Pendoylan C.I.W. Primary School, Vale of Glamorgan

Pendoylan C.I.W. 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 221 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

Of its pupils, 5% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 22 pupils (Year 2) to 31 (Year 4).

Estyn's report on its October 2022 inspection summarises Pendoylan C.I.W. Primary School like this:

"Pupils at Pendoylan Church in Wales Primary School relish attending school. They are eager to talk to adults and speak articulately and with great pride about their school. Most pupils demonstrate high levels of perseverance and positive attitudes to learning, they feel safe and well cared for, and they trust that staff will always support them through difficult moments. Over their time in school, pupils, including those who are vulnerable and those with additional learning needs, make good and often very good progress in most areas of learning from where they started. Pupils have many opportunities to influence and improve their school and are thrilled to work alongside school leaders to bring about change. Pupils' well-being and emotional development are at the heart of the school and staff work tirelessly to ensure that the school is a reflective and inclusive environment."

"This inclusivity is shown by the encouraging relationships between staff and pupils. All staff think carefully about how pupils learn best and employ a range of methods to involve them successfully in their learning. They show an eagerness to develop their professional skills and knowledge together and within a variety of partnerships well. This enables them to fine-tune provision to best meet individual pupils’ needs. The care, support and guidance provided across the school community are significant and support the school’s vision, to ‘Inspire, Reflect and Transform’. The headteacher provides strong, effective leadership."

"Governors support the school well and along with dedicated staff place the well-being of all pupils and improving learning at the centre of school life. Partnerships with parents and all outside agencies are effective. Leaders and staff are well on their way to implementing a curriculum that is authentic and reflects the needs of the community. The school is good at identifying areas of its work that are successful and those aspects that need to be improved. For instance, the school’s work to develop pupils’ numeracy skills has been highly effective and led to improvements in its provision and the progress that pupils make. Moving forward, leaders and staff now recognise that creating more opportunities for older pupils to experience outdoor learning along with refining their approaches to providing feedback to pupils will improve pupil progress further."

Estyn made 2 recommendations: (1) Refine and improve the quality of feedback to pupils so that they can understand what they need to do to improve their learning; (2) Plan more opportunities for older pupils to benefit from outdoor learning.

The nearest other state primary schools to Pendoylan C.I.W. Primary School are Peterston Super Ely C.I.W. Primary (1.6 miles), St Nicholas C.I.W. Primary (2.4 miles), Pontyclun Primary School (3.1 miles) and Creigiau Primary School (3.2 miles).

The nearest railway station is Pontyclun Rail Station, about 3.3 miles away in a straight line.

2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Red Lion Inn (outside), 140 metres away.