1. Buttington/Trewern is a community primary school situated in the village of Trewern, north west of Welshpool on the A458 road to Shrewsbury. The Unitary Authority (UA) is Powys. There are 182 full time pupils on roll between the ages of 4 and 11. Pupils attending the school come from the two local villages of Buttington and Trewern and the surrounding rural community with a number coming from Welshpool some 5 miles away. 2. Pupils come from a wide range of backgrounds and show varying levels of ability with a number of children below the county average. The school reports that about 9.5% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. No pupil is looked after by the UA. 3. Thirty-four (18%) pupils have been identified as having some degree of additional learning needs (ALN). No pupil is disapplied from the National Curriculum (NC). Three pupils have a statement of ALN, 31 are on the school‟s Special Needs register. No pupil has been excluded from the school in recent years. 4. The predominant language of all pupils is English and none speak Welsh in the home or to an equivalent standard. This is an anglised locality close to the English border. Nearly all pupils come from white, British backgrounds. The school was last inspected in 2004. 5. The school has achieved a Basic Quality Mark. The school’s priorities and targets 6. The school‟s priorities and targets are outlined in its prospectus and are summarised below: the school aims to provide a friendly, caring, happy, “family” atmosphere and learning environment in which the individual child can achieve their highest potential in every aspect of their development; emphasis is placed upon the basic skill of learning, with literacy, numeracy, science and information and communications technology (ICT) being taught in a structural way and to encourage independence and initiative in children; in addition, opportunities are given for creative expression, scientific enquiry, physical development and social morality; 5 Report by Eifion R Morgan Buttington/Trewern C.P. School, 11/05/10 the school aims to help pupils reach high standards of achievement, to be competent across the curriculum in the key skills of reading, writing, speaking and listening in Welsh and English, numeracy, problem solving and information and communications technology. 7. The school also aims to help pupils to:* * * * * * identify their personal beliefs (including religious beliefs); communicate their beliefs in discussion and through their behaviour; reflect on experience and to search for meaning in that experience; display a sense of awe and wonder as they become more conscious of deeper meanings in the apparently familiar features of the natural world or in their experience; understand the difference between right and wrong; and show a concern for how actions may affect others and a willingness to consider the needs of others as well as self.