Estyn inspection Dec 2022 states,'Teachers and leaders have worked to create a curriculum that aligns with the Curriculum for Wales and successfully meets pupils’ needs. At a strategic level, close working with the local cluster of schools has helpfully ensured that all local schools share a vision for the curriculum. However, the Miskin curriculum is well focused on what leaders know pupils in the school need to experience and learn. Adults choose the topics that each class covers but there are appropriate opportunities to include pupils’ and their parents’ ideas. The curriculum includes a broad range of exciting and memorable experiences, such as preparing a pretend pharaoh’s body for burial or experimenting with sugary drinks to see their effect on pretend teeth. In addition, there are regular trips and visits, for example to St Fagan’s open-air museum, the Daerwynno outdoor centre and a residential trip to Dol-y-Gaer. Leaders and teachers plan these visits with particular care to negate the impact of poverty and disadvantage. They are successful in broadening pupils’ horizons and engaging them in their learning. The curriculum makes valuable use of local environment. In addition, worthwhile links with local employers and workplaces, along with the University of South Wales, raise pupils’ aspirations and expectations for the future. A notable feature in classrooms across the school is the warm, supportive professional relationships between adults and the pupils.

Staff know their pupils and their individual needs exceptionally well. Teachers direct the work of skilled learning support assistants effectively, to create seamless provision that benefits all pupils. Lessons proceed at a good pace to ensure that no time is wasted. Teachers remind pupils of their expectations for work and behaviour. As a result, pupils concentrate and behave well. Teachers ask well-chosen questions that encourage pupils to engage in the learning. Generally, teachers provide useful verbal feedback or written comments to help pupils to improve their work, for example using a highlighter to indicate ‘pink for think’. Pupils in turn want to please their teachers and work hard for well-earned praise

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