Tayvallich Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found a school with a "nurturing, inclusive ethos" where strong, positive relationships are based on "mutual respect and understanding." Inspectors evaluated all quality indicators for both the primary stages and the nursery class as either "good" or "very good," expressing confidence that the school has the capacity to continue to improve.

Strengths

• Staff have created a "nurturing, inclusive ethos" with "strong, positive relationships" between adults and children.
• Children are described as "polite, happy" and keen to learn, showing "respect and kindness" to one another in mixed-age classes.
• There is "successful partnership working" between staff and parents, resulting in parents feeling "valued partners" in their child's learning.
• Early Learning and Childcare (ELC) staff provide "rich, real-life learning opportunities" using the local environment and wider community.
• ELC staff collaborate effectively with school staff to plan valuable opportunities for children to learn and play together.

Areas to improve

• The headteacher and staff should continue developing approaches for planning learning to help "raise attainment further."
• Staff should continue to develop and embed "consistent approaches to assessing children’s learning" to achieve consistency in judgements about progress and attainment.

Safeguarding

The report states that the evaluation for "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" was "good" for the primary stages and "very good" for the nursery class.