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Ysgol Swn Y Don
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Penmaenrhos, Swn Y Don, Colwyn Bay, Conwy LL29 9LL · 01492 577290
On the mapSearch near LL29 9LL
Overview
- Estyn
- Significant Improvement
- Follow-up category · last inspected April 2026
- Pupils
- 118
- Local authority
- Conwy
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 62.4%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 30.5%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 0%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- Too few to publish
- StatsWales 2025/26
From the Welsh Government’s address list of schools, DataMapWales and StatsWales.
Estyn
Estyn inspects schools in Wales. Its follow-up category: significant improvement. Its last full inspection was in April 2026. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Significant ImprovementEstyn page
Recommendations · April 2026
- Improve the quality of self-evaluation and improvement activities so that leaders identify and prioritise the areas of the school's work that are in most need… Full report
- Improve the quality and consistency of teaching and ensure that all staff maintain high expectations of pupils.
- Ensure that pupils' literacy, numeracy and digital skills develop progressively and systematically over time.
All reports
- Apr 2026Inspection reportLast full
- Apr 2026Summary for parents and carers
- Nov 2018Monitoring visit
Jan 2017Inspection report9 recommendations
- Raise standards in pupils' writing in English lessons and across the curriculum, including their handwriting and the presentation of their written work
- Raise standards in pupils' numeracy skills in mathematics lessons and across the curriculum
- Raise standards in pupils' ICT and Welsh skills in key stage 2
- Improve planning for the opportunities for pupils to apply their skills at an appropriate level across the curriculum
- Improve the quality of teaching to ensure that staff challenge pupils appropriately
- Improve processes to assess and track pupils' progress, including arrangements to help pupils know how to improve their work
- Improve leadership to strengthen the focus on standards at all levels
- Introduce a range of effective self-evaluation activities
- Track the effectiveness of the expenditure of specific grant funding to support vulnerable pupils