Trelawnyd

Overview

Trelawnyd Church in Wales School is described as a "happy, caring and inclusive school" where pupils work and play together confidently. The staff have established a "calm and nurturing ethos" that supports effective learning, resulting in most pupils making good progress and achieving well.

Strengths

• Pupils feel "safe, secure, and happy," forming strong relationships with adults and peers while showing "respect and courtesy."
• Teachers plan "interesting activities" that make learning "exciting and fun," leading to positive attitudes and good behaviour.
• Classrooms are "productive, active learning environments" where pupils enjoy collaborative work in pairs and small groups.
• Staff listen to pupils’ ideas and weave them into "well-planned sequences of lessons" that build systematically on knowledge.
• Leaders provide "efficient and supportive leadership," working well as a team to identify effective practices and areas for improvement.

Areas to improve

• The provision to develop pupils’ numeracy skills across the curriculum is "less well developed."
• Pupils’ ability to recognise what they are doing well and what they need to do to improve their work is "limited."
• Teachers’ feedback needs to target the next steps in pupils’ learning more effectively.

Safeguarding

The report states that pupils say they feel "safe, secure, and happy in school."