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Fairfield Primary School
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Dryden Road, Penarth CF64 2RT · 029 2070 9035
On the mapSearch near CF64 2RT
Overview
- Estyn
- Inspected May 2025
- Last full inspection · not in a follow-up category
- Pupils
- 266
- Local authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 17.1%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- 7.8%
- Additional learning needs · StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 7.8%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 23.4%
- 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 May 2025. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Recommendations · May 2025
- Improve leadership at all levels and ensure that self-evaluation focuses closely on the most important aspects in need of improvement
- Raise teachers' expectations of what pupils should learn, know and understand and improve teaching to ensure that all pupils make the progress they should
- Develop a coherent curriculum that supports pupils' progress effectively
- Improve pupils' Welsh language skills
All reports
- Jul 2026Monitoring visit
- May 2025Inspection reportLast full
- May 2025Summary for parents and carers
Feb 2018Inspection report4 recommendations
- Ensure that self-evaluation processes clearly identify the specific aspects that require improvement
- Ensure that teachers use questioning effectively to encourage all pupils to develop their thinking fully
- Provide clear guidance to pupils on how to improve their written work and sufficient opportunity to make the required changes
- Improve overall rates of attendance