St Clare's Primary School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited St Clare’s Primary School in March 2025 and evaluated the school’s work across four quality indicators, all of which were judged as “good”. The report highlights a strong culture focused on raising attainment and supporting wellbeing, noting that the school has the capacity to continue improving without further inspection visits.

Strengths

• Leaders and teachers have developed a culture where “raising attainment is a key focus for improvement”, providing learning opportunities that meet children’s needs.
• Children are described as “welcoming, friendly, polite and proud of their school”, keen to share their successes.
• Staff possess a “deep understanding of the children” with a strong focus on wellbeing, helping pupils feel “confident, secure and be ready to learn”.
• Positive opportunities through clubs and committees support children’s understanding of leadership and skills for “learning life and work”.

Areas to improve

• Leaders must develop more effective approaches to seek and respond to stakeholder views to ensure parents and staff have an “authentic voice in school improvement”.
• Staff should continue to develop “consistently high-quality approaches to learning, teaching and assessment” to meet the needs of all children.
• Plans are needed to help parents support learning and wellbeing, including greater involvement in the leadership programme.
• Staff should raise attainment, particularly in writing, by providing “sustained opportunities for children to write independently”.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff have a strong focus on supporting children’s wellbeing, which helps them feel secure, and notes that the quality indicator for “Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion” was evaluated as “good”.