Barrington Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. All pupils, including those disabled, those with special educational needs and those who attract extra funding to meet their needs, make good progress and achieve well in all subjects. Pupils' attainment at the end of Year 6 is consistently above the national average.

Children in Reception make good progress from their starting points and move into Year 1 with skills and understanding above those levels expected for their age, across all areas of learning. Good, improving teaching enables pupils to make good progress. Improvements in the marking of pupils' work ensure most clearly understand what they need to do to improve further, although this ...practice is not yet fully applied in all year groups.

In some classes, pupils are not challenged sufficiently to enable them to achieve their full potential. Reading is taught well and outstanding teaching in intervention groups ensures that those pupils who fall behind quickly catch up. Pupils behave well and enjoy coming to school.

Attendance is high. All leaders have a clear and determined vision for the school, reflected in senior leaders' rigour in driving up the quality of teaching and learning, leading to better progress for all pupils. They are supported by a good, and improved, governing body.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : There is not enough outstanding teaching across the school. Excellent practice is not shared consistently across all classes which means some pupils are not challenged sufficiently to achieve more highly. Leadership skills, especially of middle leaders, are still developing and are yet to have a full impact on improving pupils' achievement.

Information about this school

Barrington Primary is similar in size to most primary schools, but it has recently increased its intake in the Reception classes to two forms of entry. It opened a specially resourced provision for 12 pupils with physical disabilities in April 2012, in an alliance with several other local schools in the borough. The resource is not yet operating at full capacity and, currently, has minimal numbers of pupils on roll.

The proportions of pupils supported at school action, school action plus or with a statement of special educational needs are below average. Most pupils are White British. Others have a wide variety heritages, including Indian, Black Caribbean, Chinese and other White heritages.

The proportion of pupils supported by the pupil premium is well below average. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set the minimum standards for pupils' attainment and progress. The headteacher provides training for other schools within the borough and is supporting another school in making accurate self-evaluation judgements.

There is a nursery, breakast and after-school club on site which is not managed by the governing body and is reported on separately. Since the last inspection there have been a number of changes to the teaching staff. In September 2012 the school had a full complement of permanent staff, including two newly qualified teachers.

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