A small Inverness school has been congratulated on its latest Education Scotland inspection report.
The new report highlighted a number of strengths at Bishop Eden’s Primary School. This followed a review in 2016 which identified weaknesses and a further inspection in June of last year which highlighted progress with “significant scope to improve” in some areas.
Highland Council is currently considering plans to merge the school, which has 35 pupils, with 230-pupil Central Primary School.
Parents of Bishop Eden’s have raised concern that their school will be overshadowed and the progress in improving the school will be affected if the proposal goes ahead.
Some of the strengths at the school include children’s attainment in English language and literacy and in mathematics and numeracy.
There is also praise that children’s progress is now tracked and monitored well.
Significant progress has been made in reading as a result of a “back to basics” approach put in place by the headteacher.
Staff are using a better range of classroom resources and writing standards across the school are showing improvement, with children enjoying more opportunities to develop their use of vocabulary.
The school has also made positive progress in learning and teaching. Children continue to be more engaged in their learning.
Councillor Andrew Baxter, chairman of Highland Council’s Care, Learning and Housing Committee, said: “I would like to extend my congratulations to the Head Teacher Beth Rodgers and her staff and all the pupils as well as the whole school community on what is a very positive outcome for them all.”
Sharon McPhee, chairwoman of the Parent Council said: “The parents of Bishop Eden’s Primary are delighted with the report and extremely proud of all our staff, who have worked so hard to improve our wonderful school. Our children love going to school and we are a family, who have gone through hard times but have come out the other end with a bright future ahead.”
