Audley Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school.

The headteacher provides decisive leadership. He has worked with school leaders and governors to create a climate of high expectations in which teaching is good and pupils achieve well. School leaders and governors have an accurate understanding of the school's strengths and what needs to be improved.

Their ambitious plans reflect their ability to improve further. Pupils enjoy learning and they make good progress in reading, writing and mathematics to reach standards that are above average at the end of Year 6. Good teaching captures pupils' interest.

Activities are usually challenging and enable all pupils, including disabled p...upils and those who have special educational needs, to achieve well. The curriculum is broad and balanced and promotes pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development well. Carefully selected books provide pupils with opportunities to think about moral issues.

Pupils' behaviour is good. They get on well together and they are kind and thoughtful towards each other and to adults. Pupils say they feel safe in school.

They say that bullying is rare and that adults are always there to help if a problem should arise. Governors provide a good level of support and challenge to school leaders. They know the school well and hold leaders to account effectively.

Children get off to a good start in the Reception class. They behave well and they feel safe. They enjoy learning and make rapid progress.

It is not yet an outstanding school because: Teaching is not yet outstanding. Some questions teachers ask are not hard enough to deepen pupils' understanding. Adults do not always challenge children in the Reception class to extend their learning.

Pupils have too few opportunities to write at length when learning in different subjects. Occasionally their handwriting and presentation of their work are untidy. Some subject leaders are new to their roles and have not yet had time to support and improve teaching in their subjects.

Occasionally the work is too easy for some pupils and so they start to fidget and chat among themselves. This slows their progress.

Information about this school

The school is smaller than the average-sized primary school and pupils are taught in single-age classes.

Most pupils are of White British heritage and there are no pupils at the early stages of learning English. About 15% of pupils are eligible for the pupil premium funding, which is lower than the national average. Pupil premium funding is additional funding provided by the government to support disadvantaged pupils.

The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is lower than the national average. The school meets the government's floor standards, which set the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress. There is provision for children in the Early Years Foundation Stage in the Reception class.

These children attend full time. There have been significant changes to the teaching and leadership team since the previous inspection. The headteacher joined the school in September 2014.

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