St Ronan's Primary School

Overview

St Ronan’s Primary and Nursery School is described as having a “welcoming, nurturing and inclusive environment” that realises its vision to “inspire, nurture and respect” everyone. The report highlights that children are “happy and friendly” with “exemplary” behaviour, while staff demonstrate a clear understanding of the school’s priorities and a strong commitment to emotional health and wellbeing.

Strengths

• The school leadership team works “collaboratively” and has “re-established the full range of self-evaluation processes” to guide development.
• Children engage respectfully with peers and adults, showing pride in their school and benefiting from new leadership roles such as ‘Wellbeing Warriors’ and ‘Digital Leaders’.
• Support strategies for children with special educational needs are “impacting positively on the children’s self-esteem and holistic development.”
• Whole-staff professional learning, including nurture training, is “well aligned to the school’s key priorities” and supports both staff and pupil wellbeing.
• “Well-established community links” provide valuable opportunities to enhance learning, including partnerships with local groups and a neighbouring post-primary school.

Areas to improve

• The school must ensure “appropriate levels of challenge are provided for all children through a review of the progression in learning within the planning.”
• Staff need to access professional learning to “develop effectively their leadership roles within the school” and support the achievement of key priorities.

Safeguarding

The report states that “arrangements for child protection align to the current statutory guidance.”