The school is an inclusive community with a caring team of staff, who support pupils’ wellbeing successfully. The head of school manages the day-to-day running of the school effectively. Pupils feel safe and valued and they enjoy coming to school. Many pupils behave well in lessons and around the school. As they move through the school, many pupils become capable mathematicians who enjoy solving problems. They develop effective speaking and listening skills, often from low starting points, and they make steady progress with their reading. However, across the school, many pupils’ writing skills are underdeveloped. School leaders have an inspiring vision to develop the federation as a professional learning community. However, its management processes are not strong enough to ensure that all aspects of its provision are effective. Instability in staffing and leadership over the past few years has contributed to too much variability in the quality of teaching at Craig Yr Hesg. As a result, pupils do not always have enough purposeful opportunities to develop their skills successfully. Overall, the arrangement for setting pupils across classes in key stage 2 do not help less able pupils to make good enough progress in their learning. Inspection area Judgement Standards Adequate and needs improvement Wellbeing and attitudes to learning Adequate and needs improvement Teaching and learning experiences Adequate and needs improvement Care, support and guidance Good Leadership and management Adequate and needs improvement 2 A report on Craig-Yr-Hesg Primary School September 2018 Recommendations R1 Establish stable and effective leadership and teaching teams R2 Improve monitoring and school improvement processes to ensure they focus on raising standards for pupils R3 Improve the quality of teaching and ensure any grouping arrangements across classes enable pupils of all abilities to make effective progress R4 Raise standards in writing R5 Ensure all teachers give pupils appropriate opportunities to apply their literacy, numeracy and information and communication technology (ICT) skills effectively across the curriculum What happens next The school will draw up an action plan to show how it is going to address the recommendations. Estyn will review the school’s progress