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Ysgol y Bannau
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Penlan, Aberhonddu, Powys LD3 9SR · bannau.powys.sch.uk · 01874 622207
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected August 2026
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 94
- Local authority
- Powys
- Language
- Welsh medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- Too few to publish
- StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- Too few to publish
- StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- Too few to publish
- 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: not in follow-up. Its last full inspection was in August 2026. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · August 2026
- Ensure that monitoring activities focus more closely on the effect of provision on pupils' outcomes
- Develop the curriculum to ensure that it supports pupils to apply their writing and numeracy skills constructively across the areas of learning
- Ensure that learning experiences challenge pupils appropriately
All reports
- Aug 2026Inspection reportLast full
- Aug 2026Summary for parents and carers
- Jul 2019Monitoring visit
Feb 2018Inspection report6 recommendations
- Strengthen leadership and ensure that leaders operate strategically
- Strengthen self-evaluation processes in order to identify clear priorities for improvement, and monitor them more effectively
- Improve processes for assessing and tracking pupils' progress
- Raise standards of writing in Welsh
- Improve the quality of teaching to respond fully to pupils' needs
- Strengthen the role of governors to work more strategically and fulfil their statutory duties
- Jul 2012Monitoring visit
- May 2011Inspection report