Tipperty School

Overview

Education Scotland inspectors visited Tipperty School in September 2022, engaging with staff, parents, and children. The report evaluates the school’s work against quality indicators, finding performance to be "satisfactory" in both "Learning, teaching and assessment" and "Raising attainment and achievement". Inspectors express confidence that the school has the capacity to continue improving, meaning no further visits will be made in connection with this inspection.

Strengths

• The report highlights "positive relationships between all staff and their effective teamwork".
• Inspectors praised the approach taken by the headteacher and staff to use the pandemic as a "positive stimulus to make more effective use of indoor and outdoor spaces to enhance children’s learning experiences".
• The report notes the "older children’s approaches to digital technologies" as a strength.

Areas to improve

• The school should "continue to develop approaches to monitoring children’s progress, including achievements, to ensure appropriate pace and challenge across all areas of learning".
• Staff need to "continue to develop teachers’ understanding of progression through Curriculum for Excellence levels to ensure robust evaluations of children’s attainment".
• The report advises the school to "improve further approaches used to support children to become more independent in their learning".

Safeguarding

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