Arundel CofE Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. The outstanding leadership of the headteacher has ensured teaching is consistently good, particularly in the effective early years provision. The exciting curriculum means pupils are highly motivated to learn and their behaviour is outstanding.

They get along very well. Attainment has remained above average. From their starting points, pupils make good progress in reading, writing and mathematics.

Their achievement is good. Disabled pupils and those with special educational needs make good progress because the strategies to help them overcome issues they face are well organised and implemented effectively. Pupils are exceptionally cooper...ative, courteous and kind to one another.

They reflect the high level of respect shown by adults towards the pupils. They listen to others' views and contribute mature ideas to any discussion. Pupils feel extremely safe and well cared for because the headteacher and other adults readily listen to their views or concerns.

Pupils are very well informed about how they can make sure they stay safe. Middle leaders make sure that pupils have exciting topics to study. They ensure pupils develop skills across a wide range of subjects and tasks and that teachers check how well pupils are learning.

The headteacher and other leaders ensure that all teachers are given very clear and sharply focused feedback about what is working well and what needs to improve. Leaders follow up where teachers have not implemented this advice quickly. The curriculum provides extremely well for pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development.

This encourages outstanding behaviour and pupils' highly positive attitudes towards their work. Governors know the school intimately through the visits they make, the detailed reports provided by the headteacher and other leaders and the information governors get from parents and pupils. They use this to hold the school to account and ensure improvements happen quickly.

Governors and senior leaders make sure that all possible measures are in place to keep pupils very safe and to help pupils feel well cared for. It is not yet an outstanding school because : Teaching is not consistently outstanding because : not all pupils respond rapidly enough to the feedback they are given. Consequently, progress is not always rapid for all pupils.

The most able pupils are not always encouraged to get on with their work as soon as they understand what they need to do. This slows their progress at times. Teachers do not always insist pupils make the improvements they have suggested, which allows some errors to continue longer than necessary.

Pupils do not have enough access to high quality resources and books to stretch their reading skills. The library area does not promote reading effectively.

Information about this school

This is an average-sized school with one class in each year group.

Children in the early years provision attend school full time. Most pupils are of White British heritage. The proportion of disabled pupils and those with special educational needs is average, although it varies widely across different year groups.

The proportion of pupils with statements of special educational needs is below average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils is below average. These pupils benefit from additional support through the pupil premium funding provided by the government.

In this school, this includes those who are eligible for free school meals and children who are looked after. In 2014, there were too few of these pupils in Year 6 to comment anonymously on their achievement in detail. There have been few changes in staffing since the previous inspection.

The headteacher supports another school, Walberton and Binstead CofE Primary School, as a consultant headteacher. The school meets current floor standards. These are the minimum expectations set by the government for the attainment and progress of pupils at the end of Year 6, in reading, writing and mathematics.

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