A city school has improved the standard at its school after benefiting from government funding for more teachers, inspectors for Education Scotland confirm.
Bishop Eden’s Primary School, Inverness had an improvement plan put in place after a visit by inspectors in April 2017 found the school to be failing children in their attainment of both maths and English, while staff needed to focus on developing the curriculum.
But more than 17 months later in September 2018 it was found that attainment, in English, literacy and mathematics,was now improving at the school.
In a report issued to parents from Her Majesties Inspector Aileen Monaghan, she said: “Significant progress has been made in reading as a result of a ‘back to basics’ approach put in place by the headteacher.
“Staff are leading improved learning activities using a better range of classroom resources. Writing standards across the school are now showing improvement with children enjoying more opportunities to develop their use of vocabulary.
“The school utilised additional Attainment Scotland funding and Pupil Equity Funding to provide additional staffing which is supporting improvement in numeracy.
“In her short time in post, the headteacher is already respected by staff, parents and children as a very hard working, strong leader.
“Almost all staff are now part of an shared culture of reflective practitioners. A wide range of approaches are used now to evaluate the quality of the school’s work.”
The report concluded: “The school has made good progress since the original inspection.
“We are confident that the school has the capacity to continue to improve and so we will make no more visits in connection with this inspection.”