Ysgol Bro Llifon

Overview

Ysgol Bro Llifon is a Welsh-medium primary school where the headteacher provides “very robust and effective leadership” that ensures a clear strategic direction. The inspection found that nearly all pupils, including those with additional learning needs, make “sound progress” and achieve well by Year 6, supported by dedicated staff and a caring ethos.

Strengths

• Pupils demonstrate “excellent attitudes to learning,” concentrating well and behaving with “respect and maturity.”
• Staff create a “highly positive atmosphere” that successfully promotes the school’s “natural Welsh ethos” and bilingualism.
• Teachers use “skilful” assessment strategies and provide purposeful feedback that helps pupils understand how to improve their work.
• The governing body is “supportive and dedicated,” effectively challenging the school and holding it to account for performance.
• Provision for pupils with additional learning needs is “effective,” with successful intervention programmes and early identification.

Areas to improve

• The report recommends ensuring “better opportunities for pupils to develop their English writing skills across the curriculum,” noting that current development is not consistent enough in key stage 2.

Safeguarding

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