Strathconon Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that staff are committed to improving children’s experiences and work effectively with partner schools. The report highlights strong community partnerships and effective approaches to supporting wellbeing, noting that children are “kind, polite and respectful.” Overall, the school is judged to have the capacity to continue improving without further visits.

Strengths

• Staff work “very effectively with their partner schools to improve children’s outcomes.”
• Strong partnerships provide children with “worthwhile experiences in the outdoors and local community.”
• Approaches to wellbeing help children develop a “firm sense of belonging” and resilience.
• Effective professional learning is helping to “improve children’s attainment in writing.”

Areas to improve

• Senior leaders should improve approaches to school improvement planning to provide “clear strategic guidance on the pace and direction of change.”
• Staff should provide children with “more leadership opportunities” to build their skills.
• Staff should make “more effective use of assessment information” to support professional judgements.
• Staff should continue to raise attainment in literacy and numeracy.

Safeguarding

The report states that approaches to supporting wellbeing help children have a “firm sense of belonging” and that the evaluation for “Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion” is “good.”