Stonelaw High School

Overview

The inspection team found “outstanding, inspirational and understated leadership” that reinforces a shared vision of ‘Building Tomorrow Today’. The school demonstrates “very high-quality teaching” and “outstanding approaches to supporting young people’s wellbeing”, resulting in learners who feel “very well supported, valued, respected and included”.

Strengths

• “Outstanding, inspirational and understated leadership” by the headteacher, supported by a “highly effective senior leadership team”.
• “Very high-quality teaching” where teachers use “very skilful approaches” to check understanding and inform planning.
• “Outstanding approaches to supporting young people’s wellbeing”, ensuring pupils feel “valued, respected and included”.
• Young people “attain well” in S1 to S3 and across national measures in S4 to S6.
• Development of “positive attributes and skills” through “extensive participation in achievements”, supported by “robust planning, tracking and monitoring”.

Areas to improve

• “Continue to implement the areas for improvement identified in the school improvement plan.”

Safeguarding

The report states that “outstanding approaches to supporting young people’s wellbeing” ensure that young people feel “very well supported, valued, respected and included” and that the pupil support team is “highly responsive to the needs of all young people”.