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Rhos y Fedwen
Primary · Ages 3–11 · Primary school
Honeyfield Road, Rassau, Ebbw Vale, Blaenau Gwent NP23 5TA · 01495 364840
On the mapSearch near NP23 5TA
Overview
- Estyn
- Special Measures
- Follow-up category · last inspected August 2026
- Pupils
- 123
- Local authority
- Blaenau Gwent
- Language
- English medium
- School language category, Welsh Government
- Governance
- Community
- Welsh Government address list
- Free school meals
- 50.4%
- 3-year average · StatsWales 2025/26
- Learning needs
- Too few to publish
- StatsWales 2025/26
- Still learning English
- 11.4%
- Not yet confident · StatsWales 2025/26
- Minority ethnic
- 22.7%
- 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: special measures. Its last full inspection was in August 2026. Estyn’s reports have given no judgements since 2022.
Special MeasuresEstyn page
Recommendations · August 2026
- Address the safeguarding concerns identified during the inspection
- Improve the strategic leadership of teaching by using evaluation processes and professional learning more effectively to address shortcomings
- Ensure that all pupils receive the right level of support and challenge in their learning
- Ensure the progressive development of pupils' reading, writing and mathematical skills.
All reports
- Aug 2026Inspection reportLast full
- Aug 2026Summary for parents and carers
- Jul 2018Monitoring visit
Feb 2017Inspection report6 recommendations
- Raise standards in writing at the end of key stage 2
- Raise standards in reading across the school
- Raise standards in Welsh
- Plan to ensure the progressive development of pupils' literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum
- Improve the accuracy of teacher assessment and the quality of feedback to pupils
- Ensure that self-evaluation procedures are accurate and inform school improvement priorities
- 2011Monitoring visit