Ysgol Pant y Rhedyn

Overview

Ysgol Pant-Y-Rhedyn is described as a “caring and inclusive learning environment” where pupils feel safe and behave very well. The school benefits from strong leadership and a shared vision, resulting in nearly all pupils making “sound progress from their starting points.”

Strengths

• The school fosters a positive culture where pupils are “inspired to learn and engage well in lessons.”
• Leaders create a successful “culture of teamwork,” enabling staff to plan together and reflect on teaching.
• Pupils make “good progress in developing digital skills,” including coding.
• Teachers use “effective use of questioning” to develop understanding and assess progress.
• The school has “well embedded processes for self-evaluating” its work, providing a sound understanding of strengths.

Areas to improve

• Provide more opportunities for pupils to develop and apply Welsh speaking skills, as these are currently “underdeveloped.”
• Consistently provide a suitable level of challenge, as tasks are “not always challenging enough.”
• Increase opportunities for pupils to improve their work in response to feedback, which is currently at an “early stage of development.”

Safeguarding

The report states that “pupils feel safe and listened to at school.”