Brimrod Community Primary School

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. By the end of Year 6, attainment in mathematics, reading and writing is typically average. This represents good progress for pupils from their various starting points.

Carefully tailored support for pupils with special educational needs and disadvantaged pupils enables them to make at least good and sometimes better progress. Children make good progress and are looked after well in the early years. The school is a happy, harmonious community.

Pupils are considerate and respectful to each other and to the adults around them. Teaching is good. Teachers use their good subject knowledge to question pupils well and move their learning on.
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Teachers are well prepared and pupils generally make the most of their time in lessons. Work in and out of lessons, as well as the wide range of visits and clubs, provide pupils with rich and memorable life experiences. These successfully promote pupils' spiritual, moral, social and cultural development and ensure that they enjoy their time in school.

Behaviour and attitudes to learning are good. Pupils have a good knowledge of how to keep themselves safe and say they feel safe in school; the vast majority of parents agree. Leadership and management are good.

The headteacher, strongly supported by the leadership team and governors, provides very clear direction. The monitoring of teaching and pupils' progress is rigorous and detailed. As a result, teaching is consistently good and is steadily improving pupils' achievement, enabling them to thrive.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : The progress pupils make in reading lags behind that of writing and mathematics. When pupils have adult support in their reading, progress is more rapid. Teaching is not yet outstanding because work is not always precisely matched to pupils' capabilities so that some pupils are not consistently challenged to do their best.

The detailed marking seen in literacy, which provides guidance on how pupils can improve their work is not always present in other subjects. The monitoring role of some middle leaders is not firmly embedded. As a consequence, they do not always play a full enough role in improving pupils' achievement and in whole school development.

Information about this school

This is an average-sized primary school. Almost all pupils are from ethnic minority groups with the vast majority being of Pakistani heritage. The percentage of pupils who speak English as an additional language is high.

The proportion of pupils who are disabled or have special educational needs is average. The proportion of disadvantaged pupils, who are eligible for the pupil premium is above average (pupil premium is additional funding for pupils eligible for free school meals and children who are looked after by the local authority). The school meets the current government floor standards, which are the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress.

The leadership team has been restructured, there has been a change of headteacher and all senior leaders are new to their roles since the last inspection