Yester Primary School

Overview

The inspection team found that children are “confident, able and articulate” and “keen to learn” within a “calm, inclusive learning environment.” While the school demonstrates “good” progress in key areas, the report evaluates learning, teaching and assessment as “satisfactory,” identifying specific steps required to raise this standard.

Strengths

• Children are described as “well behaved” and “proud of their school and nursery.”
• Staff “know children and families very well,” ensuring pupils feel “cared for and happy.”
• Pupils make “good progress in literacy and numeracy” across both the school and nursery.
• The evaluation for “Raising attainment and achievement” is rated as “good.”
• The nursery class evaluation for “Securing children’s progress” is rated as “good.”

Areas to improve

• Staff must develop approaches to deliver “consistently high-quality learning, teaching and assessment” for all children.
• There should be increased opportunities for children to take “responsibility in leading their learning.”
• Staff need to use assessment data to plan “meaningful activities” at the “right level of difficulty” to maximise progress.

Safeguarding

The report states that staff have created a “calm, inclusive learning environment” where children “feel cared for and happy.”