Malpas Court Primary School, Newport

Malpas Court Primary School is an English-medium school in Wales. Welsh schools are inspected by Estyn rather than Ofsted, and its latest report is published on Estyn's website.

It had 239 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

37% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 21% have additional learning needs (50% in 2020/21); 15% are learning English as an additional language; and 35% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 27 pupils (Reception) to 31 (Year 1).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £7,078 per pupil, against £5,768 in 2021-22. It carried forward £189k of reserves at the end of 2024-25.

Estyn's report on its November 2024 inspection summarises Malpas Court Primary School like this:

"Malpas Court Primary School is an inclusive and nurturing environment. Staff and pupils have warm and positive working relationships and, as a result, most pupils feel safe in school. Teachers, including those in the school’s speech and language resource bases, support the pupils’ wide-ranging needs in a well-organised and attractive environment, which promotes calm and respectful behaviour. Staff are positive role models for the pupils and provide opportunities for pupils to engage in real-life experiences that support them to develop their independence and enjoy learning. Many pupils engage well in lessons and develop confident and mature attitudes to their learning as they progress through the school, particularly those who take on leadership responsibilities. Teachers plan engaging and creative tasks for pupils related to their chosen topics, and often listen to the pupils’ suggestions about what and how they learn."

"Mostly, these activities develop pupils’ literacy, numeracy and digital skills and help them to progress, but they do not always link purposefully to the school’s curriculum or meet the needs of all learners as well as they could. The school’s passion for promoting Welsh has a positive impact on the pupils’ love of the language. In many lessons, teachers question pupils effectively and extend their thinking. They see opportunities to extend pupils’ learning and develop their skills further. As a result, many pupils, including those who are vulnerable and those with additional learning needs (ALN), make at least the expected progress. However, the quality of teaching across the school is inconsistent."

"In a minority of lessons there is insufficient pace to the teaching and not all tasks match the needs or abilities of the pupils. The headteacher, working with support partners, evaluates the impact of the school’s work well and has a good awareness of strengths and areas for development. Supporting the well-being of its pupils, staff and parents is a high priority. Despite recent changes in leadership that have created a period of uncertainty, the school is developing trusting relationships with its community, and families are very well supported. However, due to these recent changes, some areas of the school’s improvement work are in their early stages of development and middle leaders do not always evaluate the effectiveness of teaching on pupils’ outcomes well enough. In addition, rates of attendance remain too low."

Estyn made 4 recommendations: (1) Improve the pace and challenge of teaching to meet the needs of all pupils and develop their skills across the curriculum; (2) Develop the pedagogical understanding of staff to enable them to strengthen their authentic curriculum to meet the needs of all pupils; (3) Develop middle leaders to ensure that they evaluate the impact of provision on pupil outcomes effectively; (4) Increase the attendance of persistent absentees.

From the headteacher's welcome: "C roseo i Ysgol Gynradd Llys Malpas. On behalf of the Governing Body, staff and pupils of Malpas Court Primary School I would like to offer you a very warm welcome. Where we ' Nurture' and ' Inspire' our learners to ' Achieve' . I am extremely privileged to be the Headteacher of this wonderful primary school."

The school runs a breakfast club.

The nearest other state primary schools to Malpas Court Primary School are Malpas Park Primary School (0.3 miles), Ysgol Gymraeg Ifor Hael (0.5 miles), Millbrook Primary School (0.5 miles) and Malpas Church In Wales Primary School (0.7 miles).

The nearest railway station is Newport (S Wales) Rail Station, about 1.9 miles away in a straight line.

16 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Hargreaves Drive (after), 70 metres away.