Twyn Primary School, Caerphilly

Twyn 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 410 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

16% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 4% have additional learning needs (12% in 2020/21); and 8% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 36 pupils (Year 1) to 59 (Year 4).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £4,723 per pupil, against £3,391 in 2021-22. It carried forward £115k of reserves at the end of 2024-25.

Estyn's report on its May 2024 inspection summarises Twyn Primary School like this:

"Twyn Primary School provides an inclusive and nurturing environment. Staff foster positive relationships and create a warm, supportive and friendly environment where pupils are happy and feel safe. School leaders and staff work to promote a vision that has a strong focus on well-being and emotional support and, as a result, pupils engage enthusiastically in lessons and behave well. The school’s provision for well-being is a strength."

"A wide range of thoughtful and responsive interventions are well embedded and have considerable impact on pupils’ social and emotional skills. Skilled staff use ‘The Den’ nurture room effectively with individuals and groups to address their social, emotional, and learning needs by removing barriers to learning and providing a safe space away from busy classrooms. The school provides effective support for pupils with additional learning needs (ALN) and as a result they make suitable progress during their time in school. Across the school the quality of teaching is variable."

"In a majority of classes, where the teaching is effective, pupils make good progress in developing their literacy and numeracy skills and they make suitable progress from their starting points. However, leaders have not monitored the impact of teaching carefully enough to ensure that pupils make the progress of which they are capable. The school is beginning to develop its curriculum appropriately and is providing a range of engaging learning experiences for pupils. However, there is not sufficient focus on developing pupils’ knowledge, skills and understanding systematically and progressively as they move through the school."

Estyn made 3 recommendations: (1) Improve self-evaluation processes and ensure that they influence improvement priorities more effectively; (2) Improve the quality and effectiveness of teaching to ensure that all pupils are challenged and supported consistently; (3) Ensure that the curriculum supports all pupils to develop their knowledge, skills and understanding systematically and progressively.

The nearest other state primary schools to Twyn Primary School are Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Y Castell (0.4 miles), Ysgol G.G. Caerffili (0.6 miles), St Helen's Catholic Primary School (0.7 miles) and St James Primary (0.7 miles).

The nearest railway station is Caerphilly Rail Station, about 380 metres away (roughly a 5-minute walk).

24 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is Twyn School (outside), 40 metres away.