Education Sector

Primary

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Primary

We celebrate the successes, highlight areas for improvement and focus on what’s important for learners in primary schools.

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Developing respect and understanding: The quality and impact of relationships and sexuality education in schools and pupil referral units

Teaching and Learning Science: Teaching for understanding in science classrooms

Local Authority support for Schools to manage their budgets

Teaching the Curriculum for Wales

Sgwrs Podcast: Curriculum for Wales

Sgwrs Podcast: Towards an Anti-Racist Wales

Thematic report - The additional learning needs system

Developing a rich and stimulating environment that promotes the curiosity and enthusiasm of the youngest pupils.

Creating a culture of improvement to ‘do even better’.

Whole school approach to self-evaluation

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Featured Primary resources

Developing respect and understanding: The quality and impact of relationships and sexuality education in schools and pupil referral units

Teaching and Learning Science: Teaching for understanding in science classrooms

Local Authority support for Schools to manage their budgets

Teaching the Curriculum for Wales

Sgwrs Podcast: Curriculum for Wales

Sgwrs Podcast: Towards an Anti-Racist Wales

Thematic report - The additional learning needs system

Developing a rich and stimulating environment that promotes the curiosity and enthusiasm of the youngest pupils.

Creating a culture of improvement to ‘do even better’.

Whole school approach to self-evaluation

Inspection guidance resources

Latest articles

​​Education welfare services provide valuable support, but greater consistency is needed to tackle persistent absence ​

Estyn introduces new pupil reports to make inspection findings more accessible to learners

Estyn Live: Estyn headlines for different sectors

Relationship and Sexuality Education helps pupils feel safe and respected, but provision is not yet consistent

Strong science practice found across Wales, but inconsistencies in provision continue to affect pupils’ progress

Local authority support helps schools manage finances but strategic planning needs strengthening

HMCI highlights excellent practice, but calls for improvement in literacy levels and greater consistency in teaching quality and leadership.

Survey on the use of AI in schools and PRUs

A focus on mathematics at Estyn - A blog by Estyn inspector Gari Jones

Estyn Live: The reading journey in the primary sector

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Education welfare services provide valuable support, but greater consistency is needed to tackle persistent absence