Teanassie Primary School

Overview

The inspection found that children are proud of their school and demonstrate its values well, while staff have established positive relationships with families. However, the report identifies significant weaknesses in primary learning, teaching, and attainment, contrasting with good evaluations for the nursery class. Consequently, the school requires additional support and a further inspection within one year.

Strengths

• Children are described as "friendly and caring towards everyone" and demonstrate the school's values well.
• Staff "know the children and their families well" and have established positive relationships across the community.
• Nursery practitioners provide "stimulating learning experiences" that support children to make good progress.
• The nursery class received "good" evaluations for leadership, learning, teaching, assessment, wellbeing, and securing progress.

Areas to improve

• Improve approaches to learning and teaching to provide high-quality experiences that meet the needs of all children, including those with barriers to learning.
• Improve children’s progress and attainment across the curriculum, with a clear focus on literacy and numeracy.
• Develop whole-school approaches to assessment to provide robust information about progress and inform next steps for learning.

Safeguarding

The report states that the evaluation for "Ensuring wellbeing, equality and inclusion" in the primary stages is "satisfactory," while the equivalent indicator for the nursery class is "good."