All Saints Church of England Primary School, Laxfield

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is an outstanding school Leadership is outstanding.

The executive headteacher has successfully created a highly aspirational, caring and nurturing environment for pupils to learn and develop their self-confidence. As a result of excellent teaching, pupils in all year groups make impressive progress in a range of subjects including reading, writing and mathematics. Teachers have high expectations of how all pupils will behave and the quality of pupils' work.

They nurture very positive attitudes to learning and ensure that pupils correct errors in their work. Children in the early years get off to an excellent start and make rapid progress so they are very ...well prepared for more formal learning in key stage 1. Disadvantaged pupils make excellent progress.

In recent years, their progress by the end of Year 6 has been faster than their classmates and equal to other pupils nationally. The teaching of phonics (the link between sounds and letters) is outstanding which has ensured that pupils achieve above-average results in the Year 1 national phonics check. Highly effective support for pupils who have special educational needs or disability enables them to thrive.

Pupils' behaviour around the school is exemplary. They mix well together, show high levels of care and respect for one another and have excellent attitudes to learning. Pupils and parents agree that the school provides a very safe environment.

Pupils have excellent knowledge about how to keep themselves safe. The school makes first-rate provision for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development through its lively and interesting curriculum. Governors are highly effective.

They challenge school leaders in order to ensure the school continues to improve.

Information about this school

This school is much smaller than the average-sized primary school. The school is federated with Stradbroke Church of England Voluntary Controlled Primary School.

The executive headteacher is responsible for both schools. Most pupils are White British and speak English as their first language. The proportion of pupils who are disadvantaged is below the national average.

These pupils are supported with pupil premium funding, which is additional government funding for pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and those who are looked after by the local authority. The proportion of pupils who have special educational needs or disability is below average. The early years consists of children in the Reception Year who attend full time.

Pupils are taught in three mixed-age classes. A higher than average proportion of pupils join the school during the year. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in reading, writing and mathematics by the end of Year 6.

The school meets requirements on the publication of specified information on its website. The executive headteacher is a local leader of education. The chair of governors is a national leader of governance who supports other schools across the county.

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