Stenton Primary School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Stenton Primary School in September 2025, finding a school with “insightful leadership” and a “positive, supportive and nurturing school ethos.” While children are described as “curious, happy and confident” with strong wellbeing, the report identifies specific areas for development in learning, teaching, and assessment practices.

Strengths

• The headteacher provides “insightful leadership” with a “clear vision to improve outcomes for children and their families.”
• Staff create a “positive, supportive and nurturing school ethos,” ensuring children have a “strong belonging” and their “emotional and wellbeing needs are met well.”
• There is “highly effective partnership working” with partners, families, and the local community to support learning.
• Children are “curious, happy and confident,” showing “enthusiasm for learning” and pride in their school.

Areas to improve

• The headteacher must support staff to improve the “quality and consistency of learning and teaching” and develop a “shared understanding of high-quality learning and teaching.”
• Staff need to “streamline and agree effective approaches to planning and assessment” to better match experiences to the needs of all children.
• The school should improve the “accuracy of their judgements of children’s progress and attainment” by reviewing assessment data against national standards.

Safeguarding

The report states that children’s “emotional and wellbeing needs are met well” within a nurturing ethos, and the quality indicator for “Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion” is evaluated as “good.”