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Pentip
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Pembrey Road, Llanelli SA15 3BL · pentip.co.uk · 01554 758602
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Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected March 2019
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 97
- Local authority
- Carmarthenshire
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 28.7%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 9.1%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 16.9%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 33.8%
- 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 March 2019. That was before Estyn stopped grading in 2022, and the report judged: Standards unsatisfactory and needs urgent improvement; Wellbeing and attitudes to learning adequate and needs improvement; Teaching and learning experiences unsatisfactory and needs urgent improvement; Care, support and guidance adequate and needs improvement; Leadership and management unsatisfactory and needs urgent improvement.
Judgements · 2017 framework
| Standards | Unsatisfactory |
|---|---|
| Wellbeing and attitudes to learning | Adequate |
| Teaching and learning experiences | Unsatisfactory |
| Care, support and guidance | Adequate |
| Leadership and management | Unsatisfactory |
Recommendations · March 2019
- Improve teaching by raising teachers' expectations of what pupils can achieve
- Raise pupils' standards in writing and numeracy across the curriculum and Welsh oracy
- Provide greater opportunities for pupils to develop as independent, resilient learners, particularly in the foundation phase
- Develop leadership capacity at all levels
- Improve the effectiveness of monitoring and self-evaluation processes and planning for improvement
- Improve procedures for assessing and tracking the progress of all pupils, notably of groups of vulnerable pupils
- Improve pupils' attendance
All reports
- Dec 2024Interim visit letter
- Jul 2022Monitoring visit
- Mar 2019Inspection reportLast full
- May 2014Monitoring visit
- Mar 2013Inspection report