Brinkworth Earl Danby’s Church of England Primary

Highlights from Latest Inspection

Summary of key findings for parents and pupils

This is a good school. Pupils generally learn well in all subjects and achieve at or above national standards.

Teachers have strong subject knowledge and use this to plan interesting lessons for the pupils. They provide clear explanations and question pupils carefully to help them learn. Pupils feel safe and secure because of robust procedures for ensuring good standards of care.

Pupils are well behaved, polite, responsible and hardworking. The school has a caring ethos. Senior leaders, managers and governors have made effective and consistent changes to improve the quality of teaching and the levels of pupils' progress.

They are keen to develop these... further. The school's ethos helps pupils to develop a strong moral compass. The pupils develop a good understanding of different cultures and religions.

It is not yet an outstanding school because : The quality of teaching is not strong enough to promote overall outstanding progress by the pupils. The quality of teaching and the consequent progress of children in the early years provision, in the Reception class, requires improvement. Outcomes for disadvantaged pupils and those with special educational needs are inconsistent.

While the majority of these pupils achieve well, the performance of some pupils does not always match that of other pupils in the school. The school's plans to improve feedback between pupils and staff are new and have not yet been implemented fully, and so are not having enough impact.

Information about this school

This is a smaller than average-sized school.

The school operates on two sites more than two miles apart. The proportion of disabled pupils and those who have special educational needs is below the national average and the proportions of minority ethnic pupils and those with English as an additional language is well below the national average. The proportion of pupils supported through the pupil premium (additional government funding to support those pupils known to be eligible for free school meals and those who are looked after by the local authority) is very small and individual pupils have not been identified in the report.

The headteacher joined the school in September 2013 and there have been recent changes to the school's leadership, including that for English and mathematics. There are currently two teachers on long-term sick leave. These two teachers normally work in three classes, including the Reception class.

Children in the early years attend the Reception class full time. A substantial number of pupils are brought by bus to this rural school. The school meets the government's current floor standards, which set out the minimum expectations for pupils' attainment and progress in English and mathematics by the end of Year 6.

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