Shirenewton Junior & Infant School, Monmouthshire

Shirenewton Junior & Infant 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 185 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

3% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

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

Year groups range from 22 pupils (Year 6) to 30 (Year 3).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £5,319 per pupil, against £3,708 in 2021-22. It carried forward £131k of reserves at the end of 2024-25.

Estyn's report on its March 2025 inspection summarises Shirenewton Junior & Infant School like this:

"Shirenewton Primary School is a happy, caring and inclusive school at the heart of its community. The well-being of pupils has a high priority in the school and nearly all pupils feel safe and happy and know where to go to for support if they need it. The school promotes pupils’ moral and social development effectively through its values-based curriculum and during collective worship. This helps to ensure that pupils’ behaviour is excellent across the school, and they are polite and courteous to one another, staff and visitors. Most pupils, including those with additional learning needs (ALN) and those who may be affected by poverty, make sound progress in their knowledge and understanding across the curriculum."

"Teachers use a range of questioning methods to recall previous learning, confirm understanding and inform the direction of learning. This helps pupils to improve and refine the content of their work successfully. However, at times, teachers do not provide learning activities that challenge pupils sufficiently and enable them to build their skills progressively across the curriculum. The school’s self-evaluation and quality assurance arrangements are robust. Leaders have a sound awareness of the school’s strengths and priorities for improvement."

"They recognise that further work is needed to promote a culture of improving teaching and developing pupils’ independence at an age-appropriate level. Governors are fully committed to the success of the school and use their knowledge and skills to support and challenge the headteacher purposefully. The headteacher and staff have fostered close working relationships with parents. As a result, they have confidence in the school and appreciate the help school gives to help them support their children at home."

Estyn made 2 recommendations: (1) Continue to improve planning for the progressive development of pupils’ skills across the curriculum; (2) Continue to improve teaching to ensure the development of pupils’ independent learning skills at an appropriately challenging level.

The nearest other state primary schools to Shirenewton Junior & Infant School are The Dell Primary School (3.2 miles), St Mary's R.C. Primary School (3.2 miles), Pembroke Primary School (3.3 miles) and Castle Park Primary School (3.5 miles).

There is no railway, tram or Underground station within about three miles of Shirenewton Junior & Infant School.

2 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Tan House (outside), 370 metres away.