St Joseph’s Infant School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

St Joseph's Infant School is in Aberavon in Neath Port Talbot local authority. There are 127 pupils on roll aged from three to seven years, of whom 43 attend part-time in the nursery.

The school organises pupils into three single-age classes and the nursery. On average, around 11% of pupils are eligible for free school meals. This is below the national average of 18%.

The school identifies about 18% of pupils as having additional learning needs, below the national average of 21%. A few pupils come from an ethnic minority background or have English as an additional language. No pupil speaks Welsh at home.

The headteacher took up her post in September 2010. The school's previous inspection was in July 2013. The scho...ol is currently a 'pioneer school'.

This means that it is working with the Welsh Government and other pioneer schools to develop a national model of professional learning and to develop and pilot a new curriculum for Wales. Estyn does not inspect religious education or the religious content of collective worship when it is a school with a religious character. Instead, the governing body is required by law to arrange for religious education and collective worship to be inspected separately.