Y.G.G. Gellionnen

Overview

Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Gellionnen is described as a “caring, inclusive and welcoming school” with a clear emphasis on pupil wellbeing and raising standards. The acting headteacher led the school skilfully through a challenging period, ensuring a “happy and safe community” where most pupils make good progress. While standards, wellbeing, care, and leadership are judged as good, teaching and learning experiences are deemed adequate and in need of improvement.

Strengths

• Most pupils’ behaviour and attitude to learning are “exceptionally good”, with high levels of confidence and pride in the Welsh language.
• Nearly all pupils make “good progress in their learning from their starting points”, including those with additional learning needs.
• Staff work together effectively, creating a “calm and respectful learning environment” with high expectations for pupil achievement.
• Pupils develop creative skills successfully, particularly through producing videos and animations to enrich their class work.
• The school has effective systems to track progress and wellbeing, with restorative strategies promoting fairness and justice.

Areas to improve

• Teachers must act effectively to improve provision in the foundation phase, ensuring principles are implemented consistently and learning areas are purposeful.
• The quality of pupils’ handwriting and presentation of work across the school needs improvement, as it is currently described as “untidy”.

Safeguarding

The report states that the school’s arrangements for safeguarding pupils “meet requirements and are not a cause for concern.”