Ysgol Llanfyllin

Overview

Since its formation in 2020, Ysgol Llanfyllin has established a close-knit community under an ethos of ‘Teulu’, ensuring most pupils feel supported and safe. While primary-aged pupils generally make suitable progress and sixth-form students display positive attitudes, shortcomings in teaching within the secondary phase lead to disengagement for some. Leadership provides strong moral purpose but has not yet had sufficient impact on improving teaching quality or embedding the new curriculum vision across the whole school.

Strengths

• Leaders have successfully created a ‘strong safeguarding culture’ where pupils generally feel safe and supported.
• Most teachers foster ‘positive working relationships’ with pupils, providing clear explanations and checking progress regularly.
• The school offers an ‘appropriately broad and balanced curriculum’ with high participation in extra-curricular activities and leadership roles.
• Sixth-form pupils make ‘sound progress’ and demonstrate ‘extremely positive attitudes towards their learning’.
• Attendance rates are above national averages, with persistent absenteeism ‘well below the national average’.

Areas to improve

• Address shortcomings in teaching, particularly in the secondary phase, to improve pupils’ learning and progress.
• Improve planning for the progressive development of pupils’ skills, which is currently ‘not embedded well enough’.
• Refine self-evaluation processes to focus precisely on the impact of teaching on pupils’ progress and ensure consistent behaviour strategies.

Safeguarding

The report states that leaders have ‘successfully created a strong safeguarding culture across the school and ensured that pupils generally feel safe and supported’.