Teaching in schools across Wales is not good enough, the Chief Inspector of Education says in his interim annual report out today. The report highlights concerns about literacy, numeracy. attendance and the Welsh language in schools.
In “too many” primaries pupils “make basic errors in grammar and punctuation that are not addressed well enough through teacher feedback,” Owen Evans says. He adds that in the 219 primaries inspected last year “too often, teachers plan independent activities for pupils that do not challenge them sufficiently and do not help them to progress with their learning.”
More than six in 10 of the 28 secondaries inspected in the 2022-23 academic year had a recommendation to improve the effectiveness of their teaching, while Estyn found that in half of the all age 3-16 schools inspected there were “too many inconsistencies in the quality of teaching”. Three of the seven special schools inspected received a recommendation related to improving consistency in quality of teaching.
The report also details summaries of inspections in FE colleges, worked-based learning and initial teacher training. Areas listed as in need of improvement in further education colleges include the warning that there is " insufficient provision of learning activities focusing on healthy relationships and preventing misogynistic attitudes" and "colleges do not record and evaluate peer-on-peer sexual harassment incidents systematically enough."
