Ysgol Trefonnen Church in Wales Community Primary is a safe, nurturing and vibrant place for pupils, staff and visitors to be. Pupils love coming to school and are proud to be a part of such an inclusive and supportive learning community. The staff know and respect every child as an individual. This respect works both ways, and in classrooms the professional relationships between pupils and staff are effective. In turn, this helps pupils to take responsibility for their progress and behaviour and contributes to their positive attitudes to learning. The school is a diverse community and pupils develop confidence in their own, individual identity, while also developing a healthy respect for others. Pupils say that they feel safe, secure, and happy at the school. Most pupils make good progress across the school, including those with additional learning needs. There is a strong focus on developing literacy and numeracy in all classes, particularly following the pandemic, and teachers and support staff work well together to make sure pupils achieve well in using these skills. However, pupils do not apply their problem solving skills in numeracy frequently enough and older pupils do not refine pieces of extended writing sufficiently to develop their writing skills to the full. The headteacher provides strong, purposeful leadership. She values the opinions of staff, pupils, parents and governors, and makes sure everyone understands their roles and responsibilities. School leaders set a positive and ambitious tone for the school’s work. They place a high priority on supporting pupils and families to thrive. Partnerships with parents and specialist agencies are highly effective and make a profoundly positive difference to the school community. Leaders ensure that the school is inclusive, treating all pupils and all families with care, courtesy and respect through its actions and the opportunities it provides. Leaders know the school well overall and have identified important areas of the school’s work that they want to improve. This includes improving the quality of teachers’ feedback so that pupils understand where and how they can improve their work 3 A report on Ysgol Trefonnen Church in Wales Community Primary June 2022 Recommendations R1 Improve older pupils’ extended writing skills R2 Improve the quality of teachers’ feedback so that pupils understand where and how they can improve their work R3 Provide opportunity to apply numeracy skills to problem solving activities in real life context What happens next The school will draw up an action plan to address the recommendations from the inspection. Estyn will invite the school to prepare a case study on its work in relation to the impact of school based community projects on the wellbeing of pupils and families for dissemination on Estyn's website.