Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni

Overview

Ysgol Gyfun Llangefni provides “care and well-being of the highest quality” within a supportive, inclusive community where staff know pupils well. The school excels in supporting additional learning needs and fostering personal development, though it faces challenges regarding attendance for disadvantaged pupils and deteriorating buildings.

Strengths

• Provision for additional learning needs is a strength, with “successful methods” for supporting pupils’ emotional and academic progress.
• Teachers plan “imaginatively to engage pupils’ interest,” resulting in many pupils who “speak well, are strong readers and write confidently.”
• A “close and supportive working relationship” exists between teachers and pupils, creating a “sense of family.”
• Effective collaboration with primary schools and external agencies provides valuable outdoor experiences and gardening lessons.
• Leaders have developed a “supportive ethos and a caring and safe community” based on a clear, ambitious vision.

Areas to improve

• Improve the attendance of pupils who are eligible for free school meals, which remains “too low.”
• Strengthen self-evaluation processes to give more attention to pupils’ standards and progress, ensuring leaders identify weaknesses in skills in sufficient detail.
• Improve the quality and consistency of written feedback, as it is currently “too varied” and pupils do not always understand how to improve.
• Upgrade the accommodation, as the “quality of the buildings is deteriorating.”

Safeguarding

The report states that leaders have developed a “caring and safe community” and prioritise the well-being of pupils and staff.