ST ILLTYD PRIMARY SCHOOL

Overview

St Illtyd Primary School is described as a "caring and inclusive community" where pupils generally enjoy school and demonstrate positive attitudes to learning. However, the report states that pupils "do not always make the progress they could, especially in reading, writing and mathematics," and that leaders have not established effective arrangements to evaluate or improve key aspects of the school’s work.

Strengths

• Pupils with additional learning needs "make good progress from their starting points and achieve well."
• The school offers an "exciting curriculum that engages pupils’ interests well," including effective provision for developing ICT skills.
• Staff promote teamwork successfully, ensuring "high levels of wellbeing amongst pupils."
• Care, support, and guidance are consistently good, with suitable systems to track progress and provide interventions.

Areas to improve

• Improve provision to develop pupils’ literacy and numeracy skills, as current provision "does not ensure that enough pupils make the progress of which they are capable."
• Ensure that the quality of teaching is "consistently good or better in all classes," as it is currently variable.
• Improve self-evaluation and improvement processes, as current arrangements "lack rigour" and do not accurately assess the impact on pupil progress.

Safeguarding

Arrangements for safeguarding pupils "meet requirements and give no cause for concern."