SKETTY PRIMARY SCHOOL

Overview

Sketty Primary School is described as a “caring, inclusive school” where most pupils, including those with additional learning needs, make “strong progress” from their starting points. The curriculum fosters a “strong sense of belonging, equity and diversity,” resulting in enthusiastic engagement and the development of appropriate future aspirations.

Strengths

• Provision to develop pupils’ creative skills is identified as a distinct strength.
• Provision for pupils with additional learning needs is a strength, with leaders ensuring it is “suitably adapted to meet pupil needs.”
• Teachers and support staff are “skilful” and help pupils develop a broad range of skills well across the curriculum.
• The school places “strong emphasis on supporting the well-being of all,” adopting a beneficial community-focused approach.
• Leaders and staff work purposefully alongside the governing body to secure improvements.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must refine self-evaluation processes to consistently identify the impact of improvement strategies on pupils’ learning and progress, which is currently at an “early stage of development.”
• Provision to develop pupils’ speaking skills in Welsh is “less well-developed” and requires improvement.

Safeguarding

The report states there is a “strong culture of safeguarding” and that leaders “robustly monitor pupil attendance.”