Skelmorlie Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that children are “confident, articulate and proud of their school” and experience “positive relationships with all staff and their peers.” The report evaluates both “Learning, teaching and assessment” and “Raising attainment and achievement” as “good,” noting the school has the capacity to continue to improve without further visits.

Strengths

• Children are described as “confident, articulate and proud of their school” with “positive relationships” with staff and peers.
• There is “effective teamwork across the school to plan and deliver targeted support,” ensuring children with barriers to learning are well supported and make “good progress.”
• Children benefit from “motivating learning spaces” and “increasingly relevant contexts,” which helps them understand how classroom learning links to life beyond school.

Areas to improve

• The school should “continue to develop approaches to planning learning across the curriculum” to ensure all learning builds on prior knowledge and is “appropriately challenging.”
• The school needs to “continue to develop approaches to tracking and monitoring children’s progress and attainment,” ensuring staff use this information effectively to identify next steps.

Safeguarding

The report does not contain specific statements regarding safeguarding arrangements or outcomes.