Press Release
Very Good Education provided by Sound Primary School
School inspectors visited Sound Primary School and Nursery in April 2010. In the nursery they describe improvements in performance, children’s experiences and meeting children’s needs as good. In the primary they describe these three indicators as very good. The school’s curriculum was described as very good and the schools improvement through self-evaluation was described as good.
HMIe identified the school’s particular strengths:
- Children’s learning and achievement, including high standards in English and Maths;
- The strong and successful focus on developing literacy and numeracy across the curriculum;
- High quality support for children who have difficulties with their learning;
- Staff teamwork and commitment and the impact of self-evaluation in the primary classes;
- Strong partnerships for learning with parents and the community;
- The outstanding leadership of the Head Teacher in ensuring a culture of high achievement.
There were only two areas for improvement noted:
- Continue to develop Curriculum for Excellence;
- Make more use of self-evaluation to ensure that the needs of children in the nursery are fully met.