision” with staff and the community, making a “positive difference in improving experiences for children”.
• Staff support children’s wellbeing needs “very well”, enhanced by “nurturing staff and highly effective partnership working”.
• Children requiring additional support receive “high-quality targeted provision” that helps them participate fully in school life.

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders must ensure improvement activities are “streamlined and prioritised” to remain clearly linked to whole school priorities and maximise outcomes.
• Teachers should develop “universal approaches to planning learning” to ensure all children, including those with additional support needs, work at the correct difficulty level.
• Senior leaders need to further develop processes for monitoring attainment to create “more useful overviews” that teachers can use to support children’s progress.

Safeguarding

The report states that children’s wellbeing needs are supported very well by staff, with experiences enhanced by nurturing relationships and highly effective partnership working.