Ysgol Cae'r Nant, Connah's Quay

Ysgol Cae'r Nant 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 333 pupils in the 2025/26 school census.

18% of pupils are eligible for free school meals (three-year average).

Of its pupils, 4% have additional learning needs (30% in 2020/21); 17% are learning English as an additional language; and 18% are from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds.

Year groups range from 35 pupils (Year 1) to 49 (Year 4).

Its delegated budget for 2026-27 works out at £4,889 per pupil, against £3,638 in 2021-22. It carried forward £136k of reserves at the end of 2024-25.

Estyn's report on its February 2023 inspection summarises Ysgol Cae'r Nant like this:

"Ysgol Cae’r Nant is a very caring and welcoming school. Staff know their pupils and their families well. They provide high-level support and compassion, particularly for those pupils and their families experiencing difficult circumstances. Provision for pupils' emotional well-being is highly effective and is a strength of the school. Pupils say that they feel safe, secure, and happy in school. They know that adults in the school care for them and that they can turn to them when they face challenges or have difficulties. This allows them to thrive in the school’s inclusive environment. Most pupils have positive attitudes to school, behave well and enjoy their learning."

"They form strong relationships with adults and one another and show respect and courtesy for all members of the school community. Most pupils focus well in lessons and demonstrate interest in their learning. As a result, nearly all pupils make good progress as they move through the school and achieve well. Teachers and other staff adapt teaching and learning to meet the educational and wider needs and interests of pupils well. Staff are encouraged to try new approaches to teaching and to provide a range of interesting and relevant activities and experiences that reflect the community in which they live. They listen carefully to what pupils want to learn about and weave their ideas into well-planned sequences of lessons that build systematically on pupils’ knowledge and understanding. Most teaching is purposeful and enables pupils to develop their literacy and digital skills well. Provision for developing pupils’ numeracy skills across the curriculum and their Welsh language skills is less well developed."

"The headteacher provides strong leadership. She is motivated and determined to succeed for the benefit of pupils and the community. Staff and governors share her clear vision. They work together cohesively to ensure that the school is a thriving learning community that provides positive opportunities for its pupils. Leaders evaluate the school’s work carefully to identify the areas of its work that are most effective and those aspects that need to be improved. This enables them to plan for improvements and provide purposeful professional learning opportunities for staff."

Estyn made 3 recommendations: (1) Strengthen provision for the development of pupils’ Welsh language skills; (2) Improve provision to support pupils’ application of their numeracy skills across the curriculum; (3) Ensure that pupils in all classes have opportunities to decide for themselves how they respond to learning tasks and to make decisions about how they organise their work.

The nearest other state primary schools to Ysgol Cae'r Nant are Ysgol Ty Ffynnon (0.4 miles), Bryn Deva C.P. School (0.5 miles), Ven. Edward Morgan R.C. Primary School (0.6 miles) and Golftyn C.P. School (0.8 miles).

The nearest railway station is Shotton Rail Station, about 1020 metres away (roughly a 13-minute walk).

10 bus stops are within a five-minute walk; the closest is St David`s Church (outside), 40 metres away.