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Allfarthing Primary School continues to be a good school.
What is it like to attend this school?
The school values of 'be kind, be safe and go above and beyond' thread through every aspect of school life.
Leaders have high aspirations for all pupils and provide an ambitious curriculum. They place high importance on pupils understanding their community and the wider world. Pupils achieve well across the curriculum.
Pupils are not concerned about bullying because they know that it is rare and that, when it does occur, it is swiftly and effectively dealt with. They are taught to understand and manage their behaviour and emotions through carefully planned lessons. This helps p...upils to talk about their feelings so that they are ready to learn.
The school provides pupils with a wealth of wider development opportunities such as chess, drama, coding and cross-country running. Pupils also get opportunities to regularly enter sports competitions. The school teaches pupils to demonstrate inclusive attitudes towards others.
Pupils speak proudly of how they look out for each other. Pupils can take on a variety of leadership roles in the school, such as equality champions, school council members and sports captains. These pupil leaders wear their badges with pride.
Parents and carers are overwhelmingly positive about the school. One parent commented that Allfarthing school is 'a very nurturing, friendly and community-driven school'. This was a view shared by many.
What does the school do well and what does it need to do better?
The school has developed an ambitious curriculum which matches the expectations of the national curriculum. Leaders have ensured that the knowledge that they want pupils to learn has been logically sequenced so that pupils revisit and embed key concepts over time. For example, children in Reception identify and build patterns using cubes to support their understanding of basic number operations.
In Year 2, they use this knowledge to confidently add numbers using pictures and objects to help them. This learning means that pupils are well prepared to tackle more complex ideas about number later on in the curriculum, such as the addition of decimals.
Teachers have effective approaches and routines to check what pupils know and can do.
This information is used well in most subjects to identify gaps in learning. However, purposeful assessment is not as fully embedded for the wider curriculum subjects. In these subjects, some teaching does not securely address any gaps in learning or misunderstandings that arise.
The school ensures that pupils with special educational needs and/or disabilities (SEND) are accurately identified. Leaders and staff seek appropriate advice from external agencies to support pupils' specific needs. Pupils with SEND are well supported to access the same curriculum as their peers.
The school places a high priority on reading. Staff are trained to deliver the phonics programme effectively. Children in Reception are excited to learn new sounds and blend them to make words.
Teachers check pupils' understanding carefully and provide support to enable pupils to keep up with the phonics programme. The school promotes a positive culture of reading and involves parents closely in supporting their children with learning to read. Teachers encourage pupils to read a rich range of texts and pupils hear staff read to them daily.
Staff use story times to show pupils how to read with expression.
The school works closely with families to support pupils to attend every day. Pupils' behaviour is calm and purposeful.
They enjoy lessons and want to do their best. Pupils said that they enjoy the new addition to the behaviour policy where they receive positive points through an online system. This information is shared with parents.
In the early years, children are taught independence and resilience. Clear expectations help children to play together and develop their social skills. Staff establish routines and encourage positive behaviour right from when children first start at the school.
Resources for the indoor and outdoor areas are carefully chosen. This means that children have access to activities that develop their knowledge of all areas of learning, including in early reading and number.
The development of pupils' character and confidence threads through school life.
Staff support pupils to build their self-esteem and encourage pupils to be proud of who they are. Pupils are given opportunities to practise democracy. For example, pupils vote for the school equality champions and school councillors.
Recently, pupil leaders were involved in researching and purchasing new equipment for the woodland learning area. Staff and outside agencies provide pupils and their families with a wide range of pastoral support. Music has a high profile in the school, with assemblies providing a time for pupils to come together and sing joyfully.
Music provision from Year 3 upwards also includes tuition in instruments such as the clarinet, guitar and flute.
Staff morale is high. Leaders listen to staff's views and take their well-being into account when making decisions.
The school ensures that workload is manageable for all staff.
Safeguarding
The arrangements for safeguarding are effective.
What does the school need to do to improve?
(Information for the school and appropriate authority)
• In the wider curriculum subjects, systems to identify gaps in pupils' subject-specific knowledge and check what they know and remember are not firmly embedded.
As a result, pupils' long-term recall of knowledge is not as full and detailed. The school should continue to embed the changes made to checks on pupils' progression through the curriculum.
Background
When we have judged a school to be good, we will then normally go into the school about once every four years to confirm that the school remains good.
This is called an ungraded inspection, and it is carried out under section 8 of the Education Act 2005. We do not give graded judgements on an ungraded inspection. However, if we find evidence that a school would now receive a higher or lower grade, then the next inspection will be a graded inspection, which is carried out under section 5 of the Act.
Usually this is within one to two years of the date of the ungraded inspection. If we have serious concerns about safeguarding, behaviour or the quality of education, we will deem the ungraded inspection a graded inspection immediately.
This is the second ungraded inspection since we judged the school to be good in November 2013.
