Ivegill CofE School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Key Findings

This is an outstanding school. A highly caring environment, an exciting and stimulating curriculum and excellent teaching support pupils' outstanding achievement and spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

Parents and carers fully appreciate the warm and welcoming atmosphere in which their children thrive and are very well prepared for the next stage of their education. From their variable starting points pupils make rapid and sustained progress in all key stages so that attainment is often above average. Progress in writing and reading are particularly strong.

Disabled pupils and those with special educational needs make similar progress to that of their peers because the school ma...kes every effort to seek the most effective support for each pupil. Teachers and teaching assistants provide closely tailored support that helps accelerate their progress. Teaching engages pupils' interests thoroughly and provides many practical activities that challenge pupils and demand a great deal of them.

Very careful tracking of pupils' progress leads to individual support and targets that guide pupils' learning closely. Pupils' ability to carry out activities independently supports their outstanding progress. Occasionally, time and teaching assistants are not used to best effect to provide wider opportunities for independent learning.

.Pupils are competent and highly enthusiastic learners. They are sensitive individuals with a very mature attitude towards their responsibilities.

Behaviour is exemplary and the courtesy and respect pupils show for each other and visitors is outstanding. Pupils say there is no bullying and they have a thorough understanding of how to keep themselves safe in many different circumstances. .

The headteacher, fully supported by staff and the governing body, sets high expectations alongside a relentless drive for improvement. Teaching is rigorously monitored and performance management and professional development are closely linked to the school's priorities. Consequently, all staff contribute to improvements in teaching and achievement across the school.

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Information about the school

Ivegill CE School is much smaller than the average-sized primary school. The proportion of pupils known to be eligible for free school meals is well below the national average.

All pupils are of White British heritage. The proportion of pupils supported by school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs is above average. The school meets the current floor standard for the minimum standards expected by the government for pupils' attainment and progress.

A privately managed nursery, Ivegill Nursery, operates from the school site and is subject to a separate Ofsted inspection. From January to July 2011, the headteacher was seconded for 0.5 of the week to support another school.

Inspection grades: 1 is outstanding, 2 is good, 3 is satisfactory and 4 is inadequate Please turn to the glossary for a description of the grades and inspection terms

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