St Mungo School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited St Mungo Primary School in November 2024, engaging with parents, children, and staff. The report highlights strong relationships and leadership but identifies the need for further development in teaching quality and assessment practices. Inspectors express confidence in the school’s capacity to improve without further visits.

Strengths

• Staff “prioritise positive and caring relationships across the school” and engage well with partners to support wellbeing.
• These efforts are “improving children’s attainment and participation in their learning.”
• The headteacher “effectively supports a strong team approach to improve learning opportunities for children.”
• The staff team are “highly motivated to continue to improve their professional knowledge with children at the centre of all they do.”

Areas to improve

• Staff should “continue to embed policies, guidance and processes to raise attainment and achievement for all children across the school.”
• Staff must “continue to improve the quality of learning and teaching across the school,” ensuring children are clear about their next steps.
• Staff need to “develop further the use of assessments and data to track more clearly children’s progress over time” to plan challenging learning.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff “engage with a wide range of partners who support the wellbeing of children and families well.”