GIRVAN Primary School has received a "good" inspection report after a visit from a team of government inspectors.

The Education Scotland team carried out the inspection in November 2022, and noted the "effective leadership, warm relationsips and effective use of data" in their findings.

The report also went on to state how the school is helping close the poverty-related attainment gap.

The school roll currently includes more than 300 children across 13 classes and around a third of the pupils are said to live within the lowest deciles of the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation.

Noting key strengths in the school's work, the inspection report said: "The head teacher provides effective leadership to the school community.

"She is supported well by the senior leadership team. Their continued focus on involving staff, children and families in school improvement is helping children to achieve positive outcomes.

"The warm, positive relationships among children and between children and staff. All staff share a focus on wellbeing which is helping children feel safe, valued as individuals, and cared for in the school and support and wellbeing department.

"Senior leaders and teachers make effective use of a range of data to identify any gaps in children’s learning and provide support to help children to make progress in their learning.

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"This is helping them to raise attainment of children and close the poverty-related attainment gap in writing and numeracy."

The report also went on to note areas for improvement that the school should achieve.

It added: "Continue to develop approaches to improve learning and teaching to ensure there is consistently high-quality practice across all classes.

"Senior leaders and teachers should ensure that learning is at the right level of difficulty for all children.

"Continue to develop approaches to fully involve all children in leadership and school improvement to help them understand how their views improve the work of the school.

"Teachers in the support and wellbeing department should continue to improve planning that helps children develop individual skills to overcome difficulties in learning."