Llandaff City C.I.W. Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Llandaff City CIW Primary School is a nurturing learning environment where pupils develop effective skills in areas such as language and mathematics. Pupils are thoughtful and inquisitive. They speak eloquently and share their thoughts and ideas readily.

Pupils have positive working relationships with staff and with each other. They enjoy, and respond to challenge, positively. They behave well and enjoy taking the lead.

By the time they reach the end of the school, many have well-developed opinions, which they share with others maturely. The school is working thoughtfully towards implementing changes in the light of the Curriculum for Wales reforms. Pupils benefit from a range of stimulating learning experiences and as a r...esult, engage enthusiastically in their learning.

Provision to develop pupils' Welsh language skills is effective and pupils' use the language confidently. However, there remains work to do in areas such as curriculum balance, the development of pupils' information and communication technology (ICT) skills and classroom-based, formative assessment. Leaders work diligently to provide the best for all.

They work thoughtfully, with pupils' well-being firmly in mind. For example, they have set in place helpful procedures that allow them to identify and support pupils' emotional needs well. Leaders support and challenge all at the school to do their best.

They provide staff with beneficial opportunities for professional learning in order to ensure that they are able to undertake their different roles confidently. They consider thoughtfully how best to evaluate the work of the school, although these processes need to be sharper. Recommendations R1 Develop the curriculum to offer pupils a more balanced range of learning and give stronger opportunities to develop their cross curricular numeracy and digital skills R2 Sharpen monitoring so that it focuses better on identifying strengths and shortcomings in pupils' learning, and evaluates the quality and impact of provision R3 Improve formative assessment practices so pupils know how to be successful and what they need to do to improve R4 Improve pupils' information and communication technology (ICT) skills What happens next The school will draw up an action plan to address the recommendations from the inspection.